American Entrepreneurship

JULY 16, 2025

Tag Greason, Co-CEO of QTS, emphasized the Commonwealth’s attractiveness. Home to world-class universities, national laboratories, and a burgeoning startup ecosystem, Pennsylvania has already been making strides to foster innovation-led economic growth. history in Pennsylvania not only validates this momentum—it amplifies it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Nexite , which has developed a radio-powered tagging system and corresponding data platform to read and parse information related to those tagged items, has raised $67 million in a Series C round of funding, and $100 million overall, money that it plans to use both for R&D as well as to roll out services to its first customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. So cheeky Chamillionaire went to Universal wearing the tags from every other label he had visited.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. But I do have more insight into understanding your startup team. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

How Quibi is a technology platform first and then a content platform Being an investor in LA and having seen a decade’s worth of video startup ideas, one of the reasons many video startups fail is because they think they can just distribute content online the way they’ve done it offline for a hundred years, without the innovation of technology.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. To generate growth in a startup, it is almost always necessary to raise external capital to run the necessary. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The inspiring story of how a Hollywood star helped us enter US and global markets, and launch our new startup ‘Now, this is a story all about how, our animation studio got flipped, turned upside down… I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there… This is a story about our tech startup that I want to share!’ To Tech Startup!

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s a myth that only the top startups and the best startup jobs are in Silicon Valley or New York City. As a Midwest company built for Midwest startups, we know that’s just not true. That, plus the growing number of startups, affordable cost of living, and vibrant community, make it a great place to live and work.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. It would be unfair to say that this week in tech and startups felt like 2021’s boom cycle; especially when you look at layoffs coming from Truepill, its fourth this year, and Meta announcing that it will freeze hiring. Well, kind of.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Register Korean startup EventUs has debuted with the successful hosting of the SG-KR MICE Tourism Networking Dinner on October 31, 2023, in Singapore. These events span a diverse spectrum, including engagements with government ministries, local authorities, major domestic and international corporations, as well as startups.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Their headquarters in Indianapolis is notable as the city is a recognized martech hub and the SaaS capital of the Midwest, which strongly aligns with our underlying approach of investing in disruptive startups across the country.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Corporate interest in startup investing has cooled this year , posting declines in deal value for four quarters and deal volume for two. The group isn’t into the “incubator” tag, we noted previously; it calls its accelerator a “venture lab.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Playbook, a startup that describes itself as a “creative file manager for designers” where “Pinterest meets Dropbox ,” has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. CEO Jessica Ko was inspired to start the company after her experiences as a designer at Google and Opendoor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

And today, the startup has emerged from stealth and announced it has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Founders Fund at a $20 million post-money valuation. In a nutshell, Playbook claims it can automatically imports, tags, categorizes an organization’s entire media library, in minutes. Image Credits: Playbook.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

The startup, armed with $40 million in series A funding, aims to make mouse tests a hundred times more efficient and effective, changing that equation and enabling earlier in vivo testing that verifies a molecule’s function before you dump a few million bucks worth of resources into it. The tough part was designing the tags themselves.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

As the list illustrates, Johnson, an ex-Googler (and TC battlefield alum ), isn’t short of contacts to tap up for his new startup — having pulled so much VC into Lystable/Kalo. So what is Johnson’s new startup all about? In the feed itself, individual posts can be given related tags (e.g.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund , a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. The platform includes a collaborative team inbox used by multiple agents, and features like smart routing, canned responses, data tagging and analytics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

The price tag weighed on him, and he knew he wanted to broaden access to education in the future. It was an insight that would grow into a startup valued at $2.4 In 2011, edtech startups such as Coursera and Codecademy were popping up — companies that today are valued as multibillion-dollar businesses. Duolingo’s first words.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

In particular, the partnership with Visa landed Bloom as the first Sudanese startup to get admitted into Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program, Tage reports. Startups and VC. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. Blossoming business : Bloom, a Sudan-based fintech, banked $6.5

