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The Collapse of What “Could’ve Been the Next Facebook” Shows Why Sexy Ideas Aren’t Enough

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Despite starting with a $2 Million fund, Greg Isenberg almost lost everything Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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What Is Acqui-Hiring & How It Works?

Feedough

Mark Zuckerberg once said that Facebook has never bought a company for the sake of buying a company. They buy companies to hire great people. You’re not alone if you’ve ever wondered why a tech-savvy company would bother to buy a startup with no profit and a product in a completely different field. As the war for tech talent is intensifying, it is becoming more and more difficult for companies to attract top-notch talent.

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Free Business Funding: 5 Tips for Writing a Winning Small Business Grant Application

StartupNation

If you’ve researched grants for startup or existing businesses, you know how hard they are to find. Sure, you can find incubators, accelerators, loan programs, angel investors and venture capitalists, but the vast majority of those funding options require that you give up at least some equity in your business in exchange for some financial support. Grants don’t.

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Women entrepreneurs find success despite lack of access to investment capital

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Throughout history there are numerous success stories of female entrepreneurs, yet women continue to face a number of challenges when starting and growing their businesses. From Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who ran a prosperous dressmaking business that eventually led to her designing and sewing dresses for Mary Todd Lincoln, to Anne Wojcicki, founder of genetic testing and analysis firm 23andMe, women have proved they have what it takes to reach the top of the entrepreneurial mountai

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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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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

Africa’s fintech space has gained proper attention over the past few years in investments but it is not news that startups still battle with offering high-quality products. However , they seem to be doing quite well compared with traditional banks that face challenges like legacy cost structures and a major lack of operational efficiency. Appzone is a fintech software provider.

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What Is Grassroots Marketing? – Examples, Pros, & Cons

Feedough

In 2013, the Canadian budget airline WestJet surveyed passengers using interactive life-like screens, which depicted Santa dressed in the airline’s colours, to find out what they would like as Christmas presents. The airline employees kept taking notes of all their answers behind the scenes and then rushed for mad dash shopping of the respondents’ presents so that they could wrap and label them while the plane was airborne.

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How Monica and Joe priced their new enterprise product?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

How Monica and Joe Priced Their New SaaS Business Product and Decided their Optimal Pricing Why customers buy based on the perceived worth that the price represents to them, and how you should price to get your fair share of that value. libreshot.com The cloud’s belly looked swollen. Rain was imminent. Monica was glad to get back to her Jackson-Square office dry, clutching her daily cappuccino from the coffee truck around the corner, especially as she’d left her umbrella at last night’s networki

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Do you fit the mold for the next generation of values-driven VCs?

TechCrunch

Jonathan Greechan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Greechan is co-founder of the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, Founder Institute , has run over 100 webinars including 100,000+ live attendees, and is one of Meetup's most active organizers. More individuals than ever are donning the investor cap. Almost a fifth of U.S. equity trading in 2020 was driven by mom-and-pop investors — up from around 15% in the previous year.

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Patch Animation Pushes the Boundaries of Short  Film Development with Innovative Use of Unreal Engine Technology in ’Stached

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Entrepreneurs David Romani II, Kelly Farmer, and Sofia Soldevila always knew they wanted to bring great stories to life through animation. In 2020 they launched Patch Animation , LLC, a remote full-service animation studio with headquarters in Ebensburg, Pa. Their first short film, ’Stached , is about the unlikely duo of an old man and a hermit crab whose lives collide as they navigate their own trials and tribulations while dealing with grief, they each have experienced.

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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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There’s no single path to entrepreneurial success

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. There is no single path to entrepreneurial success. U.S. Patent No. 4,371,752 is just one of the more than thirty-three patents issued to Tulsa born and raised inventor and entrepreneur Gordon Matthews (1936 – 2002). But it is arguably the most of impactful of his portfolio of innovation, as No. 4,371,752 is the patent for Matthew’s invention that evolved into the first commercial voicemail system.

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Why Emmy Award-winning documentarians focused their lens on 5 GSEA student entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) encourages young entrepreneurs through its Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) , EO’s premier competition for college students who own and operate a business. The annual competition culminates with the Global Finals, where “studentpreneurs” from 50 countries compete and connect with both seasoned entrepreneurs and other student competitors.

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Memic raises $96M for its robot-assisted surgery platform

TechCrunch

Memic , a startup developing a robotic-assisted surgical platform that recently received marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, today announced that it has closed a $96 million Series D funding round. The round was led by Peregrine Ventures and Ceros, with participation from OurCrowd and Accelmed. The company plans to use the new funding to commercialize its platform in the U.S. and expand its marketing and sales efforts outside of the U.S., too.

