The difference between a successful or unsuccessful startup can mean a multi-billion-dollar unicorn valuation or mountains of unpaid debts for the founding team. Anyone nurturing a startup should take great care to use data-based best practices to become a top startup...
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10 Ways Accelerators Can Help Startups Be Investible
With intense competition among accelerators today as startup ecosystems emerge globally, it has become increasingly difficult for accelerators to find ways to lure top founders and talent to their programs. However, the best ones can shine within a sea of competition...
A Founder’s Guide to Startup Ecosystems
It takes a village to change the world. Startup creation is an industry built by disruptors who ask people to change their habits or how they do things, whether incrementally or in other significant ways. So really, the startup culture is built around changing the...
How to Create a Winning SaaS Go-To-Market Strategy
You’ve done the foundational work of finding a problem that exists in the world, validating that it is a problem to more than just you, and have identified your potential customer—what’s next? It’s that ever-elusive question for founders who have all the information...
Top Startups to Watch in 2023
2022 was an exciting year for the VC and startup world, from twitter-gate to record layoffs to projections of venture funding coming to a massive halt: It. Was. A. Year. But we made it! Now time for a bit of reflection. When you read the phrase “top startups to watch...
Does Silicon Valley Still Matter? Tech’s Continuing Evolution
Many aspiring tech entrepreneurs have dreams of moving to Silicon Valley to live the proverbial startup dream. They want to make it happen, just like the cast of the hit HBO show that became synonymous with tech companies and innovation. But between the extremely high...
2023 Tech Startup Trends: Top Industries
The 2020 COVID pandemic and subsequent global lockdowns changed the world and our society in many ways. Not only did they keep students home from school and parents home from work and result in small businesses across the country going out of business, but they also...
Finding Early Adopters and Beta Testers for Your Product
Beta testers for your product are key. You’ve spent weeks, months, perhaps even years slogging behind your keyboard writing the lines of code that are bringing your techno-baby into the world. You may have raised money based on the idea or an MVP alone, you may have a...
How to Find Your Real Competitors: Competitive Whitespace Exercise
Whether you are the competitive type or not, if you’ve staked out your place in the world as an entrepreneur, you must become a competitive person. The core function of business is in fact competition: competition for customers, price competition, resource...
Start a Tech Company: A How-to Manual
If a great idea was all that was needed to start a successful tech company, everyone would be a millionaire. Most people have had one or many novel ideas in their lifetime for how to make something better, work faster, fix common pain points caused by the current...