Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

However, there are principles that every founder should know before raising, and we will talk about them from the very beginning of the startup to later stages. 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.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What Is Your Process for Developing New Business Ideas?: 16 Experts Weigh In Sixteen entrepreneurs, from Founders to CEOs, unveil their personal blueprints for birthing a business concept. You don’t write about your mood; you talk about your day. The sentiment analysis determines your mood for you.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

She is the co-founder of Brand of a Leader , the personal branding agency for entrepreneurs. Marina’s other posts include 7 Ways to Maximize your Global Speakers Academy Experience and Will We Meet at EO’s Global Leadership Conference this year? What was your main motivation for attending Global Speakers Academy?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2022

Note that I said ‘12 things’, not ‘12 steps I followed to get here’?—?that so now you can pick and choose the stuff that makes sense to you and your situation. If you think it wouldn’t work for your occupation, please leave a comment, and I’ll update this post to include your observations. Disclaimer no.1:

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Want to map your entrepreneurship ecosystem but don’t know how to get started? Start here! It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2021

Sharing your company’s story can have a powerful and long-lasting impact on company culture —especially during times of change. But to maximize your storytelling outcome, it must be done in a way that engages employees and embeds your core values. The company’s chip design business was exploding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2019

Written for EO by Walker Deibel , an experienced acquisition entrepreneur who has co-founded three startups and acquired seven companies. . If you remember high school science, you’d choose the one with existing forward momentum. Starting a business follows the same principle. Forget the groundbreaking solutions.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

How to Determine if Your Idea for a New Business is Viable? Entrepreneurs often grapple with the viability of their new business ideas, and to shed light on this crucial step, we’ve gathered twenty-one insights from Founders and CEOs.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 12, 2022

dating app My pitch to investors I want to tell you my story as a founder and CEO and share some examples of my f**k-ups. Dating app , which I co-founded and played the role of a ???. We started the project in Spring 2021. The skills of the technical founders allowed us to do this. They all refer to the Hola!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Joe Devon is the co-founder of Diamond , a digital agency that builds accessible experiences. He is also a co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and chair of the GAAD Foundation. A Forrester survey found that 8 in 10 companies have taken their first steps toward working on digital accessibility.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 20, 2021

Ross Buhrdorf, CEO & Co-Founder, ZenBusiness shares what it takes to go from a first-time, newbie business owner to one that’s seasoned and building a thriving business. The past year has been one of the most, if not the most, challenging times for businesses. Honesty is the Best Policy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 9, 2020

Contributed by Shawn Johal, business growth coach, leadership speaker and co-founder of DALS Lighting, Inc. Traffic is starting again, almost to the same levels we were accustomed to before confinement. Am I once again choosing professional work over my family? Today, countries are opening up at different speeds.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2018

Written by David Tomás, co-founder of Cyberclick Group. Even so, I’ve learned over the years that being happy at work has a significant impact on the overall success of a company, and ensuring your employees are happy is the key to sustained prosperity. Here are three steps I’ve implemented in my business to achieve just that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It then seamlessly integrates in your continuous integration (CI) pipeline. Some business angels are also investing, such as Nicolas Dessaigne, Ben Porterfield, Tyler Gaffney and Keenan Rice. As your app and team grow, manual testing doesn’t scale that well. After that, Waldo runs your app in a browser window.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 15, 2022

Gusto ( YC W12 ) provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team. Today, more than 200,000 businesses use Gusto for payroll, employee benefits, talent management, and more. When you have a grand vision, where do you start as a founder? Choose a customer segment.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

How to Leverage SEO to Drive Traffic to Your Startup’s Website In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, leveraging SEO is crucial for driving traffic to a startup’s website. Dive into the collective wisdom of these professionals to boost your startup’s online presence. The same logic applies to press commentary.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. you can build that with your personal peer network.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PS: Applications to the Startup Battlefield 200 close this week , so get your applications in pronto! . The episode is called Why this founder feels confident facing the economic downturn. PDT, subscribe here.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It’ll be a valuable tool for founders exploring a fundraise this year (or during any economic downturn). I hope that you’ll leverage these lessons to (1) spend as little time on fundraising so we can go back to the building and (2) find values-aligned investors (“smart money”) that will amplify your mission.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As a result, technical debt starts to accumulate. All you’re doing that sprint is working off your tech debt backlog,” said Somal. “I It just comes down to how you can get your code out the door as quickly as possible.”. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. founder Manu Bansal.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

