Notable startup fundings for the week ending 5/18/19 featuring funding details for Trumid, Feather, Brave and much more
5 Tips to Find an Angel Investor to Fund Your Startup
Angel investor and book author David S. Rose offers his tips for getting funding for a new business venture.
The Science of Creating Startup Demand
If you gave a random person your product for the first time, do you think they will immediately become a loyal customer? Maybe not for most products but definitely for your product, right? Right. Creating demand for your product is more than just building a great product. People have to know about it, understand what […]
Growth Hacking: Marketing for Startups
Within Red Rocket’s “101 Startup Lessons—An Entrepreneur’s Handbook” I have detailed plenty of low-cost marketing lessons, so be sure to read (or re-read) those posts for more details about how best to market your startup. But the goal of this lesson is to try and pull it all together and demystify the concept of growth […]
10 Thoughts Every Startup Founder Secretly has at Least Once
One of our earliest team members, who left to start his own company, sent us an email recently. I’ll paraphrase here, but the gist of it was that despite his being one of the first people to join the team at Ampush, nothing could have prepared him for starting his own company from the ground […]
5 Ways to Make Everyone Care About your Press Releases
Ever notice the same business articles show up in your feed over and over again? What is your competitor doing that you are not that gets their article shared all over the place? And why does everyone tell you that virality is based on luck? If so, should the editors of Buzzfeed go buy a […]
Why Naming a Startup Funding Round Wrong Could Cost Millions
While raising outside capital is not the only way to obtain financing for a startup, it seems to be the preferred method for new technologies where revenue or a business model is unclear. A common trend is emerging: more often than not, I hear that folks are raising their “seed round,” typically the initial money […]
Five Easy Ways for First Time Entrepreneurs to Increase Productivity
When you’re starting your own company for the first time, you experience many ups and downs and go through big changes, both good and bad. You no longer have any bosses who check your work or make final decisions. Instead, you take responsibility for your decisions, take care of nearly every task required to start […]
5 Days to Decide Whether You’re Ready to Found
A step by step process to evaluate your idea and, more importantly, whether you really want to be an entrepreneur. You have an idea that could grow into a world-changing, money-belching company. So you’re thinking of founding your first startup. The trouble is that there’s no obvious path to becoming an entrepreneur. In the […]
#RetailTech2013…The Future in Retail Tech lies in Social Commerce
As soon as we unwrap our new smartphone, we know that latest technology is already a thing of the past, a concept that, Creative Realities’ CEO Paul Price notes, extends to retail as well. Recently at Creative Realities headquarters, FIT professor Dalia Strum held a fireside chat with Price to address the future of retail […]