StartupNation

MAY 27, 2025

Hiring is tough for any business, but startups face a unique set of challenges that set them apart from more established companies. With 90% of startups failing , you can understand why many high-quality candidates might prefer to choose established businesses with supposedly higher job security.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

When it comes to running a business, there is no go-to manual for greatness or a secret recipe for success. As EO Montréal’s Moranne Elarar and Marina Byezhanova can attest, it all starts with hustle and heart. I grew up in an entrepreneurial family, so that instinct to start a business has always been in my DNA.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

Effectively monetizing any new technology is a race to capture market share while still giving yourself room to grow your business. But the stakes are much higher with generative AI: though it promises to deliver unprecedented value to businesses, it can also be very expensive to serve to each incremental customer.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 24, 2025

Image: Supplied] Manifesting the idea “The story of how the company started is not something I’ve told many people,” says Mel. “It “I really believe in the power of declaring your vision publicly, even when you don’t know how you’re going to achieve it.

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StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

This article presents real-world examples of business leaders who successfully overcame various crises, from supply chain disruptions to regulatory shifts. Our customers valued this transparency, and the trust we had established remained intact. Issues are unavoidable, but your reaction to them is most important.

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StartupNation

JUNE 20, 2025

When my wife, Vanessa, and I transitioned from the restaurant industry to building a chiropractic franchise, we faced numerous challenges, setbacks, and moments of growth that ultimately shaped us as business leaders. But life has a way of forcing you to reevaluate your direction.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To that end, backing Regal , now a leader in AI Powered Calls for your businesses’ sales, support and operations, was quick to mutual agreement. Hunter Walk: In a recent Five Questions the person I was interviewing said to think about your career as a story youre telling about yourself. billion in revenue at Angi.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The Ayala Foundation’s focus on creating shared value in a sustainable livelihood aligns with EO’s core values of Boldly Go and Give Back. From four core members, the MyEO Engage project has grown in scope with 20 EO members now participating. Teaching the Business of Farming. Encouraging Entrepreneurship.

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StartupNation

MARCH 28, 2021

Company values are more than just meaningless words on your company website or in your handbook. Company values are your organization’s ingrained beliefs and principles. In fact, many entrepreneurs may wonder if it is even worth their time to craft their company values. – Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 11, 2022

Do you dream about partnering your small business with a multi-million dollar brand? These are some tips and tricks to help you secure the brand partnership of your dreams. Check out the Smart Hustle Small Business Guides – get your cheat sheet to marketing, sales, and more. Network your way to success.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

Entrepreneurs seek to find the right investor and to make the best pitch when the opportunity comes Entrepreneurs start their companies with great passion and big dreams. If the founding entrepreneurs believe their business models will scale quickly, they will need a good deal of funding to support growth.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Great retention is a natural result of delivering the core product value to users, which of course varies by product. Obsession With Delivering the Core Product Value. AI products can, and are, adopting the same obsession with delivering their core product value as quickly as possible.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Berhens Wu is the CEO and co-founder of Shippo , which offers an API to connect eCommerce businesses and marketplaces to a network of different shipping providers.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Not surprisingly, the tighter your relationship with the firm, typically the more money you will earn: . At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Then private equity players gradually realized that value cannot be created through financial engineering alone. You can explore all of the models below with them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Mass surveillance of what Internet users are looking at underpins Google’s dominant search engine and Facebook’s social empire, to name two of the highest profile ad-funded business models. Countless others rely on obtaining user data to extract some perceived value.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 4, 2024

17 Metrics to Measure the Success of New Business Development When it comes to gauging the success of new business development, CEOs and founders are key voices to listen to. Discover the metrics they prioritize to measure progress and ensure their business strategies are on track. It becomes a numbers game.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. In this blog post, we’re not going to talk about different business models, seat-based VS usage volume pricing, or subscription VS pay-as-you-go. This is the wrong question to ask.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What Is Your Process for Developing New Business Ideas?: 16 Experts Weigh In Sixteen entrepreneurs, from Founders to CEOs, unveil their personal blueprints for birthing a business concept. You don’t write about your mood; you talk about your day. The sentiment analysis determines your mood for you.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But the last few years have been tumultuous and transformative in both education and business. “There’s been a significant increase in students interested in this work; business, law, design, we’ve seen a representative pie of all of those. “There are great people everywhere, not just your alma mater.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. Before considering growth, however, it’s important to understand what growth means for your project. and their budgets?—?have

