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8 Business Ideas the World Actually Needs (That Don’t Require a Genius IQ or Tech Expertise)

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Most guru-touted business ideas reek of a me-too quick cash grab but fail to solve real problems. These 8 do just the opposite. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Revitalizing Your Resource Partner Network

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Spring is a season of growth and new beginnings that often leads to a renewed sense of energy and motivation. If you’re feeling like your entrepreneurial ecosystem engagement has been dormant, you’re not alone. During the pandemic, many ecosystem builders have felt challenged maintaining meaningful engagement with their network. As we enter the second quarter of 2022, in-person events are increasing, significant government-funded recovery efforts are underway, and there is a renewed confidence i

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AWS launches new $30M accelerator program aimed at minority founders

TechCrunch

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. The Amazon company claims that the three-year initiative will help recipients build successful businesses while “accelerating” growth in their respective markets.

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Mondo Coffee’s Beridze is Taking a ‘Local First’ Approach

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing George Beridze is the Marketing Specialist at Mondo Coffee , an international coffee roasting company headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. He oversees new product development, market research, E-commerce, and other marketing related projects at the firm. His latest achievement includes a successful launch of the innovative Mondo Single Serve Coffee Bags that brew like traditional tea bags.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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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Small Business Customer Service – Best Lessons and Practices

Smart Hustle Magazine

High-level customer service keeps customers coming back. Repeat clients will make your business thrive and grow. In addition, well-established small and medium-sized companies retain and attract new buyers, expand the sales funnel, and increase conversions. In other words, there is a positive correlation between SMB customer service and business success.

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UPSIDE Foods bites into $400M round to serve cultivated meat later this year

TechCrunch

We’ve heard a lot about foodtech companies introducing new types of food products to fill the gap in what is expected to be a global food shortage in the next 30 years. Much of the focus over the past six years or so was on the technology to create these new foods and not so much on how companies will make enough of it. Now we are seeing companies taking on the scalability of these products.

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Autigen Announces Collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Novel Treatments for Hearing Loss. Collaboration and licensing agreement to advance novel therapies for sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), where there are currently no approved pharmacological therapies. OKLAHOMA CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Autigen, a biotechnology portfolio company of the pharmaceutical accelerator, Ascend BioVentures, developing novel treatments for hearing loss, announced today that it has signed a research collaboration and license agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim t

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Empowering European Women in Agrifood

Impact Hub

Did you know that, in Europe, only around 30% of women account for top positions in agricultural and livestock farms? In addition to that, rural women still face serious disadvantages compared not only to rural men, but also to urban women. Despite policy efforts to reduce these differences, recent studies show that the progress has not been sufficient.

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Ant Group acquires majority stake in Singapore payments platform 2C2P

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register 2C2P , a global payments platform and Ant Group announced a strategic partnership to accelerate digital payment adoption and innovation. The partnership, upon completion, will see Ant Group becoming the majority shareholder of 2C2P. Through the strategic partnership, 2C2P’s extensive pool of merchants inclusive of global and regional brands will be connected with Alipay+, extending its

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Construct Capital’s $300M fund targets critical infrastructure automation

TechCrunch

Construct Capital co-founders and general partners Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt continue to dive into innovation that some investors may not think is so sexy, but actually runs behind the scenes so that our food gets to grocery stores every week and our packages arrive when they say they will. And this time, they have an even bigger arsenal of capital to support their efforts.

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Stamina and creativity carry Monscierge through pandemic

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Stamina and creativity carry Monscierge through pandemic impacts. By Scott Meacham. When we talk about entrepreneurs and startup companies we use words like visionary, determined, energetic, and pivot. All those adjectives and more apply to the unstoppable team at Monscierge. Monscierge is an Oklahoma City-based interactive software company with solutions installed in hotels around the world.

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7 EO members share the best business advice they ever received

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Kym Huynh, an EO Melbourne member, EO Global Communications Committee member, and co-founder of WeTeachMe. Kym is fascinated by entrepreneurs and their journeys, so he asked EO members from various chapters to share their experiences. Read his earlier posts on what EO members wish non-entrepreneurs knew about entrepreneurs, how EO members define success , the impact of core values and lessons learned from their best and worst partnerships.

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Alt-protein startup OFF FOODS secures $1.7m to accelerate adoption in Indonesia

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Indonesian-based food tech startup OFF FOODS announced raising $1.7 million in a seed funding round led by Alpha JWC Ventures and participated by Global Founders Capital (GFC) and other strategic investors, including Creative Gorilla Capital, Lemonilo, and United Family Capital (UFC).

