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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

The latest round of additional investor support shows their confidence in Parafins approach to embedded financial services and its long-term impact on how small businesses access capital and manage their operations. Incumbent methods systematically bias against women- and minority-owned businesses.

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CSIT Awards over $2.7M to Support Clean Energy Startups with Demonstration Projects

American Entrepreneurship

The funding will support pilot demonstration projects from startup companies creating technologies that mitigate the emission of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. (January 3, 2025) The New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) awarded over $2.7 Coulomb Technology, Inc.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

Enables natural expansion : MongoDB and Ethereum, two database companies with nearly identical revenue trajectories through 2020, both employ usage-based models that have supported their explosive growth. Lubricates the conversion funnel : Prospects can sign up and grow their accounts seamlessly. What should my unit of pricing be?

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How to Build a Team That Can Navigate Your Business Through Difficult Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Meanwhile, it’s incumbent on you as the CEO to create an environment that encourages action-oriented behavior. A startup’s CEO is only as strong as his or her supporting cast. This means granting autonomy to your leaders, rewarding them for taking risks, and recognizing their efforts when their bold moves are successful.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

Instead of picking a stage, say seed rounds and A rounds, and investing in a variety of companies as they pass through that stage, we take companies that we like and support them through each of those rounds. The traditional 22-minute, ad-supported scheduled timeslot may not be able to stay around forever.

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Marco Financial raises $82M in debt, equity seed round to support small Latin American exporters

TechCrunch

“Now we can work on how to solve the problem at a larger scale by building infrastructure and information through the underwriting process and through partnerships from larger players in shipping, trade services and insurance — all incumbent industries that have clients with working capital,” Shoihet said. “By

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Why Taking a Customer-Centric Approach Significantly Reduces Risks and Increases Your Chance of Success

StartupNation

Build a team to support your iteration and scaling. If necessary, raise capital to support scaling the team, iterating the solution and expanding to solve new problems for the same customer, or new problems for new customers. B2B companies face a similar battle against multibillion-dollar incumbents and unicorn startups.