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Innovation Through Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I’m involved with a few boards where we have taken a position of revenue-centric spending. You can use the time to optimize your owned media, such as social media , newsletter, blogs, or to even start new content channels like webinars and podcasts. Ruchir Punjabi has been an EO member since 2014.

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What am I Thankful for This Year?

Both Sides of the Table

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. Best, Mark.

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Ready to Sell Your Business? Here’s the Secret to a Successful Exit

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. But every once in a while you get a WhatsApp scenario —where a bigger competitor is so scared of your product that they’re willing to offer almost anything to mitigate that risk (like the $19 billion Facebook paid for WhatsApp back in 2014).

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Interviewing 5,000 People Taught Me 5 Surprising Traits of Great Leaders

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I’ve sought out CEOs, presidents, board directors and more for companies big and small, ranging from small startups to corporations with valuations in excess of US$10 billion, on every continent except Antarctica. They can fist-bump all the way from the janitor to the board. Manny Padda has been an EO Vancouver member since 2014.

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Marvell nabs Innovium for $1.1B as it delves deeper into cloud ethernet switches

TechCrunch

The startup, which raised over $400 million according to Crunchbase data , makes networking ethernet switches optimized for the cloud. The company, which was founded in 2014, raised more than $143 million last year on a post-money valuation of $1.3 Marvell announced this morning it has reached an agreement to acquire Innovium for $1.1

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

billion by 2014. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. As the mobile ecosystem has grown the industrialized world is now carrying a mini computer in their pocket that is connected to a cellular network. Companies need to evolve and so do boards.

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How did she do it? A Q&A with Rita Hansen, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Onboard Dynamics

Angel Capital Association

By: Kathie Priebe and Cristina Almeida, Managing Directors of Golden Seeds Reposted with permission from Golden Seeds blog. Editor’s note: This is an update to the original blog post, “How did she do it? In September 2014, we received a $3.6M In regard to raising money, be sure to leverage your network.

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