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April in Review: Global startup funding remains steady, while AI continues to draw headlines and industries like Telehealth drive growth

The Startup Magazine

April 2025 proved to be an eventful month for the global startup community. On the one hand, data from The Economic Times suggested that deals were down. Startups across early and late stages raised funds through 104 deals, compared to 116 in the year-ago period. This was down 12% from 2023. Other data suggests that global venture funding is largely flat year over year, following the latest April 2025 total of $23 billion in total global venture funding.

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My Upcoming Events in Boulder

Feld Thoughts

Now that I’m out of hibernation for a while and back in Boulder for a month, I’m doing a bunch of public events. My approach, in general, is fireside chats or AMAs, so that’ll be the rhythm rather than me getting up in front of a crowd and blathering about something for 30 to 45 minutes. While my new book, Give First: The Power of Mentorship , is part of the content (and a giveaway that I’ll be signing at some of the events), I’m planning on staying around, talking

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The Role of Self-Funding in Building Successful Private Equity Firms

The Startup Magazine

Self-funding has become an increasingly viable path for entrepreneurs looking to break into the private equity world. It allows founders to retain control, stay lean, and prove their strategies before involving outside capital. One recent example highlighted by Forbes shows how an entrepreneur launched a private equity firm with just $30,000 in savings and eventually grew it into a firm managing billions.

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STOP and celebrate each victory!

Berkonomics

Here comes another story. Of course. This one may be like one or more you have experienced in your company. It is a story about focus upon the customer, first. And about reinforcing the culture of the company in support of that important focus by senior management, and by all employees who see that leadership in action Some examples of celebration you can use Growing companies give rise to many events that great managers will take advantage of to create and shape the culture of the company itsel

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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

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Why Knowing Yourself Is Your Greatest Asset

Duct Tape Marketing

Why Knowing Yourself Is Your Greatest Asset written by Jarret Redding read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Suzy Welch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Suzy Welch, New York Times bestselling author, business strategist, professor at NYU Stern, and creator of the Becoming You methodology.

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