Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It disrupted the way work was done, which means it also impacted how leaders operate. As a business consultant, I saw senior leaders shift their teams to fully remote work when, prior to the pandemic, they only allowed flexible schedules on an individually earned basis. Why was the shift to remote work so powerful?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For decades, businesses faced a genuine challenge with office space. Remote or hybrid work is now the norm , and a vast majority do not anticipate a full-time return to the office. Companies with a large amount of office space and a hybrid workforce may now potentially have too much space. Make sure it is right for your team.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. What happened? A LOOK BACK I started my career as a programmer.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As entrepreneurs, we go through ups and downs all the time. These ups and downs impact us deeply because we are so close to and personally invested in our businesses. The disruption impacted my business negatively in a significant way. It was a very scary, uneasy time to be an entrepreneur. Leaning In. Channeling fear.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

How about an investment from the Sackler family—the pharma family in the middle of the opioid crisis. How about a Middle Eastern Prince that kills journalists (directly or through a Kushner)? One is that they don’t hold their opinions in separate box cordoned off from their business affairs. Is there a line you would draw?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2022

Parents are left on their own to learn how to raise well-adjusted, informed, self-starter adults. Fortunately for EO members who are part of MyEO Families , the entrepreneurial and parenting paths are intersecting at just the right time to provide you with the learning you need to address this challenge. Pediatricians on a mission.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2023

Many professionals quit their jobs to launch new businesses during the Great Resignation. However, giving up a reliable paycheck to start a business is a risky choice, even with convenient access to expert business counsel and other tools that the internet affords. Leaving a job to start a business can be overwhelming.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And succeed against all odds Image credit: Cat Coquillette After I sold my social media agency in 2021, people wanted to know how I did it. Success of the most fulfilling kind comes from doing cool stuff and teaching other people how to do that same cool stuff. They wanted to replicate my method to sell theirs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2020

The statistics on small business survival are daunting: Only 50 percent of new companies will survive for more than five years in the U.S. Before diving into entrepreneurship, wouldn’t it be ideal to tap into the knowledge of experienced, thriving business owners for advice on failure-proofing a new business? marketplace.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Most growth-stage CEOs I work with know how to tell if they’re efficiently allocating capital in every part of their budget with one glaring exception: research and development (R&D). The return on R&D is variable and often happens over a longer time horizon compared to other budget line items.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 1, 2019

More capital in the business. But it is rarely one thing that a business needs to succeed. It was terribly frustrating and threatened the business. After we cut the deal to acquire Summize, I asked Jack Dorsey, who was running Twitter at the time, how we planned to integrate the Summize team. It took time.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

People are being urged to work remotely, schools have been canceled for weeks at a time and public gatherings are being discouraged, if not prohibited. It is increasingly likely that people will be self-quarantining in their home for weeks at a time and limiting their socialization for much longer than that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Contributed by Kady O’Connell , founder of Kady Creative , which helps passionate businesses succeed with strategic branding, powerful websites, and click-worthy content. As an entrepreneur running a business, you must overcome the fear of growing your brand online. It’s not about poor time management. Can you relate?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 13, 2022

Whenever I submit a term sheet, I always caveat it by saying the following: “This is the one time we’re completely misaligned. I’m incentivized to buy up as much of the company at as low a price as possible and you’re incentivized to sell as little of the company as possible by raising the price.”. Founders seem to get that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2020

Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. Time definitely flies! Time definitely flies! I don’t blame companies for doing it: We have an almost natural tendency to assume that “A” performers will figure out what to do—and they’ll (somehow) eventually succeed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2022

At the same time, they were more productive and not as quick to tender their resignations as their burned-out coworkers. It’s much easier to promote widespread engagement by giving your frontline team members the authority to make decisions within specified parameters. And that’s not good for them or their organizations.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Someone with a good entrepreneurial spirit will look for ways to improve a community and its integrity through its businesses and missions. What did Surcos Argentinos, your second business, accomplish? . Unfortunately, in 2017, Surcos Argentinos shut down due to a change in its business model, management, and mission.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 16, 2021

Business and nonprofit managers of course want to receive as much support as possible, but they also want to know how to stand out from the crowd and build a loyal audience. How do I find my target audience? Consider how much they would pay for it, vis a vis your cost to provide it. Would they pay for it?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Coming from an entrepreneurial family, the business environment was a natural thing for me.