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Filecamp is a clever way to organize, share, tag and distribute all of your digital assets. The Solo plan at $19 a month is best for startups, letting you schedule up to 500 posts and have one workspace for up to three socials. Must-Read: How SEO Can Help You Future-Proof Your Startup. Encharge . INDIVIDUAL PLAN.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Goswami — who met Peercy while a product VP at Citrix after the company acquired Goswami’s previous startup, Kaviza — explained that Komprise performs analytics to present insights on a company’s data usage. ” More than a few organizations seem to be persuaded.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Customers connect their data, it is placed into various verticals and tagged in different ways. People feed in the data, we anonymize it and give it back to you for insights.”. With Varos, it is all self-serve.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I have fielded many startup pitches for podcast-related startups and basically said “no” to each one. That said, the $200M price tag is likely tied to another feature of the company and team, which I’ll talk about below. 5/ Underlying RSS Technology Not Optimal For 21st Century Media.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

According to Crunchbase, upskilling and reskilling startups raised $2.1 All of the startup’s services are mapped to business KPIs to provide management with reports by which to measure the impact of upskilling programs on business performance. billion from VCs between early 2021 and 2022.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Identify and connect funds to investable startups. Join the platforms of firms which help tech startups and VCs identify vendors. Note that this has minimal financial risk, because if we don’t attract a crowd that we both think is worthwhile, we just cancel and the restaurant refunds any deposit.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The startup offers an SDK that lets the user create custom computer vision models fed with a little of their own training data — as an alternative to off-the-shelf tools which may not have the required specificity for a particular use-case. The 30-strong startup has more than doubled in size over the last 18 months.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Convincing meat eaters to adopt a climate-friendly diet might get a little easier thanks to Slovenian startup Juicy Marbles , which has come up with a way to create plant-based whole meat cuts, if that doesn’t sound too oxymoronic. The Ljubljana-based startup is announcing a $4.5 Why filet mignon?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A startup called Playbyte wants to become the TikTok for games. Over time, Playbyte’s feed shows you more of the games you enjoyed as the app leverages its understanding of in-game imagery, tags and descriptions, and other engagement analytics to serve up more games it believes you’ll find compelling.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

It also includes resources that chefs tap into daily, like ingredient yields and unit conversion, a menu cost calculator and automated allergen tagging and nutrition analysis.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

He had already earned the serial entrepreneur badge with CodeGuard, a website backup startup, and his hardware company Claw Hanging Systems. The Atlanta-based startup, which debuted virtually at the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, was officially founded in fall 2020. David Moeller wasn’t looking to start another company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Instead, its Network Pulse technology taps into those “wonks” through a question-based tool where someone would ask a question and receive bite-sized answers in real time from more than 40,000 possible experts based on expertise tags. Question-askers can also schedule additional time with experts to go more in depth on a topic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

We can do unique identifiers with tags and custom shapes. . “We have unlimited touch, game pieces, passive and active… you can use your chess set at home, lift up and put down the pieces, we track it the whole time. It’s the next step in how interactive surfaces can be.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 14, 2022

There was a daunting price tag and time lag required before we finally broke a profit. We brought on several software engineers to create the product. And once we had something to sell, we then had to maintain and improve the product and hire folks to help with sales, support, and renewals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The biggest complaints were about its high price tag. A quick scouring of the internet reveals that the spread does have some quite favorable reviews with some describing it as “tasty” with a “smooth texture.” You can buy a 14-ounce jar of the product on Amazon for $11.39. By contrast, a 13 oz. jar of Nutella sells for $3.74.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

People would come and ask questions, and they would put topics on them, and other people would sign up to answer questions, and they would tell us about what they knew about by tagging themselves with these topics, and we would try to route the questions to the people who knew about the particular topic. You know, incumbents versus startups.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

How to Leverage SEO to Drive Traffic to Your Startup’s Website In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, leveraging SEO is crucial for driving traffic to a startup’s website. Dive into the collective wisdom of these professionals to boost your startup’s online presence.

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