StartupNation

JULY 21, 2025

SMBs are getting creative: Entrepreneurs are blending asynchronous work, outsourcing, and internal upskilling to build agile and sustainable team structures. This talent dilemma is pushing some founders to get creative, pairing internal upskilling with global sourcing to fill skill gaps affordably.

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Jason Malki

JULY 21, 2025

Brusseau, who is a global strategist at the intersection of data, creativity, and technology. Together with my partners, María Parga and Jesús Castaño  — who bring deep expertise in blockchain and finance — we launched WAYS because we refused to watch tradition be traded for traffic.

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StartupNation

MAY 30, 2025

In part 4 of this series, this will discuss proven methods to confidently manage finances, plan for growth, and refine your approach for future success.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 2, 2025

Weve created distinct operational modes within our AIeach tailored for essential nonprofit functions like grants, finances, marketing and events, operational efficiencies, and equity initiatives. Connecting meaningfully with prospective partners, and conveying the transformative yet safe potential of AI, has required patience and creativity.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Algorithmic trading is usually something only hedge funds or finance pros can pull off—if you don't know Python or have access to advanced platforms, you're out of luck. Mike isn't just following set rules; he's using a mix of human creativity and AI judgment, making his bot more adaptive and dynamic.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Explore now In the realm of AI automation, this opens up powerful possibilities for automating creative and content-heavy tasks. Generative AI can act as a creative partner, helping to generate novel design concepts, draft initial technical specifications, or even suggest new avenues for exploration based on existing knowledge.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

I wrote things like: freedom, creativity, intellectual stimulation, writing, psychology. Through these experiences, I learned how to build audiences, generate demand, and lead with creativity. I had to teach myself business strategy, product development, and finance, all while bootstrapping my first fintech company.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Industry: Frameworks such as waterfall or PRINCE2 can be useful in heavily regulated industries like healthcare and finance, since they prioritize rigorous documentation , approval gates, and audit trails. Here's a table you can quickly reference as you home in on the right choice.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Think creatives, developers, analysts, and other worker bees. Key RACI benefits include: Clearly defines responsibilities and expectations: No more "Well, finance said it was ready to ship." RACI is an acronym that stands for responsible , accountable , consulted , and informed. Let's break each of those down.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the last thirteen years, Kickstarter has helped direct $6.2bn towards creative work that would not have been funded by the legacy institutions that support creative work. Our interest in web3 which started back in 2011 was also grounded in the idea that new forms of funding are necessary to finance innovation and creative work.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. You still have plenty of creative financing options to fund your business. You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you dreamed of starting a creative business? After the collective trauma that was 2020 and 2021, many of us are feeling burnt out, both creatively and mentally. It‘s possible to build a business and a life you love out of your creativity that is both fulfilling and profitable. . Here’s how to get started.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2024

Turning an idea into a sellable product takes grit, but limited budgets often require entrepreneurs to develop creative solutions that rely more on resourcefulness than cash. In the rocky economic climate of 2024, creativity fuels entrepreneurial success more than deep pockets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process. With no revenue three years in and an ever-increasing pile of expenses, my personal finances took a hit. Loans replaced savings, and credit lines were stretched to their limits.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Whether it’s related to your personal finances, business growth or world events, one characteristic many entrepreneurs share is a knack for preparedness. Unwavering creativity. From Apple and Nike to Uber and Facebook, many of the world’s most recognized brands were born from a creative idea. Celebrate your milestones.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Creatives face late payments, and often opaque industry practices, even as top talent agencies have collectively achieved a valuation of $20 billion. It’s now looking to address the wider problems referred to above, with a new round of funding involving some key players in the creative industries. Contact has now raised a $1.9

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

While you might want to launch a business because you want creative freedom, your friend may want financial success. Your Finances Will Be Quite Strained. With no actual influx of capital into your business, you’re looking at a dangerous mix of emotions, finances, and ego. Can your friendship survive?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. What's the business model?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Intuitively most people know that LA isn’t just the entrepreneurial capital of the US but it is also the creative capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Instead, B2B marketplaces are discovering creative new ways to monetize their networks, ensuring their approach is tailored to the complex and nuanced world of B2B e-commerce. Supply-chain financing and dynamic discounting are two mechanisms business buyers use to settle invoices with suppliers on preferred timelines.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Growing up in El Salvador, I was able to go to Bentley College in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduate with a degree in corporate finance and accounting. I gained a solid business background to support my creative side. I always knew I was born to be an entrepreneur. Before Masshii, I worked as a property accountant in the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

Bootstrapping Fundamentals At the outset, your startup might be fueled entirely by bootstrapping — utilizing personal savings, minor loans from close ones, or the proceeds from your first sales for financing. Here’s the core idea: Live Lean: Each dollar conserved is an additional dollar you can invest in your startup’s development.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2020

Under these circumstances, entrepreneurs become focused, intentional and highly creative. This is especially critical when talking about finances—one of small business owners’ biggest challenges anyway. When someone tells me that, however, I respond, “Are you sure?” There certainly has to be one more cost you could cut.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 2, 2021

There are many creative and engaging ways to teach life lessons outside of the classroom ?even Since 2016, not one US state has added personal finance to its K-12 standards. How we acquire, use and manage our money are largely influenced by the information we received from our parents during childhood.

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A Smart Bear

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Online marketing teams are accustomed to throwing creative things at the wall, with new technology and platforms, because that’s the day-to-day reality of their job. But this also can make decisions more difficult, because finding a good solution is complex, often requiring compromise or creativity which requires time to be realized.

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StartupNation

JULY 12, 2021

Consumers are changing how they shop , how they work and where they live, creating opportunities for new and creative business models. As the pandemic hit, many workers found themselves either out of a job or out of the office, working from home with time on their hands and creative energy to burn. Personal guarantees are not required.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation. The problem of housing affordability and supply is largely a political problem, and those policies (that prevent developers from building multi-family properties) are largely popular.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2020

Lean on industry peers for creative ways to support your staff and stay informed about the latest laws and resources in your area. • Implement new, virtual ways to communicate regularly with your team. Clearly outline your benefits and let them know their options. Informed and engaged employees are empowered and dedicated.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 28, 2023

The NDC, as DTI’s investment branch, has allocated P500 million for equity financing, with an additional P2 billion earmarked for capital financing within the P8-billion startup ecosystem. Another P500 million for equity financing has been provided by the Small Business Corp., DTI’s micro-financing arm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She also spoke about how they’ve seen premium content creators respond creatively to Quibi’s unique portrait?—?landscape Why they raised so much initial funding As I said in the interview, we at Upfront come from the land of small first rounds of financing. But Quibi has raised $1.4

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Gust

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Sometimes creative efforts need more time before launch, or your efforts to run the company need tuning. When you put your own financing on the line, your partners, your team, and eventually your customers will know that you are committed to solving their problem. Sometimes survival requires staying under the radar.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice , the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Steve Martocci and his team at Splice.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Finance where needed. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. We need some visibility. Cut where needed. Fawk, man.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. My background is finance, investments and operations. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Here Cincinnati was really creative to its approach to attracting more venture capital to the region – including this author. In LA we have entertainment, finance, textiles, aerospace, transportation, fashion and so forth. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million.

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