Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

The Atlanta EO chapter had a relatively small Accelerator program with 10 to 15 participants—or companies—and only one EO member overseeing the program on the chapter board. From 2014 to 2015, we are proud to have grown the program from 14 to more than 40 companies. Learn more about EO Accelerator. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

What are the new trends we are seeing in entrepreneurship today that didn’t happen 10 years ago? appeared first on THE BLOG. We can and should address these obstacles to resurrect the American dream for all citizens. Today, there are more nonprofits and incubator programs supporting potential entrepreneurs than ever before.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Marvell president and CEO Matt Murphy sees Innovium as a complementary piece to the $10 billion Inphi acquisition last year, giving the company, which makes copper-based chips, more ways to work across modern cloud data centers. The company, which was founded in 2014, raised more than $143 million last year on a post-money valuation of $1.3

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 16, 2017

In 2014, we saw Heartbleed arrive on the cybersecurity scene. Furthermore, the top 10 countries these servers are located in are among those on the frontlines of world economic discussions. appeared first on THE BLOG. By Silka Gonzalez, an EO South Florida member and CEO of Enterprise Risk Management, Inc. Yeah, that’s why.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

For example, Bigfoot Capital open-sourced its RBI model, outlining it in a blog post and sharing their RBI financial model and anonymized term sheet , but a thorough, quantitative, industry-wide analysis has not been conducted until now. In the last 10 years alone, 25 RBI firms have been founded.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

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. Manny Padda has been an EO Vancouver member since 2014. Consider former Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

Having seen both frustrating losses and plenty of coveted 10-baggers (industry speak for 10-times return on investment), I’d like to pass on a few key factors that can make for smoother exits for new entrepreneurs. Here’s the Secret to a Successful Exit appeared first on THE BLOG. Know your exit options…from day 1 .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It started as a hobby, but by 2014, with the support of my EO Fort Worth “Tamarindo” Forum, it became a real business. The next step was to create a 10-minute audition video. So, I called 10 of my local Santas, found a Mrs. Claus, and filmed a video that I was pleased with. A Week in Los Angeles. I was thrilled!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2016

When I had to close my B2B marketing and branding agency in September of 2014, that feeling of optimism shifted toward scarcity and desperation. I was 10 years into my entrepreneurial journey, unemployed with zero savings and had no back-up plan to support me. The post Making Failure Your Friend appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. However, Fred Wilson blogs and Jackson Palmer smartly tweets that Git is already a decentralized system with GitHub built on top of it. Satya strikes again.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Startups building analytics products command roughly 10% of both seed and series A dollars. Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. of the market in 2010 to more than 7.5%

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

All adapted garments available around 2011-2014 were very poorly designed and not fashionable at all! Over the upcoming period, we’ll be sharing more stories of inclusive entrepreneurship in this blog. A: The initial idea was to develop a clothing line for people with reduced mobility. It did not work very well. Stay tuned!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 29, 2017

percent of Americans aged 12 and older battled some type of substance abuse issue in 2014 (the most recent year for which data is available). The post How Recovery from Addiction Helped Me Find My Professional Purpose appeared first on THE BLOG. Nobody is immune to addiction—not even entrepreneurs.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 22, 2019

Back in May 2014, Duolingo launched something called the Duolingo Test Center. I saw this tweet this morning from Luis, Duolingo’s founder and CEO: Super proud that the Duolingo English Test ( @DuolingoENTest ) is now fully accepted as a proof of English proficiency at 10 of the top 20 US universities according to US News.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. The doubters will question you. The trolls will swipe at you. Competitors will undermine you. These are the signs of innovation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 24, 2015

537 % growth in viewership from 2014. Top 10 visiting countries: 1. Click here to see all our speaker previews and Octane blog coverage from 2015. We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram. 2,822 unique visitors. 12 speakers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Over the years, the company managed to raise $12 million, including a $10 million Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) back in 2017. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability. Pearl Automation (2014-2021). — sima sistani (@SimaSistani) September 9, 2021.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

