American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If you’re wondering how to design a scalable business model for your startup, this article is a guide through the process and offers strategies to ensure your company can adapt and expand efficiently over time. Eight components to successfully scaling a startup are presented in this article. What Is a Scalable Business Model?

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

You must demonstrate how your venture helps solve certain problems. Leveraging before-and-after scenarios may help, enabling you to showcase how your solutions solved specific customer problems. Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities.

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Revolution

JUNE 26, 2025

David Hall opened the evening with a reflection fit for a room that’s seen more than a few cycles: “To be and invest in entrepreneurs, you have to believe in a better tomorrow.” VP of Platform and Portfolio Success, Amira Ouji, and Head of Community, Liz Westhouse, recap the event below. That outlook shaped the conversations that followed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Organizations celebrate those who can generate new and groundbreaking concepts, often overlooking the subtler art of idea curation. However, the rapid advancement of generative AI is poised to fundamentally shift this equation. Newer models that haven’t yet been evaluated on such tests, such as GPT-4o, will undoubtedly do even better.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Breaking the “Impossible” at VVM When I was at Valley Venture Mentors, we set this BHAG: “In ten years, catalyze entrepreneurs to change the economy of Western Massachusetts by generating $1 billion in cumulative revenue and investment.” ” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies. .”

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Poddar previously was Head of Machine Learning Engineering at investment platform Robinhood following his position as Data Scientist at Meta. This funding is not just a milestone for Parafin but an investment in the future of small businesses. The products include access to capital, spend management, and savings tools.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

In a world where mental acuity is increasingly recognized as an important part of overall health, Pisons cutting-edge technology is set to redefine how we monitor and enhance cognitive performance. The company announced it has received a strategic equity investment from Samsung Ventures Investment Corporation (Samsung Ventures).

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It impacts your tax obligations such as how much tax you’ll pay and when to pay them, as well as your ability to raise funding. While spreadsheets might seem sufficient in the early days, investing in a proper accounting system from the start can save you countless headaches down the line. Sue de Bievre, Beany Founder.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

Decision Making Audit decisions : Focus on how decisions are made rather than just the conclusions. Scaling Management Invest in managers : Great companies invest disproportionately in developing their managers. Scaling Management Invest in managers : Great companies invest disproportionately in developing their managers.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Watching the boom/bust cycle of DTC brands that were running on just the sugar high of venture dollars has given me even more appreciation for those who, yes, require investment capital along the way, but are playing the long game. Tell us a bit about Sanzo and how it was founded? How/when did you realize it?

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

Hear from those who have overcome common challenges, how they have persevered to build their startups and how you can build an entrepreneurship mindset of resilience. Common Setbacks Entrepreneurs Face Every founder, no matter how seasoned, faces adversity. What matters most is how you respond.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

This article describes the entrepreneurial mindset behind successful startups, how you can develop that mindset, and the strategies to build your startup based on that mindset. Success is not about how many times you fall, but how many times you get back up.

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StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

We’ve put together eight ways to safeguard your startup—from how you build your team to managing your finances, and choosing the right tech. You need to ask yourself: How can you pivot quickly when market demands shift? It means building a resilient, adaptable, and innovative company.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 15, 2024

He knew firsthand just how challenging it was for even the biggest platforms to turn a profit in this space. Imagine a world where local businesses can thrive by delivering fresh products right to your doorstep — with the efficiency of modern technology but the warmth of old-school neighborhood vendors.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2025

As VP of Investment at BDev Ventures , Keshia leads sourcing and portfolio operations, managing both strategic and operational aspects of the fund. How did you break into tech investing? That experience gave me a front-row seat to how hard it is to build something from scratch, especially in mission-driven sectors.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

For our market size slide, rather than showing a single TAM number, I built a simple interactive model that let investors adjust parameters to see how different market penetration scenarios would affect our growth. “So that’s how it all comes together,” he said, almost to himself. That was the order. $1M

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Most strategies are some combination of innovation and best practices along the classic five steps of venture investing: See, Pick, Win, Service, Exit. Most strategies are some combination of innovation and best practices along the classic five steps of venture investing: See, Pick, Win, Service, Exit. This post is about ‘seeing.’

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Revolution

JANUARY 27, 2025

Led by Andres Brillembourg, Hilda transforms how home care providers recruit talent, using AI to reduce hiring time from weeks to minutes. Led by Andres Brillembourg, Hilda transforms how home care providers recruit talent, using AI to reduce hiring time from weeks to minutes. Year after year, Bark Tank has exceeded that vision.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We tried to compete, investing a million dollars in enabling self-serve products and revamping our GTM playbook. I had the pleasure of interviewing Gururaj Pandurangi, a three-time entrepreneur and now the CEO of ThriveStack.ai , a product designed to help B2B SaaS companies grow rapidly and efficiently. We decided to simplify it.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

Enterprise-Grade Solution for a Modern IT Landscape The Island Enterprise Browser empowers organizations to reimagine how secure work is conducted in a digital-first world. This latest raise propels the companys valuation to an impressive $4.8 billion, achieved in under five years since its founding in 2020.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 18, 2025

a pioneering company in quantum computing hardware, has secured a significant investment from Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. Qolab, Inc., This is a critical step toward accelerating the development of large-scale quantum computing.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 19, 2025

Lioncrest Ventures has officially launched with the debut of a $100 million multi-strategy investment platform designed to support growth-stage technology companies. Investing in Software Startups Transforming Regulated Sectors The Lioncrest equity fund is focused on software companies operating in high-barrier, compliance-heavy sectors.

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 28, 2025

Understanding Luck in Business Ever notice how some teams seem to “get lucky” more often than others? Preparing Strategically Invest in your team’s capabilities Build and maintain professional networks Create a culture ready to seize opportunities 3. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). In BE 2.0,

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StartupNation

JULY 15, 2025

Relationships matter, perceptions matter, and knowing how to work the system, without losing your integrity, is key to long-term success. This requires investing in relationships that go deeper than the “oh yeah I’m super busy too” small talk at the start of project meetings. Startups are not immune to human behavior.

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 21, 2025

Making Vision Work: A Real Story Let me share how vision transformed an organization I helped build. When we hit our quarterly goals, instead of celebrating and relaxing, we asked, “How can we do more to change our region’s economy? How will we know we’ve succeeded? What timeline makes sense for our goals?

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Paul G. Silva

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Instead, it asked: Your revenue-sharing model is somewhat unconventional in the startup investment space. While it’s clear how this aligns interests initially and provides early returns to investors, I’m curious about the long-term sustainability of this approach. I was impressed.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 10, 2025

I’ve said before this is one reason why we are very very careful about investing in addiction or mental health startups. What does client offboarding look like, how long would it take and how much would it cost? And perhaps most essential, have a plan for what happens if the company doesnt succeed.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

San Francisco-based FinTech company Mercury has announced a $300 million Series C investment round, bringing its valuation to $3.5 billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6 Bank accounts are the nucleus of business finance, said Akhund. The post Mercurys $300M Series C Doubles Valuation to $3.5

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Revolution

MAY 28, 2025

Revolution Ventures Invests in Palla, the Cross-Border Payments Platform Powering the Future of Global MoneyMovement The $14.5M Meet Palla the fintech redefining how money moves across borders, enabling financial institutions and fintechs to embed instant, flexible, and secure international payments directly into their products.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

This article explains AI agents and how businesses can use them. How AI Agents Benefit Small Businesses Adopting AI agents for small businesses provides multiple benefits, including: 1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept reserved for tech giants. What Are AI Agents?

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