Thu.Jan 30, 2025

article thumbnail

How Entity Management Software Supports Growing Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Expanding a business can be quite challenging due to its complexities. Achieving growth requires maintaining records and ensuring compliance while efficiently managing entities involved in developing and expanding business operations. Entity management software plays a role in assisting businesses by offering tools that help streamline operations and improve the decision-making process significantly.

article thumbnail

Ricky Arora

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Why applying to an accelerator is the best route for your startup?

The Startup Magazine

By Gayle Jennings OByrne Though interest rates have gone down slightly, ongoing market volatility means that funding for startups is still difficult. Risk-averse investors prioritize steady returns over the promise of a young company. Founders are navigating a tricky market, but as new federal dollars open up, qualitystartup acceleratorprogramscan be the key to capitalizing on new market realities.

article thumbnail

Gurjeet Arora

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.

article thumbnail

Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

article thumbnail

Why Startups Should Leverage Animation to Tell Their Brand Story

The Startup Magazine

In an era where first impressions matter more than ever, startup businesses constantly seek innovative ways to capture attention and make an impact. With limited resources and stiff competition, conveying your brand story effectively is essential. Animation is one of the most engaging and memorable ways to achieve this. Animated content, particularly explainer videos, provides a creative and captivating method of storytelling that helps startups connect with their audience, build trust, and comm

Startup 145
article thumbnail

How to Launch Your Startup Without a Launch

This is going to be BIG.

Gone are the days of the startup launch party. Remember those nights of trying to explain to a Techcrunch reporter why your app was going to change the world over thumping music and bad venue WiFi? RIP. Most startups know not to blow a bunch of money on a big party before they have their first users, but legitimate questions remain about what you do in its placeand how you open yourself up to the world that gets attention.

Startup 131

More Trending

article thumbnail

5 Things To Consider Before Offering An Employee A Pay Rise

The Startup Magazine

A pay rise is a great way to show an employee how much you value their work. It can provide your employee with greater financial security and inspire them to stay at your company. However, there are a few potential downsides and concerns to consider when raising an employees pay. This post delves into some of the most important pay raise considerations to make when deciding whether to offer an employee a pay rise.

Employee 117
article thumbnail

Defending American AI Leadership: DeepSeek is a Distraction, Not a Disruptor

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Defending American AI Leadership: DeepSeek is a Distraction, Not a Disruptor appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

article thumbnail

The Franchise Playbook: Insider Tips for First-Time Buyers

Duct Tape Marketing

The Franchise Playbook: Insider Tips for First-Time Buyers written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Alex Smereczniak In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Alex Smereczniak, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Franzy, a platform transforming franchise discovery and acquisition.

article thumbnail

Observo AI: The AI-Native Observability Data Pipeline

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Observo AI: The AI-Native Observability Data Pipeline appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Partner 78
article thumbnail

Find great advisors for your team!

Berkonomics

Your valuable resources are often missed. Whether you find advisors from family, friends, faculty or fellow managers, great advisors can become an informal resource that rivals that of more formal resources, including board members. You will certainly know when youve found such a treasure, almost always through introduction by others and rarely because you have deliberately approached someone to fill a needed hole.

article thumbnail

Observo AI

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The post Observo AI appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Partner 78
article thumbnail

Dear Authors, Please Write This! Our Student Reporters Share Their Dream Books

Brandanew

In January, as a part of a fun writing exercise, we asked our lovely student reporters some questions on their reading goals. Specifically, we asked them about books they would love to read. They have very strong dream books. But first, just so you know all our reporters and team members are GREAT readers. While […] The post Dear Authors, Please Write This!

Finder 130