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Feature Friday: Megan Burton, EO Atlanta

Entrepreneurs' Organization

What stood out to Megan was that EO encourages and values diverse opinions while cultivating a culture of trust that gives members the opportunity to develop in a peer-to-peer learning style with true transparency. Learn more about EO today! Megan attributes much of her growth and success as an entrepreneur to EO.

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The Tory Burch Foundation Fellowship Program is Accepting Applications

Smart Hustle Magazine

The entrepreneurs will get to participate in virtual programming that’s been custom-tailored to meet the needs of businesses during COVID-19, receive access to an online network of 130+ peers, $5K for education, and much more. But attaining the right resources, funds, and support can be an uphill battle. www.guidantfinancial.com.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted? Reader beware.).

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival. Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! Clients stuck around and referred new clients to us!

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Grantee Perception Report: What We Heard and How We Plan to do Better

Surdna Foundation

This is our fourth such survey since 2004. If you’re like us, you probably thought, “Why didn’t anyone tell me?” The truth is that it’s tricky to give honest feedback to the people who give out grants. Yet we all know that honest feedback is essential to improve our work. Here’s what we heard and how we plan to do better.

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The Challenge Facing Deep-Learning Powered Startups

Tomasz Tunguz

I’m ranked lower than my peers at work: why? I’m ranked lower than my peers at work: why? Jeff Bezos used the Five Whys in 2004 to investigate why a conveyor belt had injured a worker. This was a frequent questions both advertisers and publishers asked of Google. The problem isn’t limited to a few marketers.

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The Quirky M&A Environment for SaaS Companies in 2016

Tomasz Tunguz

The second largest, Jasper, is an internet of things software company founded in 2004, which Cisco acquired for $1.2B. More important, public companies may be more attractive buys than their private peers. Jasper ranks eleventh. Second, there are no unicorns among the names. In 2016, these PE firms aren’t following that playbook.

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