Paul G. Silva
APRIL 1, 2025
This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Beyond the To-Do List In BE 2.0, Collins draws a critical distinction that transforms how we approach work: Tasks are things you do; responsibilities are outcomes you own. This ties in nicely with a concept I often teach my students about Features vs Benefits.
American Entrepreneurship
MARCH 30, 2025
The company touts over 200,000 businesses with, a large portion being startups that use its services as a financial backbone, replacing cumbersome platform switching or thejuggling third-party apps. San Francisco-based FinTech company Mercury has announced a $300 million Series C investment round, bringing its valuation to $3.5 billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6 billion.
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Revolution
MARCH 26, 2025
Steve Case Testifies at U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Hearing, Beyond Silicon Valley: Expanding Access to Capital AcrossAmerica On March 25, 2025, Revolutions Chairman and CEO, Steve Case, testified before the Committee during a session examining policy proposals to improve capital access. Watch the hearing and read his full testimony here andbelow.
American Entrepreneurship
MARCH 26, 2025
The companys enterprise browser is a breakthrough innovation that embeds enterprise-grade security and IT controls directly into the browsing experience. In a significant milestone for the cybersecurity and enterprise software space, Islandthe company behind the rapidly emerging Enterprise Browserhas announced the successful close of its $250 million Series E funding round.
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Y Combinator
APRIL 1, 2025
When Tyler applied to YC in 2012, his startup idea was an unusual one. An API for schools? But outliers always sound unusual at the outset. At Demo Day, he shocked the room when he announced that he’d already signed on 1,000 schools. Over the next 10 years, he and his cofounders grew Clever into an educational powerhouse, used every day by over half of K-12 students in the USA– my kids included.
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David Teten VC
MARCH 31, 2025
Im happy to share that Ive started working (part-time) with Orange Collective. Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. The team has founded 5 companies which participated in 5 graduating batches spanning from 2009 to 2017. The Orange Collective team have collectively angel invested in 200+ Y Combinator companies, including unicorn outcomes like Ironclad, Vanta, Replit, Moonvalley, and Snapdocs.
Venture Well
APRIL 1, 2025
Jason Kang, co-founder of Aspire alumnus Kinnos, shares advice for other early-stage founders. The post Building a Strong Network as a Medtech Company: An Interview With Jason Kang appeared first on VentureWell.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 31, 2025
A lot of founders ask, What are the metrics for a Series A? Ive said this for years. Ill say it again if you come see our panel on this in NYC Tuesday night where we talk with two founders who raised their Series A. You dont earn a fundraising round as a reward for the past. What youre doing is selling a ticket to the futureand the thing youre trying to convince an investor is that youre a) presenting a vision of the future they want to be a part of and b) you can actually execute on it.
A Smart Bear: Longform
MARCH 29, 2025
Simplify complex decisions by separating upsides from downsides, investing in upsides, vetoing with downsides, and using an appropriate decision framework.
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Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 27, 2025
As startups scale, effective sales implementation becomes the difference between stagnation and sustainable growth. After analyzing hundreds of sales organizations across startups, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. 1. Sales Strategy Fundamentals Start with the right price : Establish pricing that reflects value rather than just covering costs.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 27, 2025
Grab Malaysia has teamed up with Yinson GreenTech, Power-Up Tech, and BYD Sime Motors to promote the use of electric vehicles (EVs) among its driver-partners.
American Entrepreneurship
MARCH 27, 2025
The company is building specialized networking solutions that offer cloud giants hardware and software that integrates seamlessly into each customers optimized stack. At the intersection of artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure, Nexthop AI has officially launched from stealth mode with a massive $110 million in funding. The funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners included Kleiner Perkins, WestBridge Capital, Battery Ventures, and Emergent Ventures.
OurCrowd
MARCH 31, 2025
The post [Quantum Machines in PR Newswire] Quantum Machines to collaborate at NVIDIA’s new accelerated quantum research center to propel quantum computing breakthroughs appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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Hunter Walk
MARCH 29, 2025
People are surprised when I say “the right amount of fraud in seed stages startups is greater than zero.” What I mean is, the community works best when we move quickly, and assume trust between parties. That will likely mean there are some founders who commit fraud (and some investors too I guess). The cost to the ecosystem for doing so much diligence and background checks to achieve zero fraud would punish the 99.9% of founders who are ethical.
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 27, 2025
71% of exit dollars in 2024 came from a new avenue : secondaries. Historically, IPOs and M&A have been the dominant exit paths for venture backed companies. Some years IPOs dominate, other M&A dominates, but in 2024 secondaries captured the super majority. When a company sells new shares to investors in exchange for dollars, they create new shares in the company - primary shares.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 31, 2025
Wrtn Technologies Inc., a South Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup, has secured 108 billion won ($73.5 million) in its Series B funding round.
American Entrepreneurship
MARCH 30, 2025
The companys collaboration with the New Jersey Economic Development Agency is a boost to the states program to attract AI companies for its innovation economy. CoreWeave, a cloud computing company headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey, made headlines on March 28, 2025, with its much-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol CRWV.
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OkDork
MARCH 28, 2025
This email is an excerpt from my podcast. Listen to it here ( Spotify & iTunes ): Fifteen years ago, I started AppSumo with $50 and a dream to never get a real job. I just wanted to make $3,000/month and work from anywhere. Since then, weve promoted thousands of tools, built a profitable company, helped creators get rich, and made every mistake in the book (and still making a few).
Jason Malki
MARCH 31, 2025
Victor Penev I had the pleasure of interviewing Victor Penev, the founder and CEO of Edamam. Victor is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in building startups. His claim to fame is that he co-founded and sold Bulgarias largest Internet company. Edamam , his current company, is also aiming high, working towards a future when people live to 120 without chronic conditions or mental illnesses.
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 30, 2025
We’re excited to announce our Head of AI, Bryan Bischof , and our first entrepreneur in residence, Philip Zelitchenko. A practicing professor of data science at Rutgers and a Math PhD, Bryan has spent the past two decades building AI and data science practices across thought-leading startups, including Hex, Weights & Biases, Stitch Fix, Blue Bottle Coffee and many others.
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 26, 2025
Gobi Partners has invested in SkyeChip, a fast-growing Malaysian semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) design firm, to support its expansion and operational needs.
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Gust
APRIL 1, 2025
Filing an 83(b) election let's you handle the tax upfront when things are cheap to save you from big tax headaches later. This is your personal income tax responsibilitythe company cant do it for you. The post 83(b) Elections – Avoid a Surprise Tax Bill on Your Founder Stock appeared first on Gust.
OurCrowd
MARCH 31, 2025
Stellar Cyberhas unveiled its new Open Cybersecurity Alliance withLastPass, Netskope, Check Point Software Technologies,ESET and more cybersecurity vendors. Based on Stellar Cybers open extended detection and response (XDR) platform, the alliance aims to streamline security operations, improve interoperability, and enhance threat detection and response forMSSPsand enterprises.
Founder Bounty
APRIL 2, 2025
Finding AI image generators which are flexible in terms of content may prove difficult to find but they are out there and some even allow you to pay in both crypto and fiat. Most of the below are well priced, easy to use and flexible in terms of content and some even have video.
American Entrepreneurship
MARCH 27, 2025
The companys platform significantly reduces insurance verification time that once spanned weeks and has achieved a 99.8% success rate in securing insurance approvals. Silna Health is tackling a problem that plagues the American healthcare system: the broken and outdated prior authorization process that forces millions of patients to endure delays in accessing essential treatments.
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