Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, owning a business taught me that the opposite is also true: If I want a solid future, I’m the one who needs to make it happen.”. When we get it right it means that we are good citizens that contribute to our communities and the world.” . Being an entrepreneur is the most meaningful job I’ve ever done.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2023

You’ve probably heard this phrase hundreds of times in the business world. A cash crunch can quite literally be a matter of life or death for your business. A cash crunch can quite literally be a matter of life or death for your business. Weigh owning vs. renting equipment. Cash is king.” I can’t just buy 10,000 DVDs.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. First, you have to ask yourself what the desired outcome is.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2020

A family owned and operated business is nothing new, but a family business managed by two parents and eight and children is pretty unique. The business started with making soap, as it is a low barrier (much less difficult than food products) and the whole family could easily be involved in making and selling it.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There’s a ton of writing out there about getting *on* the venture curve, but not a lot about getting *off,* so Daniel’s advice below is especially important. I was also very fortunate to come from an entrepreneurial family; both my parents ran their own businesses. Daniel Chait: Oh man, I have a ton of these!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

I like to use the shorthand “triangulate” to symbolize asking multiple people for their opinions to get a better perspective on the route you should take. Because I’ve asked more than 100 VCs similar questions I start to notice patterns in thinking. Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

Not just from my work as the COO of a startup, or from my previous job as an attorney specializing in international tax law, but from my former life as a professional speed skater, flying across the ice at 30 mph. You get good at falling. Or, more to the point, you get good at picking yourself up again after you take a tumble.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Selling into financial institutions (FIs) has long been the end goal for many software-oriented fintech businesses. We believe, however, these fears are worth tackling, and the current moment is actually an ideal time for fintech businesses to start selling software products into FIs.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

I even started a company around helping people figure out how to get from A to B, because information in this area is so poor. Should I take the low level biz dev job at Amazon or the lead biz dev role for an unfunded, three person startup? I've been thinking about career paths for a long time.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

After 26 years of selling business services, there’s not much I haven’t seen. The average new business pitch costs $450,000. You can’t afford to lose a pitch or (even worse) win a pitch that’s not the right fit for your business. Tower Optical Binocular View from Manhattan’s GE Building. Source: Wikipedia. Hard stop otherwise.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

West Coast investors tend to look for higher growth rates, put less emphasis on profitability, and tend to give more founder-friendly term sheets; East Coast investors tend to look more closely at business fundamentals, seek out more predictable revenue, and often give less founder-friendly terms when investing.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. In this blog post, we’re not going to talk about different business models, seat-based VS usage volume pricing, or subscription VS pay-as-you-go. a great buy for the money?

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Boots on the ground, people rolling up sleeves and getting hands dirty retrofitting existing infrastructure, such as poorly insulated houses, type stuff. Lots and lots of people to come in, eager and willing to learn new stuff, and take up green retrofitting jobs. So it’s a job discovery problem.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 20, 2021

Lessons to help you transition from employee to entrepreneur Source: productlessons.xyz Since I quit my tech job, I’ve received a lot of questions: “Do you regret turning down your Instagram offer?”, “What are you doing now?”, “How does it feel to be free?” I got my first taste of unbounded freedom during a call soon after I quit my job.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

As a serial technical founder, I often get approached for co-founder opportunities. Consider all the smart business people who want to start tech companies, all with an idea or unique insight. Traction Think about what you can do to test the underlying business proposition? Finding a technical co-founder is even harder.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2020

Gabrielle and Ramon chatted about tips on small business branding, social media, and more on their #AskMeAnything series. If you’re a business owner, you’ve probably had these questions pop into your head. Let’s start with a common concern: current marketing tactics. . Q: How do businesses get people back into their stores?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

