TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

During his free time, he started a blog to tell his friends back home about his life out west, and also to recommend TV shows. Slowly, Mike’s Bloggity Blog became one of Canada’s premier entertainment sites, and Morrison found himself with a local newspaper column as well as regular television and radio appearances.

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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. I began comparing my personal experience as an entrepreneur starting my business 50 years ago to the entrepreneurial ecosystem today. What prompted you to write Boom ? was in trouble.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

3- If you have an idea + a solid team, you can raise capital What I failed to understand the first time in Dreamit was that ideas rarely get funded- but that's not the picture that is painted to us entrepreneurs. Many early-stage entrepreneurs believe funding is the first step on the journey of building a business, and that is NOT the case.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

The first virtual session took place at the end of May 2021 and we got inspired to hear about what different entrepreneurs and experts are doing to build more inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystems. One of the participants is Rut Turró , she is, in her own words, a social entrepreneur in the fashion industry.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

After you claim your identity with placeholder domain names, accounts in social networks, and common blogging platforms, your next challenge is to create enough positive content as a “Google wall” to keep negative info out of the top Google search results. Invested Interests business entrepreneur reputation' Twittering. Profile sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. I think that’s the beauty of both capitalism and innovation. 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. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views.

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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. Although we didn’t have any experience in the industry, we believed our innovative approach to education, combined with our strong business knowledge, would offer a sustainable solution to the education crisis in South Africa.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Not every entrepreneur who builds a business from the ground up plans to “sell out” to venture capitalists and walk away. Besides these cases, eventual acquisition is a motivating factor for most entrepreneurs in the thick of a start-up process. Genuine innovation without the red flags of over-promising and under-delivering is key.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. Although we didn’t have any experience in the industry, we believed our innovative approach to education, combined with our strong business knowledge, would offer a sustainable solution to the education crisis in South Africa.”.

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Forward Cities

JULY 25, 2019

An ecosystem that allows for the fast flow of talent, information, and resources helps entrepreneurs quickly find what they need at each stage of growth. 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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. It takes options off of the table.

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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. Although we didn’t have any experience in the industry, we believed our innovative approach to education, combined with our strong business knowledge, would offer a sustainable solution to the education crisis in South Africa.”.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Led by charismatic chairman Dr Kira Radinsky, the company is described by the Israel Innovation Authority as “the most prominent company in the Israeli healthcare ecosystem.” billion in 2011. The post Newsletter: Investing in the healthcare revolution appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? I believe that innovation will be part of what drives us out of the recession / long-recovery eventually. My personal views?

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Why This Repeat Entrepreneur Founded Frank, a Software Platform for Workers. And Does He Think Chicago Is a Good Place for Entrepreneurs? LLH: When starting Belly in 2011, yeah, we were tracking something like 15 companies in the Loyalty space. All of which have merit, and may be best in different circumstances. Intentionally.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 4, 2016

Ludwick Marishane won the EO GSEA Global Finals in 2011. So we packaged DryBath in these innovative little sachets. I’m also currently the best student entrepreneur in the world, the first African to get that accolade, and one thing that really puzzles me is, I did all of this just because I didn’t want to bathe.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I have neither worked at Netflix, nor written for the blog myself. As of December 31, 2020, 526 of Netflix’s engineers have written 407 blog posts at the TechBlog. Whether you’re a leader at a corporate innovation team, an emerging unicorn, or a budding startup, you’re now competing with everyone for talent? Remember Blogspot?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. See this blog post for a full discussion.). In 2011, virtually every new consumer Internet startup incorporates a social/UGC element.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable.

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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. WWF and Impact Hub join forces for the oceans.

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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. It’s a similar model employed by AngelList , the company founded by Indian-American entrepreneur Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi as a fundraising platform for startups to raise money from angel investors.

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