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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As it brings its bipedal robots to market, Agility announces a $150M round

TechCrunch

Yesterday, Amazon announced that Agility Robotics is one of the five initial startups benefitting from the company’s $1 billion innovation fund. If I had to guess, I’d say that meant the retail giant was eyeing the Oregon State University spinoff as a potential addition to its warehouse robotics arsenal. After all, logistics has become an increasingly import piece of Agility’s go to market strategy for its bipedal Digit robot, while Amazon’s hundreds of thousands of robots are a big part o

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Celebrating Danielle Boyer, an Eco-Friendly Robotics Trailblazer

Venture Well

We’re spotlighting Danielle Boyer, founder of robotics education startup The STEAM Connection and winner of our 2022 Sustainable Practice Impact Award. The post Celebrating Danielle Boyer, an Eco-Friendly Robotics Trailblazer appeared first on VentureWell.

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10 entrepreneurial superpowers at work in Eastern Europe

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Dr. Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. In late March, Entrepreneurs’ Organization CEO, Dr. Carrie Santos, traveled to Poland and Romania, along with EO’s Chairman of the Board, David Anderson, to support the selfless volunteer efforts of EO members from Poland, Romania and greater Europe, who are sharing their time and resources with thousands of Ukrainian families displaced from their homes.

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South Korea’s largest accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022 invites applications

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register South Korea is one of the most thriving economy in Asia. The country is home to global corporates like LG, Samsung, and Hyundai and is a breeding ground for innovative startups, entrepreneurship, and technology. Every year, South Korea opens its doors, inviting global startups and entrepreneurs to develop and grow their businesses in the region.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

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.

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Why does a16z need its own Y Combinator?

TechCrunch

For over a year, Andreessen Horowitz has quietly piloted its own take on an accelerator for early-stage entrepreneurs, and today, the firm announced the program’s official debut. In exchange for an unannounced percentage of ownership, “a16z START” will offer early-stage founders up to $1 million in venture capital. The checks are backed by a $400 million seed fund , which closed in August 2021.

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Introducing a16z START

Andreessen Horowitz

Today, we officially launched the a16z START program , which fuels founders at the earliest stages of company-building with 1:1 support, network introductions, and up to $1M in funding. Powered by the a16z seed fund in collaboration with partners investing … The post Introducing a16z START appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Tim Brady is leaving YC

Y Combinator

Tim Brady and I go back a long way. Tim was already at Yahoo! when my company was acquired in 1997. Of course, Tim was there. In fact, he was Yahoo!’s first employee and ran a group called “production” until he eventually became Chief Product Officer. Tim was, in many ways, the conscience of Yahoo! He kept us focused on the customer experience in an era when it was too easy to toss that aside in a search for revenue.

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How To Launch Your Own Venture Capital Fund

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Tips for becoming a VC from Michael Kim of Cendana Capital (a “fund of funds” that backs emerging venture firms). Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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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.

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Playbook, where ‘Pinterest meets Dropbox’ for designers, closes on $18M in funding

TechCrunch

Playbook, a startup that describes itself as a “creative file manager for designers” where “Pinterest meets Dropbox ,” has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. CEO Jessica Ko was inspired to start the company after her experiences as a designer at Google and Opendoor. She realized that her teams were spending about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets.

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Will It Scale? Applying Data, Science, and Economics to the Art of Ideas

Andreessen Horowitz

John List is chief economist at Walmart (a title he previously held at both Lyft and Uber) and a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. He recently published a book titled The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale. In this interview, List discusses some of the book’s. Read More. The post Will It Scale? Applying Data, Science, and Economics to the Art of Ideas appeared first on Future.

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Hong Kong’s POC Pharma raises $10.3 million in Series A funding

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register POC Pharma, a B2B service SaaS, raised a $10.3-million Series A funding round led by Alven, along with co-investment from seed investors Picus Capital, FEBE Ventures, and FJ Labs who have doubled down their investments. The funds will be used to accelerate the roll-out of its digital go-to-market solutions for the Pharmaceutical Industry in emerging countries, in Southeast Asia, South

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Help Grow the Field of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Join a collaborative effort to design, create, and validate the advancement of the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. A small, but growing number of people are turning to entrepreneurial ecosystem building as a strategy to build more inclusive and resilient economies. For years, the leading standard bearer in this nascent movement was the Kauffman Foundation.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!