Berkonomics
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Thoughts from BERKONOMICS – Dave Berkus After 50 years in entrepreneurship and 200+ startup investments, here’s what most first-time founders get dangerously wrong: They obsess over the wrong metrics. The five most important metrics I’ve watched brilliant ideas fail because founders tracked vanity numbers while ignoring the real drivers of sustainable growth.
American Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Eight components to successfully scaling a startup are presented in this article. Many entrepreneurs aim to create businesses that succeed in the short term but also have the growth potential to scale and thrive in the long run. They develop a business model identifying the critical factors necessary for a sustainable business. If you’re wondering how to design a scalable business model for your startup, this article is a guide through the process and offers strategies to ensure your compa
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Gust
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
In the turbulent journey of entrepreneurship, dealing with taxes seems the furthest of priorities, however, understandingjustenough of the intricacies of taxes and accounting can save you a lot of hassle and money. In Q1 we do a lot of extra programming around tax and compliance to help founders find the balance between preparedness and growing the business.
Revolution
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Revolution Growth Invests in Hidden Level, the Company Building the Worlds Most Advanced Drone Detection Technology The $65M Series C will be used to expand production of its airspace monitoring technology, grow its Syracuse-based team, and scale internationally. Meet Hidden Level the leading developer of technology for sensing, identifying, tracking, and analyzing radio frequency (RF) spectrum signals to help customers detect potential threats.
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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
EnterpriseSG has unveiled plans to allocate S$150 million over the next three years to support innovative deep-tech startups in Singapore.
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Hunter Walk
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
“ Has quitting culture now crossed into Founder CEOs? ” SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin thinks it might have after observing some CEOs just plain up and abandon their startups, even after raising large sums of capital. What’s my take? I’ve had some experiences, in both my time as an angel and as a VC, where I do believe the CEO ‘quit’ – which I’ll define as gave up too early primarily because of their own lack of fight or incentive.
Forward Cities
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Through Black Wall Street Forward (BWSF), weve learned that if we want to create lasting economic change, we must rethink how we invest in Black entrepreneurship. Readthefirst installment of our new blog series where we explore a new, cohesive framework for funding Black entrepreneurship.
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Hitachi has introduced its fourth corporate venture capital fund, HV Fund IV, with a target of $400 million, making it the largest fund ever managed by the company.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Google’s earnings call identified some major changes and unexpected outcomes, including the performance of AI Ads, the importance of hardware compared to algorithmic efficiency gains, and the groundswell of developer adoption for Gemini models. AI algorithms have had a thousand times reduction in inference cost over the last three years. There is another cost reduction curve, which is the compute per watt of electricity.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
NZ Entrepreneur
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Has your sales cycle lengthened? Youre not alone. Rocky economies, hybrid work arrangements, and complex internal issues means more buyers find it harder than ever to reach a decision. More decision-makers, more options, and more risk-aversion. Add seasonal peaks and troughs. Its no wonder opportunities stall, and buyers refuse to budge. So, how can you increase the speed of money into your business bank account?
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO , Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ —Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced that it has welcomed the team behind BladeBridge, a leading provider of AI-powered enterprise data warehouse migration solutions, to Databricks. Together, Databricks and BladeBridge will help organizations streamline the code assessment and conversion process vital to data warehouse migrations toDatabricks SQLfrom Snowflake, Teradata and other sources with a proven, LLM-driven approach.
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Indonesian recommerce startup Liquid8 has received pre-seed investment from SPIL Ventures, the venture arm of PT Salam Pacific Indonesia Lines (SPIL), a key player in the shipping and logistics sector.
GCUC
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
GCUC Podcast Recap: Cat Johnson Unlocking the Magic of Coworking and Thought Leadership with Cat Johnson and Liz Elam When two trailblazers like Cat Johnson (Cat Johnson Co, Founder).
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Gearing up for 2025 annual planning? Our latest eBook from the Operators Guild is your ultimate guide. Discover real-world solutions and best practices shared by top CFOs, drawn directly from discussions within OG’s vibrant online community. Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.
The Seraf Compass
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
While many entrepreneurs and investors dream of running a VC fund, few realize how dramatically different the role of a General Partner (GP) is from that of a Limited Partner (LP) or angel investor. Below are some core concepts that any aspiring GP should become familiar with.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
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A Smart Bear: Longform
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an answer, and a path to increase the chance of success.
Founder Bounty
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Klaviyo is a great email marketing platform that has already recently gone public, but there are good alternatives out there. Klabiyo may seem a little over wealming and complex so here are well priced and solid alternatives. EDITORS CHOICE: Mailerlite 1. Mailerlite A fantastic choice for any email marketer, and even gives you the ability to start a blog and a website. 2.
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Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.
Paul G. Silva
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collinss book, BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). BE 2.0: Culture is Strategy 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 post about how luck favors persistence. Why Culture Matters More Than Strategy People often say “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” In BE 2.0, Jim Collins takes this further: culture doesn&
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Nadav Eiron, senior vice president for cloud engineering at Crusoe, explains how a $600 million investment will be used to build a cloud service that is vertically optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Watch here.
Tomasz Tunguz
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Web3 is putting up real revenue numbers. Over the last 30 days, the top 20 public Web3 projects generated $1.2B in revenue. This isn’t some theoretical valuation metric. This is hard revenue, derived from trading and other financial fees. And it tells a compelling story. A power law is clearly at play. While we might expect this in a nascent market, the sheer scale is impressive.
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Israeli marketing analytics unicorn AppsFlyer has announced it will reduce its workforce by 7%, impacting approximately 100 employees.
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In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.
Jason Malki
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
FlashFeed I had the pleasure of interviewing Shashank Imarati, a seasoned product marketing leader, entrepreneur, and the founder of FlashFeed News, an AI-powered news app that delivers concise, 60-word summaries of the latest news in a swipable format. With a background in marketing and entrepreneurship, Shashank has worked in India, Canada, and theU.S.
OurCrowd
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The U.S. Army has revealed new 3D-printed barracks at Fort Bliss, Texas, after a year-long pilot program. The barracks, which house 72 soldiers each, are the largest3D-printed structures in the Western Hemisphere.Newsweekcontacted the Defense Innovation Unit for more information about the project’s success via email. Read more here.
Dream It
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Ransomware has become the defining cybersecurity threat of our time, targeting organizations of all sizes with relentless precisionand the stakes are higher than ever. In 2024, average ransom payments skyrocketed to $2.73 million, marking a $1 million increase from the previous year [ Sophos ]. The global impact? By 2031, ransomware is expected to inflict a jaw-dropping $265 billion in damages [ Cybersecurity Ventures ].
AsiaTechDaily
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
OpenAI and SoftBank Group have announced a partnership to develop and market an advanced enterprise AI solution called “Cristal Intelligence.
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