Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

Looking to accelerate inclusiveness in Europe’s entrepreneurial and incubation environment , Impact Hub teamed up with partners to enhance Business Support Organisations’ skills, methods and approaches towards different under-represented groups. The accessibility of the content and sessions is also a guaranteed point (e.g.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

In part I of our interview , we asked Brad about his journey as an entrepreneur. Accelerator is EO’s targeted program for first-stage entrepreneurs. What has surprised you most about working with entrepreneurs and the Accelerator program? I served as co-chair and in 2014, took over as chair with Ethan King as co-chair.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore. It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The The next sale isn’t quite as sweet.).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Entrepreneurs with an ongoing thirst for learning often turn to executive education programs to expand their knowledge base to tackle new challenges and opportunities. Why, as a successful entrepreneur, did you seek additional education? Hao Lam is an EO Seattle member who joined the organization in 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I remain a huge supporter and am very proud of our accomplishments and hugely optimistic about our future. “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. 5 years ago. The monkey on my back. ” Yup.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 7, 2019

Getting a line of credit to support receivables was going to release monetary stress. He and partner Steve Denny launched the business in 2014 to perform business valuations, help people buy and sell companies, and provide exit planning and consulting. But our value and ability to succeed were going to be judged by others.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Mitch Allen, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Fort Worth, is founder and Head Elf of Hire Santa , a service that brings the season to life with thousands of professionally trained Santas worldwide. As an entrepreneur, I’m drawn to the concept of Shark Tank. It’s like the Super Bowl for entrepreneurs!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

Manny Padda is an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. Get support from trusted people. A version of this article appeared in Fast Company.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2021

There’s a psychological price you might pay for being an entrepreneur. The challenges entrepreneurs face. Many entrepreneurs experience social isolation ; even more so within the last 10 months or so of social distancing. Establishing a work-life balance is complicated when you’re an entrepreneur. Ask for help.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2016

As an entrepreneur, it is jokingly said that we suffer from “shiny object syndrome,” where there’s always a great opportunity around the corner and everything is an optimistic path toward achieving the next million dollars. I was 10 years into my entrepreneurial journey, unemployed with zero savings and had no back-up plan to support me.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Profitability.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

In 2014, I started working a cocaine trafficking case, which eventually led to the largest cocaine haul and most complex wiretap case in Nashville history. (I We’ve experienced an outpouring of support from the local community and media. Five years of hard work later, I landed my dream job on the 20th Judicial District Drug Task Force.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 23, 2016

How many times as entrepreneurs do we let our blemished past affect our unspoiled future? When I started out as an entrepreneur, I operated under the concept of cutthroat business. Often as entrepreneurs, we look for guidance and direction from business books, learning events, organizations like EO and our peers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. There are 2.9 PHONE CALLS.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, compared with a national joblessness rate of 5.7 The home buyer has been a major supporter of Techtonic Academy, and as a result, they have saved 20% percent on software development over the past two years without sacrificing quality or time-effective solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Obviously I’m a proponent of still working closely with your investors to make sure that they feel bought into your decisions which will matter a lot if you ever need their support in the future. And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

By June of 2021, the iOS app and API service officially had expiration dates , with co-founder Adam Grossman writing: “ Support for the Dark Sky API service for existing customers will continue until the end of 2022. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. There are a lot of things I think entrepreneurs should care about when raising from a VC: How big or small their fund is? I could go on for a long time.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

We want to arm these people with capital, to help grow their businesses but we also want to support them. And then we also have a growing portfolio of entrepreneurs in about 20 countries now. We want to harness that network effect for best optimizing the discovery of great ideas and great entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 25, 2016

Uber learned this lesson when it launched in Las Vegas in October 2014. Ensure you’ve raised enough capital to support operations in your current markets (as well as in your new ones). The post How to Lay the Groundwork for Success in a New Location appeared first on THE BLOG. Have a solid rainy day fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Even tech blogs know this.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2021

I joined EO in 2014. I was blown away by the Forum-type experience they created and realized that having a community of other entrepreneurs was missing in my life and would benefit me greatly as I grew my business. Tell us about supporting the MEPA region in 2020. Within a week, I attended an EO Test Drive event.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

[An edited version of the following blog post originally appeared in a modified form in the pages of the weekend edition of the Financial Times last Saturday. ]. Buying into such a notion is dangerous – dangerous for the entrepreneur and dangerous for the investor. You must subtract it from your top-line revenue.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2017

After the success of the first two MyEO Go Beyond events—the 25-kilometer Kolkata Marathon in 2014 and the Trek to Everest Base Camp in 2015—it was time for something faster, higher and stronger. There were many hardships—pain, AMS, headaches—and we had to support each other to ensure nobody faltered under these extreme conditions.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. In the second part of that same journey, I stumbled upon what I believe to be a large and investible trend — and that is the key subject of this blog post. Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Are LPs to blame? None of these. Not so fast.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

By some estimates, it takes 1 million pounds of raw material to support the lifestyle of an average American in a year. This tactic of using waste as a resource is as relevant for Fortune 500 companies as it is for early entrepreneurs. By 2014, mobile banking offered a full range of services and processed over $16.3

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