American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2025

Building a startup is an exhilarating journey, but the road to success is rarely a solo endeavor. While great ideas can be the catalyst for success, the team behind the idea truly drives a startup forward. Having that support system, especially in the early days of building a startup is important because it’s really hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re not even profitable!” What did they actually do?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

By embracing strategic thinking and the lean startup philosophy, you can overcome entrepreneurial challenges and bring your vision to life. Embrace Lean Startup Methodology Traditionally, starting a business meant undertaking thorough planning, seeking significant funding, and developing a product in isolation from its future users.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

I am not a lawyer nor can you use my advice for the basis for your application but I’d rather provide more public information to help you have the right conversations so please take this posting for what it is (and accept that I may have typos or inaccuracies, which I will amend if pointed out). Who is this program for and why does it exist?

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

Information modeling for contractors during the building process, allowing stakeholders to avoid costly rework and design that often happens mid-build. The startup partners with local real estate photography and video firms to get its product into the hands of users. The company, which raised a $1.3

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We reconnected in 2016 and began angel investing in startups in New York City.  When we decided to invest in a startup, it was because we saw a unique combination of a strong idea with a solid team. For the HBS founders we interviewed, there was no “lightbulb moment” for their startup idea. It is a process.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Revolution Ventures Invests in Oula, the Maternity Care Startup Combining the Best of Obstetrics and Midwifery Oula will use the $28M Series B to open additional clinics and launch new services. We are thrilled to partner with Oula as it scales its care model and reimagines the way maternal healthcare is delivered.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Friday, April 3 was supposed to be the orderly launch of the CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) providing $349B of urgently needed funding to struggling startups and small businesses. The information on this page was updated on April 6th, 2020. What are the immediate do’s and don’ts for startups?

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

As I shared in a previous post , when I was president of Click Workspace, a startup coworking space, our board chairman delivered feedback that hit me hard: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials. A Contrasting Example: When Task-Focus Fails Another startup I worked with initially resisted this framework.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

How Iteration Transformed Valley Venture Mentors Before I co-founded Valley Venture Mentors (VVM) and for all of my time there, we experimented with different ways to connect startups with mentors. Iteration #1: High-Value, but Unsustainable Our first approach was simple: hand-match startups with mentors for one-on-one meetings.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

In this Dreamit Dose, associates Alana Hill and I, Elliot Levy , offer five things we wish founders knew after screening over 1,000 startups in the last year. Make sure to answer questions directly and as concisely as possible because there are critical pieces of information that we need to gather quickly. For example.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

Two-year-old startup contributes to Tampa’s growing startup ecosystem. IDeveryone : A secure identity verification system that helps users confirm who theyre interacting with before they send sensitive information or payments. consumers lost over $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024 alone, a 25% increase from the previous year.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 21, 2025

If youve started a company, and things arent going wellthe best thing you can do for your startup, your investors money, and for your own mental health is to ask for help. You dont owe them success, but you do owe them honesty, transparency, and a willingness to share enough information with others to enable them to help you.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Teaching entrepreneurial skills is a worthy endeavor and likely offers career benefits to ambitious employees and their employers, but it is not the purpose of a startup accelerator.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no no surprise?—?that’s

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Dream It

JULY 20, 2020

In this #DreamitDose, Managing Partner Steve Barsh gives founders tips on how to frame their bridge round ask, overcome assumptions investors often make, and provides a general way to structure startup bridge round pitches. In just 5-minutes, you’ll learn and be able to avoid common obstacles founders confront while raising a bridge round.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In response to these growing threats, several startups have created products to protect connected medical devices. The startup also helps device makers meet the new FDA guidelines for cybersecurity by allowing them to use digital signatures, detect intrusions, and publish a Cybersecurity Bill of Materials.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But often, we’ll hear founders misstep and repeat easy mistakes that throw off Q&A flow and cause startups to lose points. In this Dose, Mike Ravenscroft , Startup Success Manager of Dreamit Healthtech, reveals his top five common mistakes founders make when answering customer and investor questions.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2022

