StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Have you dreamed of starting a creative business? After the collective trauma that was 2020 and 2021, many of us are feeling burnt out, both creatively and mentally. It‘s possible to build a business and a life you love out of your creativity that is both fulfilling and profitable. . Here’s how to get started.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

While you might want to launch a business because you want creative freedom, your friend may want financial success. If you let them control and manipulate you rather than controlling them, emotions can ruin your startup. Are your friends really suited to the roles you need in a startup ? Can your friendship survive?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

We’ve hung out periodically over the past few years and I have enjoyed debating many startup topics. Your goal is to increase the top end of the funnel (more people using the free product) and increase the rate of conversion to paid. Gregg gave us specifics on how viral adoption has worked. Why do a freemium model?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation. With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2022

Remember, Google used to be called BackRub. Take time to consider names that are unique and meaningful, use available trademark and URL research to help, and make sure your new name hits all the requirements. Use this rebrand to reflect where your business is now and chart a course for the future you want.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 7, 2010

I’ve been organizing Product Management School for nextNY and I realized something today… A lot of new entrepreneurs and startup people think product management is something akin to cooking. Unfortunately, that doesn’t really work for a startup where real resources are being committed and time (and money) is running out.

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Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

I’ve been advising and mentoring startups and growth companies for years, and find myself always pushing them to try something new, for the sake of growth and survival. Some executives think they can mix business with pleasure, with inter-office relationships. Lastly, make good use of your Board Members.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Creative Fabrica , a marketplace for digital files like print-on-demand assets, fonts and graphics, announced today it will launch its own generative AI tool. Called CF Spark , it’s already seen three million prompts generated, and more than 500,000 published by Creative Fabrica creators over the past three weeks.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

So, let us browse through some healthy living strategy we all can afford. Start using sugar substitutes or minus it completely from your life. Be creative with what you eat. Mix Vegetables And Fruits. You can mix raw veggies into your fruits and have a salad every 4 hours. Say No To Sugar! Choose honey instead.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How to Foster Innovation and Creativity in Startup Teams To shed light on how to foster innovation and creativity within startup teams, we asked seventeen founders, CEOs, and other leaders to share their experiences. The impact has been transformative.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? More than 50%?

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Soon after, Google unveiled MusicLM, a text-to-music tool that generates songs from a basic prompt; Paul McCartney used AI to extract John Lennon’s voice for a new Beatles track; and Grimes offered creators 50% of the royalties for streams of songs that used an AI clone of her voice.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Today, we joke in Startupland that a startup is never raising and always raising. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. Then, every 12 months.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Aneme Dlamini of Startup Grind chats to Simone Musgrave of Musgrave Gin about perseverance, building an actual business, and bringing your femininity as a force to be reckoned with in the business world. People were starting to buy and love Musgrave, and they wanted something more from us. And use your femininity. S : Thanks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On Wednesday, the company announced that it snatched up Active Replica , a Vancouver-based startup developing a “web-based metaverse.” “Together, we see this as a key opportunity to bring even more innovation and creativity to Hubs than we could alone,” Udom said in a blog post.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The quest to define what exactly a web3 use case looks like hasn’t always been easy but has allowed plenty of founders to get creative in building out products designed to tap the ethos of decentralization and the business opportunities of the creator economy. and web3 music platforms. . and web3 music platforms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

FireHydrant , a startup that helps companies prepare for and manage such crises, announced a $23 million Series B investment today. Company co-founder and CEO Robert Ross says that the company has grown customers 5x since the startup’s A round last year , and they are seeing customers get creative with how they use run books.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Use-cases may include accelerating new drug discoveries, or powering the vast amount of data processing required for AI applications. So, what can Quantum Motion and its upstart brethren bring to the mix that the deep-pocketed behemoths can’t? quantum computing startup Quantum Motion raises $50.5M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Use cohort analysis to drive smarter startup growth. Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups. The change severely limits advertising algorithms and how much data can be used to optimize marketing campaigns. TikTok, influencers and the dominance of native creative. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

New York-based startup Sketchfab has been acquired by Epic Games , the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine. More recently, Unreal Engine has been used for different use cases beyond video games, such as special effects, 3D explorations of virtual worlds, mixed reality projects and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Don’t blog about what you think would be “cool.&# I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup. I use Wordpress and am very happy. In this genre there is also Typepad although I find less people using it these days. First, you’ll need a platform.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 2, 2024

Out of 14 applicants, eight finalists were selected to participate in Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s TechCelerator Business Bootcamp , a program designed to help entrepreneurs explore the likelihood of success for a startup business idea. Over the past ten years, the program has helped create dozens of new tech startups.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Employers are under fresh pressure to retain talent, which has made some turn to more comprehensive and creative benefits, from pre-conception and postpartum support to text-based mental health care and on-demand meditation. The platforms, which mix entertainment and education, have an unconventional value proposition. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

There are a few startups in the space tackling the healthy side of cereal, but I wanted to take on the culture of breakfast.”. s startup studio. OffLimits uses whole ingredients, and its flavors are organic, vegan, gluten-free and lightly-sweetened with organic cane sugar. She even wrote a book on breakfast.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The shift has urged venture capitalists to pour money into the sector accordingly, ushering a number of startups into the unicorn club. The commodification of education is good for end-users and is often why startups have a freemium model as a customer acquisition strategy. Edtech exits show a need for better plumbing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It’s time to reconsider how you use Instagram’s advertising tools for your business. With the platform’s continuing development, new ad placements and algorithm changes, the creatives, captions and CTA that worked in the past might not deliver the same CPC, reach and engagement in the near future. Image or video ad creatives?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Now, a promising travel startup that saw its growth arrested by the arrival and persistence of the pandemic is announcing a $97 million financing facility to help it stay the course until it can finally resume normal business. GetYourGuide closes $133M convertible note as travel startups continue to weather the COVID-19 storm.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

What used to be a highly organized, cold, productive-oriented environment is now striving toward flexibility, collaboration, and empathy. Empathy and productivity: How do they mix? People are more engaged and more creative when they like their work environment. Let’s take the workplace as an example.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Startups and VC. New data from more than 200 startups show that CTOs earn higher salaries than their CEO counterparts. Also, we’ve got an eclectic mix of additional news for ya: Wild tales of smarter sales : Kyle reports that Orum raised $22 million to inject AI into the sales prospecting process. Wanting to Work. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. Put off by high taxes and paperwork in their home country, many Italian entrepreneurs moved to places like London in years past to startup. Will the coronavirus stymie their efforts?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. Previous companies using the IdeaPAD scaled their product by 10x or became leaders in their space. Each criteria was weighted at either a 1 or 2, though any multiplier could be used.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 2, 2024

One of the most critical aspects of establishing a successful startup is effective digital marketing. In this guide, we will explore essential digital marketing strategies for startups, ensuring you have a solid foundation to grow your business. Identify where your target audience spends their time and focus your efforts there.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Might come as a surprise, but the audio world, in large part, uses general-purpose tools to discuss and iterate their files, which is extremely inefficient,” Bradley said. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required. There’s also the option to create polls to prompt the listener with questions at a specific time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Startups and VC Back in January, a $810 million deal fell apart to buy Angry Birds makers Rovio, but the company suggested they were still in talks with other potential interested parties. As fleeting as a laptop : Romain reports that device-as-a-service startup Fleet expands beyond laptop leasing. for a new software update.

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