American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 13, 2025

The newly launched fund will focus on pre-seed and seed stage startups developing AI applications. 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. The fund, which was oversubscribed in just five weeks, will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in AI application companies across both the consum

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StartupNation

JUNE 13, 2025

When I entered the workforce, I didn’t expect tech to be an industry that would value my journalism background. But I quickly realized that many tech companies were hungry for great content—it was becoming a powerful way to build thought leadership and brand awareness. A few years out of school, I landed my dream role at LinkedIn, where I spent six years as a founding editor on the LinkedIn News team.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 13, 2025

The post [Scale AI in AP News] Meta invests $14.3B in AI firm Scale and recruits its CEO for ‘superintelligence’ team appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 13, 2025

Whoa, it’s been a minute. Somehow went almost two months without a post. Bad blogger! Yesterday Satya and I had the chance to celebrate Chime going public on NASDAQ. There are many ways to ‘grade’ an IPO from a punditry perspective ( here’s my own framework which I think still holds ), so I’m not going chime in with my own speculation (see what i did there), but on the other side of it, did want to recognize why this one felt special.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Founder Bounty

JUNE 13, 2025

Some say the mafia know a thing or two about business. Here are some of the best mafia business-focused quotes from movies. It may wise to learn something from this. The Godfather series: "It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business" "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man" (about work-life balance) "Never let anyone know what you are thinking" "Great men are not born great, they grow great" Scarface: "In this

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