Startup One Stop https://startuponestop.com/ For Startups By Startups Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:19:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://startuponestop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-SOSICON-1-32x32.png Startup One Stop https://startuponestop.com/ 32 32 35213162 No Is an Acronym https://startuponestop.com/no-is-an-acronym-3/ https://startuponestop.com/no-is-an-acronym-3/#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:19:52 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5741 With the spring holidays upon us, we decided to take a break from the usual tech distortion and hyperbole and since this is pitching season – and speaking of the holidays, next up is summer when investors kick back a bit to spend time with their families and/or take some vacation time, so we’re resurrecting an earlier column as a reminder, and we’ll get to why in a bit. When you were a kid how many times did your parents...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/no-is-an-acronym-3/feed/ 0 5741 The AI Gold Rush and the Erosion of the Founder/Investor Relationship https://startuponestop.com/the-ai-gold-rush-and-the-erosion-of-the-founder-investor-relationship/ https://startuponestop.com/the-ai-gold-rush-and-the-erosion-of-the-founder-investor-relationship/#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:51:02 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5729 Jake Crowley of Crowley-Capital spoke at our Online Investor Insights last week and focused, in part, on how transactional the investment process has become. It wasn’t all that long ago that, when  when he was our investor guest at the event, David Arcara of Laconia Capital , asked, “How often do you hear that getting into bed with an investor is like a marriage? It’s not. If a marriage goes south, you can get a divorce. When you get into...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/the-ai-gold-rush-and-the-erosion-of-the-founder-investor-relationship/feed/ 0 5729 BuzzFeed and the AI Buzz Kill Coming Soon? https://startuponestop.com/buzzfeed-and-the-ai-buzz-kill-coming-soon/ https://startuponestop.com/buzzfeed-and-the-ai-buzz-kill-coming-soon/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:20:05 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5724 Here’s a cautionary tale for you. Before Mark Zuckerberg became the darling of the age of social, there was young (inexperienced) BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, the Sam Altman of his day. When BuzzFeed launched two decades ago, it was the darling of the digital publishing world, “building its audience through listicles before expanding into a newsroom to challenge stalwarts like the New York Times,” noted MSN. Peretti was the genius who, as MarketWatch put it, “had seemingly cracked the code...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/buzzfeed-and-the-ai-buzz-kill-coming-soon/feed/ 0 5724 Skating to Where the Puck Is Going, in the Age of AI https://startuponestop.com/skating-to-where-the-puck-is-going-in-the-age-of-ai/ https://startuponestop.com/skating-to-where-the-puck-is-going-in-the-age-of-ai/#respond Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:34:59 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5714 We were reading some funding newsletters and noticed that AI-based startups were raising millions and tens of millions, even when they were barely out of the gate. It’s those AI pheromones. Those are the FOMA investor (and founders) who succumb to their limbic brains – think impulse and addictive behavior, meaning that behavior, for example, that drives you to obsessively check your email or social media. Or launch an AI-based startup, start vibe-coding, and you’re off to the races! It’s...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/skating-to-where-the-puck-is-going-in-the-age-of-ai/feed/ 0 5714 Tech Goes Full-On Creepy https://startuponestop.com/tech-goes-full-on-creepy/ https://startuponestop.com/tech-goes-full-on-creepy/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:58:00 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5707 WC Fields warned never to work with kids and animals – advice Ring founder Jamie Siminoff should have heeded. Ring , the surveillance camera that monitors your doorstep, produced what was supposed to be a warm and fuzzy Superbowl ad, showing the device using neighborhood surveillance to locate a missing family pet. Milo found! Be a hero and add to the unbridled neighborhood surveillance! Ok, so that’s not what they said, but that was the viewing public’s takeaway. “Many viewers...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/tech-goes-full-on-creepy/feed/ 0 5707 The Tech Bros and Dick Moves https://startuponestop.com/the-tech-bros-and-dick-moves/ https://startuponestop.com/the-tech-bros-and-dick-moves/#respond Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:48:34 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5696 “About once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon Valley Technorati gather for a drug-heavy, sex-heavy party… and the bacchanal will last an entire weekend. The places change, but many of the players and the purpose remain the same,” Jebmo posted some eight years ago in blog about Inside Silicon Valley’s Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side. The bacchanals for all we know are ongoing and still consensual. “…they speak proudly about how they’re overturning traditions and paradigms in...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/the-tech-bros-and-dick-moves/feed/ 0 5696 Something Big Is Happening, But Something Bigger Is Being Missed https://startuponestop.com/something-big-is-happening-but-something-bigger-is-being-missed/ https://startuponestop.com/something-big-is-happening-but-something-bigger-is-being-missed/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:12:46 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5690 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all know that software is eating the world, and that something big is happening, thanks to Matt Shumer’s piece on the subject, which is  a must-read. Make no mistake about it, AI is here to stay, and it’s no longer a nice-to-have in your professional toolkit. Equally importantly, it’s critical to update it regularly, given the exponential rate at which it’s improving. Also, it’s important to be specific in your requests when utilizing it: It’s up...