American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In addition to notable speakers and panelists, the conference will have dedicated innovation labs, offering real-time demonstrations of AI applications across various industries. With over 200 on-stage talks, the event will feature a comprehensive range of sessions, including fireside chats, panels, and hands-on innovation labs.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BlueRock NZ helps entrepreneurial kiwi businesses fund their growth and innovation projects. Entrepreneurs can cut the cost of innovation – and boost business cashflow – with government funding for research and development, but navigating the rulebooks can be challenging. R&D funding doesn’t have to be a headache.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Being part of a team that fosters innovation and growth in the business community keeps us motivated and inspired every day. The post Supporter Profile: Capital Connect appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Property Finance: For developers and property investors, we offer customised finance to bring your projects to life.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 8, 2025

The child care platform has evolved from a physical co-working space with on-site day care into a full-scale marketplace serving over 200 cities. In a major boost for working families, Bumo, the tech-driven on-demand child care marketplace, has announced the close of a $10 million seed funding round.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

It involves recognizing when the current way of doing things, or even one’s role, is no longer effective in achieving desired results. It’s like breaking out of one shell, only to find oneself in the next one, knowing there’s no going back. Tasks that used to take hours, like writing a sales page, can now be done in minutes.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

It acts as a central hub designed to track contacts, manage sales pipelines , automate communication, and improve customer service. Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool. Why is a CRM system important? But getting reliable, up-to-date, useful information is tricky. What are the benefits of using a CRM?

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2025

It has been rigorously tested by DOE national labs like INL and ORNL, and its unparalleled safety profile earned a safety endorsement from the U.S. With the rise of energy-hungry AI data centers and growing electrification across sectors, Standard Nuclear’s emergence is expected to be a game-changer for the energy landscape in the U.S.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

" It's a played-out expression, but it underlines a significant truth of our time—data, like oil, is fueling growth and innovation. f"Data is the new oil." And it's all thanks to its incredible insights into human behavior. AI and machine learning also get on well with structured data.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Why not profile the most innovative buildings or the people who are behind modernizing the processes and infrastructure at famous addresses? Make a whitepaper available on the topic of innovative technology in buildings, just to get the leads, without telling everyone what your business is upfront. Are you looking to hire?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

They’re building campuses, districts, buildings, spaces, as well as running new educational efforts and contests—basically anything they can think of to foster the growth of new and innovative companies. So, number one is that I needed to be at least engaged enough as an investor to be out there attending gatherings of innovative people.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

New York has quickly become one of the best places in the world to start a company, but if you look at demographics, Brooklyn is a unique area whose innovator and maker population outnumbers most other cities in the country. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted? Reader beware.). Open Government. Calendaring.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Bibiana Dipeo, the director of Alimentando Para el Futuro (Feed4Future) in Paraguay, is empowering her community after more than a decade in the financial sector, by innovating new ways to reduce malnutrition and poverty. What is your background and what inspired you to pursue your work now? Reduce the gender pay gap.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

An abbreviated version of this post appeared yesterday on TechCrunch. If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. “There’s something going on in LA.” ” Or if you ask the venerable Greg Bettinelli, he’s #LongLA. .”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2019

It is mind-boggling how much time and money is invested in “strategy” at many companies—with some larger organizations even hiring a full-time person or team to oversee “strategy and innovation.” Go beyond conventional personality profiling. Now, ask yourself: Does everyone in the organization understand where you are going?

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The Seraf Compass

MARCH 15, 2023

This profile is the ninth in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting fund investors. He is a frequent guest lecturer and panelist on the topics of startup investing, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and has been a mentor and advisor to numerous startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 22, 2020

I remember looking at other people on the street the day after 9/11. Everyone was just so sad. It was a shared moment in time where nothing needed to be said, and all we could muster was a slight nod to acknowledge that what you were feeling, everyone else was feeling, too. It felt like things would never be the same.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld. Didn’t come out of the SF facility.

