Get the latest updates from Esri Startup partners including news, trends, and innovations. 2NDNATURE’s stormwater management platform helps make it easy for cities to benchmark and improve the quality of urban waterways. Team messaging, video conferencing, and the #1 business phone system—in one simple app.
VC & Startup Events
Our built-in security encrypts all your meetings and conversations. Our 99.999% uptime SLA means our carrier-grade infrastructure works day and night to keep you online, at any time. Build your business and connect with a diverse network of entrepreneurs in our two business incubators—the Incubator @ CBLS downtown and the Incubator @ Baird near North Campus.
As a personal trainer, you can offer in-home training sessions that cater to each of your clients’ exercise capabilities. You can also help clients build customized nutrition and meal plans so their diets complement their physical goals. If you grew up with a lawn, chances are your parents made you maintain it. For many, lawn care is bothersome, but for some it offers a sense of peace and serenity. Working outdoors with your hands to tame and beautify the natural landscape can be a rewarding experience, but since so many people find the work tedious, it can also be profitable.
VCS, ACCELERATORS, INCUBATORS, AND MORE PARTNER WITH DRIFT FOR STARTUPS TO HELP STARTUPS GROW
If you lose sight of the customer, your risk is not likely to pay off. High-growth startup companies and small businesses are funded differently. You’ll find this year’s top student entrepreneurs exploring every imaginable niche. At Texas Christian University’s Neeley School, Payton Cranford co-founded March, a haircare line for the special needs of Black travelers. Down I-35 at the University of Texas, Trenton Balcombe formed ChurchSearch.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT app tops 500K downloads in just 6 days
Determine what unique data you have, what you can obtain, and then how to use it to add customer value in ways that lock out the competition and create new revenue streams. Allison responded to the criticism saying anytime a company tries something new there’s usually some resistance. “I think some pushback is a great sign that a company is on to something big and meaningful,” he said. But that innovation could be in jeopardy, according to a spokesperson from the U.S.
Supporting every founder and investor
TIS is using a cloud-based platform to reimagine the world of enterprise payments. With enterprise-level business analytics software, Pyramid Analytics gives insights for every employee across the organization. Beonprice is committed to being at the forefront of revenue strategy in the future.
The Leading Bilateral Donors for Small and Emerging NGOs: Explore and Apply for Suitable Grants
If your accelerator, incubator, VC fund, or entrepreneurial organization is not a part of the HubSpot for Startups program, they can apply here. The start-up is staffed by the young and the hungry (and not just for ramen noodles). It doesn’t fear the competitive war to come; rather, it’s eager to engage. For this reason, the initial choice of customers is usually a niche segment—typically one poorly served by incumbents and off their radar screen. This allows the start-up to establish credibility and explore (before anyone notices) new technologies that may have initial flaws but solid prospects for dramatic improvement.
A startup is… about making change.
If only one viable vision of the future exists, the entrepreneur probably doesn’t have much of a business to begin with. Launch your successful business by choosing a working solution from our list. Besides employment opportunities at the companies themselves, a single job at a startup also creates several indirect jobs at all levels of education. Startups encourage existing companies and sectors to innovate as well.
Make your business stand out by offering refillable options, biodegradable packaging, and unique ingredients. Sustainable transport solutions, also known as clean mobility, have been increasing in popularity for some time now. Autonomous transportation, otherwise known as self-driving cars, are a market that is emerging in cities around the US. By developing an autonomous vehicle app of your own, your startup might be able to pull into the forefront of this emerging market.
You can open a food truck that only sells french fries with crazy toppings, for example, or launch a breakfast sandwich pop-up in your neighborhood coffee shop. Being an online assistant for someone, or starting a company of virtual assistants, can be a huge success. Everyone could use a little extra help, and creating a startup focused around getting people that help for the administrative tasks in their lives, professional or personal, can be a huge moneymaker. Parents are always looking for tools and activities to keep their kids entertained and engaged. Printable activity guides for different age groups, home-school lesson plans or even virtual nature walks or story time could all be viable startup ideas. Startups need to learn at a huge speed before running out of resources.
Are you starting a high-growth company or small business?
The latest of these was an unannounced deal (or stealth round) worth £3.27m, secured in October 2018. Twig operates a circular economy banking app that acts like a modern pawnbroker. The fintech company allows consumers to instantly convert unwanted items into credit, with its app valuing items in nanoseconds through a market-based pricing algorithm. It was also recently awarded the Best Personal Finance App in the British Bank Awards. The innovative tech startup is expanding rapidly, and has raised £29.9m in funding so far, across two funding rounds.
Website Development
If you’re fluent in multiple languages, you could be successful in carving out a niche in the translation services industry. Medical transcriptionists typically charge 6 to 14 cents per line of transcription, which adds up quickly. The typical turnaround time for transcription work is 24 hours, so it’s important to stay on top of the jobs you accept. However, the ability to accept only a few requests at first means you can scale up as you are ready.