Jason Malki

APRIL 24, 2025

Kevin Bulger is an entrepreneur and investor with a diverse background spanning startups, sustainable ventures, and international tourism. startup ecosystem, including a role at Farmers Fridge, a fast-growing food techcompany. The opportunity to grow and expand my network by meeting like-minded individuals is also a huge valueadd.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, at least once per year. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc.

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StartupNation

JULY 11, 2025

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. Investors want to see opportunities that don’t hinge on one person. Everyone’s heard the stories.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

If you want to learn more or withdraw your consent to all or some of the cookies, please refer to the cookie policy. Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Interested in becoming an investor? Make a difference Build a relationship with your startups, and add value from your experience and network. Return p.a. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. Market : The startup is addressing a significant, often underserved, need or problem in the market.

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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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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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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

There are fantastic rewards to be had for those who know how to exploit the new opportunities for business funding that arise in times like these. In this post, I’ll cover six realistic ways startups and entrepreneurs can fund their business , including: Incubators or accelerators. Get angel investment for your startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The funds will be used to build Parallel System’s second-generation vehicle and launch an advanced testing program that will help the startup figure out how to integrate its vehicles into real-world operations, according to co-founder and CEO Matt Soule. The company, which has raised $53.15 million to date, including a $3.6 In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Sometimes, due to the nature of the startup game, we over index on “the new.” It just made me think about that larger comprehension coupled with the nimbleness of a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. Community-building is advice I give to nearly every startup team with whom I work. I became an advocate for Derek and for Startup Grind, speaking several more times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So now that you’ve accepted (I hope) that exclusivity can be a massive opportunity if crafted correctly, let me delve into the topic. As a startup this is often the one true source of strong leverage in a negotiation to: Get a better price, get a longer-term commitment, get PR commitments and so forth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship. You can’t buy a community, so make it worth it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The “what” Troy Carter does also led him to be an early investor in Uber, Lyft, Dropbox, Warby Parker and several other great startups of the last era. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. He said that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

For many entrepreneurs, the startup they are trying to get off the ground might be only the second entry on their resume. If you have some startup-related “how” and “why” questions, please browse our Extra Crunch How To stories. 4 ways startups will drive GPT-3 adoption in 2021. What’s going on?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. This is because most of the capital in Africa for promising startups is typically distributed among many investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal, by 2030, of turning the country into ‘Spain Entrepreneurial Nation’, as the slightly clumsy English translation has it. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Register Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (President Kim Won-kyung, hereinafter referred to as “GCCEI”) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hive Colab, headquartered in Kampala, Uganda, to innovate the business environment for startups in both countries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s no easy fix, but an emerging cohort of startups is pitching software as a way to potentially anticipate — and respond to — market shocks. He claims that the startup acquired more than 200 new customers in 2021, accelerating Tive’s plans to expand its workforce of 120 people to 300 by the end of 2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We live in interesting times where working at a startup is glamorized to the point that many founders even refer to their team members as “rock stars,” which to my ears is cringe worthy. Running a startup is a grind. Startup Lessons' The reality is quite the opposite. It wears you down.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

After incubating a startup — Axelera AI — to commercialize their chip technology within the blockchain company Bitfury Group, Del Maffeo and team secured capital from VCs including Imec’s venture arm, Imex.xpand. .” ” Assuming Axelera can deliver on its promises, it stands to make some serious cash.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Last year was a good 12 months of firsts for African tech startups. This shows that Africa’s investment landscape is still very promising because it continues to grow, and there’s increasing interest in multiple startup ecosystems, including nascent ecosystems. billion, according to data from Partech.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. How many startups do you invest in per year in general? Remember Me. No account yet? In other words, we structure the exits.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

But now, VCs and founders are actually praising the Central Bank for its initiatives and the opportunities it has created. “Both Open Banking and Pix will level the playfield for new challenges, and we expect to see a lot of innovation around them,” Yoshimura said, referring to another of the Central Bank’s projects.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Alexandria — a historic city just across the Potomac from our nation’s capital — is part of the larger ecosystem locals lovingly refer to as the “DMV” (D.C., CAVA CEO Brett Schulman shared hard-earned wisdom on growing up with your startup, building culture into the company, and preparing to go public. A common thread: resilience.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

All VCs, including us, regularly see investment opportunities which don’t fit our mandate. We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. Monetizing our deal flow. There are a number of VC funds (e.g.,

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2020

For those who haven’t heard of Morning Brew , we’re a business media startup founded in 2015. If they don’t re-engage within a few days, we remove them from our list and send them a notification email that we have done so, with one last opportunity to opt back in. In August, we hit a major milestone at Morning Brew: 1 million opens.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

All VCs, including us, regularly see investment opportunities that don’t fit our mandate. We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. There are a number of VC funds that share the carry earned in their co-investment to the referring party. Monetizing our deal flow. How much can you earn?

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Ironically, that experience with our partners has given them the trust to become our clients and refer other clients as well. In essence, a well-strategized partnership can act as a force multiplier for new business opportunities. I refer them web-design clients, and in return, they refer me SEO clients.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. Most of the capital, 60%, will be allocated to early- and seed-stage startups. With this successful raise, the firm now manages $3.3 billion in assets.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Many startups struggle with finding and retaining customers. Having a sustainable and systematic customer acquisition strategy is an essential component of success for any organization, especially as a startup. Once you have happy customers, make it easy for them to refer you. Why is customer acquisition important?

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