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Mali Rising Foundation Works to Empower Youth Through Education

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The Mali Rising Foundation was formed in 2004 to provide accessible, quality education for children, focusing on middle school education. The work Mali Rising accomplishes is EO Global Board member Fred Johnson’s passion. We asked Fred to share his experience in helping to increase literacy rates and access to education in Mali.

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4 Action steps to teach kids financial literacy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Play games involving money: Money-themed board games including Monopoly or Life are engaging, memorable introductions into understanding how money works. Unfortunately, most children grow up without any financial education whatsoever, whether at home or at school. Susan is a board member of EO’s New Jersey chapter.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to. Driven by his desire to inspire progress, Suhail started planning the FALAK Unreasonable Thinking Summit (UTS) in 2016. Explains Suhail, “The UTS promotes ongoing learning by being an educational event. Promoting Disruption.

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Cybersecurity: What’s With the Attitude?

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Shodan, which is like a Google for Internet-connected devices—recently said a search performed in January 2016 identified close to 200,000 Internet-connected devices that are still susceptible to the three-year old Heartbleed vulnerability. Cybersecurity Awareness Training … For the Board of Directors! Well…surprise! That’s right!

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. That number is projected to GROW to 70 billion by 2016 (Source: BIA Kelsey). Higher education. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. But let me start with some data.

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

Entrepreneurs' Organization

He was also the winner of the EO’s 2016 Global Citizen of the Year. 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.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. Their 2016 Fund was the first and largest fund so far using this structure, with $25M AUM. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?