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- Founder Mode - 20 Aug 2025
Founder Mode - 20 Aug 2025
We look for opportunities so that you don't have to.
StartupX Admin
August 20, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
Hi there,
Welcome to Founder Mode, every week I’ll keep you updated on the top finds and opportunities for startups, so that to save time and stay in the know.
You can still join our community meetup tomorrow. We have a great line of up speakers and attendees.
🔥 Top Finds
How to stand out when anyone can build anything
When tools make building easy, edge shifts to taste, POV, and distribution. Narrowing your niche, sweating the experience, and telling a story people remember is one of the ways forward.
How 1,500 startups are raising, spending, and hiring
Fresh benchmarks on fundraising, burn, runway, and headcount in 2025. Useful for planning your next raise or board deck and sanity checking your spend against peers.
Optimizing Ourselves to Death
Not every part of life needs a dashboard. Nick makes the case for leaving slack, aiming for “good enough,” and protecting joy from constant optimization.
Rethinking the Startup MVP
Today’s MVP is often a sharper version of an existing idea rather than a brand-new category so new strategies will help.
🎯 Startup Opportunities
Gold Coast Tech Accelerator A 8-week hybrid accelerator programs in South Florida helping startups scale.
| Sustainable Protein Startup Competition Accelerating sustainable protein innovation in fermentation, cell-cultured meat, plant-based proteins. | Berkeley SkyDeck Accelerator 2025 University-backed accelerator offering mentorship, funding, and world-class network.
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🛠 Tool of the Week
Floot
Floot lets non-coders & entrepreneurs build serious web apps that actually work. Designed to be super easy to use & powerful. The entire tech stack (backend, DB, hosting, etc) is built-in so you can finally build what you want without headache.
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💬 Founder Mode Quotes
“Most great things are built incrementally, step by step, rather than in one big moment.”
🙂 Fun Mode
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- Ray
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