NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This means if your business incur debt, you’ll have to use your personal assets to pay off the debt. The ‘best’ structure depends on your specific circumstances, risk tolerance, and long-term goals. Launching a startup in New Zealand is exciting, but navigating the accounting side of things can be tricky.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

It goes without saying that they’re always interested in knowing about the impact you’ll make with your initiatives. It’s your responsibility to make the impact metrics tell a compelling story about your company’s growth trajectory and potential. It’s often a make-or-break situation for you.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

To determine whether your initial idea has real potential, conduct thorough market research that can be done using a variety of tools. Two prominent entrepreneurs share their views on starting a business plus 10 tips every first-time founder should have. Talk to potential customers, gather feedback, and analyze existing competitors.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2025

Highly successful entrepreneurs share their thinking about undertaking great entrepreneurial challenges and achieving breakthrough success. Success is not about how many times you fall, but how many times you get back up. Steve Jobs An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. The teams success comes from Parafins single integration of a full suite of financial products into clients platforms that are customized for use by their small business sellers.

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Paul G. Silva

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Using ChatGPT (version 4o), you can simulate an investor and practice your pitch – out loud! 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. and “What are your management team’s qualifications?”

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 28, 2025

Jim Collins explains why: it’s not just about luckit’s about being ready for it and knowing what to do when it arrives. A Real Story: When Product Success Seems Like Luck Let me share a story about luck and persistence from our own experience. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). In BE 2.0,

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StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

Talk about your visions and even your fears—if you can disagree constructively, you’re on the right track. Early on, make sure you choose the right corporate structure—whether forming an LLC , C-Corp, or another entity that suits your long-term goals. It means building a resilient, adaptable, and innovative company.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, we struggled to capture SMB and mid-sized enterprises, leaving a gap for competitors using a Product-Led Growth (PLG) approach to chip away at our market. What is it that excites you about what you’re building? They are at the forefront of industry transformation with their integrated tooling approach.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This worked great in terms of delivering value to startupsbut there was a major problem: It took an enormous amount of time to organize. This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). This principle is a core part of how the best companies innovate. The result?

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It wasn’t just about the burrito; it was about an entire industry that seemed fundamentally flawed — where no one was really winning. With commissions of only 10%, vendors can keep more of their hard-earned revenue and build genuine relationships with their customers, just as they used to in simpler times.

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 21, 2025

It’s not just about hitting targets; it’s about giving your team a purpose they can believe in. But that vision did something powerful it made us think bigger at every step. ” Six years later, we were named us one of America’s top 100 startup accelerators. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0).

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2025

Here are a few things to remember about these events: When it comes to demo days, its unlikely that youre going to show up to the main event and see a top quality company whose round isnt largely spoken for. Promise them some good deal flow, of course. Last year, over 150 VCs participated and were looking forward to having even more.

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Red Rocket

APRIL 30, 2025

Businesses that used to be growing are seeing declines, and businesses that used to be generating healthy profits may now be experiencing losses. Maybe your shareholders will have a longer term perspective and will not want to rock the boat in the near term, if they see a viable path to recovery in the medium term.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

The company touts over 200,000 businesses with, a large portion being startups that use its services as a financial backbone, replacing cumbersome platform switching or thejuggling third-party apps. It introduced a corporate credit card in 2022, which has quickly become the most-used card among its users. The result?

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2025

1 In terms of first order effects, tariffs can impact a startup in two ways : the input costs and consumers’ demand. Assuming this trend is broadly true across US companies, we should expect at least uncertainty if not slowing growth or contraction in about one-third or one-half of their businesses.

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StartupNation

JUNE 16, 2025

Inbound marketing is a strategic digital marketing approach that helps you connect with and influence prospective customers to build trust and foster long-term relationships. The strategy involves the use of content marketing, SEO, social media marketing , video marketing, and more to attract prospects and convert them into paying customers.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Read the interview: Richard Liew: For those who may not know who Ministry of Awesome is – let’s just assume there might be some – can you give us your elevator pitch? Richard Liew: Now, can you walk us back through time to, I guess, the genesis of Ministry of Awesome? Lots of community discussions.

