American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For instance, a digital marketing strategy that includes content marketing, social media, email campaigns, and search engine optimization (SEO) can be scaled without significantly increasing costs. Focus on building marketing systems that can handle increased demand. Keep an eye on learning your customer acquisition costs.

strategy

Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

We believe great companies can start and scale anywhere, aided by the fact that startups in emerging venture communities are often more capital efficient, offer a lower cost of doing business, and attract talent looking for a better quality oflife. I have more like them, but not nearlyenough.

capital

Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Watching the boom/bust cycle of DTC brands that were running on just the sugar high of venture dollars has given me even more appreciation for those who, yes, require investment capital along the way, but are playing the long game. Here are Five Questions with Sandro. Hunter Walk: Backstory time!

culture

American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Users can create speech with PlayDialog through its editor, API, or via PlayNote, a just-launched tool that transforms PDFs, text, videos and other media into stories, podcasts, briefings, and more in just minutes. Its Play 3.0

entrepreneurship

Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In my previous venture, a 100% sales-led growth (SLG) cybersecurity company, we regularly secured $250K annual deals with large enterprises. Despite receiving numerous unsolicited offers from venture capitalists, we are committed to holding out until we reach a significant product traction milestone. Thank you so much for joining us!

SaaS

Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

A few years back I helped start Screendoor , a fund that backs new venture firms by hopefully being one of their earliest and largest supporters. Most strategies are some combination of innovation and best practices along the classic five steps of venture investing: See, Pick, Win, Service, Exit.

startup

Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2025

As VP of Investment at BDev Ventures , Keshia leads sourcing and portfolio operations, managing both strategic and operational aspects of the fund. I joined BDev Ventures shortly after the fund was launched and helped build out both the investment and platform sides of the business. How can our readers follow you on social media?

founder

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

Known for igniting purpose-driven business growth, this years event will feature none other than media icon, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey , who will join T.D. According to a report by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, around 65% of small business owners rely on personal or family savings to fund their ventures.

entrepreneurs

StartupNation

MAY 16, 2025

Verizon Small Business Digital Ready: $10K Grants and Free Training to Help You Grow Venture Capital Venture capitalists are another funding option. Like angel investors, venture capitalists take an equity stake in the company. While angel investors are individuals, venture capitalists work as a team or company.

peer-to-peer

American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2025

Recognizing the Pioneers Reshaping Business, Technology, and Leadership CatalyX Ventures, the globally renowned innovation accelerator, has officially announced the winners of its prestigious 2025 CatalyX Champions Series Awards, celebrating groundbreaking achievements across industries. What Are the CatalyX Champions Series Awards?

innovation

Jason Malki

JULY 23, 2025

He previously worked in venture capital, private equity, and financial services. Add in the challenge of running a nonprofit in a venture-style ecosystem, and you’ve got a constant balancing act. How can our readers follow you on social media? Thank you so much for joining us! And building trust takes time. And keep showing up.

entrepreneurial ecosystem

Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 14, 2024

After years of working in strategy and marketing, I realized that I wanted to channel my skills into a venture that aligned with my values. I’m excited to share insights from my journey and encourage others to embrace sustainability in their own ventures. Together, we can make a difference!

founder

Jason Malki

JUNE 23, 2025

We’re also building new partnerships with accelerators and venture firms to help their portfolio companies scale with confidence. How can our readers follow you on social media? What’s next for you and the team at LatAm Talent Partners? We’re expanding our reach across Latin America and strengthening our presence in key U.S.

culture

StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

I chronicled the recovery on our website and social media—cleanups, repairs, even our small victories (Wi-Fi, hello?). This experience taught me that—especially in new ventures—you may not get it right the first time. I stood there, ankle-deep in water, with a broom, completely defeated.

entrepreneurs

David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Brian Cohen, Chairman, Six Point Ventures, observed, Multiple partners with different primary skill sets are mandatory. Ideally, the fund will have a public statement of culture (see, e.g., Antler , Interlace Ventures ). See Templates and Resources for Modeling Venture Funds. Heres How to Do Your Due Diligence First.

culture

Jason Malki

JULY 21, 2025

There’s no well-worn path for ventures like ours. How can our readers follow you on social media? Private investors often misread us as “just” a mission-driven project. As a social enterprise using advanced tech for cultural and economic regeneration, we fall between categories. Know the problem inside out. Stay close to your “why.”

culture

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

No background in venture capital. Harry wanted to learn about venture capitalhow investors think, what makes a great startup, why some bets pay off while others flop. Harry wanted to learn about venture capitalhow investors think, what makes a great startup, why some bets pay off while others flop. No industry connections.

