Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

Ryan Unger (RU) / “It was 2008, and Zak and I were still building our business from the ground up. He suggested I read a book called ‘Emergence,’ which motivated me to learn more about the model. And then I came across ‘Reinventing Organizations,’ a book by Frederic Laloux, and I was freaking out about what I was learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. This is one book-end of the cycle. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

I’ve been an entrepreneur all my life–from buying baseball cards, comic books and antique Coke machines when I was young to flipping rental houses in grad school. My latest company, Hire Santa, started at an employee Christmas party in 2008 where I handed out bonuses dressed as Santa Claus. EO Fort Worth was amazingly supportive.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 6, 2022

The first step, as with college-bound seniors everywhere, is that OSSM students have to figure out how to pay for books and tuition, room and board. Jessica Decker, OSSM graduate in 2008, has been an OSSM instructor since 2012 in various courses on the main campus. The question I received was, and what happens after that?

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

47:40 – What’s a must read book and why? I don’t know where, but in another interview, and you said you don’t really want to scale customer support, because it’s unsustainable. It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012. A lot of those books are written outside India.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

If no Bitcoin changes hands because we all sit smugly clutching our USB sticks, then there will be no hashpower supporting the network. The US 10-year treasury yield is in yellow, and the size of the Fed’s balance sheet is in white from 2008 to 2022. No network … no value.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

Prior to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers were true investment banks. There is nothing special about this business model, except that somehow these companies were able to trade at astronomical price-to-book ratios. These are great businesses.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 10, 2016

Thankfully, this person had family support. In 2008, we had a choice in this country to follow someone who understood that problems are complex and require nuanced solutions--that strong isn't always the answer, especially when paired with wrong. in 2008, I was in a failing business that I had started. This person is white.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. I wanted to ask you, why did you decide to write the book? around the book. This is different, right?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Bu when you start to worry that the world is ending (as it seemed it was in late 2008 / early 2009) you tend to get worried about large burn rates. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The company had a huge burn rate but investors and management brought that under control by late 2008.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. . When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 21, 2022

Between 2008 and 2010, I had enrolled in two separate filmmaking courses and had even written a screenplay (which went nowhere). In 2015, I had explored the possibility of writing a fiction novel (but eventually wrote my first book , a nonfiction book on AI and the implications of algorithmic decision making).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Gorny founded Nextiva in 2008, focused on what it describes today as “UcaaS,” or unified communications as a service. One boring scenario I don’t see discussed much is simply that its products remain the phone book of the era for much of the world. Its big wins this decade have been from acquisitions. Around TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Had we waited for an outside bookkeeper to finish doing the books to know where we stood each month, we might not be here today. There, I discovered we had grown our customer count far faster than our employees to support it, and customer service and employee happiness were suffering. We grew our customer count 30% in 2009.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

As Frederic writes, Amazon trained the system — which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python — on billions of lines of publicly available open source code and its own codebase, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums. .” Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

The kingdoms of the Yen and the Euro are not so lucky, but we are here to support them.” “And And how will you support your allies, Sir Powell?” If I wish to keep my kingdom as one, I must provide near-boundless support for the less fortunate. It is the duty of my kingdom to support her allies,” he replied.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

“All told, we’re seeing some familiar names in the mix, but 2020 isn’t 2008,” Taylor Hatmaker explains about potential presidential appointments from the industry. ” However, tech industries and companies focused on shared goals might find support. What does Joe Biden intend as president around technology policy?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 6, 2022

This essay shall argue that on July 27, the Fed telegraphed that, should growth disappoint, it will shift its policies towards supporting growth rather than fighting inflation. To support growth and a return to form in a fiat, debt-backed, financialised economy, the Fed must reduce the price of money and expand its quantity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 20, 2020

I received a torrent of suggestions for books and decided to share them with everyone, in case you’re interested in the subject. I’m going to be working my way through them and just started the book on Keynes. Ray Dalio’s The Changing World Order books & LinkedIn posts : This was by far the most suggested work.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

There is no book written to help in these times. Since my fire in 2008, our team has had a disaster plan. You can support them, love them and find a way to keep them employed. Hopefully their businesses will survive and they can all be rehired back after this disaster ends. I am a decent leader and visionary. Sometimes daily.

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