American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 27, 2025

The financing round includes backing from top-tier investors like Greylock Partners , SignalFire, Maverick, SV Angel, Yahoo! The startup uses AI automation to streamline specialty therapy approvals for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. co-founder Jerry Yang, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Also included are “drag-along rights” in which minority shareholders may be forced to obey the vote of the majority in such important votes as to sell the company or take a round of financing at lower share prices. White background. Realistic images.” ” The post Warnings about investor limitations!

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Thanks to NLP, AI automation systems can engage in (mostly) sensible chatbot conversations with customers, automatically analyze thousands of reviews to gauge overall sentiment, instantly translate documents, or transcribe meeting notes into text, making sense of our primary mode of communication. IDP can automate and make sense of it all.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And the process of borrowing money or financing asset purchases can be an eye-opener for those who are not used to today’s lender and seller aversion to grant easy credit. More than ever, the banks and lenders today require personal guarantees from entrepreneurs, and even from CEO’s of funded businesses.

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StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

What matters most isn’t just how much you made but whether your business has shown steady, well-documented performance over time. That’s why it’s super important to document processes. If your numbers are messy, incomplete, or unclear, the conversation usually ends there. Define roles clearly.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Collaboration: This defines not only how your team meets and communicates, but also how they document processes and decisions to keep stakeholders in the loop and transfer knowledge between team members.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. Sign Marketing A secure digital signature solution for signing and tracking documents. Practice Finance Practice management software for streamlining accounting workflows. Automate Zoho What is Zoho?

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StartupNation

JUNE 2, 2025

But if you find yourself in a dispute with a vendor, try to keep communication open and document everything. It’s a growing problem documented by firms like KrebsOnSecurity and the National Cybersecurity Society (NCSS). Keep your business information as secure as possible and shred sensitive documents.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

you're managing a handful of vendors, the next, your finance team is playing Whac-A-Mole with overdue notices, drowning in an inbox full of emails with the subject line "bumping this." It's a truly modern finance platform that uses AI not just to manage spend, but to intelligently understand and control it.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

You'll document your RACI roles in a RACI chart to be sure everything's clear and transparent—more on that below. Key RACI benefits include: Clearly defines responsibilities and expectations: No more "Well, finance said it was ready to ship." " moments.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Invoice processing automation can help streamline your entire finance operation, from reducing costly mistakes to strengthening supplier partnerships. Its built-in invoice processing automation features include document capture (email or mobile), automatic reconciliation against bank transactions, and multi-user approval workflows.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Finance might build automations for recurring approvals or monthly reporting. A new customer deal, for example, might require handoffs between Sales, Legal, Finance, and Customer Success. Support: Look for strong documentation, helpful AI assistants, and access to real human support when you need it.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

A project plan is a formal document that details how a project will be executed by outlining the purpose, resources, scope, timeline, and deliverables required to complete said project. It might be a comprehensive multi-page document detailing every phase, milestone, and activity or a succinct one-pager for smaller projects.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 2, 2025

Record-keeping is essential throughout the year, so youll need detailed documentation of your R&D activities and associated costs to support the claim. Within this application you will also be describing how your activities meet the definitions of R&D. If approved, the credit is paid out as a cash refund.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Modern note-taking platforms go beyond documenting your thoughts. That also means content, like text, never appears like it would in a normal document editor. If you're documenting sensitive material, this ensures privacy, too. They offer powerful workplaces to manage your knowledge, no matter where it comes from.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The showcased solutions included Tomtit for rural finance, Goose for supply chain finance, and Lark for automated credit line management. These solutions were specifically designed to assist SMEs in overcoming financing barriers and enhance the accessibility of financial services for MYbank’s 50 million SME clients.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Other Google Sheets limits There are more limitations to consider than just sheets, rows, columns, and characters: Finance formulas: Specific finance-related formulas (like GOOGLEFINANCE ) have limitations on the number of refreshes per day. It excels at relational data and custom views.

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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. Bootstrapping.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

This roadmap, or strategic plan, doesn’t have to be an elaborate or intimidating document that ends up unused. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Thanks not to Public, really, but M1 Finance, a Midwest-based consumer fintech that has a stock-buying function amongst its other services (more on it here ). But much of this shift involved taking analog processes like meetings or document signing and approval and bringing them online. Things like this are merely a first step.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 10, 2020

Many founders want to do SAFE note financings for their early rounds to save time and money. My response to that is “let’s do a priced round, we can use a standard financing form we both like, we won’t use a lawyer on our side, and we can close in a week.” Here is Gunderson’s document library.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Outliers — unusually large financings with high valuations relative to the company’s maturity — are as old as the industry itself. The following is based on Cloud Apps Capital Partners’ analysis of PitchBook data on fully documented U.S. But these days, there are more of them, and the outliers are more extreme than ever before.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

million in Series A-1 financing from existing investors led by Base10 Partners, VisionTech, and Collina Ventures and its new investor IU Ventures. Register Boardable , an online board management and meetings platform , secured another $2.6 The online board management portal announced that it closed $2.6

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Training your employees to spot phishing and link scams, monitor any unrestrained web browsing, rectify bad password habits, and eliminate vulnerable document processes can greatly increase the protection of your organization. Financing to help with payroll or hiring a cybersecurity agency.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A typical enterprise grapples with hundreds or thousands of agreements, contracts and other legal documents every year, and it usually engages costly legal counsel either inside or outside the company to assess those documents on their behalf. In all, Ontra is processing some 20,000 NDAs monthly at the moment.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

in-kind support”) instead of financing. As Ashna reflected on where she started with YHS and where she is now, one of the biggest lessons she learned as a new entrepreneur was to really take the time to be deliberate about the early decisions — for example, the name and founding documents.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Drone Fund led the latest financing along with SOSV’s HAX, Incubate Fund, SBI investment and DBJ Capital. Aso, who is CEO of the outfit, co-founded it with robotics and autonomous vehicle veterans from Bosch, Amazon, Honda and more, and now the Japanese outfit is preparing to enter the U.S. with a fresh injection of about $10.7

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. We also recommend, at a minimum, learn the basics of coding. Some schools run their own (e.g.,

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

MONIX said that the outcome of their least funding round was a demonstration of the company’s strong growth in micro-finance lending on the path to IPO in the near future and soon becoming the market leader in Thailand’s digital lending arena. “We

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

While some business owners use personal savings or loans to get started, many others turn to investors to help finance their dreams. A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. million at an $800 million valuation. Image Credits: LinkSquares.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Bling Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures and Garage Capital also participated in the financing, along with angel investors such as AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, Jason Calacanis, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and other executives based in Silicon Valley. Now today, the startup behind that platform, Figure, announced it has raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

He is an adviser and investor focusing on high-impact entrepreneurship in emerging markets and has worked with the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, as well as numerous funds and startups focusing on developing countries.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In addition, Gartner found that 74% of Finance leaders expected to shift 5% of employees to remote work permanently. A simple example would be sending resource material (documents or spreadsheets) or agendas that your employees must read before a scheduled meeting. Synchronous Communication. 2- Centralized File Storage.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

To help accelerate this trend, we asked our VC Lab participants to take The Mensarius Oath (Latin for “banker” or “financier”), a professional code of conduct for finance professionals to create an ethical, prosperous and healthy world. What value do you bring to the table?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

Or if you’ve raised a warehouse, you can now fund and originate loans that will be repaid by a financing partner. Credit Agreement and Funding Mechanics The credit agreement, that lengthy document dedicated to formalizing your credit arrangement with the lender, outlines many of the key terms and ratios necessary for compliance.

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