StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2021

While the pandemic has created numerous obstacles for entrepreneurs, some of the best and most inventive ideas have been born out of adverse circumstances. January is the perfect time to re-evaluate what worked and what didn’t work over the course of the past 12 months in order to set new intentions for your business.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

Effectively communicating your startup’s impact metrics to investors can make or break your funding opportunities. This article presents key strategies, backed by expert insights, to help you showcase your startup’s value and growth potential. So, the way you communicate your impact metrics matters significantly.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

So your looking to get a business or startup of the ground but dont know where to start. But what if you where looking for an alternative way with real entrepreneurs and mentors to help you get your business of the ground and moving.  There Foundr It’s not an easy job to start a company.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Online courses are gaining immense popularity among aspiring entrepreneurs, students and professionals alike. The COVID-19 pandemic has further driven the growth of the global e-learning industry: since surpassing $200 billion in 2019, the online learning industry is now expected to grow at 8 percent CAGR between 2020 and 2026.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Want to map your entrepreneurship ecosystem but don’t know how to get started? Start here! There is great value in assessing and mapping your startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem. I believe that mapping out your ecosystem is essential for getting the community more engaged and connected. Planning for the Project.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Many would-be entrepreneurs never start because they’re waiting for the perfect idea or don’t have enough disposable capital to break out of the rat race. These accomplished entrepreneurs and members of The Oracles share how to start with $100. That’s how you start building your capital. Buy and flip.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

To build successful businesses, entrepreneurs must fall in love with solving customer problems more than their own ideas. Entrepreneurs often rush to build and test their ideas using the lean startup methodology. As such, successful innovators are committed to solving customer problems rather than simply proving their own ideas.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Consider all the smart business people who want to start tech companies, all with an idea or unique insight. Traction Think about what you can do to test the underlying business proposition?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 13, 2023

If you aren’t embarrassed by your first product, you’ve launched it too late. Image: Unsplash I was an accidental entrepreneur, unexpectedly managing to grow a business for over 20 years from the kitchen table. But I still wasn’t sure where to start with an answer. There are just so many strings to this. Let’s debunk a few.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. By analyzing the feedback and sign-ups, you can gauge the demand for your product.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Starting a business is very difficult. This Guide is for the aspiring business owner and entrepreneur for the purpose of spuring thinking and investigation that will lead to the creation of a business plan followed by the business launch. Request situations where they had an opportunity to observe your actions.

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StartupNation

MARCH 22, 2021

You’ve decided to take the plunge and start your dream business. You’ve decided what your new company is going to do and have formulated your overall strategy. Now it’s time to complete a checklist of necessary tasks to set up and structure your business: Name your business.

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

After growing my own side hustle to multiple six figures per year, I’m going to share how to brainstorm and launch your own successful side business that can eventually replace your full-time income. StartupNation has partnered with Yottled to provide the fastest way to bring your business online.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

When it’s in your blood, it’s in your blood. You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. The obvious answer is yes.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Online courses are gaining immense popularity among aspiring entrepreneurs, students and professionals alike. The COVID-19 pandemic has further driven the growth of the global e-learning industry: since surpassing $200 billion in 2019, the online learning industry is now expected to grow at 8 percent CAGR between 2020 and 2026.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While the pandemic has created numerous obstacles for entrepreneurs, some of the best and most inventive ideas have been born out of adverse circumstances. January is the perfect time to re-evaluate what worked and what didn’t work over the course of the past 12 months in order to set new intentions for your business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Please tell us what your company does. Klasha is a technology company that allows international merchants such as H&M or Zara to receive payments online in local African currencies and money methods. At what point did you begin looking for investors for your company? I got nos right from the start and that was fine.