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 23, 2022

2022 in My Rearview: 5 Key Learnings From My First Year as a Startup Advisor The year started with a retrospective of my career, and became an incredible startup journey Credits: Greg Hillson, INSCYD Knowing that not much is for sure is a crucial skill in today’s world. Initiating something on my own, on the other hand?

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Could you please tell us a bit about yourself and your journey in the world of startups and entrepreneurship? In 2022, we introduced a 24/7 business model, offering around-the-clock marketing support—a unique edge in the industry. Many aspiring entrepreneurs struggle with identifying the right business idea.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Automatically extract data from your apps with Zapier Learn how And again, like oil, not all data comes out of the ground with the same properties. Here, I'll walk you through key differences and use cases and share some examples so you can understand how to use both to power your business. What is unstructured data?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“A round that would’ve closed in one or two months in 2021 took three or four months in 2022 [ … ] We have definitely seen valuations tighten, and a lot of startups have pivoted into less cash-intensive business models.” We go back to first principles, starting with the core of our thesis.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

It’s a common core value that distinguishes ecosystem builders. But our conviction in the power and impact of ecosystem building is not shared by most people, especially those who are in positions of traditional power such as many civic leaders, business leaders, and traditional economic developers. The evidence is unambiguous.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Before leading WelSpot, Carey co-founded miMeetings , where he created a global marketplace currently being used by American Express Global Business Travel. His expertise and insights are highly valued in entrepreneurial circles, making him a go-to resource for business innovation and strategy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Travis Bryant : All right, let’s get started. That was the start of the Month of Scale. I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

How to Determine if Your Idea for a New Business is Viable? Entrepreneurs often grapple with the viability of their new business ideas, and to shed light on this crucial step, we’ve gathered twenty-one insights from Founders and CEOs. Whether you can make money will boil down to your marketing and sales skills.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. Of the 30 Asia-based founders, all were natives of the country in which they built their businesses: 23 Chinese, three Japanese, two Korean and two Indian. The outlier model of investing in VC also typically results in a bias toward investing in homogeneous teams.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with the founder and current executive chairman of Marqeta Jason Gardner about what it means to be welded to your customer and how to expand in multiple verticals. So, we started the company, it was about January 15th of 2010. And then we started sort of testing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

At TechCrunch Early Stage, she spoke about how to ensure the critical early hires are the right ones to grow a business. Still, revenue modeling remains a challenge for founders. If you have a great idea within the open-core framework, expect your risks to be much lower than with a traditional business structure.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 19, 2024

15 Tips for Creating a Realistic Budget for Your Startup Crafting a realistic startup budget is both an art and a science, as revealed by the diverse experiences of founders and CEOs who have navigated these waters. The business isn’t going to grow just because you spent tons of time on the budget. So, keep the budget basic.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Instead, Kramer and Estreich help companies make marketing a core part of how they execute from their early days. If you have your own recommendation, please fill out the survey here.). What made you decide to leave that career and open your own marketing firm? After an experience like that, you start to re-evaluate things.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Your own investment’s value may change because of a change in the value of the underlying asset and/or market preferences. However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 23, 2021

If you take the fifteen steps below, you’ll have the core of a high-performing fundraising and investor relations function. . The best possible move is to invest in and warehouse some special purpose vehicles that fit your strategy. The less widely marketed your fund is, the more valuable it is perceived to be.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

Anjan Pathak, Co-founder, Vantage Fit Anjan, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your journey to becoming a founder in the health and wellness technology space? I take great pride in the role I have played in shaping the design, architecture, and technical implementation of our core functions.

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