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. They need to see how hard some jobs are and why they should appreciate the fruits of their labor (i.e.,

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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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StartupNation

JUNE 26, 2021

Maviglia-Morgan was crowned Miss Michigan in 2014 and is the founder of The KT Maviglia Fund, which helps Michigan residents with hearing loss. During the interview, Schubiner explains: How she went from having a travel blog to a full-fledged business. Together, the duo host On Arrival , a travel-based podcast. Stay tuned.

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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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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

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 understand there are always “unknown unknowns”. Within EO, he has held numerous leadership positions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2016

Gladys speaks on the growth of her business: “I started to make my own handbags in 2014 because I won a national design competition in El Salvador, and the award was the opportunity to travel to NY to exhibit my designs, at that time I didn’t have the resources to start my own business.

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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. Know when to go.

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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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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. 4/ LPs noted that the term “pre-seed” is really a U.S. Um… wow. OK, so microVC funds and smaller pre-seed financings could really be a thing.

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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. 4/ “Readjust Your Comps” With GitHub price at $7.5B However, Fred Wilson blogs and Jackson Palmer smartly tweets that Git is already a decentralized system with GitHub built on top of it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

You may have raised money across multiple rounds of investors from 3-4 different VCs and of course most of them would like board seats or at a minimum board observer rights. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability.

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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. 4/ AVC has a sleek new design, made by Kirk Love , which is minimalist and copy centric.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Founded in 2015, Katerra had at one point been valued at $4 billion and employed more than 8,000 people. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability. Pearl Automation (2014-2021). When it shuttered, it was believed to have had around 2,400 employees.

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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 4: Engage w ith others. The post The Five-Step Formula to Increased Instagram Engagement appeared first on THE BLOG.

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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

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. If you're in the same boat, here's a little trick: let AI-powered tools like ChatGPT do the heavy lifting for you. This is chunking. taking pen to paper).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). Even tech blogs know this. But How Do Service Businesses Grow?

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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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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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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A recent study of online physician reviews found that 96% of complaints relate to customer service, and only 4% to quality of care. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. They are open from 4:30-10:30pm, Monday through Friday, Saturday from noon-10pm and Sunday from 10am-9pm.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

Iguazio, whose customers included Payoneer, was co-founded in 2014 by Asaf Somekh, Orit Nissan-Messing, Yaron Haviv and Yaron Segev. By one estimation , the market for MLOps could reach $4 billion by 2025. TechCrunch previously reported that the startup was valued at $100 million. MLOps might not be as sexy as, say, ChatGPT.

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