Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

Carlos Rivas was a student in El Salvador when he competed in the 2012 EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). Carlos says he was inspired to become an entrepreneur so that he could follow his passions and rely on his own hard work. Meeting other student entrepreneurs was extremely good, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012. Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Wait, didn’t you just raise a fund? Was it hard to raise the fund?

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Researchers have been trying for decades to establish the most common character traits of entrepreneurs. Despite their collective efforts to provide these guidelines, they have been unable to prove that certain traits in individuals consistently lead to entrepreneurial success (Moroz & Hindle, 2012). Kolb & Wagner, 2015).The

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2016

In 2012, the U.S. But what effect does that have on American entrepreneurs, and how can you leverage this within your own start-up? What other advice would you provide startups who are looking to turn fans into investors? passed the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act with bi-partisan support.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

It has become normal to raise funds long before you have a product/market fit, and this poses challenges to entrepreneurs that are of a very different nature than those the ecosystem has faced in the past years,“ he added back in November 2021. Entrepreneurs know this well. Splitting up like this is a shame but it’s frequent.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. And still, only about 3% of venture capital goes to female founders—that number is even lower for BIPOC female entrepreneurs with an average funding rate of less than 1%. Lori’s advice to women entrepreneurs seeking funding?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Octane: EO Accelerator is EO’s program for first-stage entrepreneurs. Lallenia: My husband, Brad, and I started Big Birge Plumbing in 2012. By being in two separate Forums, we both benefit from the perspective of seven or eight other experienced entrepreneurs. I love that we don’t give each other advice in Forum.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. My general advice is to do less. We are experiencing a frenetic time.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. The Emerging Entrepreneur Scholarship Grant is “to help entrepreneurial students who have innovative business ideas.”

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Y Combinator

JUNE 19, 2019

They were part of YC’s Winter 2012 batch. 37:00 – Make School students who want to be entrepreneurs. 40:00 – Advice for people in YC. Make School is a college for computer science headquartered in San Francisco. Make School students don’t pay until they have a job after graduation. Google Play. SoundCloud.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There’s a ton of writing out there about getting *on* the venture curve, but not a lot about getting *off,* so Daniel’s advice below is especially important. HW: Greenhouse, which powers the hiring process from sourcing to onboarding for thousands of companies, will soon be a teenager, having been founded in 2012.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012. And no life is more of a constant negotiation than that of an entrepreneur. Subscribe by email. Invested Interests. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

But a couple of people replied with responses of such lack of comprehension that I thought it was worth expanding on for first-time entrepreneurs. Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. Not possible. ” Or there was this one.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. Greg truly is a prolific deal maker and is amongst the most helpful people to entrepreneurs in our ecosystem. But his challenges only make us a better place, he’s pushed us to make sure we’re building systems to better track our markets and measure performance. I sat on panels.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

“In the very near future, we’re going to continue to evolve our platform away from automating strategies and giving people this easy investment platform into actually offering structured products like risk-adjusted portfolios and giving curated investment advice to individuals based on their risk tolerance,” Birch said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

But the book is a must read for entrepreneurs. It was written by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann and documents the 2012 election from the early GOP primary fights right through to the final outcome. Startup Advice' And I can tell you from first-hand experience this is EXACTLY what goes on inside startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. In the long term, there needs to be foundational change to level the playing field for women entrepreneurs. VC funds must look at ways they can bring in more women decision-makers, all the way up to the top. Get funded, as a woman.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Entrepreneur Dinners. One of my favorite things to do is to organize entrepreneur dinners when I travel. I usually ask somebody local who knows the local scene to invite out 10-15 local entrepreneurs who might be interested to meet up and I agree to pick up the tab.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Many people think multitasking is a skill that women are naturally good at, but eventually working as an entrepreneur at a million miles an hour will take its toll. As female entrepreneurs, we are independent-minded and innovative, and this advice is critical for securing our future and the future of our families.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. I am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. So we went for it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. I was a former entrepreneur. Don’t you think?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down.&#. Not everybody agreed.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So, for example, when I first started here back in 2012, there was a ton of energy being put towards building a network of executive relationships that is now somewhat more about sustaining those relationships. And one of my biggest advice to those folks is, look, presumably, we all have the technical and functional skill set for this job.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

And then we also have a growing portfolio of entrepreneurs in about 20 countries now. We want to harness that network effect for best optimizing the discovery of great ideas and great entrepreneurs. And the reason that I say it in that way is because we have backed many first time entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy Ventures runs business plan competitions and has people like us who attend and give business advice and feedback. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. You get in a line with executives on one side and EITs (entrepreneurs in training) on the other. You can go.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. We both wanted to build a practice that would make Los Angeles proud but where we would travel tirelessly to other locations to make investments in the best entrepreneurs wherever they were.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8 billion by 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 But this strategy great depends on point 3. Availability of Capital.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This makes it even more important for startups to make careful IP decisions very early on and to get good IP advice from a patent attorney that knows their industry. It is estimated that trade secret theft cost the US economy $300 billion in 2012. appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . Lighter Capital is a RBI VC which has provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies since 2012. So what is Revenue Based Investing? Social Impact. Conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. They wanted advice. This team is talented.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? There is a difference between a Conference Ho and a successful entrepreneur. It’s not.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Each year, Founders First Capital Partners works with hundreds of entrepreneurs. Lighter Capital : “Since 2012, we’ve provided over $100 million in growth capital to over 250 companies.” He said, “We chose the structure we did because we think it’s easier to understand, for both LPs and entrepreneurs.” . I am not a lawyer.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The thing I’ve been passionate about since before it was fashionable was entrepreneurs and their impact on the economy,” Learned said. The pinnacle was getting to form the Venture College” at Boise State in 2012, teaching students across disciplines the skills needed to successfully launch their own business,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

As you have more exits in your startup community and more second-time entrepreneurs the growth of a local startup community becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. Venture Capital. I was instantly intrigued.

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