Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Contributed by Giles Watkins, coach, mentor and author of Positive Sleep: A Holistic Approach To Resolve Sleep Issues and Transform Your Life. . The words “sleep” and “entrepreneur” may seem like strange bedfellows unless you are running a start-up in areas such as making mattresses or developing a new Sleep app. However sleep is a wonderful, natural and free resource that anyone starting or running a business must draw on optimally to be the best they can be for their cu

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GCUC

DECEMBER 9, 2019

by Liz Elam, founder of GCUC, the Global Coworking Unconference Conference. As founder of GCUC, the world’s largest coworking conference series, I travel the world learning about coworking. At the end of each year, I look ahead to where the coworking world is going and share my predictions for the coming year. Looking Back On Our 2019 Predictions. As we stated in our Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2019 , the sleeping giant is definitely awake.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

By Elise Kemp. Growing up, Nayleen Quintero was surrounded and nurtured by Panamanian folklore. Nayleen, a 2017 YLAI fellow, is from a small rural village in the province of Los Santos, Panama. She was raised with a love for her cultural heritage, appreciating the charming indigenous traditions and the beautiful artwork. As her passion for marketing and design grew, so did her dreams to bring the Santeña tradition to life.

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Venture Well

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Jeremy Faludi's Tools for Design and Sustainability includes a guide to teaching green principles in innovation and entrepreneurship courses. The post Teaching Green: Integrating Sustainability Principles into I&E Curriculum appeared first on VentureWell.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 9, 2019

By Miranda Naiman , accidental entrepreneur, motivational speaker, member of the EO Tanzania chapter and founder of Empower , a Tanzanian human capital consultancy firm. Being successful in life requires confidence. Succeeding as an entrepreneur takes confidence. How do we fuel the confidence that’s so essential to achieving our goals? Are we born with an inherent capacity for confidence or uncertainty?

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500

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In 2010, 500 Startups started as a new kind of venture capital firm in Silicon Valley with a contrarian belief that talent can come from anywhere in the world. Back then, very few venture capital firms in the valley were focused on much outside of our collection of cities within the San Francisco Bay area. ”If you look at our early team, our DNA has always been very global with experience growing up abroad or working internationally.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I once asked a famous celebrity chef how he made his pasta taste so good. He answered “Butter. Lots of it.” When we land in Paris, jet lagged and cranky, we head right to our favorite street cafe and order strong coffee, baguettes and butter. And our systems are restored. Butter is one of my life’s treasures. I love it. Butter is also something we look for in the products and services we invest in at USV.

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The Seraf Compass

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Impact investing is still a nascent, rapidly evolving field—which means professionals have to work extra hard to stay on top of best practices, news, and trends. One of the best ways to do this is to attend an industry conference. With the calendar year-end upon us, it’s a great time to map out your conference schedule for 2020. Here are 15 leading conferences that have already announced their 2020 dates.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2019

STATE COLLEGE, PA – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern PA provides investment capital and business support services to tech-startups and small manufacturers located in our 32-county footprint. Our goal is to share the risk that is inherent in starting a business with the entrepreneur while providing a funding opportunity that does not require fees, points, collateral, or personal guarantees.

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Mighty Financial specializes in supporting the financial aspirations of small businesses and entrepreneurs. With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Q: What is your deeper “why” behind your commitment and work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? A: There are two glaring facts that were reported this year that only validated my “why” and made it deeper. LendingTree reported Kansas City as number 49 out of 50 major cities for Minority Entrepreneurship. I am usually the only person in the room that has been on the other side—on top of being the only Black person or Black woman in the room.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This week is CS Education Week. There are CS Education week events all around the world, mostly in schools where students will do an hour of coding. In NYC, where I do most of my CS Education work, there are CS Education week events in many/most of the public school buildings this week. As I could not be in NYC this week, I went onto Twitter this morning to see what is going on and saw this: Hopscotch Coding at PS 306 @techstrodinaire #CSForAllNYC , #CSEdWeek , @CSForAllNYC pic.twitter.com/icY0M

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We’re excited to announce the next iteration of Startup School. The 8-week course will launch on January 20, 2020, and you can sign up to participate here ! We were floored by the quality (and quantity) of founders who participated in Startup School 2019. Our deepest thanks go to the founders who worked with us to make the program great. Because of Startup School’s (SUS) growing popularity and our firm belief that the program increases a founder’s chance of success, we are accelerating our sched