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/something-big-is-happening-but-something-bigger-is-being-missed/feed/ 0 5690 A Tech Issue that’s Getting Old Fast https://startuponestop.com/a-tech-issue-thats-getting-old-fast/ https://startuponestop.com/a-tech-issue-thats-getting-old-fast/#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:06:22 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5683 With all the focus on AI these days, we tend to forget about that other tech obsession: youth. Never mind the plastic surgeries or as The Wall Street Journal reports, “To combat fears of aging out of the workforce, men in tech are splurging on face-lifts, neck lifts and eyelid lifts, say plastic surgeons…Tech is a young person’s game.” Unless you look at the fact: First, the Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45, says the Harvard Business...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/a-tech-issue-thats-getting-old-fast/feed/ 0 5683 The Real Startup Danger: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know. https://startuponestop.com/the-real-startup-danger-you-dont-know-what-you-dont-know/ https://startuponestop.com/the-real-startup-danger-you-dont-know-what-you-dont-know/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:14:55 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5676 You’ve heard it a million times, but with the various AI assistants now available, has that changed?  It’s now much easier and affordable to found a startup, that’s for sure. Thanks to vibe coding and the like, you don’t even need a tech team or a team at all, or so it would seem. Partner differences is one of the big reasons why startups fail. The new trend in the founding team? Having your AI as your co-founder. Y Combinator...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/the-real-startup-danger-you-dont-know-what-you-dont-know/feed/ 0 5676 The Games People (in Big Tech) Play https://startuponestop.com/the-games-people-in-big-tech-play/ https://startuponestop.com/the-games-people-in-big-tech-play/#respond Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:16:00 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5668 Re the headline/lead-in, in the case of Microsoft, it’s a word game. Work with us here. The CEO of Microsoft “Suddenly not sounding too confident about AI not being a bubble,” Futurism reported. “Speaking at the World Economic Forum, (Satya) Nadella pontificated about what would constitute such a speculative bubble, and said that the long-term success of AI tech hinges on it being used across a broad range of industries — as well as seeing an uptick in adoption in...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/the-games-people-in-big-tech-play/feed/ 0 5668 The Roaring 2020s: A Throwback to the Past? https://startuponestop.com/the-roaring-2020s-a-throwback-to-the-past/ https://startuponestop.com/the-roaring-2020s-a-throwback-to-the-past/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:55:22 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5659 The passing of 2025 wasn’t just the end of another year: we wrapped up the a quarter century. Note that centuries tend not to define themselves until we’re roughly two or so decades in. Looking back to the 1900s, Voices from History noted that “The 1920s…saw the birth of numerous inventions that transformed everyday life and laid the groundwork for future technological advancements… These innovations touched various aspects of society, from transportation to leisure activities.” Kind of like, well, now,...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/the-roaring-2020s-a-throwback-to-the-past/feed/ 1 5659 What’s Eating the Medical Establishment. (That’s Not a Question.) https://startuponestop.com/whats-eating-the-medical-establishment-thats-not-a-question/ https://startuponestop.com/whats-eating-the-medical-establishment-thats-not-a-question/#respond Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:19:21 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5652 Every now and then, we turn our attention to food, which is especially timely as losing weight is a popular resolution on people’s lists  new year’s list. And Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr (RFKJ) just inverted one of the holiest of holies: the Food Pyramid. “The new guidelines website states that every American should eat 1.2-1.6 grams of animal and/or plant protein per kilogram of body weight per day, along with “healthy fats” from whole foods such...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/whats-eating-the-medical-establishment-thats-not-a-question/feed/ 0 5652 Dirty Little Secrets of 2025 https://startuponestop.com/dirty-little-secrets-of-2025/ https://startuponestop.com/dirty-little-secrets-of-2025/#respond Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:13:26 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5647 We’re back after taking a holiday hiatus, kicking it off with a recap of 2025. Not with another Top 10 whatever list, which are out there, ad nauseam, but rather with a recap of those pivotal moments or items of the year that faded from the headlines like, well, yesterday’s news. So what are some of these things you missed or otherwise overlooked? First, eyeballs matter. In the Web 1 days, startups didn’t have supporting business models, so the ‘New...