VC firms see thousands of deals and have a refined sense of how the market is valuing deals because they get price signals across all of these deals. As an entrepreneur it can feel as intimidating as going to buy a car where the dealer knows the price of every make & model of a car and you’re guessing at how much to pay.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Podcasting is an important part of getting the word out about your business and building authority. Smart Hustle Small Business Podcast · Your First Podcast – With Podcast Town CEO Elzie Flenard. Why should you get into the podcast world? Invest in podcasting in a way that suits you (hobby vs pro).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. But alas I must scale with businesses and make money. If I could bottle this moment and spend all my time here I would be in heaven. And so must you.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Across our conversations, enterprise buyers emphasized repeatedly that their procurement decisions start with the problem in mind. For example, we heard a variety of answers to the “build vs. buy” question from our interviews. What do enterprise buyers in healthcare care about most when evaluating AI products?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

And to show you just how similar many of these pioneers of the industry went through a similar startup journey to you – Jeff started by investing his own personal money ($250k) for a few years – $25k at a time – until he could persuade a few institutional investors to give him some money.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

From writing your resume for you to automating networking emails, there are tons of ways AI can help streamline your job search. But there are also a lot of bad ways to use AI for job searching, so I scoured the trove of AI job search tools, use cases, and how-tos out there to find the best options.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2021

Start your day off right and listen to the entire show from 5am to 11am EST on Clubhouse. Are Business Cards Still Important (Entrepreneur.com). Get like-minded people as partners. Genz Z vs Older people. Start each day with a win. Start your day off right. Are Business Cards Still Important (Entrepreneur).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2019

His first three start ups failed. He did a few internships and odd jobs but could never seem to get the high paying, $150,000 jobs his fellow students were receiving. Austin tried to start and grow a few companies but all failed. You've got to be able to manage your attitude and not get too mired down.

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Gust

AUGUST 3, 2014

In my experience, inventors and technologists aren’t interested or aren’t very good at building a business, and entrepreneurs aren’t usually good scientists. Most of the great entrepreneurs of recent times, like the young Steve Jobs, had a great technologist, Steve Wozniak, who could implement his dreams. Good with details.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician with zero interest or knowledge in business at all. Last month they turned the tables on me. Here is the link to the video interview. it would make more sense than “me.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. Partisan rancor aside, we had just come off a boom decade – especially in tech – and many people at the start of the election thought Al Gore was a shoe in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

The difference is in formulating hypothesis then testing conclusions / data vs. assembling data and finding patterns. I know it might sound a bit esoteric so let me explain: I started my career as a programmer. I started by doing billing systems. I had to understand their business requirements and document them all.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 2, 2016

The freelancers vs. companies thing is going to be really important as you figure out how to divide up the space and what the typical office size will be. 815 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY - A former turn of the century era bank building that will soon house creative folks. I know, I know--we've all been there.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

The inflation is entrenched because a large number of jobs are now being done from home, and the wealthy computer desk jockeys working these jobs now require a different mix of goods. Almost everyone across the globe was sequestered in their homes for the better part of two years, driving a torrent of inflation that is here to stay.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 31, 2023

What were the final things on your mind before joining, and how soon after you started did you feel like the decision was validated as being a good one? Melanie Naranjo: For me, two of the most important things I need to feel excited about a job are: 1. I know you’ll really enjoy chatting.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

In case it’s not obvious it’s a play on the Nike slogan, “Just Do It.&# ) I believe that being successful as an entrepreneur requires you to get lots of things done. Good entrepreneurs have a penchant for doing vs. over-analyzing. And I think my team did a great job and rose to the occasion.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

“It was very interesting, we did of course see a negative impact from COVID-19 in 2020 but the main reason why we never worried about our business model is that we knew the businesses have never been the only driver of relocations,” Asmussen tells TechCrunch. But it reckons that’s just the start.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Existing investors including Atomico, DN, Infravia, Kibo and Quadrille also participated in the round — which the startup said values its business at $2.35BN (post-money). “ Jobandtalent is by far the largest job platform in Europe. “ Jobandtalent is by far the largest job platform in Europe.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 1, 2009

If you’ve read my blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a fan of starting businesses in a non-traditional way. I recommend that you start a company by yourself and own 100% of it. I advocate treating them like a co-founder in every way except when they join and how much equity they get.

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