Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2024

GSEA is the premier global competition for students who own and operate a business. Are you an EO member interested in coaching your regional team of student entrepreneurs as part of Season 3 of Start it Up? However, when I’m around EO GSEA competitors, I’m reminded that I started this from a point of passion. Apply today.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. Around that time, I’ll be able to mark twenty years since I started as the first analyst at Union Square Ventures. It will also be my last venture capital deal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By By working together, we can move the needle.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 21, 2023

My business has allowed me to become the most authentic version of myself. But as an entrepreneur, finding a way to connect with your true self is crucial for sustainable, long-term business growth. But as an entrepreneur, finding a way to connect with your true self is crucial for sustainable, long-term business growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2023

million from 84 investors in under 45 days during arguably one of the worst times to raise money since 2008. I’ve founded several companies over the past 20 years, but this was my first time raising money. I discovered that I had a knack for business at a very young age. Talk about grit! We were homeless for a stretch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

After applying to multiple companies, she got a decent job offer, only to have her hopes dashed when the offer was rescinded via certified mail the evening before she was scheduled to start. While driving around with a friend who owned a tow truck business, she had an Aha! So people paid me to take their laundry.” It was intimidating.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

We asked six members of EO to share the number one thing they’ve learned from another inspiring woman in business. When we compare ourselves to other people, whether it is physically or how big one’s business is, it never leaves us with a feeling of being enough. Here’s what they said. Stop multitasking. Help them celebrate.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 6, 2024

Anyone – yes, even you – can build a web app, saving you both time and money. A big part of the reason I started Blaze.tech is to empower non-developers to build apps and automation tools. Well, allow me to say with the same confidence: Anyone can build an app. Anyone can build an internal tool. It’s tedious and error-prone.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. Here’s an edited excerpt from their conversation. It’s still not GenAI.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 14, 2020

The YLAI Network hosted three experts on financial planning for a Facebook chat in March 2020 for Global Money Week for network members. Mais, Desde Cero Finanzas ‘ Julio César Pineda and North Central College ‘s Dr. Ryan Decker, helped you work through your most pressing money management questions. How can I save money?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Let’s get one thing very clear, not every startup has to raise investment nor it’s the job of a startup to raise money. Successful founders are not very happy when they raise a new round of investment, because they understand that they didn’t actually raise any money, they raised debt. Refresh, refresh again. Still no new email.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

But when vanity intrudes, all the puzzle pieces start to come apart. I’m working very hard, but I’m not making real money. I’m working very hard, but I’m not making real money. I need to build a real business and support my family.” A healthy ego can be an entrepreneur’s best friend. The ego represents your sense of self.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 30, 2021

Here’s what he shared: I was recently chatting to a good friend who runs a successful plumbing business. He was about to start work with a digital marketing agency. My friend’s business runs at a 50% gross profit, or in other words, it costs him 50% of his revenue to deliver on his promise. The math on marketing ROI.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

I wrote a fair bit last year about the disconnect between how companies were being valued and the fundamentals of those businesses. That is starting to shift. Business models need to be sustainable. The fundamentals need to be in place for a business to succeed. I can feel it. All of this is healthy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Identifying a big mission or purpose — the reason why you started this thing in the first place — will propel you forward on the days you feel too busy or too low on energy. When I first launched my podcast, The Fractional C-Suite Retreat, I had no idea what would come from it. The hardest part of podcasting?

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Revolution

MARCH 8, 2023

The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses. The long and short of it: Female founders face systemic barriers to founding, funding, and scaling their businesses. As a leader, I welcome questions on our business, growth metrics, and strategy.” of the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Starting a business is very difficult. This Guide is for the aspiring business owner and entrepreneur for the purpose of spuring thinking and investigation that will lead to the creation of a business plan followed by the business launch. Don’t decide to start a business in isolation.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The 8-Part Blueprint For Starting Your (Online) One-Person Business Even alongside your 9–5 Image by Bonnie Kittle from Unsplash Do you have an interest and want to make some extra cash out of it? Thinking about starting a business is as far as most people go. But again, why should you listen to me?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In six years, I scaled my business from an idea to a seven-figure reality. Very few of us could establish a legal entity and start working on a startup in a real environment. Very few of us could establish a legal entity and start working on a startup in a real environment. Months of watching our money decrease.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

