Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Congratulations, again, to all the members featured on the 2015 Inc. We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram. The post 23 EO Members (+1) on the 2015 Inc. 500 List appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Congratulations to the 2015 EO Leadership Academy Graduates! We would like to congratulate the EO Leadership Academy Class of 2015! Twenty member leaders congregated from 1-5 November in Washington, DC., The post 20 Leadership Academy Graduates in 2015 appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) January 24, 2015. It’s an online relationship and I actually believe that as of 2015 I’ve met more of my close connections in the past 5-7 years online before offline. Some through blog comments – your place or mine. Blog is best. Theory: it’s really that simple.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

Natalie Portman, Harvard, 2015. Rather than delivering Hollywood glitz, the Academy Award winning actress gave a raw, introspective speech at Harvard commencement in 2015. and more articles from the EO blog. . They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”. Watch | Transcript.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We congratulate all of the companies on this list; on 10 December, here are the top 10 EO member companies featured on the list: #1: Ultra Mobile | Costa Mesa, CA | Rizwan Kassim, EO Los Angeles. #4: See the list of all EO members who made the 2015 Inc. The post Top 10 EO Member Businesses on the 2015 Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I wanted to spend the rest of the blog post telling you why we decided to fund the company, how we settled on the final product design and our unique way of launching the app. This accelerated after I co-led the seed & A rounds at Maker Studios, which sold 3 years later for $1 billion to Disney. So Why Did We Invest?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video. Here’s a short video we did of our 2015 Upfront Summit : We also shot this one last year to highlight some of our portfolio companies. I’ve made 5 investments in the sector and I hope to make 5 more. Jump the Gun. Empty Nest.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. Tan wears many hats. Ralston continued.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 24, 2015

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. The post 2015 EO24 Recap: A Record-Breaking Year appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. This is classic Fred.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2018

The original version of this article appeared on Resonate’s blog. He joined EO in 2015. The post Four Steps to Making Customer Service an Organizational Priority appeared first on THE BLOG. Resonate is an Australian customer experience management (CEM) provider, founded by EO Sydney member Jeff Carruthers. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Chanje (2015-2021). The company announced plans to add 1,000 electric delivery vehicles from Chanje Energy, a California-based and China-backed startup founded in 2015. Katerra (2015-2021). Founded in 2015, Katerra had at one point been valued at $4 billion and employed more than 8,000 people. Loon (2015-2021).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

So after selling Easy Credit, a consumer lending platform he’d built with Rick Rafael Bueno (whom he met in 2015 at a hackathon at Tech de Monterrey), Amozurrutia set out to give Mexicans access to something he believed they’d never had access to: an app-based consumer trading platform. Over 85% of its users are first-time investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 9, 2016

In 2015, after less than four years in business, her toy makeup company Little Cosmetics generated over $1 million in sales. Sales for the first quarter of 2016 were triple what they were in the first quarter of 2015. “I She’s on track to do even more this year. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur,” Tyler said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Here are four stories for 4 December about EO members who’ve sought to make this concept a reality: 1. We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram. The post Four Stories About Work/Life Balance from 2015 appeared first on THE BLOG.

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JULY 14, 2015

Tuvia Elbaum (@Tuviae) July 14, 2015. I don’t know Ezra yet but since he’s taking the time to blog (which I hugesly respect) and share thoughts I thought I’d take him up on his challenge and also spill the beans on my secrets. On blogging I blog because I love it. My other secret on blogging?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

-based and internationally recognized entrepreneurs — Alexandria, Virginia, USA (17 November 2015) – The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week ( GEW ) by presenting EO24 , a virtual and interactive learning event to debut on Wednesday, 18 November, at 8 p.m. EDT (1 a.m.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

A 2015 Maine Business Leader of the Year , he reports that eliminating waste and carbon has freed capital for growth, enhancing employee and customer loyalty. By some estimates, it takes 1 million pounds of raw material to support the lifestyle of an average American in a year. Of that material, 99% is no longer in use after 6 months.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2016

With a 98% client-retention rate since our founding and the successful resolution of more than 20,000 IT support requests in 2015 alone, we’ve discovered the core to building a winning customer-service promise is to start with your team, particularly through employee recognition and staff-training programs. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2016

