StartupNation

JUNE 14, 2025

Running a newly acquired small startup can be highly unpredictable. And while you’re likely to expect the ups and downs of day-to-day operations, it’s important to understand the impact of this unpredictability on your finances. In fact, even successful startups tend to struggle with cash flow problems from time to time.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Embedded finance infrastructure makes financing decisions based on real-time data. Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. and Canada. This is more flexible than fixed payment periods.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The order is important because I fell in love with the product before I even knew about the company, and the hustle of its founder/CEO Sandro Roco. I was working at a venture-backed apparel startup for 4 years and saw the power of building digitally-native brands through Facebook and Instagram (TikTok was still nascent).

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 19, 2025

With an initial close of $30 million, Lioncrest is positioning itself as a next-generation venture firm, offering both equity and credit capital to meet the evolving needs of founders building in complex, regulated markets. The Importance of Flexible Capital for Scaling Startups Access to growth-stage funding is increasingly complex.

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StartupNation

JUNE 18, 2025

Launching a startup is an adventure filled with uncertainty, excitement, and plenty of unexpected challenges. We’ve put together eight ways to safeguard your startup—from how you build your team to managing your finances, and choosing the right tech. Your co-founders and early hires set the tone for your entire company.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

Funding a startup can be challenging, especially if you’re new to the game. What are the options, benefits, and risks of alternative financing for a startup? Alternative financing is any kind of financing that does not involve a traditional bank. Startups may seek alternatives to bank loans for several reasons.

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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.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. They want a glimpse of what your venture’s future looks like.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It’s striking that most of them already have a significant number of AI startups pursuing their ambitions to change workflows. AI radiology, drug discovery, research analysis Finance 1.13 AI radiology, drug discovery, research analysis Finance 1.13 Computer adaptive instruction & testing Engineers 1.73

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Each of these represents a significant governmental effort to strengthen American competitiveness by affirming the idea that cities can be renewed and rise again if they develop a vibrant startup culture. Post-AOL, I dedicated myself to backing and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs as Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Revolution.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

The company touts over 200,000 businesses with, a large portion being startups that use its services as a financial backbone, replacing cumbersome platform switching or thejuggling third-party apps. Bank accounts are the nucleus of business finance, said Akhund. billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6 The result?

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2025

Co-founders Kushal Byatnal and Eli Badgio lead Extend’s mission to revolutionize unstructured data workflows with precision and scale. Documents are often the system of record for mission-critical business data, but reliably extracting that data has always been a challenge,” said Eli Badgio, co-founder and CTO. “We

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The Seraf Compass

JULY 21, 2025

You’re juggling pipeline, diligence, founder support, LP management, and usually doing it all with a lean team. Founders share materials via DocSend, and the cap table gets vetted in Carta or Capboard Docs & Close : Final agreements and SAFEs are dropped into structured folders. Good tools don’t replace instinct. They sharpen it.

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StartupNation

JUNE 4, 2025

Ben H , Founder & Owner, Dealmemo The Power of a Well-Designed Pitch Deck for Your Business Follow a Psychological Sequence I designed the pitch narrative to follow a psychological sequence rather than a linear business outline. Nothing beats a physical signal in the room when asking for money. That was the order. $1M None of that sticks.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Watch/listen to the Interview: In this interview Richard Liew talks with James Burnes , Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome , a Christchurch New Zealand based startup hub helping high growth startups throughout New Zealand to start, grow and scale up.

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Jason Malki

JULY 16, 2025

Steve Gomberg I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Gomberg and he is a seasoned executive whose career spans general management, finance, and corporate development across a variety of entrepreneurial ventures. Developed creative, non-dilutive financing that supported rapid growth. What is it that excites you about investing?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

Whether you’re a first-time founder or a seasoned business owner striving for the next level of success, a mentor can provide insights, timely guidance, and encouragement that brings a positive impact on your business journey. He attributes much of his success to the mentors he gained throughout his career.

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Jason Malki

JULY 3, 2025

Suzanne is currently the CEO and CFO of Qrescendo , a next-generation investment neobank built to empower startups and middle-market companies with seamless access to capital, embedded financial tools, and a dynamic network of investors and advisors. What motivated you to launch your startup? What are your future plans for the startup?

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 16, 2025

I recently had the chance to chat with Vladyslav Podoliako, the founder of the sales acquisition agency Belkins , and the email deliverability solution Folderly. Vlad shared his founders POV on how to start and grow a business, turn mistakes into learning moments, and keep the motivation alive through itall. This was very insightful.

