American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2025

This disruptive model enables cloud companies to build the most cost- and power-efficient AI solutions. Filling a Critical Market Gap The market opportunity is enormous. Nexthop AIs products are designed with flexibility in mind, including support for open-source NOS platforms such as SONiC.

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Jason Malki

JULY 16, 2025

Developed creative, non-dilutive financing that supported rapid growth. Leveraged his cross-sector experience to identify and seize new market opportunities. . Leveraged his cross-sector experience to identify and seize new market opportunities. Mentors entrepreneurs and provides hands-on support to portfolio companies. .

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

In a major boost for the artificial intelligence startup ecosystem, Seven Stars, a new venture capital firm founded by former SV Angel Partner Steven Lee, has officially launched its $40 million inaugural fund to support early-stage AI startups. Why This Matters for Early-Stage AI Founders Founders need more than capital.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 5, 2025

How women innovators in Asia-Pacific are transforming food security, nutrition and climate action With 370+ million people facing undernutrition and climate change disrupting agriculture, these women-led innovations are stepping up to create lasting solutions. Each ton of eco-charcoal produced saves an estimated 88 trees.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Enterprises are then able to upgrade to quantum-safe encryption without disrupting their operations. Her deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the quantum computing space has equipped her with the skills to lead QuSecure as it scales its operations and expands its reach across industry.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 11, 2024

World Food Day: Why food systems matter for our future The future of food depends on ensuring security, embracing sustainable practices, reducing waste, and supporting local communities. These approaches reduce reliance on non-renewable resources and ensure food production remains resilient against climate-related disruptions.

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2025

This tendency is exaggerated when the new offering is disruptive or innovative. Be rigorous and collect data that support any of your assumptions. If the offering is truly innovative and/or disruptive, this first step is even more vital. In such cases, these should not be entered into the sales funnel as viable opportunities.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 7, 2025

Supporting the Growing Needs of Mobile Businesses As mobile apps continue to dominate global consumer engagement, developers face mounting challenges in discovery, monetization, and user retention. Weve merged, innovated, and built momentum, yet we believe the opportunity for growth in mobile is just beginning. Valued at $4.3

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StartupNation

MAY 21, 2025

Missteps during the selection process can lead to wasted resources and missed opportunities. Their insights offer practical guidance to help your startup make smarter, more informed decisions that support long-term growth. These weren’t minor usage gaps—they represented wasted investment and missed productivity opportunities.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

It will bring vast disruption and fuel positive transformation at unprecedented speed and scale. The universe of business opportunities is expanding exponentially. The magnitude of investment is beyond crazy and will reverberate throughout our businesses. Something similar is happening with AI – creating something new and wonderful.

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StartupNation

MAY 22, 2025

We look specifically at opportunities for stay-at-home moms that rely on flexibility and modern technology. 6 Mentoring Resources for Women Small Business Owners Building Support Systems Professional Support Establishing a comprehensive professional framework is vital to long-term success as a parent entrepreneur.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Identifies opportunities: When you integrate AI tools into your existing workflows, it can use your data to flag blind spots and possibilities for your business. Instead of just writing, AI can act as a central dispatcher for a shared inbox like support@ or sales@.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2025

Playground Global Leads Strategic Investment The seed round was led by Playground Global , a deep tech venture capital firm known for backing disruptive technologies across computing, automation, and biotechnology.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

It's like if someone had gotten my parents to coordinate graduation dinner plans instead of making me relay messages between them like some kind of emotional support carrier pigeon. For example, a traditional workflow might route customer support tickets based on category tags.

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StartupNation

JUNE 25, 2025

But more importantly, my journey is part of a larger movement— white-collar professionals like me swapping cubicles for hard hats and discovering untapped opportunity in the trades. My adaptability underscores the importance of being open to new opportunities, even if they fall outside your comfort zone. Moving to the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 10, 2025

“Inspired by those who fought ovarian cancer, leaving behind learnings and legacies, we are empowered to approach a research manifold still thin in knowledge yet deep in shape and opportunity,” said Neri Oxman, PhD, Co-Trustee of The Pershing Square Foundation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2018

Alice Mann’s latest book, Future First: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges into New Value Frontiers is an important read for any business leader or entrepreneur who wishes to embrace global challenges as innovation opportunities. Why do you believe they are opportunities for leaders and companies?

