How to Recover From a Failed Startup Deanna Ritchie Editor Most entrepreneurs who start new businesses understand that failure is a significant possibility, but optimistically hope that their startup will defy the odds and become massively successful. No matter how hopeful you are – or how skilled you are as an entrepreneur – a … Continue reading How to Recover From a Failed Startup
July 15, 2024 Why tailoring strategic communication is key to startup success This VC learned some key lessons in messaging after giving presentations to four different groups—including a sixth grade class and a team at Amazon Web Services. BY Adi Gozes I recently gave presentations about venture capital to four different audiences—my child’s 6th-grade class, university … Continue reading Why tailoring strategic communication is key to startup success
May 20, 2024 3 lessons that running a marathon taught me as a startup founder It’s a difficult time to be a founder. These insights can help. BY Boaz Shedletsky 2024 is forming into one of the hardest years to survive as a startup founder. Last year, entrepreneurs were already reporting high rates of anxiety and depression. Compounded with … Continue reading 3 lessons that running a marathon taught me as a startup founder
Self-funded for 8 years, accounting startup Dougs raises $27 million. John Boitnott / Jul 5, 2023 Managing finances in the fast-paced and always-changing world of business can be a challenging endeavor, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Dougs, a French startup company in the accounting industry, is changing the game. Dougs has been … Continue reading Self-funded for 8 years, accounting startup Dougs raises $27 million.
How to Recognize and Manage Burnout Symptoms as a Startup Entrepreneur Deanna Ritchie / 17 Mar 2023 Startup entrepreneurs get to live independently, set their own hours, and work to achieve their own goals. But that freedom also comes with an overwhelming amount of responsibility. Experiencing burnout as an entrepreneur has become relatively common, … Continue reading How to Recognize and Manage Burnout Symptoms as a Startup Entrepreneur
By Adam Bluestein February 19, 2023 You don’t bet against Zach Weinberg. In 2010, at age 24, he sold Insight Media, the display advertising and exchange bidding company he cofounded with Nat Turner, to Google for a reported $81 million. Their next venture, Flatiron Health, a data-science software company that pioneered the use … Continue reading This startup just raised more than half a billion dollars to change how new drugs get discovered
By Adele Peters November 03, 2022 Housing is responsible for a huge chunk of global carbon emissions—nearly a quarter of it, by one estimate. That’s one of the reasons that the new startup Aro Homes exists: Every house it builds will have net-zero energy use. The houses are also designed to cut water use … Continue reading This startup will replace old, rundown homes with ones that generate more energy than they use
5 Signs That Indicate Your Startup Is Ready To Scale Up Deanna Ritchie / 24 Sep 2022 Concerns surrounding the current changing economic cycle amid rampant running inflation, a tightening monetary policy, and an even tighter labor market has seen small business sentiment reach a new low against the backdrop of tumultuous conditions. Across the … Continue reading 5 Signs That Indicate Your Startup Is Ready To Scale Up
What Are the Best Ways for a New Startup to Build Trust? Timothy Carter / 20 Jun 2022 If you want your startup to be successful, especially in the long term, you need to find a way to build trust. Hopefully, you operate your business so ethically and transparently that trust will become natural … Continue reading What Are the Best Ways for a New Startup to Build Trust?
Your Startup Probably Doesn’t Need Funding – and Here’s Why Andrew Gazdecki / 30 May 2022 Ever wished your teachers had taught you money skills? As the proud father of a two-year-old boy, I hope one day to teach him how to manage money so he needn’t worry as much about it as I … Continue reading Your Startup Probably Doesn’t Need Funding – and Here’s Why
