Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2021

In 2009, he co-founded DALS Lighting, an LED lighting business where he implemented the Scaling Up Growth System and led the company to 3X its revenues. The post 5 Signs you (or a CEO you know) may need mental health help appeared first on THE BLOG. and Million Dollar Women (Amazon best-seller, winner of Axiom Business Book Award).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2023

The roots of this trend can be traced back as early as 2009, according to a remark that Wikipedia attributes to “ economist Mark Boldger ,” but gained popularity after the pandemic. and more articles from the EO blog. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004. I started a company, failed at it, and joined First Round in 2009 to help them open up their NYC office. In the middle of that whole thing, I wrote a blog post about Foursquare that a lot of people noticed.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Fitbit became the first household name in wearables when it launched its first tracker in 2009. 3D printing The first 3D printing patent was filed in 1980, and in 2009, MakerBot brought open-source DIY (Do-it-yourself) 3D printing kits to the masses. This blog post contains links to third-party websites.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In mature Western economies (the US, UK, Canada, for example), it’s almost twice as costly to operate a business in 2019 as it was in 2009. appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. And there has never been such a pronounced talent shortage in the world. Talent is scarce.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 24, 2020

In the last US economic downturn in 2008-2009, my Forum and EO taught me that the keys to surviving are being the first to respond, taking quick decisive action and being agile. We also utilized a no-limit credit card to buy US$200,000 more plexiglass from another vendor. . Learn more. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

In 2009 he went to Silicon Valley to find seed investors. The post How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’ appeared first on THE BLOG. We maintain that there is every bit as much scope for originality at this stage as there is in trying to find a breakthrough idea in the first place. 2 for his age group at 12.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. It’s just math. IRRs work really well in a 12-year bull market but VCs have to make money in good markets and bad.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

On 5 June 2009, I received an unexpected call from one of my clients. and more articles from the EO blog. At the time, I was entering a new phase in my life. My wife, Jasmine, and I were expecting our first child. We lived in a new house where we often took long walks on the beach—simply put, I was living my best life.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. Unemployment continues to rise – Unemployment as of September 2009 is 9.7% So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) but the truer number of underemployed is a whopping 16.8%!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo. So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. started blogging again outlined here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It was 2009 and the housing market had just collapsed. Punk rock taught me that technical proficiency is overrated and, in 2009, I wasn’t going to hire or recruit based on an agent’s current production or numbers as an indicator of their future success. It was a simple idea to flip the focus from the house to the people.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Cisco acquired that company, which helped protect web gateways as a service for $183 million back in 2009. The brothers raised over $53 million along the way for Wandera. Investors included Bessemer Venture Partners, 83North and Sapphire Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. But I never gave up.

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JUNE 3, 2010

I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). MetaMarkets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I joined EO Accelerator in 2009, when I owned a business and my business owned me. The post In My Words: Aaron Lee on How EO Accelerator Altered His Journey appeared first on THE BLOG. Aaron Lee is the CEO and founder of iluma Agency (formerly Illuminati Studios) and joined EO South Florida in 2011. .

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OkDork

JUNE 23, 2022

Like many people, Sam got hit hard by the 2009 market crash. Financial Samurai has become America’s #1 personal finance blog. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. In today’s episode, I talk to The Financial Samurai Sam Dogen.

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EntreWorks Consulting

MARCH 10, 2020

This effort kicked off in 2009, and, since then, a wide and deep statewide network has been pushing goals of supporting sustainable economic development, improving soil and environmental quality, and ensuring that every Vermont resident has access to healthy local food. EntreWorks Blog. You can learn more and sign up for updates here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

In 2009, Foursquare was better known for its location-based social network. I used to say that my goal was to make the name ‘Foursquare’ synonymous with ‘innovation in contextual aware computing’… And, here in 2021, we’ve built the tools and frameworks that can make that so,” Crowley writes in a blog post.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel. 5 years ago. The monkey on my back. ” Yup.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2016

And these new businesses are particularly important in times of economic uncertainty and comparative stagnation in GDP growth: Between 2006 and 2009, young firms remained a net positive source of employment growth, whereas older and larger firms shed more jobs than they created. Read the rest of this article !

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. in 2009 the market was completely constipated as investors focused on triage. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. I am avoiding “frenzied&# deals for all of the reasons Roger Ehrenberg talks about in his excellent blog post.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 8, 2020

H1N1, 2009. H1N1, 2009. A novel version of H1N1 influenza virus was discovered in California in April of 2009. This closed schools in the designated areas and sent over 60,000 children home at the localized peak in May, 2009. Cases seemed to peak in October or November of 2009. Recent Historical Pandemics.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. … 2009: Know what you stand for and surround yourself with people who are aligned with that mission. We grew our customer count 30% in 2009. The post Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. Just like a sales person at the end of a quarter. I did that?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The September 2009 storm was the most devastating typhoon to hit Manila since 1970. The post How EO Philippines Members are Helping an Entire Community Displaced by Typhoon Ondoy appeared first on THE BLOG. billion in damages, 747 fatalities, and severely affecting the lives of 4.9 million people.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2016

When I was camping out in the Ace Hotel back in 2009 before First Round had an office, I took meetings with 3-5 people a day, 4-5 days a week, for 7 months. If you rotate out some of the options as part of a regular thing, it gives local food blogs and the vendors themselves a reason to continually announce what's going on in your space.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

blog here ). If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. I saw this great image on Twitter courtesy of Simon Wardley , CC3.0 It’s kind of a truism for life and certainly our industry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Michael Klazema has been developing products for criminal background check and improving online customer experiences in the background screening industry since 2009. appeared first on THE BLOG. He is the lead author and editor for Backgroundchecks.com. The post Should You Hire Your Next Employee Based on Experience or Potential?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We first met five years ago through serendipity as I described in this 2009 blog post and elaborated on again in more detail 2010. This is how Upfront Ventures came to fund Tristan Walker – one of the most talented and passionate entrepreneurs with whom we work whose new company is called Bevel.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Taskrabbit; Nov 2009 What is one question you ask yourself before investing in a company? Favorite business book, blog, podcast? She will translate this to enterprise corporations who seek to empower their organizations to have hard conversations with customers, between employees and with partners. What struck you about them?

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2020

Historically, venture investing right after major market downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2000-2002, and after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new venture investors. Attacks are rising. Looking to connect.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2012

Oh, did you think I meant something else? :) I just thought today was Salacious Headline Day in the VC blogging world so I thought I'd chime in. When I first sat down with Josh back in September of 2009 to talk about joining First Round.

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