Tue.May 13, 2025

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Why Profit Matters More Than Revenue: How to Grow a Small Business That Lasts

Mike Michalowicz

Let me be blunt: if you’re still saying, “I just need more sales to fix this business,” we need to have a little sit-down. Because that thinking? It might be the exact thing keeping you stuck. Every week, I hear from small business owners who believe their salvation is hiding in the next sale. More sales. Bigger sales. Explosive revenue.

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The State of Gaming in Q2 2025

VC Cafe

At GDC (the Games Developer Conference) this March in San Francisco, there was a bit of an elephant in the room. All the usual cocktail parties, dinners and events were taking place as normal, but a lot of the discussions were not about gaming. With the exception of Savvy Games, owner of Scopely, buying Pokemon Go from Niantic, there have been relatively few and smaller deals.

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Understanding Wallet Infrastructure: A Key to Modern Transaction Management

The Startup Magazine

In today’s digital age, the economy is increasingly reliant on platforms that facilitate complex multi-party transactions. These include marketplaces, gig economy platforms, and B2B networks, all of which require efficient systems to manage the flow of funds between numerous parties. Traditional banking systems often fall short in handling these demands due to their inherent limitations in flexibility and scalability.

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Due Diligence in the AI Services Gold Rush

deal architect

Much has written about the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s. Many miners had a miserable time and made little money, whereas those who sold them jeans, shovels, meals, banking and other services did a lot better Stephen Klein, CEO.

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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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Random Day on 5/28 at The Composition Shop

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to have a Random Day on 5/28 at The Composition Shop in Longmont. I plan to be there from 11 am to 5 pm with a break for a lunch meeting from 1 pm to 2:30 pm. We will have copies of Give First: The Power of Mentorship in the store on sale, even though the book’s official release date isn’t until June 24th, because my Colorado friends get special bonus early bird stuff.

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How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

Steve Blank

This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from the administration of US President Donald Trump. A series of dramatic reductions in grants and budgets including the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) slashing reimbursements of indirect research costs to universit