Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. These business and mentorship networks have made great strides helping entrepreneurs in local communities across the U.S. appeared first on THE BLOG. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Aaron Lee is the CEO and founder of iluma Agency (formerly Illuminati Studios) and joined EO South Florida in 2011. . EO Accelerator is designed to empower entrepreneurs with tools, accountability and community to help them aggressively grow and master their business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. So after exploring our options, Stacey and I formed SPARK Schools, a series of private schools for low-income communities. The post Sneak Preview of our Newest Octane Cover Story: Starting a SPARK appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In some capacity or another, many of us have a desire to give back to our community. Here are some ideas from Darren, so we can get involved in our communities: 1. Attend a local charity event: Purchase a ticket to a fundraising gala in your community. The post Creating Change in Your Community appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

This month, we’ll be engaging in an open dialogue that asks the question, “What does social entrepreneurship look like within our global EO community and beyond?” In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Founder and chief executive officer Ivy Huq Russell, who grew up in Chittagong and Dhaka before moving to the United Kingdom for university, started Maya as a blog with healthcare information in 2011. At the time, Russell worked in finance. Maya’s homescreen. “We were very focused on two things,” Russell said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. So after exploring our options, Stacey and I formed SPARK Schools, a series of private schools for underserved communities. You’re strengthening communities through an innovative approach to education. and ryan@eadvance.co.za.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

All adapted garments available around 2011-2014 were very poorly designed and not fashionable at all! Over the upcoming period, we’ll be sharing more stories of inclusive entrepreneurship in this blog. A: The initial idea was to develop a clothing line for people with reduced mobility. It did not work very well. Stay tuned!

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech). LLH: When starting Belly in 2011, yeah, we were tracking something like 15 companies in the Loyalty space. HW: Frank is venture backed.

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

In my last blog, I talked about the definition and evaluation of two key elements of an entrepreneurial ecosystem – entrepreneurs and entrepreneur support organizations (ESOs). As a result, the whole is greater than the sum of its separate parts.”. – Kauffman Foundation’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building Playbook Draft 3.0

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I was fortunate that Jennifer, who had started the law firm on her own in early 2011, had already established the groundwork for our new venture. EOBeyondBorders celebrates our rich, global community. The post Embracing an Unexpected Entrepreneurial Venture appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 4, 2016

Ludwick Marishane won the EO GSEA Global Finals in 2011. One of the things we learned was that poor communities don’t buy products in bulk. The post EO GSEA Winner Champions Sanitation appeared first on THE BLOG. So I grew up in Limpopo, on the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, a little town called Motetema.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

In case you missed all the kerfuffle this weekend, I posted this blog post originally on TechCrunch. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. Still, as I’ve written in the past, what I love about blogging is the ability to have a public debate where we can all learn. So I feel the need to speak up.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 27, 2023

And I shared that anxiety in a blog post, reprinted below. It certainly wasn’t just this feeling; I loved the team and the community, too, but in hindsight, there was definitely an insecurity that kept me from stepping away. As a result, abrupt separation can be really difficult for people who prioritized their work and their badge.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

.” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JULY 1, 2020

An interesting new Harvard Business School report, “Why Japanese Businesses are so Good at Surviving Crises,” looks at how Japanese firms dealt with the impacts of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In our terms, Japanese firms are community minded or are pursuing a double or triple bottom line. EntreWorks Blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. It’s why I still randomly meet up with people I’ve met on Twitter or this blog. 2011 was the first year I went to SxSW. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Examples in My Life & Work. The Haimish factor.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

See this blog post for a full discussion.). I will leave it to law professor Eric Goldman to articulate better than I could why “ this law mortally threatens the entire UGC community.” In 2011, virtually every new consumer Internet startup incorporates a social/UGC element.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 6, 2020

and moved away from the Disqus comment system, I heard loudly and clearly that the folks who have left comments here at AVC, via Disqus, from 2007 to early 2020, would like to have their comments displayed at the bottom of all of those old blog posts. Back when we launched the new AVC (AVC 3.0)

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

The year 2011 was financially devastating. With purpose, autonomy, mastery and a sense of community, we turned our people into true stakeholders of our business. The post Back to the Drawing Board appeared first on THE BLOG. (In fact, most business people in my inner circle said that it couldn’t be done.) Setting Our Purpose.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. And then came AOL.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 14, 2020

Elite Entrepreneurs got its official start as a standalone company in 2018, but the Elite Forum was created inside of Infusionsoft in December of 2011. 21 Hats is a membership-based platform that provides community forums, articles, and networking opportunities that help to tame the business chaos many feel and experience.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 9, 2018

It was the EO community that helped Peter find his way from the business he no longer loved to a tour through Europe with his family. She was born in 2011, and for the first two or three years, I missed so much of her growth. The post Learning to Listen to Your Heart appeared first on THE BLOG. Inspiration to happiness .

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Impact Hub

JUNE 6, 2019

This blog post is part of a wider campaign aiming to share knowledge about environmental challenges within our communities. In South Korea, a single marine litter event caused a revenue loss of about €29m in 2011 compared to 2010, as a result of over 500,000 fewer visitors to the country.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

That’s really important to look for, because each person you add to the team changes the dynamic — for example, if you hire somebody more introverted, it changes the team’s communication style. I joined in 2011, and when we got acquired by Google three years later, we were still only 22 people.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

During the onset of the pandemic, Aboyeji, via his blog post , said Future Africa Fund was looking to raise institutional investment. Two years after launching the African entertainment company in 2011, Njoku and his co-founder Bastian Gotter launched SPARK , a self-described company builder and a $2 million fund.

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