Paul G. Silva

MARCH 6, 2025

Have you ever wished you could pick the brains of Seth Godin, Jim Collins, and Eric Ries (or whoever are your intellectual heroes) whenever you face a business challenge? What if you could assemble your dream team of advisors and consult them anytime, day or night, without scheduling conflicts or hefty consulting fees? This isn’t a fantasy. Using ChatGPT, you can create a virtual board of advisors that brings the wisdom and perspectives of your chosen mentors to your fingertips.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2025

As startups scale, effective management becomes the difference between chaotic growth and sustainable success. After analyzing hundreds of posts on startup management, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind. 1. Management Philosophy Management is a design pattern : Just like engineering has patterns, management has best practices that can be learned and applied systematically.

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Venture Well

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

After successfully founding three companies, Maghas realized she had valuable insights to share with other founders, particularly those facing similar challenges, as Black women in the innovation and entrepreneurship space. The post The Impact of Angel Investing: Interview with Anne Maghas appeared first on VentureWell.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Greatness Comes from Iteration, Not Perfection There’s a dangerous myth in business that success comes from getting it right the first time. But in BE 2.0 , Jim Collins emphasizes that great outcomes don’t emerge from perfect initial ideasthey come from relentless iteration and adaptation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. They dance between asking for too little, leaving money on the table, and asking for too much, only to lose the customer’s interest. The very best companies lead their customers in that dance. They use pricing as an offensive tool to reinforce their product’s value and underscore the company’s core marketing message.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

First, a piece of literary history. The phrase needle in a haystack is commonly credited to the book Don Quixote from the early 1600s (“needle is a bottle of hay”) but there’s also a Fujian proverb “To dive into the sea, to feel for a needle” that is thought to be even older and gets to the same point. The idea that it’s nearly fruitless to blindly search for a single small object when it’s located in a vast container.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Ministry of Investment, Trade, and Industry (MITI), in partnership with the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), has launched the Strategic Co-Investment Fund (CoSIF) as part of the New Industrial Master […]

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The climate tech companys timely funding will be used to scale production. Endera, a rapidly growing leader in the electric vehicle (EV) industry, has secured $49 million to propel its mission to revolutionize the American transportation sector. With access to new funds, the company plans to accelerate the manufacture of its electric shuttles and school buses, reinforcing its position as the nations only vertically integrated Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) in this space.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In a world saturated with digital noise, email marketing remains a powerful and relevant tool for businesses of all sizes. But simply sending emails isn't enough. To truly harness the power of email, you need a well-defined strategy built on best practices. This article dives into the key strategies for effective email marketing that will help you connect with your audience, drive conversions, and build lasting relationships. 1.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Vietnamese agritech startup TECHCOOP has raised US$70 million in a Series A funding round, making it one of the largest investments in the countrys agritech sector.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Kashyap Kompella I had the pleasure of interviewing Kashyap Kompella is the founder of Talentmapp , an AI-driven people search engine designed to facilitate purposeful, noiseless networking for professionals, startups, and venture studios. He is also launching TPH Venture Studio , a pre-seed venture fund backing AI startups. With a background in entrepreneurship, product strategy, and AI-driven innovation , Kashyap has built multiple ventures across AI, EdTech, and analytics.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2025

Which is the best business in AI at the moment? I analyzed Q4 revenue data from publicly traded companies across multiple sectorssoftware companies, consulting firms, and hardware manufacturers to determine which segment dominates the AI market. NVIDIA’s data center business dominated the field, generating $31b in Q4 revenue with impressive margins exceeding 70%.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Series A round is a significant milestone above its $28 million in total to date funding. Apptronik, the AI-driven humanoid robotics company based in Austin, Texas, is making strides toward revolutionizing the robotics industry, gaining investor support to scale operations. The company recently completed a $350 million Series A funding round, co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory , with additional backing from Google.

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Deskmag

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This year, Japans coworking spaces are experiencing contrasting developments. What factors play a decisive role? The 2025 Coworking Trends Survey provides exclusive insights into where the industry is growing and where bottlenecks persist.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 3, 2025

Indias A Junior VC (AJVC), by Aviral Bhatnagar, has secured Rs 100 crore ($12 million) for its debut venture fund.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 6, 2025

A punch in the gut Small companies most often scrape by with borrowed or invested funds, doing everything possible to grow and prosper with limited resources. So, it is like a punch in the gut when an employee makes a claim against the company for a perceived or actual violation of a law or regulation. Or when a former employee strikes out with a suit claiming discrimination for one of a thousand causes.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Who: Magnify Consulting What: Sales strategy, CRM, outsourced, tradeshows NZ HQ: Wellington Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? At Magnify, we help founders of SMEs to grow a healthy sales pipeline without the risk of hiring. Magnify is a full-service sales agency sales strategy + sales process, CRM set up (HubSpot), sales training + coaching, outsourced sales + business development, trade shows, trade fairs, expos + events.

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Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

The new CEO Tracey Warner Halama takes the helm during the companys next strategic growth stage backed by growth equity firm Full Frame Growth Partners. Supergut, a trailblazer in gut health and GLP-1 nutrition, has announced the successful closure of a major minority growth investment. The funding will fuel the companys expansion into retail, drive product innovation, and support the hiring of top-tier talent.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

(Thanks to my coauthor Dolph M. Hellman, Esq., Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Chair, Orricks Private Investment Funds Group.) If you are launching your own investment management firm, we recommend designing a constitution: a set of documents covering the firms goals, legal obligations, and principles for handling disagreement. At Coolwater Capital , the Y Combinator for VC funds, we assess this as part of our diligence process.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Segi Fresh, a Malaysian fresh food retailer, has made an undisclosed investment in Mandalay Venture Partners Fund I to incorporate Australian agritech innovations into its supply chain.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 3, 2025

Screendoor has now looked at more than 1,500 venture firms raising funds, backing roughly 1.5% of them, often as their first or second largest investor. When I’m scanning a pitch deck I’m basically looking to put it into one of two buckets – Traditional or Different. “ Traditional But Better ” means they are basically running a playbook which doesn’t appear too different from existing firms – sourcing companies in categories considered ‘venture sca

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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 5, 2025

How women innovators in Asia-Pacific are transforming food security, nutrition and climate action With 370+ million people facing undernutrition and climate change disrupting agriculture, these women-led innovations are stepping up to create lasting solutions. The Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award, powered by Impact Hub, supports these change-makers and their groundbreaking work in the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A number of tips and tools are presented that help small businesses better manage their cash flow. Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king. Unknown This quote emphasizes that while high revenue and profit margins may look good, having sufficient cash on hand is what truly keeps a business running successfully— avoiding a cash flow crisis.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Jake paul, who is a youtuber turned boxer and who is logan Pauls brother seems to be the best marketing of 2025. From Mike tyson boxing fights, to founding companies like Betr (a sports betting app) Currently, Jake Paul's net worth is estimated to be in the range of  $80-$100 million. This fortune has been built on a foundation of: YouTube Ad Revenue:  While not as significant as it once was, Jake's YouTube channel still generates substantial income through ad revenue and spo

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 5, 2025

AI startups will have the opportunity to present their businesses to leading venture capital firms at AsiaStartupExpo 2025, seeking investment, feedback, and strategic guidance.

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