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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. In an ideal world, when you start a business, you’re well-funded.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 1, 2022

For the past year, we’ve done our best to serve you and provide inspiration and education to help you START and GROW your business! May the new year bring brilliant success to your small business. With the passing year, you must know where your business stands presently. We exist only to help you succeed.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. ” “ Before you have a product, a company or product name, a domain name, business cards, a logo – even before you have a company. .” Rick Kiessig – Cofounder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

Agonise over whether or not you need business partners. If you can afford it, don’t have business partners. The tenth entrepreneur without the headache is usually the one without a business partner. For me, not having a business partner is one less problem. I believe I still say this to my staff at least 10 times a week.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

From instilling empowerment and autonomy in leadership to learning from failures and setbacks, we’ve gathered fourteen insightful responses that reveal how these lessons have been applied to their own leadership styles. This lesson has influenced my leadership style profoundly.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 22, 2023

How did you get started in the startup world? I eventually decided I wanted to move to the business side of technology, so I went back for an MBA. I eventually decided I wanted to move to the business side of technology, so I went back for an MBA. How did that help you as you shifted gears into becoming an investor?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 3, 2022

Speaking of which… Forget building a business. Build a brand Michael Lin is an ex-Netflix engineering lead, turned entrepreneur, whose first entrepreneurial adventure failed because he focused too much on building a product, and not enough time building his brand. you also need love to succeed. the Crypto Handbook ?—?and

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 9, 2021

So, developing and marketing a mobile app in 2021 is a smart strategy to propel your business forward. . Your mobile app’s success will depend mainly on how much value it provides for your audience. . For your app to succeed in a saturated market, you need to learn all you can about your target audience. . Income level.

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Jason Malki

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With over 20 years of business experience and a passion for sports, particularly cycling, I was inspired to create something unique when I encountered a wooden bicycle at the Riga Technical University student’s work exhibition in 2014. What has been your biggest challenge when growing your business?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With an end-of-year sprint to close deals, the anticipation of a new presidential administration and the hope of a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, startups and VCs know that change is on the horizon — but how much of that change will be positive? More posts by this contributor. What Q2 fundraising data tells us about the rest of 2020.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Human talent will determine whether the growth of technology and digital transformation in business succeeds. Here, we take a look at how people will determine the success behind technology and business transformation. Without familiarizing workers with new technology, further advances will not be much use.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

Anne Conroy-Baiter, President, of Junior Achievement of the Space Coast, recognizes the breadth and depth of Carol’s support of JA over the years, particularly noting her support during difficult times that have occurred in the aerospace industry and global economy. Her most important contribution, however, has been as a classroom volunteer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This daylong event gives aspiring and early startup founders — from the idea stage to Series A — the confidence, skills, information, connections and community they need to take next steps and grow their business. But how can founders look that far ahead, in a turbulent market, and predict their future business model?

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I got one Wednesday when I read the New York Times article on Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard’s decision to put his family’s entire $3B ownership stake into a perpetual trust , with 100% of future company profits dedicated to protecting the environment. We all need a kick in the ass once in a while.

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Feedough

JANUARY 6, 2021

However, in a world where more and more people opt to become entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship is no more a ‘calling’ where you can rely on your instincts to succeed. So how do you get that edge? How about we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of an entrepreneurship degree. However, things today are different.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

By the time a company is successful enough to IPO, the many doubts and uncertainties of the early stage startup are largely forgotten, replaced with a hindsight that makes their path to success seem so much more obvious and predictable. When they shared the challenges related to delivery, we were surprised.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Written by Annie Button, a content specialist in business growth and development. No industry is exempt from our constantly evolving business world. But extensive research by John Kotter in the field of change management reveals that only 30 percent of change programs succeed. But how easy is it to manage change in business?

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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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