Bottom line is that they’re going to need to do more work anyway and ask you to follow up—so why push a firehose of information at them now? This way, you get more information about the market, but it shows that you know that they’re pre-seed and not Series A. We can debate your startup over e-mail and Zoom later.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This is the United States’ first piece of legislation that aims to increase diversity within the venture capital landscape.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

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). Through this process, I was able to piece together bits of information, like where to manufacture products and which distributors to work with.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the OpenAI Startup Fund , OpenAI says. involved in developing state-of-the-art AI systems.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The most common theme of being a startup in today’s world is that the computing environment and platforms change so rapidly that only the best equipped teams survive the transitions (think Facebook’s shift to mobile or Snapchat’s embrace of augmented reality). Maybe 25% of the users would log in weekly. I am not over-selling.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

But how does an entrepreneur know if their startup is funding-worthy and meets investor expectations? That includes angel investors, venture capitalists, and institutional funders associated with various stages of a startup’s growth. Each investor type has a distinct set of criteria for assessing a startup’s business model.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey. Don’t get me wrong--the mental and emotional well-being of startup employees is a serious issue. An examination of several high profile stories this past year about female CEO issues lays bare the other reason: It’s not “founder friendly.” It’s male founder friendly.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data captured from the small businesses supported by SourceLink® affiliate organizations provides valuable information for our network to report to their community stakeholders. We appreciate Mark joining us to share this information with our affiliates. Tracking and supporting job creation. Showcase your impact. News from affiliates.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

And of course there are startups. I spend so much of my public life talking about the challenges of startups precisely because it’s not for most people and with Shark Tank and Silicon Valley and The Social Network we as a society have so glamorized startups that we expect them to be all fun and games.

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Dream It

JULY 29, 2020

TrekIT Health (HT- ‘18) is a HIPAA compliant and secure, real-time workspace for synthesizing information across EHRs and care teams. Clinicians love TrekIT because of its intuitive and predictive interface which serves as a cure for disjointed information systems and a replacement for paper task lists.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 10, 2021

Thriving startup leaders also avoid mediocrity. Although it can be uncomfortable at times, being direct is the only way to obtain the information needed to get what they want. If not, I decline politely; you should, too. Entrepreneurs are smart with their daily routine and focus on accomplishments vs. hours.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This differs from patterns we’ve seen in previous recessions, where startup job creation remains relatively stable in recessionary years. However, microbusiness owners need access to the information, expertise, and capital to grow and succeed.”. More entrepreneurs, new needs. Then, funding—how to pay the employees.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 7, 2015

After checking out The Information's "open dataset" on diversity in venture capital , I felt pretty disappointed. So, while my fund might be 100% run by one white guy, I'm sure I'd fare pretty well on The Information's list if they added actual funding data. It didn't include the most important statistic of all--the results!

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. This is an exercise in setting your plot line, and while you may never actually activate all these relationships, what you share with a potential financial advisor will likely inform the process later on. How can you avoid this unnecessary fate?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 13, 2022

Its one thing if your investor is the former CTO of a blue chip startup and they’re commenting on the engineer hiring process or various technical platform choices—but when that same investor starts to opine on the color scheme for the brand guidelines, that may not come in as an opinion you can trust.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Register Japan has opened a new base for Japanese startups in Palo Alto, California. It is its first base in Silicon Valley, a pivotal hub for the global information technology industry. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Startups are team sports because you’re all working on the same shared objective of the company. That’s what we’re trying to do at Upfront.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 11, 2024

He has successfully led projects to completion, championed user-centric products, and is currently disrupting the online deals space with his startup, Prizeskout. What motivated you to launch your startup? I wanted to create a solution that empowers shoppers to make informed decisions and save money effortlessly.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

San Diego Angel Conference sets dates for its entrepreneur and investor programs leading up to its Spring Conference Building on the success of this year’s event, the San Diego Angel Conference (SDAC) announced the launch of SDAC VI Fund, a fund and program focused on connecting startups with accredited angel investors.

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