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Let’s kick off the Disrupt opportun-a-palooza with a time-sensitive reminder to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SBF 200) by July 31 at 11:59 p.m.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

They also support their needs through the COVID-19 crisis. So finding ways to support in any way that we can is something that we've been focused on. Do I have the opportunity to grow right now? These are the times that ATT&T small business solutions are here to support customers. Keep reading to learn more.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

The platform continues to achieve historical milestones, garnering more than 100 million users in its first two months, marking the beginning of a new era of disruption. OpenAI’s latest announcement solves for both, introducing support for plugins and giving us a glimpse into the first AI App Store. Studying for a calculus exam?

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Other participants include Citi Ventures, Outpost Ventures, 53 Stations (supported by The Pritzker Organization), and Firebolt Ventures(headed by prolific technology investor Gokul Raja ram ). “We’re GV (formerly Google Ventures) led the recently closed $30 million Series A round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We’re literally days away from the first in-person TechCrunch Disrupt since 2019 — and we can’t wait to get this party started on October 18. Get ready for three days packed with top-notch speakers and opportunity. Check the complete agenda to explore all of the programming across every stage at Disrupt. Sponsored by AT&T.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The disruptive technology-enabled startups are being showcased at its Demo Day, following their five-month participation in the Labs’ accelerator program. “At serviceMob : is an AI-powered data ontology and analytics platform designed specifically for Customer Service & Support across every industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? It’s one of the world’s highest-quality company showcases and it’s right there inside of Disrupt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We’re just a few short weeks away from the first in-person TechCrunch Disrupt in three years. Great partners make Disrupt possible, but they do more than just write a check. million students and supports thousands of classrooms across the U.S. TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 18–20. Buy your pass today.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Welcome to the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt ! You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. You’ll find all the day’s programs, stage location and times listed in the Disrupt agenda and in the event app. Disrupt Stage | 10:00 am. Disrupt Stage | 1:40 pm.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm. Austin has Dell.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. The AI “stack” has emerged with Large Language Models and other important models (like audio, imagery, video, etc) operating in the cloud with well-documented and supported APIs that are available to developers to build on.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

How did the pandemic disrupt your company, and what pivot did you make in response? Our classes gained quick popularity as peoples’ lives were disrupted and routines turned upside down. We hired contractors to host classes, support administration, and create an e-commerce website. Where to begin?

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, ACA members and groups are the most significant source of support for entrepreneurs, investing more than 1 million pro bono hours and $650 million of after-tax financing to more than 3,000 high growth companies annually. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

If you could convince a few young “wantrepreneurs&# that there is a community that can support them & a safe landing if they’re not immediately successful you might have your next Amazon in the works. The ingredients are all here. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. No Dave S. =

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Travis Connors, Building Ventures At Building Ventures, we see enormous opportunities developing for the use of robotics in construction over the next 20 years.

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Revolution

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fazeela’s experience as an investor and trusted advisor to tech-enabled businesses makes her an invaluable addition to the team, strengthening our approach of providing hands-on company portfolio support. Many other women and girls are not given a voice or opportunity to chart their path?—?something

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

By understanding each generation’s unique needs and how to support those needs, employers can better adapt to current and emerging generations. Supporting multigenerational workforces. To support them, provide real-time feedback, flexible work arrangements that favor work-life balance and develop personal development opportunities.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2022

There’s no hiding from it: The metaverse is coming, and it’s on track to disrupt the world of business as we know it. So as a business owner and/or leader, you might be excited by the wealth of opportunities that the metaverse will bring. Excitingly, the creation of a whole new world means a whole new world of marketing opportunities.

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