American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 22, 2025

The top ten states to start a business share a combination of factors that are helpful to entrepreneurs achieving success that the bottom ten of 50 states lack to some degree. Starting a business can be daunting as reflected in the high number of failures that occur in the first year. Selecting the right state to launch your entrepreneurial journey may be a factor in a companys success.

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Paul G. Silva

JANUARY 21, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Check out the previous posts on leadership values and getting the right people. What is Vision? What makes some organizations last while others fade away? Jim Collins found a surprising answer: a clear, compelling vision. Think of vision as your organization’s North Star it guides your team, especially when times get tough.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 21, 2025

The answer is YES. If its a top tier accelerator like Ycombinator you should definitely do it. I have worked in finance and well as been though Techstars and have seen it all in the world of startups. If you get an offer from YC , take it How to build a $20M fuel business. Lessons learned from Building Europe’s first On Demand fuel station from its COO Before Shell tap-up and Cafu and others, we built Europe’s first on demand fuel station.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

Slide 1 Clearing: While data world consolidates, capabilities have exploded with AI. Content: AI is rewriting every rule about what’s possible with data Those two forces in tension will make for an exciting 2025 Slide 2 Clearing: My name is Tomasz Tunguz, founder and general partner at Theory. Content: I’ve been investing in data for the last 17 years and have worked with companies like Looker, Monte Carlo, Hex, Omni, Tobiko Data and Mother Duck I founded Theory, a venture firm manag

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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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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Two prominent entrepreneurs share their views on starting a business plus 10 tips every first-time founder should have. A founders journey when taking on the challenge of launching a startup is filled with highs and lows.Their path to success will have challenges, setbacks, and moments of doubt. However, the rewards of building something from the ground up that is profitableas well as creating jobs, innovating, and solving problemscan be immensely gratifying.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 21, 2025

JAKARTA, 21 January 2025 MDI Ventures, a multi-fund venture capital firm under PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom Group), today announced a strategic investment in CYFIRMA, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company specializing in threat intelligence and external threat landscape management.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 22, 2025

iMotorbike, a Malaysian platform for buying and selling pre-owned motorcycles, has successfully secured $10 million in its Series A funding round, completed on January 21, 2025.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

A diverse founding team finds an opportunity to address fragmented services in these two major regions. Headquartered in New York City, MoneyHash is on a mission to simplify and optimize payments across the rapidly growing markets of the Middle East and Africa (MEA). In these regions, payment infrastructure has often been underdeveloped and fragmented.

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GCUC

JANUARY 24, 2025

Session Spotlight: Designing For The Next Generation Designing for the Next Generation in the Workforce As coworking and flexible workspaces continue to redefine the way we work, understanding the needs and.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 23, 2025

TROY, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–J.D. Power, a global leader in data analytics, today announced a collaboration with Databricks, the data and AI company, to bring its industry-leading customer behavior datasets to theDatabricks Marketplaceusing Delta Sharing. Read more here. The post [Databricks in Business Wire] J.D. Power brings industry-leading customer behavior analytics to Databricks Marketplace with Delta Sharing Integration appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 21, 2025

East Ventures, a prominent venture capital firm in Southeast Asia, has completed its first-ever general partner-led (GP-led) secondary transaction.

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OkDork

JANUARY 24, 2025

Listen to the full podcast – Spotify – iTunes I woke up this morning to snow in Austin, Texas. Yes, snow. I didnt think that was possible, but, well here we are. While I was making snow angels , I realized its been a while since Ive just shared whats on my mind. Just raw thoughts, like the early days of blogging. Lately, money has been top of mind.

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GCUC

JANUARY 21, 2025

GCUC Podcast Recap: Drake Rankin, Green Hive Spaces Drake Rankin – Transforming Workspaces for Entrepreneurs In an era where the coworking industry is booming, Drake Rankin stands out not just as a.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 23, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO,Jan. 23, 2025/PRNewswire/ — CropX Technologies, a global leader in digital agricultural solutions, announced the appointment ofSpencer Swayzeto its Board of Directors. Swayze brings with him a wealth of experience and a distinguished career in investment management, strategic planning, and business development within the agribusiness and natural resources sectors.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 19, 2025

Australian fintech company Eden Exchange has announced the acquisition of Dealcierge, an SC Ventures-incubated platform.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 20, 2025

Y Combinator is now running four batches per year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. We completed the first ever fall batch last year, F24, and are proud to announce the first ever spring batch, which we are abbreviating as X25. Apply To X25 One of the first questions people ask when we say we are doing a spring batch is what letter we will use to refer to it since “S” is already taken for the summer batch.

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A Smart Bear: Longform

JANUARY 18, 2025

Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like competitors. Or customers.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 23, 2025

The Philadelphia-basedBusiness Intelligence Grouphonored three Israeli companies at its2025 BIG Innovation Awards, which recognize all ideas, organizations and people no matter how big or small that are positioned to change how we interact and experience the world around us. Read more here.

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Gust

JANUARY 23, 2025

Properly modeling your startup's churn is crucial to a full-picture financial model and will help you better understand your current growth trajectory. The post Cumbersome Cap Tables appeared first on Gust.

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Mark MacLeod

JANUARY 24, 2025

What does it take to build a successful fintech company in today’s competitive market? We explore this question in a conversation with Rob Khazzam, co-founder and CEO of Float Financial, one of Canada’s fastest-growing fintech companies. Robs journey from a […] The post Float’s CEO, Rob Khazzam, on Why Execution Matters More Than Strategy appeared first on Mark MacLeod.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 23, 2025

Infra.Market, an Indian construction materials supplier, has raised $121 million in a funding round led by its existing investor, Tiger Global.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 22, 2025

Munich, Germany, 22nd January 2025 German software and IT service provider, DATEV, and IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a global leader in superconducting quantum computers, have completed a collaborative project on the potential of quantum computing in portfolio optimisation using a 20-qubit quantum system. Read morehere.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 22, 2025

Callaghan Innovation says it will “work hard to support its staff and customers” as it implements the Governments decision to disestablish the agency. The Prime Minister this afternoon announced the disestablishment of the Crown Entity as part of the Governments reforms of the science, innovation and technology system. Callaghan Innovation was launched in February 2013, and was named after prominent New Zealand scientist and thinker, Sir Paul Callaghan.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 24, 2025

The markets rapid embrace of Renders platform has impacted the cloud services industry. The cloud computing industry is rapidly evolving, driven by the growing demand for scalable, cost-effective, and easy-to-use infrastructure solutions. California-based Render has addressed this demand with an innovative platform streamlining cloud application deployment—changing how developers and businesses approach infrastructure management. “It is the beginning of the end of cloud management,&#

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 23, 2025

HongShan Capital Group, a Chinese venture capital and private equity firm formerly known as Sequoia China, has finalized a deal to acquire a majority stake in Marshall Group.

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