VC

American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Attendees can expect to hear from top executives such as Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer (CPO) of OpenAI; Steve Schmidt, Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Amazon; Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures; Alison Wagonfeld, VP Marketing & CMO of Google Cloud; and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Co-founder of Databricks.

collaboration

StartupNation

JUNE 9, 2025

Starting a new business is an exciting venture, but it’s fraught with potential pitfalls. Failing to invest in a professional website, engage in social media marketing, or utilize digital advertising channels can severely limit your reach and growth potential.

mix-use

American Entrepreneurship

JULY 8, 2025

Led by True Ventures and Offline Ventures, with participation from Goodwater Capital and Marketplace Capital, the investment underscores the need for flexible, accessible, and high-quality child care solutions. This funding empowers us to scale our operations and broaden our reach into new markets.”

innovation

NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s more complex and costly but beneficial for growth or riskier ventures. Utilize social media: Engage customers through social media platforms. Pro Tip: Balance your online presence with a website and social media to drive engagement. . Starting a business is no small feat, but it’s a rewarding venture.

finance

Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2024

the designated broker/owner of Venture REI , an award-winning, Arizona-based real estate brokerage and advisory firm specializing in the purchase, sale, rental, and marketing of select residential developments and commercial investment properties. How can our readers follow you on social media? Dan is a 22-year industry veteran.

real estate

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. We put together this really short, music video (less than 2 minutes)that gives you a great aerial view of the LA Tech ecosystem (plus a great aerial shot of Upfront Ventures HQ if you are interested) all shot with our portfolio company DroneBase.

VC

Hunter Walk

APRIL 17, 2025

JH: While we dont discuss this very often, venture backed companies are expected to contribute to their investors providing a return to their LPs in a timely fashion. In the 2021 boom, there were 215 tech and media IPOs. At the same time, there are in the range of 75,000 venture backed companies at any given moment.

mix-use

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

sustainability

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The fact is, it''s just not cool to criticize the investing side of the venture capital market. I think it sucks that we are in a media culture where we''re supposed to give everyone pats on the head for entrepreneurship when there are legitimate criticisms to be had about the high profile investments we read about all the time.

venture capital

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2016

That was a question posed to me by a new analyst at a venture capital fund. While there are lots and lots of really kind, generous people working in venture capital--the recently retired Howard Morgan, Hunter Walk, Brad Feld, and Karin Klein for example--it's really tough to argue that there isn't widespread jerkery. We're not jerks.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. Entrada Ventures? —?that The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated He then went on the create an early-stage VC that I track closely?—?

venture capital

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The media certainly seems to have decided which group they’d rather work for. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. Or is it that the media just never tells the story this way? It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely.

coworking spaces

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I''ve closed three investments in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures fund that haven''t quite been made public yet, bringing the total to 13 companies. You need a long lead time to get someone in the media to care about you, so what are you doing for them in the meantime. Venture Capital & Technology'

startup

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. That didn’t make them bad – it just didn’t make them efficient at making rapid decisions of whether to fund a startup or not and the terms on which they would fund were typically not “market” for a startup company that would become venture backed one day.

startup

David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Tim Friedman, CEO, PEStack , and a Venture Partner with Versatile VC , suggests, “E.g., I list the online communities for VCs in general at Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital. How VCs source winning companies. Many of them are strictly for VCs, but you can ask your VC investors to evangelize for you there.

venture capital

AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Register Indonesia-based venture capital firm East Ventures and Seoul-based venture capital firm SV Investment have joined forces to establish a new fund targeted at $100 million. Roderick Purwana, Managing Partner of East Ventures, expressed his satisfaction with the SV Investment partnership.

ventures

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences. Five-and-a-half years ago I first met Chamillionaire at a tech conference in LA. This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time.

ventures

AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Register Philippines-based Nila Capita l is the country’s inaugural student venture fund, officially launching with new opportunities for Gen Z startup founders. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Nila Capital is capping its funding at $10,000 per round.

capital

AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) has successfully concluded its fifth funding round, raising $541 million. Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) was founded in 2010 to drive innovation and support scalable businesses in the Southeast Asian and Indian regions.

ventures

AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Register Soho.com.au , an AI-powered real estate discovery app, has secured a $750,000 equity investment from Singapore-based proptech venture capital firm Feedback Ventures. The collaboration between Soho and Feedback Ventures aims to leverage AI technology to transform the real estate sector. to over $20 million.

real estate