Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

In some capacity or another, many of us have a desire to give back to our community. As the CEO and founder of a fundraising and event management firm, EO New York member Darren Port leveraged his own desire to give back by developing a successful business and enabling others to make an impact.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

She co-founded the Portland Seed Fund in 2011, but also serves as the Director of Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and manager of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, allowing her to monitor prospective and existing portfolio companies that originate from the university.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with It’s clear things have changed for good and the need for managing remote communities of employees, customers and partners has become ever more important. they are communities and tribes. this is classic community management.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

By Ron Lovett, EO Atlantic Canada member and Source Security founder. The year 2011 was financially devastating. Time to go back to the drawing board! With purpose, autonomy, mastery and a sense of community, we turned our people into true stakeholders of our business. I founded Source Security in 2002.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And I’ve been an employee at YC since 2011. And I love working with founders. YC went from cohorts of 12 or 18 to roughly 400 founders last winter, before downsizing a bit. If that tight community can actually reinvest the success they found back into YC, it ties us all more tightly together. It’s weird.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

If you’re a founder in the robotics space — hardware or software side — you can apply here. Previously she was chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing, as well as founder and director of the Human-Automation Systems Lab. Who will you be pitching to?

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

ACA has continued its efforts to push legislation to help the entire Angel community. ACA continues to foster good lines of communication with the SEC and good relationships at the SBA. House and Senate staff turned to ACA to understand the impact of changing the definition on the angel community.

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