Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Kate Morgan is an EO Boston member and founder of Boston Human Capital Partners. “Like most entrepreneurs, I am not a person that you would see as vulnerable, but we all have underbellies. They are my sounding board, and they fuel my own desire to be better.” Some days, things go well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Aaron Lee is the CEO and founder of iluma Agency (formerly Illuminati Studios) and joined EO South Florida in 2011. . One of the most meaningful discoveries I made in EO Accelerator was that I was not alone as an entrepreneur. I joined EO Accelerator in 2009, when I owned a business and my business owned me.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. One of my favorite entrepreneur-Twitterer weighed in, “You want to keep tapping into their collective intelligence so you keep saying ‘Thank you for the feedback’ and they keep sending it,” Ms.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network , Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our global board of the Impact Hub Association in 2022. When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be! Here’s her story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and cofounder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Through ACA’s strong and experienced public policy leadership team, ACA has been able to gain more diverse voices as both investors and entrepreneurs. ACA and its members recognized the need for a strong advocacy arm and public policy agenda to educate Members of Congress on issues that affect angel investors and early-stage entrepreneurs.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Those of us in the business of calculating (guessing) this mythical peak in value often make the same mistake as our entrepreneurs. LivingSocial took in $583 million in capital in 2010 and 2011 with little left in time to show for the investment and tremendous dilution to the founders.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

event , hosted by the Brookings Institute to discuss the “potential of female entrepreneurs in Japan.” ” The speakers (Japanese or Japanese-American) shared their personal experiences working as a female entrepreneurs with other Japanese businesses. At Stanford and in the Silicon Valley, they just love entrepreneurs!

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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! Learn more about the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and apply for membership today ! The post Back to the Drawing Board appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011.

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StartupNation

APRIL 20, 2021

Since I first invested in his prior company back in 2011, we’ve shared meals and wine, successes and frustrations. “At I met Greg in the spring of 2011 when he approached me to invest in his new idea. He was open-minded, coachable, smart, and driven, making him an ideal entrepreneur to back.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

first world problems and all] But I did feel like 2012 was particularly tough for me having closed out 2011 losing a close family member and dealing with cancer with both family members and close friends. I wrote a cautionary tale about that here as an entrepreneur but it equally applies to running a VC firm.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

.” Here’s who she interviewed: Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. David Lawee, founder and general partner, CapitalG. HubStop introduced usage-based pricing in 2011 to boost its retention rate, then near 70%.

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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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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Power Pitches.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

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. Serve on a non-profit board: Let your business skills and experience make you an asset to a nonprofit by becoming a board member.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 5, 2015

In about two thirds of SaaS IPOs from 2011-2014, the founding CEO is the current CEO. Is there a meaningful difference between the equity stake of a founder who is CEO at IPO, and a founder who is no longer CEO? Founder/CEOs retain 15.5% of the company, while founders/ex-CEOs retain 14.4%. percentage points.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

Actually, I was trading emails with Aaron Ross this morning because I think in a lot of ways that when I was an up and coming entrepreneur 15 years ago, that book landed in my hands and it felt like someone had given me the keys to the kingdom. Bob’s founder history Sarah Wang: Yeah, I could not agree more.

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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. “Accomplished roboticist, entrepreneur and educator Ayanna Howard, PhD, became dean of The Ohio State University College of Engineering on March 1, 2021. “Ayah Bdeir is an entrepreneur, engineer and social activist.

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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. I know a founder will roll out a product and a lot of YC alums will happily test it out or buy it, for example. It’s weird.

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