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StartupNation

JULY 2, 2025

If you’re transparent about your decisions, people will trust you. Use inclusive language in meetings. High morale boosts productivity, strengthens engagement, and encourages long-term loyalty. People want to support companies that give back and care about the world beyond achieving their bottom line.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 26, 2025

What is it that excites you about what youre building? What excites me most about what were building is that were creating technology people once thought was impossibletools straight out of science fiction, now becoming reality. What truly excites me is that we are using technology to make a tangible, life- savingimpact.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

As a kid, I was deeply traumatized by the Borg in Star Trek: Next Generation —so it's safe to say that I had some baggage to work through when I first started hearing the term "AI integration." With Zapier, AI integration is about making your workflows work better. Table of contents: What is AI integration?

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

We were able to salvage the situation by proactively communicating with customers and updating them about delays. From this experience, we learned about being prepared for hiccups and put contingency plans in place. We figured that being transparent would help maintain trust and reduce any friction. At first, I blamed myself.

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StartupNation

JULY 17, 2025

Sign Up for The Start Newsletter * indicates required Email Address * /* real people should not fill this in and expect good things – do not remove this or risk form bot signups */ Use Smart Budgeting to Prioritize Efficiency and Flexibility When it comes to budgeting, think about cutting costs for sure.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 31, 2025

The company specializes in vision-based autonomous technology tailored for agriculture and it took a big step forward with the closing of a $15 million Series A round. Ty ler Niday , co-founder and CEO of Bonsai Robotics, sees the companys success as a validation of their progress since their seed round of funding just one year ago.

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StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2025

Financial Stability through Diversification for Startup Founders Building Long-Term Resilience and Optionality Lastly, the value of diversifying your income doesn’t just come down to protecting your personal finances and your performance. And this can be a costly mistake (even regardless of your business results).

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 1, 2025

Investors can use INC-NJ to discover new companies that fit their investment criteria. All users will be able to view curated funding and incentive resources and learn about the latest industry news. To learn more about INC-NJ, go to [link] To join INC-NJ, go to www.inc-nj.com.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 28, 2025

More than 50 innovators from across the region applied to the Age Tech Big Idea Pitch Contest a funding contest to promote businesses that improve the lives of older adults. Max Justice Founder of Setas Eternal Living (Franklin County). Jim Fetzner concluded, Great ideas dont create themselves it takes vision and real work.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 3, 2025

Small businesses cannot afford to have a tech team on staff, so this article offers valuable insights about the step-by-step cost- effective ways to use No-Code AI tools in various areas of a company. Marketing Campaigns: Use AI to segment audiences and personalize email marketing efforts.

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StartupNation

MAY 27, 2025

Focus on roles that will have an immediate and lasting impact, and be honest about your own skills and the gaps that need to be filled. Use these conversations to delve into candidates’ problem-solving abilities, their practical experiences, and how well they align with your startup’s culture and values.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 5, 2025

Uniquely, the food that is not viable for human consumption is used as food for black soldier fly larvae and the larvae are then used as a food source for urban fish farms targeting food security on multiple levels. While millions suffer from hunger, millions of tons of food are discarded every year. Its a staggering paradox.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

They use pricing as an offensive tool to reinforce their product’s value and underscore the company’s core marketing message. Maximization (Revenue Growth) - maximize revenue growth in the short term. The very best companies lead their customers in that dance. Expensify, Netsuite, New Relic, Slack follow this model.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Ive always been passionate about solving real-world problems at the intersection of AI and human behavior. Ive always been passionate about solving real-world problems at the intersection of AI and human behavior. What is it that excites you about what youre building? Thank you so much for joiningus!

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But it wasn’t until 2020, when I started working remotely like so many of us, that I realized two important things. For example, one team might be using Notion while another uses Coda, and yet another uses Asana or Atlassian. What motivated you to launch your startup? First, I loved remote work. The result?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

I'll admit: When I first started using AI at work, I was just going through the motions. Then my editor said something that flipped my approach to using AI: "The goal isn't to just use AI—it's to use AI to speed things up or make things better." " So I put it to the test.

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