American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

Two-year-old startup contributes to Tampa’s growing startup ecosystem. Empowering the Tampa Startup Ecosystem Scamnetics rise is a testament to Tampas emergence as a vibrant innovation hub. This end-to-end solution has positioned the company as a category creator in digital safety.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

.’ In addition to hustle and one’s existing network, I’m always interested in whether or not a ‘needle magnet’ is being built alongside the other efforts to find startups. Some force that pulls exceptional startups to you, directly or via intermediaries, in a privileged and sustainable fashion.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Building Startups for Basecamp. Offense is spending enough time with product and engineering teams at prominent startups and building relationships with the teams that may leave in the next 2 years to launch their own startups. Lines, Not Dots. Attitude over Aptitude. And so forth. ” What do I mean? Play the long game.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. Neither did Y Combinator, 500 Startups, TechStars, Amplify, Mucker and countless others. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC. Startup Lessons' It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

We got along and shared stories about the startup market. We worked together just shy of a year and during that period of constantly seeing startups Aaron made the decision that he actually wanted to be an entrepreneur more than a VC. I said, “This category is going to be huge. I’ll leave the year out.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Chuck as a software visionary understood this.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. Easier said than done.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

And of course there are startups. I spend so much of my public life talking about the challenges of startups precisely because it’s not for most people and with Shark Tank and Silicon Valley and The Social Network we as a society have so glamorized startups that we expect them to be all fun and games.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

From time to time, I chart the fastest growing categories of startup investment in the US for seed through Series C. Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. Quantum computing topped the list with a doubling of rounds.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

I was working at a venture-backed apparel startup for 4 years and saw the power of building digitally-native brands through Facebook and Instagram (TikTok was still nascent). Here are Five Questions with Sandro. Hunter Walk: Backstory time! Tell us a bit about Sanzo and how it was founded? Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. Thank you to everybody in the community who has supported us all these years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 12, 2021

As we finish the week of International Women’s Day, what better story to share than one of a woman who created a whole new beverage category while pregnant with her fourth child, with three kids under the age of 6 and a US$50,000 budget!? In the category of “things she didn’t see coming,” Goldin recounts her experience with Starbucks.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. With that macro view in mind, what would that mean for tech, startups, and web3? Startups are going to have a tough year in 2023.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Heck, most of the worst deals I see are from intros to perfectly nice people with perfectly awful startups. Warm intro or not, no VC has the magical stream of only quality deal flow with nothing stupid added. Because those people aren't VCs so their deal sense has no reason to be any good.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. Market : The startup is addressing a significant, often underserved, need or problem in the market.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 3, 2025

Mediocre VCs get wealthy themselves but they won’t make money for their LPs, and are, at best, just a WITHDRAWALS ATM for average startups. Could be pinning their thesis on a category of technology or type of founder that isn’t yet understood by the investment community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Second, interaction field companies build a network of interactions, an architecture and governance rules in such as way that enables an entire industry or several industries to solve multiple consumer problems, industry or category problems and societal problems. John Deere is an example, and so is Ant Financial. Erich Joachimsthaler , Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. In the rest of this newsletter, we’re going to talk about the do-it-all startups and Sarah Guo’s new VC fund. I think that there are going to be completely novel applications of AI that don’t fit well into the existing categories.

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2021

While nearly all categories of advertising have automated media buying, only 2 percent of OOH spend is currently programmatic. Place Exchange is reinventing the category with powerful, engaging consumer experiences. Despite the category overall taking a hit, Place Exchange saw its monthly revenue grow over 12X in 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I met with Jeremy years ago when he had a startup that was building a fantasy sports app where you picked players in a stock-market style and their value moved up and down over time. If you were a new developer in this category you often had to sub-contract in a fees-for-service arrangement to build for the big guys.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 12, 2025

December 20, 2024 ) Applications for Delawares fifth annual Startup302 funding competition will be accepted January 2 through 26 from technology-enabled startups with high-growth potential and at least one founding team member from an underrepresented group. Thanks to sponsors, there is no charge to enter.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Register Cellico (CEO Kim Jungsuk ) won CES Innovation Awards in three categories: Wearable Technologies, Digital Health, and Accessibility & Aging Tech, for their augmented reality (AR) smart glasses (product name: EyeCane), which they are developing for visually impaired patients.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? The one trend that only a handful of construction startups adopt is the use and application of computer-aided generative design.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re not even profitable!” What did they actually do?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A sample fishbone diagram might include categories, such as: Possible causes. A fishbone diagram is an essential tool for any startup because it helps to show the problems you face and how to fix them. People have been using fishbone diagrams in startups since 1965, when Ishikawa developed it. Causes list (7 main categories).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing. It literally drove FOMO.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. When you think about the category of scooters you think about Bird and that becomes a brand your friends want to try.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 22, 2020

Pitch deck outlines are ok, but they don’t say much about what you’re trying to convey besides particular categories that may or may not be relevant. If you’re going to try to pitch metrics and momentum as the main feature of your pitch—make sure they’re as great relative to other startups as you think they are.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In the world of robotic startups, acquisition is often as good an outcome as any. And when it comes to robotic tractor startups, you could do worse than being acquired by John Deere. In the intervening years, John Deere tapped Bear Flag for its own Startup Collaborator initiative. It’s really hard to find quality labor.

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Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

Jason Calacanis ( @jason ), angel investor in many category-defining companies, including Uber, Thumbtack, Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Calm, says you absolutely should. Startups will most likely have to raise under unfavorable circumstances for a while, but the key is to persevere despite challenging market dynamics.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The startup ecosystem is a terrific manufacturer of bad fundraising advice. Well, if you add it to your startup, it does a few things. I do seem to be the absolute worst at figuring this out on my own as I can think of at least three founders that I’ve backed that turned out to fall into this category that I would not have assumed.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

But if I’m so optimistic about the world of Creators, what’s going on with the startups formed over the last few years to help this market succeed – why are so many struggling? Handful of temporal factors turbo’ed the amount of dollars and number of startups in the Creator Economy space.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

If I write about startups where I’m concerned about bullying or inappropriate use of customer data I am all too aware that each have investors, each have founders and each have friends. No Category' This happens because people mention mistakes in my comments section or on Twitter and all things equal I’d rather fix typos.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis. A typical VC thesis: “We invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage.” ” Yet 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an eighth: the non-thesis.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 11, 2024

He has successfully led projects to completion, championed user-centric products, and is currently disrupting the online deals space with his startup, Prizeskout. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup? What are your future plans for your startup?

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