Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 7, 2019

When sales shot up to US$200,000, that gap ballooned to US$3 million. He and partner Steve Denny launched the business in 2014 to perform business valuations, help people buy and sell companies, and provide exit planning and consulting. If my sales were US$100,000 a day, times 15 days, that was US$1.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

on February 3. Meanwhile, Silicon Hills News (operated by the very talented Laura Lorek) reported that Austin-based insurtech Decent is “shutting down all of its operations to just a core team,” which was confirmed in a blog post published by Nick Soman, the company’s founder and CEO. The company’s stock perked up on the news.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” The company’s web-crawling tech ingested blogs, photo-sharing sites and other sources of information about locales and tagged them to a geolocation in a massive place database. “The app is quickly internationalizing.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. So I put the blog on the back burner to stay focused on those busy times. But I miss blogging. I couldn’t believe the quality intro.”

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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

JANUARY 4, 2022

The blog post from last year also recounts the struggle the super hot startup faced in its lukewarm years. The bank balance dipped to 14 lacs at a point in 2014-15. Karthik Reddy of Blume shared the story of how his firm chased to invest in Exotel, which he described as “one of the buzziest” deals it had won at the time.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. But it is just the top end of my user funnel and I need to convince audiences who visit my blog to sign up for my newsletter to have a “direct” relationship with them. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 7, 2014.

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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. And some angels running around like Reid Hoffman & Keith Rabois. But not many others.

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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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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. I’ve found that explaining the concept of money in the moment makes the biggest mark.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). billion by 2014. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. Calls are changing but not dying. There are 2.9

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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. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. So what is an EIR and why Sam?

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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. Create Incentive.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. In the Early Days.

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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. That fact speaks volumes more about his qualities as a leader than any lucrative exit ever could. They take responsibility … without taking all the credit. Sh*t happens.

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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. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. It’s OK to push out extra ones on your website or blog.

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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. Always be building.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

Launched as a women-centric dating app in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumble aims at building an empowering and inclusive community. Launched as a dating app in 2014, its focus has changed over time to build a wholesome inclusive community of people who want healthy connections. What Value Does Bumble Provide?

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

By: Kathie Priebe and Cristina Almeida, Managing Directors of Golden Seeds Reposted with permission from Golden Seeds blog. Editor’s note: This is an update to the original blog post, “How did she do it? In September 2014, we received a $3.6M the three of us worked together on our commercialization plan.

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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

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. This narrative was laced through the event, especially with the founder of Thumbtack, Marco Zappacosta, recounting his company’s financing story.

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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. 3/ I wanted to improve search so that we can all find those old blog posts that we know exist but are no longer on the front page. 3/ We continue to show full blog posts on the front page in reverse chronological order.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Ryder also sued the company for more than $3 million after Chanje did not deliver most of the vans it promised to the fleet company. 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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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

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. Step 3: Post at the right time. 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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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

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. Instead, I messaged Jeff Jordan and said, ‘You know, I read your blog post about retail, and the transition of retail to online.’

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Mentally walk through your palace, and pick different locations where you can "place" unique images (more on that in step 3). In a 2014 study , researchers Pam A. The next time you need to remember something, try pairing that information with a tune you're already familiar with. Assign images to specific locations.

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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. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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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.

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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.” The Atlantic (3/25/12). Millennials Don’t Care About Owning Cars, And Car Makers Can’t Figure Out Why Fast Company (3/26/14). A couple’s night out.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One website qualifies “banker’s hours” as 10am-3 pm, which actually were the open hours at most banks decades ago. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. industries, once subject to far less competition, have been forced by the market to learn a new reality.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster.

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