Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2020

Here are three takeaways from the Kabbage acquisition that small business owners should be thinking about: Fintech is becoming more and more mainstream. When a company as respected as American Express buys an organization like Kabbage, the deal has a considerable effect on normalizing the use of fintech.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 14, 2021

By focusing on fraud, the public is missing the real story Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Intuit will pay cash and stock to scoop up the email marketing behemoth. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Late last month, Canadian videographer Dan Olson released a two-hour video about his strongly held views on web3 and blockchain technology titled “Line Goes Up — The Problem With NFTs.” A Pew Research survey found that about 16% of Americans have bought cryptocurrency so far, which shows how quickly it’s catching on.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2024

After thinking deeply about her journey, here are four things she shared that made the difference: 1. If you are not super-passionate about your business idea, don’t bother. “I Be fanatical about the entire organization having access to live, accurate, key business metrics that provide actionable insights. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2024

“I have discovered the Fountain of Energy for entrepreneurs: It is GSEA!” – Roxana Shershin, US East Regional GSEA Expert Need to reignite your entrepreneurial spark? GSEA has not only reminded me that there is always a reason to believe in a brighter future, but also it has made me truly optimistic about the future of our world as a whole.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

SVP Prabhakar Raghavan recently said that according to the company’s internal studies, 40% of young people … The post What China Can Teach Us About the Future of TikTok and Video Search appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Even the executives at Google know this.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

International Women’s Day encourages us to inspire inclusion and value the contributions of women. Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “I We started small, just four of us, and today, over 30 women are participating.”

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Mark MacLeod

AUGUST 7, 2023

As I flew home the next day, I thought about what marriage tells us […] I attended a beautiful wedding in Paris this weekend. A black tie affair at the Ritz. Hard to top that experience in the city of love.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2024

With three “experienced” guides leading the way, we embarked on our journey, excited for the thrills that awaited us. We learned a lot about ourselves, personal tenacity, and the power of teamwork that day. Here are six lessons a strenuous adventure trekking challenge taught us about the challenges of entrepreneurship.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2020

Proov, an effective urine PdG-testing kit company, which also serves to empower and educate women to know more about their reproductive health, announces today that the company is accepting a $1.3 million contract from the AFWERX office of the US Air Force to help military couples who are trying to start a family. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Instacart has left us IPO nerds feeling whiplashed. The IPO was also set to be a critical affair for other, yet-private unicorns, as it would have provided some indication of how the public market felt about at least one of their peers. While disappointing, this turn of events does teach us a few things.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2024

You may have read Anya Crowe’s post about key takeaways from five days on Necker Island with Sir Richard Branson and 53 EO members. It’s a great way for EOers to be intentional about their entrepreneurial and personal journey. He urged us to curate our personal bucket lists and actively chase dreams and goals.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2024

The idea is that we must first get ourselves into our best mental, physical and spiritual shape, and draw a complete circle around us — as individuals — prior to focusing our energy on others. On Necker, we chatted about its relevance in a handful of sidebar conversations. Reputation is all we have; make sure it’s one you are proud of.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Investing every bit of his savings from summer internships —about US$14,000 — Joe purchased 2,000 high-quality water bottles. It took six months to sell our first 2,000 bottles and make the US$13,000 to build our first well. I learned so much about how to run a business from starting Ripple,” Joe said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We asked Eden about the similarities between entrepreneurship and crisis public relations. According to Verne Harnish in Scaling Up , “There are roughly 28 million firms in the US, of which only 4 percent ever reach more than US$1 million in revenue.” It’s all about managing perceptions.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 12, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff discusses a new study by Oracle that reveals how worried Americans are about supply chain disruption issues. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, to learn more about what businesses can do during the supply chain crisis: . So if you’re a merchant, what to do about all of this?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We asked Dawid about his experience in the past year, and what he learned while helping refugees from Ukraine. Since we were frontline workers, people from around the world who couldn’t show up themselves asked us how they could help. What has the fallout from the war helped you realize about yourself and other entrepreneurs?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. But this is still all about valuations and none of it is any fun anymore. Until we weren’t.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Our shared passion for helping children through education and empowerment helped us become great friends and colleagues. She has invested US$1 million to create a unique educational and empowerment program for children, the Superhero Program. I knew nothing about websites, security or hosting. My company’s website got hacked.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 8, 2024