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Investors, Entrepreneurs Prepare For ACA 2021 - Summit of Angel Investing

Angel Capital Association

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Investors and entrepreneurs from the Pacific Northwest and around the world will reunite in Portland and online May 4-6 for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing! The conference, which kicks off May 3 with the Innovation Funders Showcase , will provide attendees a dynamic virtual experience under the themes of economic recovery, angel education, and expanding horizons.

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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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Entrepreneurship In Latin America

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

It is a little known part of my career, but for a brief period from 1997 to 2001, I was part of a small group of investors who helped to create a startup ecosystem in Latin America. It all started with a company called StarMedia which created a Yahoo-like “portal” for Latin America. My partner Jerry Colonna and I met StarMedia in early 1997 and we brought it to our partners at Chase Capital Partners because we wanted to lead a Series A investment in it.

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A Founder’s Guide to Landing an Enterprise Contract

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Follow these strategies to cut through red tape and increase the odds of a successful corporate partnership Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M

TechCrunch

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. Lingoda , which connects students who want to learn a language — currently English, Spanish, French or German — with native-speaking teachers who run thousands of 24/7 live, immersion classes across a range of language levels, has picked up $68 million (€57 million).

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6 Free and Low-Cost Resources to Help You Create and Execute a PR Plan

StartupNation

Developing and executing a public relations (PR) plan is one of the best things you can do for your startup. Public relations is too often left out of business plans, as its purpose is often misunderstood, and business owners don’t truly understand its value. One of the most common reasons that business owners fail to create a PR plan for their business is they believe they need to hire an agency.

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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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Newsletter: Robot brain surgery + Reinventing manufacturing

OurCrowd

Startup of the Week: Launchpad. Serial founder Moshe Shoham’s new startup. OC50 Fund joins BNY Mellon Pershing. Ramadan Kareem to our new friends. US health insurers team up with Diagnostic Robotics. SPAC supremo: More unicorns in Israel than all of Europe. Phantom Auto transforms forklift drivers into office workers. Innoviz jumps 10% on Nasdaq debut.

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Forbes Released Its Billionaires List?—?If You Aren’t On It, Here is How You Can Maximise Your…

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Looking at the trends in the billionaires list Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Goldman Sachs leads $23M in funding for Brazilian e-commerce startup Olist

TechCrunch

Olist , a Brazilian e-commerce marketplace integrator, has raised $23 million in a Series D round extension led by new investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management that brings its total Series D financing to $80 million. Existing backer Redpoint eventures , which first put money in Olist in 2015, also participated in the latest round. With this latest infusion, Olist has now raised more than $126 million since its 2015 inception.

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Lesson #336: How to Find the Best Advertising Agency for Your Business

Red Rocket

If you are investing material dollars in marketing campaigns, more often than not, you have considered engaging, or have engaged, an advertising agency to assist you with those efforts. Those decisions whether or not to manage your marketing campaigns with in-house teams vs. third party agencies are typically not easy decisions. And, if you decide to outsource to an agency, the selection process can be overwhelming, with the thousands of agencies out there to choose from.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

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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2021 Midwest Venture Showcase to Feature 57 Companies Actively Seeking Funding

StartupNation

The 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase , a partnership between the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) and InvestMidwest , will showcase 57 companies actively seeking funding to an audience of top-tier investors, entrepreneurs, researchers and business executives at the virtual event on April 27 to 28, 2021. The Midwest companies in the Showcase span the life sciences, medical device, agriculture/food and tech industries.

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Four steps on the road to essentialism

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Do you own your things, or do they own you? Contributed by Cédric Waldburger, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member based in Zurich, Switzerland, and the founder and CEO of Tomahawk VC , which provides the resources and tools early-stage entrepreneurs need to shape the future of FinTech and DeFi. He lived without a home with just 64 things in his backpack for over three years.

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Grab a group discount and take your team to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

TechCrunch

Mobility mavens, June 9 will be here before you know it, and that means it’s time to get your strategy ducks in a row for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. You want to make the most of your time at this one-day virtual intensive featuring interactive presentations with the mobility industry’s top movers, shakers and startup dream makers, amirite? Take your team to increase your ROI.

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Funding Friday: ARAS Art Education for Teens

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

I backed this art program for teens this morning. I think summer programs for kids are important and particularly important this summer when we are hopefully beginning to emerge from more than a year of remote learning and social distancing. For email readers, you can see the video here. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Apr 9, 2021 Mask Mandates Were Effective.

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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!