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

Danielle Dahl , Co-Founder, Resilient Stories Strategic Adjustments Overcome Economic Downturn In 2015, Brazil was in the midst of a severe economic downturn, and I had just launched my first successful company. Chunyang Shen , Finance Expert, Jarsy Inc. Ask for support. Build a system before a crisis takes over.

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Jason Malki

JULY 21, 2025

After a decade immersed in digital strategy, fintech, and responsible AI, Rocio returned to Spain to co-found WAYS  — a tech-for-impact startup revitalizing cultural routes like the Camino de Santiago. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup?

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Impact Hub

MARCH 6, 2025

How Capsule is supporting young women to build thriving businesses Despite Romania’s growing startup ecosystem, women founders remain disproportionately low. Why women entrepreneurs need more support Despite Romanias growing startup ecosystem, theres a glaring gender gap in entrepreneurship. Another key finding?

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Jason Malki

JUNE 2, 2025

Weve created distinct operational modes within our AIeach tailored for essential nonprofit functions like grants, finances, marketing and events, operational efficiencies, and equity initiatives. If you had to share words of wisdom with a founder about to start their own startup, what would theybe?

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StartupNation

JULY 16, 2025

However, its growing popularity reflects fundamental changes in how businesses access financing, particularly as traditional lenders pull back. Still, this form of financing is no panacea. Founders keep control and avoid giving up a stake in their business. No Equity Sacrifice Private debt does not dilute ownership.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 27, 2025

The startup uses AI automation to streamline specialty therapy approvals for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. Mandolin, an innovative AI healthcare startup, has secured $40 million in funding to transform how patients gain access to life-saving specialty therapies. co-founder Jerry Yang, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

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Revolution

JUNE 30, 2025

Morgan to bring together founders, investors, and local leaders for a conversation about the business of climate tech, and what it will take to scale solutions that make both environmental and economic sense. Morgan Executive Director of Climate Tech There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to financing climate innovation.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sanjay Avasthi, Founder of Alacer and Velocity FSS. What motivated you to launch your startup? What has been your biggest challenge when growing your startup? What are your future plans for your startup? The biggest challenge is, and still remains, growing our brand globally.

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StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

The solo founder who raised $2 million in two weeks. The startup that went public five years later. 10 Questions a Seasoned Business Angel Asks Startup Founders Room to Grow Beyond the Current Results Investors aren’t only interested in what your business is today. Everyone’s heard the stories. They’re the exception.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Jeff Sauer , Co-Founder, MeasureU and ProfitSchool From Law to Entrepreneurial Success Like many founders, my entrepreneurial journey started as a side hustle. At the time, I was also newly pregnant and running a baby carrier brand with my co-founder. We were in four cities. And it has been the most meaningful work of my career.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Either because the founders don’t want to go public (or believe they need to get further before doing so) or because acquisitions have dried up as a combination of valuation mismatches and regulatory pressure, everything is taking longer. More companies should go public earlier but that’s a different post).

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 21, 2025

I have worked in finance and well as been though Techstars and have seen it all in the world of startups. The answer is YES. If its a top tier accelerator like Ycombinator you should definitely do it. If you get an offer from YC , take it How to build a $20M fuel business.

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StartupNation

JUNE 20, 2025

While managing the pressures of school, finances, and raising young children was overwhelming at times, we stayed focused on our ultimate goal: building a better future for our family with a career we are truly passionate about. Relocating to a new city with a young infant was one of the toughest challenges we’ve faced.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its essential to adapt to a world that is constantly changing and we have a few of the best ones around which include themes around tech and finance as well as how to build a business. The best accelerator out there with billion dollar exited startup founders.   YC newsletter The one and only YC.

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Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

Since I’m always interested in startup outcomes – especially those where there’s a private equity-like exit , Joe was kind enough to share the backstory with me, and here with you! While every CEO and founder wants to create the next impactful IPO oriented company, IPOs are rare, even in the best of times.

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Founder Bounty

JULY 16, 2025

The differece is that i have sold a SAAS business and been backed by top US VC's for previous startups. "she focuses on the finance niche." Both Niel and Nischa teach you, in one case finance and in another case about marketing but the point of this is that its informative content that works.

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Founder Bounty

JULY 21, 2025

If you want to get rich, you can either do that through working in a place like finance or by selling a business. Working in finance and getting to partner level is extremely difficult and you can be fired at any time. Don’t be fooled, startups are for no softies, and it’s probably not for you.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

These companies didn''t announce their financings right away, and for good reason. They''re building up their PR plans to make the financing announcements part of a larger story arc. Sometimes it means establishing founder credibility over time to prospective future investors or to potential employees.

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