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/dirty-little-secrets-of-2025/feed/ 0 5647 The Killer App of the Year Is… https://startuponestop.com/the-killer-app-of-the-year-is/ https://startuponestop.com/the-killer-app-of-the-year-is/#respond Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:57:51 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5638 It was 2021 when Master of the Universe and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided it was time to move beyond mere social media. Given his uncanny sense of prescience, he felt he’d found the killer app, going so far as to rename Facebook Meta, reflecting the company’s shift towards developing the metaverse, a virtual environment for social interaction and commerce. From Zuckerberg’s point of view, VR was the future. Oops. “All told, the company has lost more than $70 billion… on...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/the-killer-app-of-the-year-is/feed/ 0 5638 OpenAI and the Tooth Fairy https://startuponestop.com/openai-and-the-tooth-fairy/ https://startuponestop.com/openai-and-the-tooth-fairy/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:26:35 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5629 Our friend and investor at ffvc, Katie Weiss, told a story in her weekly newsletter about her six-year-old daughter who had decided that the tooth fairy isn’t real, and how Katie used logic and Sora to “preserve the magic a little longer.” “That whole exchange made me think about another type of “fairy tale”: projections. As a venture fund, we ask for them, fully aware that we’re often being handed a story only loosely tethered to reality. So why do...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/openai-and-the-tooth-fairy/feed/ 1 5629 The Internet’s Horrible, Terrible, Very Bad Day. https://startuponestop.com/the-internets-horrible-terrible-very-bad-day/ https://startuponestop.com/the-internets-horrible-terrible-very-bad-day/#respond Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:54:41 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5621 It was just another Tuesday, until it wasn’t. 20% of the internet vanished in a heartbeat, all because Cloudflare, “which is supposed to protect the internet from attacks, accidentally “attacked” itself… when a  routine configuration change (database permission update) triggered a hidden bug in its bot protection system, and in an instant, this “gatekeeper” locked everyone out,” Bitget reported. It’s not the first major outage we’ve witnessed in the past few months. “Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/the-internets-horrible-terrible-very-bad-day/feed/ 0 5621 Limbic Capitalism and the Age of AI https://startuponestop.com/limbic-capitalism-and-the-age-of-ai/ https://startuponestop.com/limbic-capitalism-and-the-age-of-ai/#respond Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:41:54 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5609 With AI advancing at breakneck speeds – 11% of the global population are using it – the real question is: is it fast approaching the point where we’re crossing the Rubicon and reaching the point of no return? Let’s be honest, we live in an age of limbic capitalism,  greatly accelerated by the Age of Social, and now AI. Limbic capitalism, according to danieldashnawcouplestherapy.com “refers to a system where businesses exploit human psychology, particularly the limbic system, to encourage excessive...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/limbic-capitalism-and-the-age-of-ai/feed/ 0 5609 What Escapes People about Holiday Networking Events https://startuponestop.com/what-many-people-miss-about-holiday-networking-events/ https://startuponestop.com/what-many-people-miss-about-holiday-networking-events/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:50:51 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5602 The holiday season is fast approaching, a season of joy for some, and depression for others. One of the key problems: loneliness. Dating apps have evolved from merely swiping left/right. AI matchmaking elements have been added as product enhancements, and curious what the results will prove to be over time, as we’re not quite convinced that an algorithm is capable of understanding human emotions on a granular level, and isn’t love part of the equation when looking for a life...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/what-many-people-miss-about-holiday-networking-events/feed/ 0 5602 His Shift on Climate Change Aside, Is Bill Gates Just Warming Up? https://startuponestop.com/his-shift-on-climate-change-aside-is-bill-gates-just-warming-up/ https://startuponestop.com/his-shift-on-climate-change-aside-is-bill-gates-just-warming-up/#respond Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:05:45 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5595 “In 2021, Random House published a book by software tycoon Bill Gates titled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The message was clear: The world is heading toward a climate catastrophe if humans keep using fossil fuels. Everyone in the world had been hearing that message loud and clear for the previous two decades, and Gates, who’s been moonlighting as a climate expert for just as long, was not only one of the loudest voices to broadcast it, but someone...

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]]> https://startuponestop.com/his-shift-on-climate-change-aside-is-bill-gates-just-warming-up/feed/ 0 5595 Halloween Lessons for Founders https://startuponestop.com/halloween-lessons-for-founders/ https://startuponestop.com/halloween-lessons-for-founders/#respond Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:14:38 +0000 https://startuponestop.com/?p=5589  We are still struggling with a broken right thumb, or boo-boo, considering that Halloween is upon us. Scary that it’ll take a few more weeks to heal, and speaking of scary, we decided to consider what lessons Halloween might have for founders. First, a bit of history. “Some say the festival has its origins in pre-Christian traditions that mark the changing of the seasons,” according to MSN. “The ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, was also a pagan religious tradition that...

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