At a16z, it’s clear to us that future progress won’t be constrained by technical limits of the previous generation. Speak to any one of her founders about her intellectual breadth and curiosity, and it becomes clear that Erin is the kind of partner who can navigate technical nuance and complex markets. We couldn’t agree more.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. And I think they’ll use the tools to become experts. I don’t believe jobs go away.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a sense, Cape Town will be a return for us. South Africa next year will bring together and amplify everything we have learned about ourselves over the last three years, and plot a course forward. This online group included an amazing 4,600 new friends who expressed curiosity about becoming part of EO’s global community. (We

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I feel like that moment, which hit us in March, marked the bottom of the downturn, although it has taken at least the rest of the year to work through the carnage and there is still a bit more to come. That look-forward post also missed the biggest new thing in tech, Chat GPT, which had initially launched about a month before I wrote it.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks with Michael Spath of Kapnick Insurance Group about what this summer’s storms taught us about the importance of the right insurance coverage. If so, contact us at editor@startupnation.com and we’ll feature you on an upcoming segment of the WJR Business Beat!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Here’s what she shared: I immigrated to the US from Israel at the age of 18 with US$500 in my pocket. Between the dotcom boom and Y2K nearly upon us, there were many jobs available in the IT industry. STEM careers are all about solving problems and being creative. It was 1998. It provides opportunities for mentorship.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2022

Even the best parents find it difficult to talk to their kids about tough topics like puberty, sex, and porn. That’s a grave disservice to children, who naturally want information and insights about the physical changes they experience during puberty. It opened the door for us to talk more openly after the program ended.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

This marks an important milestone for us. My partner Marc saw the new world coming and wrote about it in 2011 in a piece called, “Software is Eating the World.” Finally, we would like to thank our amazing Limited Partners who have enabled us to grow and innovate tremendously over the past 15 years.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The uncertainty put us in survival mode. That, in turn, led to greater awareness and passion for the work we were doing, ultimately bringing us closer together. Before the pandemic, you could walk around the office, go to a member of a different department, and have a conversation about issues with a project.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 7, 2022

Electrified cars were greater than 10% of the US market in 2021 and EVs were about 5%. EV sales are growing at nearly 100% YOY and could reach 25% of the US market in a few years. We ran into a number of challenges that led us to call this road trip our “range anxiety weekend.” They drove a Volvo XC40.

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Terkel Small Business

MAY 30, 2023

How Do I Write an About Us Page for a Business? An engaging and informative About Us page is crucial for any business looking to establish a strong online presence. appeared first on Featured.

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Terkel Small Business

MAY 30, 2023

How Do I Write an About Us Page for a Business? An engaging and informative About Us page is crucial for any business looking to establish a strong online presence. appeared first on Terkel.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I attended a dinner this past week with USV portfolio founders and one who works in education told us that ChatGPT has effectively ended the essay as a way for teachers to assess student progress. So what do we do about this world we are living in where content can be created by machines and ascribed to us?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Let’s talk about public offerings now that the IPO season is essentially behind us. So, what about those insane IPO pops? And, second, what happened to the handful of SPACs that we felt made some reasonable sense before their combination was completed? How is Latch doing?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In EO, we often talk about the Four Quadrants—business, family, community and self. We also talk about the Four Capacities—physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual. You may relate to how I once felt about those areas. So, thinking about “the soul” felt slow, intangible and far-removed from my business goals.

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Venture Well

APRIL 5, 2023

She answers a few questions for us about her career and work in building a diverse, eco-friendly entrepreneurial ecosystem. Sylvia Robles from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley was named our 2023 Sustainable Practice Impact Award winner.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 6, 2023

This helps founders who come to talk to us about their companies understand the folks they will be talking to. Grace joins us from Silver Lake where she was working on their ESG strategy. Nikhil joins us from Daffy where he was helping to build charitable giving software.

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