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 10, 2023

Hustlers University appears to be a relatively new online educational platform that offers courses and resources focused on personal and professional development, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy. In 2022 "how to start a business" was searched more than how to get a job. Foundr Are you new to business?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2022

I’d had my share of business success, but I never felt like I was there yet to go and ‘share my wisdom’ and be a mentor. Over the course of the year we’d been working together he’d seen something in me and wasn’t taking no for an answer. I can now add ‘bestselling business author’, in addition to ‘award-winning’ to my name.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. But of course, all of the smart people working at the firms I list would disagree with him. Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner, AgFunder , said, “We think of ourselves as a media company with VC as a business model.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

In building FC this way, Mittal and Silver seek to crack a real problem: plugging into the Silicon Valley network, which operates more like a business network from a century ago, based on who you know, not what you do or what you’ve done. Ideas by themselves, while necessary to move the world forward, are ultimately a dime a dozen.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 8, 2023

This transformative change carried an air of uncertainty that posed potential harm to the business. Instead of rigidly sticking to the original business model, the teams swiftly underwent retraining, services were reshaped, and marketing efforts refocused to meet the emerging demand. The first idea is often the strongest.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game. The ability to effectively communicate can make or break your launch. 5 ways to raise your startup’s PR game. Whether you’re building a company or thinking about investing, it’s important to understand your strategic advantage. Today, it’s also about business resilience.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Getting your business off the ground requires quite a few steps, and the list can be a bit daunting at first glance. Smarter Loans is the go-to resource for Canadians seeking any kind of loan or financing when starting up their new business. Who is your target market? Register Your Business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

To give a brief of their LOB (line of business), i2e1 is in the Wi-Fi technology space in India. In i2e1, though I was hired as a UX designer, I collaborated with other teammates and took care of the branding, print design, offline and online marketing collaterals, marketing strategy, pitch presentations, and more.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 21, 2021

The i2E e3 Series helps Oklahoma startup founders perform market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that their customers may not want to buy. Among them was a winner from the 2019 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup business plan and pitch competition , Babel Analytics based in Tulsa.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Of course you aren't. But it's perfectly valid to take a break to see what other AI chatbots are available. Build your own AI chatbot with no-code Here's how Allow me to save you a dozen Google searches (or ChatGPT prompts). Bored with ChatGPT? Because ChatGPT isn't the only hat in the ring. Extra features.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 31, 2023

What were the final things on your mind before joining, and how soon after you started did you feel like the decision was validated as being a good one? The idea of working at a company whose entire business model revolves around catering to buyers in the HR space felt like such a breath of fresh air.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s not about having a great idea; it’s about execution. But as I started, there was no playbook, no blog posts, and only a few books on entrepreneurship. So I’ve learned the hard way that the key to success in entrepreneurship is not about having a great idea but mainly about execution.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 19, 2020

i2E’s e3 , formerly known as the Venture Assessment Program (VAP), has been a great tool for helping Oklahoma startup founders rigorously perform structured market validation of their ideas and solutions before they start creating products that the market does not want to buy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Berlin-based Yababa only started its same-day grocery delivery business this summer, selling products geared towards the tastes of the capital’s sizeable Turkish and Arabic communities shortly afterwards, but in a few short months it’s closed a $15.5 to build an online supermarket for ethnic products. Oja bags $3.4M

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StartupNation

MARCH 2, 2021

Starting a business is an exciting journey. For many entrepreneurs, starting a business is their chance to take their product to market, to become part of their local communities and to start making income from their own ventures. But, it’s important to remember that other types of business entity structures exist.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. And even when calculated correctly often CAC’s are assumed to be constant but of course they’re not. LTV is imprecise.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 21, 2025

Who: VistaPrint What: Small business marketing HQ: Victoria, Australia Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? VistaPrint is the print, design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. Business cards for a great first impression? Hats and tees for your whole crew?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

On the one hand I often find that some board members are seemingly reading the board materials on the fly and don’t have a firm grasp of the business fundamentals while on the other hand some board members like to tinker in the running of the business. Don’t be in a rush to invest your fund. Again, Fred.

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Feedough

APRIL 24, 2021

If you have zero financial setbacks, unlimited resources, and bottomless funds that will finance your business’ operations through failures ( In 2019, the failure rate of startups was around 90% ), then stop right now and go back to whatever chore you were doing. Advertisement Should You Start Your Business While Working Full-Time?

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