CEO Maju Kuruvilla issued a blog post today acknowledging that the company “has become very popular in the media these past few months.”. In his blog post, Kuruvilla revealed the following figures around the company’s performance, writing that Bolt: has a total of 13.8 ” The company said it could not comment on the matter.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2021

Many entrepreneurs experience social isolation ; even more so within the last 10 months or so of social distancing. A 2014 study published in the “Journal of Business Venturing” found that serial entrepreneurs are addicted to the rush of starting a new company. The challenges entrepreneurs face. Face your fears.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2018

And while the program allows up to 30 hashtags, some marketers recommend limiting yourself to 10. Location tags are not as commonly used as hashtags, but a 2014 SimplyMeasured report found that Instagram submissions with location tags are likely to have 79% higher engagement than those without these tags. Others swear by 5 or 6.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) In the years 2008-10 it seems most of my high school and college friends discovered Facebook and wanted to say hello.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2018

Coinbase, a digital wallet used to hold, buy or sell your bitcoins, ethereums or litecoins, currently claims to have served more than 10 million users worldwide. As of 2014, “76 percent of US residents were not familiar with bitcoin and 80 percent said they would rather own gold than bitcoin.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Since its 2014 inception, Bolt has raised more than $1 billion in funding and was valued at $11 billion at the time of its $355 million Series E raise in January. In an early May blog post , Kuruvilla revealed the following figures around the company’s performance, writing that Bolt has a total of 13.8

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

In a 2014 study , researchers Pam A. Write it down While typing your notes might be faster and more convenient, especially if you have to take in a lot of information, there are advantages to doing things the old-fashioned way (i.e., taking pen to paper). Mueller and Daniel M.

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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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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. which matters for getting future support) Where the fund is in its investment cycle (year 1 out of 10 or year 7 out of 10)? I could go on for a long time.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

I have a blog post on that, fundraising advice for founders raising for the first time. And this is recorded forever so we'll see what happens in like 5 or 10 years. There's a lot of blogs out there now on Medium and elsewhere where you can just learn. And then when it comes to the business itself, I did mention money.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

We are always figuring out what are the 10 skills we need to be perfect and do the job. What you learn at an established company in 10-15 years, you learn at a startup compressed in 3-4 years, especially at a scaling startup. This was 2013, 2014. It’s a small, but a very important difference. Why is that?

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” For this he settles on 10%. Today, Uber already works dramatically well in many suburban areas outside of San Francisco with pick up times in less than 10 minutes. Why only 10%?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2021

I joined EO in 2014. This exercise took up to 10 days with two to four reviews per chapter. The post Jamie Pujara: The 2021 EO Mark Lincoln Volunteer of the Year appeared first on THE BLOG. I was frustrated because he didn’t allow me to talk about business!

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

With that, here are the 10 best CRMs I found based on all my testing. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Based on all that, I narrowed it down to the 10 CRM apps that merited a spot on our best CRM software list—and that's what you see here.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Clearly, many doctor visits could be replaced by a 10 minute FaceTime call, saving the patient and the practice a great deal of time (not just the time in the office, but the commute time in both directions). Coninsurance plans require the patient to pay a percentage (usually 10-30%) of the healthcare costs up to the deductible limit.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2017

to Kenya, from Moldova to Argentina…and in just 10 years has widened its reach to 93 countries with nearly 2.5 I first heard about Good Deeds Day in January 2014, just 45 days before that year’s event. The post Good Deeds Day Marks 10th Anniversary appeared first on THE BLOG. million participants.

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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. But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

A study by MIT Sloan and Boston Consulting Group found that while nearly two-thirds of business respondents felt sustainability issues were important, only 10% fully tackled them. As with Lamey Wellehan, the key to success for that 10% was practicing abundance. Read the rest of the article!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

The conversion round to make it happen could be an IPO, acquisition or $10 million priced round. I preceded this fundraise with a blog post that I’m the only person who works on Gumroad as an employee,” he said. “I 2014: income <$10,000 2016: raised first $1.2M This process could take a year, Lavingia said. revenue multiple.

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