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. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

for the March 2016 issue of Octane magazine. Any entrepreneur knows this isn’t an easy road, and while none of us can ever reach perfection, I think my company has finally found a “secret sauce” to keep our teams encouraged, while getting everything done in between. To be truly effective, everyone must be on board with your vision.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2017

The work Mali Rising accomplishes is EO Global Board member Fred Johnson’s passion. In 2008, I asked to join the board of directors, and have served on the board as chairman for four years and in other capacities ever since. Fred Johnson is an EO Global Board member, founder of Eagle Environmental, Inc. ,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. After much thought, it came to him: the difference was in how they think! An Unreasonable Idea.

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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? Word-of-mouth is a powerful tool for driving awareness and program growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 16, 2017

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! appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. But in 2006, I found my peer group by joining the Entrepreneurs Organization —and it was a game-changer. The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. 2016’s lesson was one of those. Below is an excerpt from the original article.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 8, 2016

My family was impacted; my free time was impacted; and most interestingly, the skills I was learning as an entrepreneur were, in turn, impacting my everyday choices, utterly unrelated to my business. What if we planned our lives the same way successful entrepreneurs and executives build their businesses? The Skill Set.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 11, 2016

Learn more about the companies and student entrepreneurs who are leading this competition. Their advisory board includes a director from Airbnb, the CEO of Mountain Equipment Coop, and EO speaker Cameron Herold. The post Meet the Top 5 EO GSEA Finalists of 2016 appeared first on THE BLOG. Ruben Miessen, Remedia BVBA.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

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. Take Canadian entrepreneur Hamed Shahbazi.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 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. Companies need to evolve and so do boards.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 10, 2017

According to a 2016 survey, human resources teams often prioritize cultural fit when looking at recent college graduates—even over referrals, classes and grades. But evaluating fit doesn’t stop when you bring a new employee on board. The post Making the Case for Cultural Fit appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

million in 2016, it was one of the largest disclosed rounds at that stage in Nigeria. . I say this because we also saw existing founders and serial entrepreneurs coming back to the market. His partner at TalentQL, Opeyemi Awoyemi, is also a serial entrepreneur. When Stripe-subsidiary Paystack raised its seed round of $1.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Abundant Robotics (2016-2021). Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability. It even got some Y Combinator startups on board. If you think it sounds buzzy, some entrepreneurs and investors had a different word: illegal. Total raised: $12 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Additionally, a startup could get a ton of applicants due to pay, location or even recent coverage in a Well Known Tech Blog — which can bode well for success, but could also just be a result of great marketing. Tesla shareholders urge judge to find Musk coerced board to buy SolarCity. 4 ways to navigate a post-acquisition partnership.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Perspectives and pointers from the FY 2016/2017 PEAK Global Winner , EO Utah. Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Utah chapter decided to pursue a FY2016/2017 PEAK win due to, at least in part, tradition. Leadership from a Board that is high-functioning and a President that empowers members also plays a key role. “If

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. ” and you can see that the balance of caution vs. optimism is 82% to 18%. ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2017

By Tom Charman, GSEA 2016 UK Finalist and Cofounder of KOMPAS. When you integrate the two, you can access Trello boards quickly from Slack, make any necessary changes and then assign tasks to employees as needed. The post 9 Apps That Make Life a Little Easier appeared first on THE BLOG. Stay on track: Any.do.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Gerkey assures that there won’t be any disruption in day-to-day activities with respect to OSRF’s oversight of the ROS robotics middleware, the Gazebo 3D robotics simulator and Open-RMF. OSRC launched in September 2016 and together with OSRF became known as Open Robotics.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 27, 2022

OurCrowd First Israeli Company to Partner With the Singapore Economic Development Board in the Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) Programme. Collaboration will further strengthen ties between startups and corporates in Israel and Singapore. June 27, 2022 09:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time.

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