However, some fintech startups have not only stepped up to provide some relief options, but also give employers a way to help relieve some of the burden, while also providing a recruitment and retention tool. Summer wants to vanquish student loans for borrowers, and now has $10M to do it Will Sealy, co-founder and CEO of Summer.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

Hey, founders between gigs: What now? If you exited your last company for airplane money and are now independently wealthy, congratulations! Unfortunately, most founders are not in that position: 9 out of 10 startups fail. Especially if your life partner and/or bank account are burnt out on the income volatility of startups?

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Feedough

MARCH 18, 2021

What if there were a platform to help you create digital products, regardless of your design or technical background? Uizard provides you with a simple drag-and-drop designing tool to help you design your mobile apps, web apps, websites, and desktop software in just a few minutes. How is your offering disrupting the industry?

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 14, 2023

Tell us how you started your business and what made you want to start? My name is Jonathan Levy, I am the co-founder of AccountsPro which provides accounting services, Finance Director support and Financial Outsourcing solutions to Startups, SMEs, charities and not for profit organisations.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You’re embarking on the adventure of starting your own business. You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. There are several ways to fund your business, and there’s a process to work through which type of funding is best suited for your particular circumstances.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 20, 2023

21 Ways to Encourage Collaboration Among Startup Team Members To help you foster collaboration among your startup team members, we’ve gathered twenty-one insightful tactics from CEOs and founders. Come back together, compare ideas, and choose the best solution on merit. Tobias Liebsch , Co-Founder, Fintalent.io

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2022

To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Then, Hey Jane co-founder Kiki Freedman said that the overturn makes abortion care via mail “now likely to be the most viable form of access for most of the country.” For the answers, make sure to tune into the Equity episode wherever you get podcasts, and, heck, why not start now? .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Give me enough time to do some research, and I can put together a reliable step-by-step for building a custom gaming PC, installing a hot water heater or interpreting public health data. Rami Essaid, CEO and founder, Finmark. Melonee Wise, CEO and co-founder, Fetch Robotics. So you want to raise a Series A.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I wasn’t thinking about founding a company or building a business. That’s usually how a business gets off the ground successfully, even ones with a lot of capital behind them. That’s usually how a business gets off the ground successfully, even ones with a lot of capital behind them. Amazon started as an online bookseller.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When we found product-market fit later that year and started bringing on lots of new customers, instead of spending engineering resources on re-architecturing our platform to scale, we were able to double down on product engineering to accelerate the growth. And good people follow good people, helping you grow your team down the road.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 23, 2021

The man saving Radio Shack Image courtesy of Tai Lopez The COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed businesses across the world, with the retail sector being especially hard hit. Their co-founder Tai Lopez, 37, is a successful entrepreneur and eCommerce expert. Yet it’s better to salvage the business than to go under and lose everyone.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Not surprisingly, the tighter your relationship with the firm, typically the more money you will earn: . We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models.

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OnStartups

APRIL 5, 2021

The following is a guest post by Joe Uddeme the founder of Name Experts. Joe started the company 12 years ago and specializes in complex domain, purchases and sales. Choose a Specific Name. Ideally, a business name and domain name should match. Top of mind names are very important when scaling a business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Today, one of the trailblazers in this area, Kuda Technologies , is announcing funding to continue building out its specific ambition: to provide a modern banking service for Africans and the African diaspora, or as co-founder and CEO Babs Ogundeyi describes them, “every African on the planet, wherever you are in the world.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 30, 2023

Contributed by Kym Huynh, an EO Melbourne member, EO Global Communications Committee member, and co-founder of WeTeachMe. Failure, therefore, is knowing that you had the opportunity to move forward or fix a problem, but not taking the steps to do so. Therefore, failure is not living your days the way you want to live your life.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

On another note, if you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! I had the opportunity to interview Vishal Garg, Better.com CEO and co-founder, a couple weeks ago in anticipation of the company’s going public via a SPAC merger with Aurora Acquisition Corp.

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