How important is this issue for your business? The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. It is for this group that we explore the implications implicit in raising money for growth.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2023

Trusted, close resources include sophisticated relatives, friends and business associates who know how to structure a deal as a win-win for you and for them, while allowing you to retain control over your vision and execution. This money is personal, an investment in you as much or more than in your company.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The 30 Most Important Lessons Learned About Developing New Business In this article, we delve into the wisdom of thirty seasoned professionals, including Founders and CEOs, who share their most important lessons learned in developing a new business. This industry demands not only technical expertise but also emotional strength.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That was my mindset in 2014 as my co-founder Lee Silverstone and I started Gymtrack, a startup that lets gym members automatically track their workouts. Before the accelerator starts, we raise $500K, more than any other company there. So we tell EquipFit we can’t take their money. But not for me. It’s Peloton for the gym.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

But just like any other exceptional adventure, entrepreneurship comes with pros and cons, and there are plenty of obstacles and difficulties that need to be taken into account, especially when just starting. I strongly believe in proper preparation before executing a plan or emerging into deep business waters. It’s on the contrary.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The company, launching publicly today, wants to make it easier for business owners to set up and manage their own 401(k) retirement accounts. The long-term vision for Ocho is to offer products, beyond solo 401(k)s, that help business owners build wealth. Ocho’s twist from competition, he thinks, is in its market focus. Nagpal said.

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Founder Bounty

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

So your looking to get a business or startup of the ground but dont know where to start. But what if you where looking for an alternative way with real entrepreneurs and mentors to help you get your business of the ground and moving.  There Foundr It’s not an easy job to start a company.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

I intend to use my knowledge of crypto, financial services, and common sense to tease out the story of what I think led to its collapse, starting with the implosion of TerraUSD and Luna. But what made the 3AC default so impactful is that it blew a whale shark-sized hole in many of the largest centralised crypto lending businesses.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 13, 2023

Image: Unsplash I was an accidental entrepreneur, unexpectedly managing to grow a business for over 20 years from the kitchen table. When I took up writing and started interviewing other entrepreneurs for my books, I found that meant I had a lot of knowledge but not always the right tags to put on what I had been doing.

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Starting a business during a recession might seem like the WORST possible idea. So not only is there less competition for new businesses right now, but some sectors can even thrive since others are trying to just save cash. Need help turning one of these business ideas into reality? Sign up at Monthly1k.com.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Fintech start-up Habitto saw new openings even when the doors all seemed closed. Despite being foreign founded, Habitto managed to secure an intermediary license from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JFSA) faster than any other start-up since the license’s introduction. A different language.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 24, 2024

He'll talk about the doctor appointment that changed his path in life, what it's like seeing YC from the other side, and what he wishes he knew when he was just getting started. I went to business school, and that’s where I left the traditional path of an engineer and went into the startup world with Bump.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 2, 2023

Vikas’ first startup role was at Factual, an enterprise location data company, where he joined as one of the earliest five business hires, and helped grow them to eight-figures in revenue — first in a generalist role and then as the head of marketing. Prior to Azibo, he was the founder at Nodabl, an HR-tech SaaS startup.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When you’re starting a business, it’s very common to jump online and do some research. There’s a lot of advice out there about how to start a business, much of it written by people who have money and are well established already. – Gary Ryan Blair. – Gary Ryan Blair.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

2: This wouldn’t have worked if I was just starting out. After 5 years at one of the world’s biggest and best advertising agencies, I resigned to co-found a new business. I could have gone to a less legendary agency for more pay, but money wasn’t my main beef. that would imply that I had a plan to follow. Disclaimer no.1:

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 24, 2020

How I spent €200.000 on a failed startup by raising money, hiring people, and building a product no one wanted. After some back and forth, despite it being a “biggish” amount of money, we said no. Courtesy of Dima Syrotkin It was bad timing to raise money because we didn’t know what we were doing. Employees are not founders.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

Starting a business is a big challenge, but one of the biggest hurdles for most entrepreneurs is funding. While some business owners use personal savings or loans to get started, many others turn to investors to help finance their dreams. However, getting investors to fund your business is no easy task.

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