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The Seraf Compass

MAY 4, 2022

This profile is the fifth in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting fund investors. He is also a professor of finance and entrepreneurship at INSPER in São Paulo, and member of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Seed Capital Committee of the Brazilian Association for PE & VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here. Not bad, hey? And they had another recent $100+ million exit of Savings.com. Both companies were in Los Angeles. I agree with him.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The future of TV will follow the rule of Deflationary Economics as I outline influenced by the book The Innovator’s Dilemma. By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. 200 million views.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From leaping funnel stages with decision makers to creating mass quantities of compelling content, the branded podcast is following the growth path of the inbound blog toward a table-stakes position in an organization’s GTM strategy. What are branded podcasts? We’re still early in the adoption curve. Business podcasts are a viable research channel.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

The book profiles markets like those for books. Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. If you haven’t read it you should consider adding it to you library. It was by definition a hits-driven business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

An innovator in technology, especially monetization. My views are pretty well known. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. I hate Silicon Whatever.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

They are both marquee global investors with a history of partnering with innovative companies that are making an impact on people’s lives,” said Gaurav Munjal, co-founder and chief executive of Unacademy, in a statement. Unacademy, an online learning platform in India, has added two more marquee investors to its cap table.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

For verifying educational credentials, users upload their student badge or ID or use their institute’s assigned email ID to get their profiles verified. Profiles with verified details are available for public viewing in resume and work portfolio formats. Now a young startup wants to disrupt that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Over the years, SeekOut has built out a database with hundreds of millions of profiles using its AI-powered talent search engine and “deep interactive analytics.” Specifically, it blends info from public profiles, GitHub, papers and patents, employee referrals, company alumni, candidates in ATS systems. Image courtesy of SeekOut.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 9, 2019

We’re bringing EO members and non-members behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC) as we profile the event’s emcee, Pascal Finette. Pascal was a tech entrepreneur before there was even a web browser. He invests in these pioneering solutions through his nonprofit organization, Mentor for Good. Less is more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Six-year-old Bangalore-based fintech Razorpay, which was valued at $3 billion in a financing round in April this year, has courted one more high-profile investor: Salesforce Ventures. Razorpay said on Monday it has received a “strategic investment” from the venture arm of the American enterprise giant.

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StartupNation

JULY 12, 2021

The former are applying for capital in greater numbers relative to pre-pandemic demand, and when they apply, they have stronger credit and revenue generation profiles while the latter are recovering at a slower rate. Over the next several months, small businesses were forced to make the hard decisions required for survival. Source: [link] ).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Apple profiles all 15 companies in this list, but here are five that caught my eye: Volt Energy Utility (Co-Founder: Gilbert Campbell III) – Developer of utility-scale solar projects with a focus on underserved communities. Apple announces new projects related to its $100 million pledge for racial equity and justice.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

I talked about Pittsburgh’s startup ecosystem on the City Cast Pittsburgh podcast recently in the context of two high-profile startup failures there, Ford- and VW-backed Argo AI and robotic vertical farming outfit Fifth Season. (I Emerging markets tend to go in and out of vogue. You can give it a listen here.).

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 11, 2023

The software and avionics within Intense Eye Version 3 (IE-V3), BlueHalo’s most recent UAS in the Intense Eye product line were vetted and approved through the Defense Innovation Unit’s Blue UAS 2.0 The Intense Eye UAS family is a 750-mm class 4 rotor Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) UAS for dual-use in commercial and military operations.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

The funding round is led by global banks HSBC and ING, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV*, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors DN Capital, Dawn Capital, IQ Capital and Amex Ventures. with a goal of launching in 10 more countries by the end of 2019. Making sense of Klarna.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The report says 36% of all-time funding reported by the health supply chain startups it profiled was raised in the last 12 months. While Africa’s health systems are still reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic, the adoption of digital health services has been revved in some countries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

“Digital evidence is an increasingly critical aspect of investigations and the combined company will be well-positioned to further market expansion, accelerate innovation and provide even greater solutions to its customers.” intelligence community. billion in 2022 to $10.9 billion in 2028, according to a recent Imarc report.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. This is especially true if you’re working in tech industries that have roots in Michigan, such as mobility, advanced manufacturing, life sciences, and software. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. DocNetwork.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cascades explains Greg’s observations on what it takes for innovation of all kinds (political movements, cultural change, startups, re-orgs, etc.) Here are the key takeaways that I believe relate to startup / intrepreneurial innovators. 5 Reasons People Will Oppose You We innovators already believe. It doesn’t.

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