StartupNation

JUNE 25, 2025

Sign Up for The Start Newsletter * indicates required Email Address * /* real people should not fill this in and expect good things – do not remove this or risk form bot signups */ The Rise of White-Collar Migration to Blue-Collar Work My story isn’t unique. As I like to say, “ChatGPT won’t be putting siding on houses anytime soon.”

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Use automation to support brainstorming, delegation, and communication Learn how I do most of my mind mapping digitally—and even when I don't, I often recreate a paper mind map online so that I can have it safely stored and easily searched. You start by writing a central idea or theme in the middle of a blank sheet of paper.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Turn ideas into action Automate your note-taking For years, I've relied on Notion to make sense of the avalanche of digital information I collect, like personal notes, web snippets, movie watchlists, itineraries, work reports—the list goes on. Few do it better than Obsidian and Notion. But Notion goes above and beyond plain text.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Add the power of ChatGPT to your workflows Automate ChatGPT I've tried every major AI chatbot out there—and written about most of them—and here I'll look at ChatGPT and Meta AI on their own merits and compare them against each other. That means you can build fully automated AI-powered workflows that help your business move faster.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We are early in automating surveying, planning, marking and completing basic construction tasks using robots of various kinds. Many of these jobs can be augmented and dramatically improved via automation and robotics. Is the market under-heated, overheated or just right? About 10 percent of our time.

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Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

the proptech company seizing an untapped opportunity within the $85B pre-sale home improvement market and the latest addition to the Revolution Growth portfolio. What They’re Solving For: Today’s consumers want a move-in-ready home. and every seller to unlock the value in their home. That’s why we founded Curbio?—?to

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A lot of people go out and start their first business and try to make it a venture-backed startup. I think the right move is to start a business that can make you $100k+ per year in profit. Path 2: Lifestyle business 50%?—?75% Most entrepreneurs start with one goal in mind: freedom. That’s the wrong move.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

I received an MBA, then spent several years in management consulting, which helped me learn how top executives think, what works in strategy and how to run a business. I quickly discovered starting and scaling a company isn’t easy. Taking the work home. I was shedding pounds and looking healthier than ever.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For background, Rocket Internet has helped launch some very successful businesses internationally, including HelloFresh ($12.9 My personal observations on Rocket’s successes and failures start with this crucial point: These learnings might not apply to your unique combination business model, market and timing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2018

One motivated EO member and enterprising parent has taken it to a new level with his commitment to raise the next generation of entrepreneurs in his own home! How did you start teaching your children about entrepreneurship? Jessica and I speak to the kids about our businesses and explain financials along with the ups and downs we face.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A combination of university talent pipelines, top-rated quality of life, growing startup ecosystem, and growing VC funding has Tree Town topping lists as one of the best places to start a tech company or find a top tech job. Blumira is another Duo alum security startup in Ann Arbor that is growing quickly. After raising $10.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

We are not that; we invest, and while we care about the growth of the companies, we look at much more about how the business we can create together will grow. We are much more interested in creating joint businesses and joint ventures. CVC is very much a financial play; we are more a business creation play.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

His company, SourceAcademy , partners with talented students who freelance to create affordable websites for small businesses. The innovative organization offers a clear win-win situation: Students get real-life professional experience while businesses get a creative and affordable service. I love small businesses.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 4, 2022

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Every year, dozens of PA startups get their start with Ben Franklin Technology Partners. located in Tyrone, PA, developed a product that helps a home inspection company with its core business needs such as booking, accounting, training, and relationship building. InspectionGo Inc., www.cnp.benfranklin.org.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 24, 2023

With over 130 early-stage businesses in its portfolio, ZEBOX aims to connect startups and corporates to accelerate decarbonization and operational optimization in the supply chain industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

If your service-based business is still collecting paper checks and only knows clients by their first name, Finli has an app for you. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, 9.9% businesses are small businesses. Zuper secures $13M to take the sting out of home repairs. This gives Finli a total of $9.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

That experience, and the questions leading up to it, got Hartman to start thinking about how to solve the problem for others like him. Interestingly, when Welcome Homes started out, it was focused on giving people the ability to build custom homes. The startup “6xed” home sales in 2022, he added.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