Last year, the GSEA experienced record-setting global participation, which culminated with 42 students representing 37 countries at the 2015 GSEA Finals in Washington, DC. 1 st Runner Up: Peeyush Shrivastava , Founder of Genetesis (USA). The post 2016 EO GSEA Global Finals Recap appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2018

In 2015, inspired by Elon Musk and the story of Tesla, Steve was searching for a way to shore up his personal and professional commitment to being the change he wanted to see in the world. The post A Few Surefire Ways to Support the UN SDGs appeared first on THE BLOG. He earned a nomination for 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

What’s more, this group of individuals have their fingers on the pulse of the consumer marketplace, with US$1 trillion [ii] in buying power. Pew Research Center, April 25, 2015 “Millennials overtake Baby Boomers as America’s largest generation”. CMO, 15 Mind-Blowing Stats About Generation Z, June 12, 2015.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. In 2010, five firms were founded and in 2015 four additional firms were founded, then from 2014-2019, two or more firms were founded each year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

But this is just a reflection midway in June 2015 of the some of the products I love, enjoy or use frequently, and am not an investor in. DoorDash – I order food 1-2 nights per week. Still want to port my blog their. ” Twitter is the most fundamentally profound application I have used over the past decade.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

Having had a lot of experience on the Hospital Board, I knew we had to split this up into three steps: 1. Luckily, Vancouver is home to HootSuite, and not only did this company provide us an amazing space for our 2015 finals; they covered all the costs! Create Incentive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The nonprofit Dallas Entrepreneur Center offers public tours, but if you want to practice your pitch or get feedback, you can also apply to present as part of its 1 Million Cups program. The city made major strides in 2015, and with oil and gas investors looking to profit elsewhere, more money will be flowing into the area’s startups in 2016.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever it took to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobile SDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for 24×7 hour shifts… for over a year. January 17, 2015. Highly, highly recommended.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2015

Here’s the rules: 1/Tweet 2/Reply to 1st Tweet but remove your @name 3/Reply to 2nd Tweet not 1st 4/Repeat. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015. 1/ Twitter started off positioned as a micro-blogging platform but in the end became more of an RSS reader. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

blog here ). If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. I saw this great image on Twitter courtesy of Simon Wardley , CC3.0 It’s kind of a truism for life and certainly our industry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Having had a lot of experience on the Hospital Board, I knew we had to split this up into three steps: 1. Luckily, Vancouver is home to HootSuite, and not only did this company provide us an amazing space for our 2015 finals; they covered all the costs! Create Incentive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 20, 2018

Luckily, my cofounder, Alex Yastrebenetsky, and I met Verne in 2015 when our entire leadership team attended a Scaling Up workshop. Verne is brilliant at boiling leadership and growth down to its essence, so it’s applicable to companies making US$1 million or US$100 million. Here they are: 1. And that’s the short list.).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. Brad: EO Accelerator set my mind in motion to visualize a big goal for our company and reach US$1 million in sales. The post EO Accelerator Grads on Growing In Business and In Marriage appeared first on THE BLOG. Discover EO today!

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Big Data, a term popularized in 2012 that has reached its apogee in 2015 according to Google trends increased from 2.5% of the series A market in 2015. A perennially important category, e-commerce is constant in the series A market at 15%, but declining in the seed market, falling from 15% below 10% in 2015.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

million since its 2015 inception. It’s gone from adding about $100,000 a month in net new revenue in early 2019 to now adding more than $1 million a month in net new revenue, according to Schneble. With this latest extension, Human Interest has now raised a total of $136.7 Human Interest’s growth has been impressive.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

From 2014 to 2015, we are proud to have grown the program from 14 to more than 40 companies. We hit a high of 43 participants in 2014-15, up from 15 Accelerators when we started and had eight graduates who exceeded the US$1 million mark. The post How to Grow Your Chapter’s Accelerator Program appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Automattic’s e-commerce plugin, WooCommerce , which it purchased in 2015 , is believed to run more than a quarter of all online storefronts. The company has 1,700 employees in a distributed, asynchronous, global workforce, and has raised nearly $1 billion, according to Crunchbase, most recently at a $7.5 It all began with a blog post.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Back to today’s summit, here are my high-level takeaways: 1/ Like it or not, enough people are curious about “pre-seed” that lots of people showed up to this event. Um… wow. OK, so microVC funds and smaller pre-seed financings could really be a thing.

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