StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

Independent sponsor investment platforms like CapitalPad , for example, connect sponsors with curated deals that are already vetted for growth potential. What matters most isn’t just how much you made but whether your business has shown steady, well-documented performance over time. Define roles clearly.

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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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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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The Zapier Blog

JULY 31, 2025

Usability: The best PPC tools have intuitive interfaces, clear workflows, and helpful documentation and support. This brings transparency to campaign financing while underscoring ROI. Instead, I looked for tools with a solid track record of providing trustworthy, consistent estimates that marketers can confidently base decisions on.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics.

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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). Adam Levin interviewed business owner Andy Pham who had investment property of 2.7

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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." Now, an important note before we dive into the specific tools: expect a real investment for a comprehensive solution. One minute.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

How to know if your business is ready for enterprise process automation There's no perfect checklist, but a few signals can help you know when it's time to invest in enterprise automation. Finance might build automations for recurring approvals or monthly reporting.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

By contrast, venture capitalists and angel investors typically make scores or even hundreds of investments over the course of their careers. It should therefore come as no surprise that an asymmetry of information exists, mostly gleaned from experience, between founders and investors in a venture financing deal.

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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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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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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. So what is Revenue Based Investing? Absolutely not.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

A lean approach eliminates wasted resources by validating your idea before heavy investments. This roadmap, or strategic plan, doesn’t have to be an elaborate or intimidating document that ends up unused. 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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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. from people and organizations that you didn’t even know existed.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Others I have not. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Thanks to Robinhood’s strong Q4 2020 results , and implied growth in Q1 2021 , the boosted investment made sense. 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 ). Things like this are merely a first step. We shall see!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

You have no choice since in the first few years everything you do is about showing results to justify financing to continue your operations. I would work through my sales deals pipelines by doing pipeline reviews.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Learn why you should be investing in cybersecurity for 2021 in this article. The good news is that investing in cybersecurity can safeguard your data and ensure that any system vulnerabilities are secure – keeping you, your company, and your clients safe. Investing in cybersecurity. What is cybersecurity?

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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. At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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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. With the new investments, Middlesworth said they will now be able to fund more product innovations and accelerate their growth in markets that are in need of board management tools.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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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

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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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Abstract Ventures led the financing, which also included participation from Propel Venture Partners, NFP Ventures, BoxGroup and Precursor Ventures. and 11 “top-tier” insurance companies, also invested in TrustLayer. The funding actually marked BTV’s first investment in a cohort member of its inaugural accelerator program. .

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

With such impressive returns to be made, many are deciding to set up a full-fledged investment business. Startups are changing, and any new investment manager will have to adapt to the shifting landscape. Investing in startups is not just about making money. Are you doing this for the right reasons?

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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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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

I was at Kidville headquarters in New York City and had just signed the final documents. You can get financing for the businesses, so you won’t be undercapitalized. Funding startups is difficult, which is why most of them seek alternative forms of financing and not bank loans. Literally. Most franchises are SBA-approved.

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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. This is why as a basic necessity, a remote work setup should be accompanied by investments in collaboration tools and employee training. . Investing in the Right Technology. Synchronous Communication.

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