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 8, 2019

By Scott Meacham. It is exciting when Oklahoma startups set out to change industries. That’s the story of Cage, an Oklahoma City company with customers from around the world. Cage provides a web-based tool that helps creative professionals—from freelancers to branding agencies to in-house creative departments—collaborate on projects and share ideas in one place in real time, no matter who is working on what.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On a Tuesday afternoon at Everyday Cafe on North Homewood Avenue in Pittsburgh, two women meet for lunch and bring a puzzle to piece together while they catch up. Two tables over, a young man with headphones works quietly on his laptop. Nearby, two young professionals meet for a chat. “I love coming here for that reason,” said Wasi Mohamed, Pittsburgh director for community entrepreneurship at Forward Cities.

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EntreWorks Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Today, I attended a Capitol Hill briefing on a new Brookings/ITIF report on The Case for Growth Centers: How to Spread Tech Innovation across America. The report and its recommendations build on the uncomfortable fact that America’s innovation and technology economy is highly concentrated, with most activity centered in a few states and metro areas.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Today Edgybees, the leading provider of collaborative visual intelligence technology, announced that it has been awarded multiple contracts by AFWERX, an innovation program within the US Air Force, to provide its innovative computer vision technology to the US Air Force in the form of its augmented reality (AR) software solution, Argus, to bolster situational awareness in complex operational scenarios.

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GCUC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global community of people we think you should know about. Community of Cultivators is a blog series we created to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. Each month, we’ll release new interviews that we hope inform and inspire you.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Contributed by Carol Galle, EO Detroit member. As a certified meeting professional (CMP) and the CEO of Special D Events , a national business event management agency, Galle knows what it takes to design a meeting or event for proper networking. Are you frustrated with the results of your networking? Let me take the pressure off. It’s probably not your fault.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Por Elise Kemp. Durante su infancia, Nayleen Quintero estaba rodeada y se nutrió del folclore panameño. Nayleen, becaria de YLAI 2017, es de un pequeño pueblo rural en la provincia de Los Santos (Panamá). Fue criada con amor a su patrimonio cultural, apreciando las tradiciones indígenas y sus bellas obras de arte. A medida que su pasión por el mercadeo y el diseño creció, también lo hizo su sueño de darle vida a la tradición Santéña.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 9, 2019

ThetaRay, a leading provider of AI-based Big Data analytics, today announced the appointment of Edward Sander as Chief Product Officer. He will be responsible for all product-related activities as well as identifying and developing product/technology-related partnerships. Ed will drive continued innovation of ThetaRay’s Artificial Intuition platform, which helps financial institutions detect the first signs of unknown money laundering, fraud and other financial cybercrime schemes.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Our portfolio company Protocol Labs is the creator of the IPFS protocol and the Filecoin protocol. The idea behind both of these open source projects is to decentralize the storage of information on the web. The Filecoin project is very ambitious. The idea is to create a decentralized storage network by allowing anyone to mine Filecoin by hosting files on the Filecoin network.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Let me let you in on a little secret—you don’t have to do it all. Business owners are often burdened with the (unrealistic) expectation of accomplishing everything. Your job is to run the business. You will inevitably come to a point in the growth of your business where you’ll need to hand off any tasks that don’t directly contribute to steering the ship. .

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The warning is real. You’ve heard the old one – that a banker always seems willing to offer a loan when you don’t need it. For small businesses, there is such truth in that statement that you can trust the story to be based as fact from experience. Exceptions and good reasons to work on them. There are great exceptions for growing businesses and for businesses that have a track record with a banker.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Israeli agritech analytics company CropX announced Tuesday a partnership with FarmAgro, a leader in the commercialization of agroforestry equipment in Costa Rica, to help Latin American farmers become more efficient and profitable by offering innovative agritech solutions and precision agriculture tools based on the CropX farm management platform. Read more here.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A number of elected officials tweeted “I told you so” when the news came out at the end of last week that Amazon had taken space in Hudson Yards and will move 1500 jobs there soon. While the question of what kind of public funded incentives should be used to incentivize the behavior of the wealthiest corporations in the world is a conversation that we must have, the truth is we all lost something when Amazon decided not to build their second headquarters in Long Island City and bring

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