Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2014, Greg contributed a chapter to Verne Harnish’s book, Scaling Up on how to improve profits though labor efficiency. Video 2 goes through case studies and instructions on how to use the templates to benefit your business. Greg is currently the organization’s partner-in-charge of their Huntsville, Alabama office.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

2/ it shows how big the opportunity for live video, and owning the “go live now” network can be. They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 7, 2014. That’s why I’m rooting for Meerkat. Exciting time.

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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. Growth vs. Profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. We discussed how initial investments and follow-ons work in this short 2-minute clip.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. He’ll be in the offices in 2 weeks. Jordan Hudson.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2019

Of small businesses started in 2014, only 56 percent survived four years. How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur Without a Winning Idea appeared first on THE BLOG. Too many individuals believe they need revolutionary ideas to become entrepreneurs. While having an idea is exciting, it’s not what makes or breaks a startup.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Tiffany Chu, SVP of Via and co-founder and former CEO of Remix, had been working in user experience design at ZipCar when, in 2014, she decided to take a year off for a fellowship at Code for America. An urban planning blog featured the project and it went as viral as a mapping and routing tool for public transit could.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 16, 2017

In 2014, we saw Heartbleed arrive on the cybersecurity scene. appeared first on THE BLOG. By Silka Gonzalez, an EO South Florida member and CEO of Enterprise Risk Management, Inc. What was particularly remarkable about this vulnerability is that it can render the world’s favorite cybersecurity jargon—encryption—completely useless.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. You can do this by hiring somebody who has multiple functions of which one is PR, hiring an intern who has PR experience, hiring a consultant 2 days / week or hiring somebody full time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). The post We Recast Our Business Expertise Into Valuable Incentives for Young Entrepreneurs appeared first on THE BLOG. This article was written by EO Vancouver member, Calvin Johnson.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 27, 2017

This article was originally published in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. The post Flashback Friday: How to Raise Financially Intelligent Children appeared first on THE BLOG. By Clint Greenleaf. I’m a lucky guy. Money is neither good nor evil— it’s a tool. I discuss money with my children in honest terms.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2016

2 nd Runner Up: Daniel Dubois , Founder of Share Shed (Canada). I started to post all the designs on Instagram and Facebook and after 2 months I was contacted by a store located in BVI, they told me they were interested in selling my designs and if I was able to export them. But only one could be EO GSEA Entrepreneur of the Year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). The post The Power of People: How We Recast Our Expertise into Valuable Incentives appeared first on THE BLOG. This article was written by EO Vancouver member Calvin Johnson.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

Manny Padda has been an EO Vancouver member since 2014. The post Interviewing 5,000 People Taught Me 5 Surprising Traits of Great Leaders appeared first on THE BLOG. They attract an entourage. Great leaders understand they don’t operate in a vacuum and that building the right team can define their success.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

But every once in a while you get a WhatsApp scenario —where a bigger competitor is so scared of your product that they’re willing to offer almost anything to mitigate that risk (like the $19 billion Facebook paid for WhatsApp back in 2014). Here’s the Secret to a Successful Exit appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

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. Amongst investors, Digital Media is witnessing a renaissance growing from 2% share to 4% share in three years.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 29, 2019

As I’ve been working on a new design and approach to this blog/newsletter , I have been diving into the analytics to understand what all of you are doing with it. MAUs peaked in the 2012/2014 period in the 300k range. 2/ The email “newsletter” subscriptions have risen a lot in recent years.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you don’t have control anyways wouldn’t you rather have a friendly founder who has walked a mile in your shoes just two years before you or just 2 levels of success beyond your current position?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

On December 2, 2018, Mitch pitched the company on ABC’s Shark Tank. It started as a hobby, but by 2014, with the support of my EO Fort Worth “Tamarindo” Forum, it became a real business. I filmed on 14 September 2018, and the episode aired on 2 December 2018. But it’s just the opposite—it’s an amazing company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Total raised: $2 billion. So it was not a huge shock when on June 1, 2021, Kattera was reported to be officially shutting down (The Information broke the news) after burning through more than $2 billion in funding. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability.

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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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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

2/ Putting labels aside, there is a string of examples historians can cite about huge companies raising very small, modest rounds at low prices. We’ve already begun to see the effects of the 2014-2015 bubble in growth investing, and it’s comforting to know we are moving in the other direction, however slowly.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” Juxtapose this: Larry Page telling us we need more ambitious projects and one person with a blog writing a very negative take-down piece on a company that is truly innovative and trying to change an industry and free us from having to crouch in airport corners to get 18% more juice on our phones before catching out flights.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 9, 2020

This is the third “iteration” of this blog. That lasted from September 2003 to February 2014. 2/ I wanted to get a professional developer team involved that I can rely on from time to time to help me with technical issues. 3/ We continue to show full blog posts on the front page in reverse chronological order.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 24, 2015

537 % growth in viewership from 2014. 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. The post 2015 EO24 Recap: A Record-Breaking Year appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2018

Step 2: Use your tags. 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. The post The Five-Step Formula to Increased Instagram Engagement appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In turn, a 2014 study of IT projects found that only 16.2 In one example, a project that was estimated to cost US$2 million ended up costing US$3 million. appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. percent succeeded in meeting the originally planned resource expenditure.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

For example, "six, four, seven, triple five, eleven, twenty-one" (instead of "6-4-7-5-5-5-1-1-2-1"). In a 2014 study , researchers Pam A. For example, to remember the names of the planets in our solar system, you might use this acrostic mnemonic: m y v ery e ducated m other j ust s erved u s n oodles. This is chunking.

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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. We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. It’s entirely possible the trend lifts these companies in due time, as well.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Driscoll’s will rely exclusively on the SCiO Cup device for Brix (sugar content) measurements for some 2 million quality inspections it conducts every year in North America. It maintains a database of more than 200 million individual behavioral profiles and analyzes over 2 billion digital sessions every month.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2017

EO Costa Rica’s Marcelo Burman (pictured above, on right) is the leader of Latin America’s Good Deeds Day initiative—in 2016, the event was on 2 April. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. I usually send short marketing-related blog post links or eBooks that look like a one-time personal email rather than a salesy blast (though you could create those too if you wanted). 2) What should I say?

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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. healthcare market.

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