Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. These values are deeply engrained in the culture and fabric of SPARK. They get to choose it, and it becomes a part of the school’s creed and culture. appeared first on THE BLOG. and ryan@eadvance.co.za.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I have neither worked at Netflix, nor written for the blog myself. That is, in no small part, due to its salaries, its culture, and its brand. But of course, Netflix also has a not-so-secret asset where it shows its culture to the world: the Netflix TechBlog. 4.62% of those people end up going to the Jobs page?—?11,550

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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. These values are deeply engrained in the culture and fabric of SPARK. They get to choose it, and it becomes a part of the school’s creed and culture. The post Starting a SPARK appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

The essence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem is its people and the culture of trust and collaboration that allows them to interact successfully. 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).

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 27, 2023

High performers and culture carriers for years — terminated via email and without the opportunity to celebrate their time with their teams. And I shared that anxiety in a blog post, reprinted below. While I understand the decisions to cut headcount and costs, hearing about these folks in particular made me sad.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

And it seems to be creeping back into startup culture of late in a worrying way. Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic.

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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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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

For 15 consecutive quarters (nearly 4 years), the venture money going into seed has been consistently over $1.5B; the Afore blog notes “data from PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association shows that fundings of $1 million or less are at their lowest point since 2011,” which are what folks call “pre-seed” rounds; (..)

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

The year 2011 was financially devastating. In order to truly move the needle, we needed to become fanatical about our purpose and embed it deeply throughout our culture. 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.)

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 9, 2018

Staffing, culture and ego. The challenge is how to build a team that has the skills you need, the culture you’re trying to build and an understanding of the vision you want to create. She was born in 2011, and for the first two or three years, I missed so much of her growth. So, it worked obviously, which was good.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2017

The event went global in 2011 and began uniting people from Vietnam to Costa Rica, from Australia to Italy, from the U.S. We always talk about how we can do something different and this simple but powerful idea unites people of all cultures and backgrounds on one day to do good together. million participants.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I joined in 2011, and when we got acquired by Google three years later, we were still only 22 people. And I vividly remember James letting me list out all the things I expected culturally. So yeah, you can read blog posts online or watch the videos [about YC], but hearing feedback in person, and for 3 straight months, is game-changing.

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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. He goes on to say, “We live in a highly individualistic culture. 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. ” So true.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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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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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2019

But then I talked to a mentor who reminded me this blog usually was and should still be a medium for me to think out loud, and that this act of constantly thinking should be valuable to at least me. It’s been a nearly 10-year slog since I moved back to the Bay Area in 2011 and meandered my way into the world of venture capital.

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