For example, a recent remote work survey by the PWC revealed that business executives expected a massive 55% of their employees to work from home at least one day a week even after the pandemic. So knowing how to manage a remote team is a critical skill for business owners in the new normal. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Dipp was launched three years ago to automate much of that workflow, and allow marketing and design teams to collaborate more effectively, while focusing on their own performance metrics. That information is embedded into dipp’s platform, so brands can automate their ads to fit different requirements.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Relish Works creates solutions for tomorrow’s food industry businesses. Not only do they work in business development, market placement, and research to help develop solutions for the food service industry, but they also run their own startup incubator! Apply now to Wedge. Relish Works. FirstIgnite. The Patient Co.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 16, 2022

Make sure those requests are met, for example, by allowing him to start early and have a long afternoon break. It’s much harder for many workers to calculate the hours they spend online if they work from home. One of your team members has a bad Internet connection at home? How about taking advantage of automation ?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

TechUkraine and Emerging Europe also published the results of a survey looking at the country’s start-up ecosystem. It found that despite the ongoing war, Ukrainian start-ups had demonstrated enormous fortitude. Finmap A cash flow management service for businesses. It has now moved to Poland and set up the office there.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

From 1,300 applicants, the company picked its first cohort to start building opportunities with the startups. NousLogic Telehealth – Connective health technology delivering home solutions for wellness, acute care and smart lifestyle services at the point-of-need. The Metaverse. NeuroTrainer, Inc. Smart Lifestyle.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This relationship also supplied Spleet with the critical network of landlords required to list multiple units when it went live; the pitch to landlords was that Spleet would bring proper KYC into the rental process and allow them to verify tenants and automate rent collection. Our solution on the tenant side was a no-brainer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Founded in 2014, Rohlik’s funding comes at an interesting and key moment in the online grocery business, in Europe and beyond. upr’s previous startups was a restaurant delivery business, acquired by Delivery Hero ) to build its platform. We understand from sources it is around $600 million. raised $20 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has created all sorts of real estate issues for companies as it forced so many employees to work from home, leaving empty space all over the globe. This is particularly timely, considering how many businesses are having to make tough decisions about how to use their space as the pandemic rages on. Enter Occupier.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Yet with a business model that generates the majority of its revenue by offering consumers short-term credit — and against a backdrop where the idea of easy credit and infinite consumption is increasingly criticised — the fintech giant is not without detractors. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

But in what might be a sign of the times, today a startup that’s focused on e-learning and the subsequent job market for a completely different end of the spectrum — home services — is announcing some funding to continue building out its business in earnest. “There are 5.9

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Customer success platforms (CSPs), or software designed to help business-to-business companies manage and monitor their customer success efforts, are increasingly in demand. Davidson claims that revenue grew 4x since the start of 2022, but wouldn’t divulge the specific figures. billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Divibank , a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 São Paulo-based Divibank was founded in March 2020, right as the COVID-pandemic was starting. million round of seed funding led by San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. 13 investors say lifelong learning is taking edtech mainstream. This is very much by design, Shangkuan said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

. “And once you do that, you can start creating experiences that can really transform the way we do things and fix broken processes and drive new value for consumers that otherwise wouldn’t have been possible.” Fidel API has offices in its home base of London as well as in Lisbon, Portugal, and New York.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Aka, the kind of multifaceted, hands-on skills that technologists haven’t figured out how to automate yet. Code, after all, may well end up being automated by powerful technologies like generative AI — even as we’re still in desperate need of double glazers, plumbers, electricians etc etc.)

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It all started in Rostov-on-Don, Russia in 2018 when my wife, Veronica, and I decided to combine our skills and efforts to produce 2D animation and founded the studio, V+ Animation. After a year, we started working on our own animated series. I was so elated and overwhelmed that my head started spinning!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

For this morning’s column , Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4 2020. On Tuesday, we published a four-part series on Tonal, a home fitness startup that has raised $200 million since it launched in 2018. The Tonal EC-1. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

Anyway, I have since learned that Farhan has branched out to start his own firm, LTV Capital. I tend to always root for the underdog, so the fact that Ansa aims to help small businesses like coffee shops and quick-service restaurants (and down the line, they say, enterprises) save money on fees and better retain customers made me happy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

One Mexico City-based startup, Higo.io , is out to transform B2B payments for SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) in Latin America, starting with its home country. In Mexico, small businesses mostly handle payables with nothing more than spreadsheets and email and legacy bank accounts,” CEO Corcuera said. “In

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