Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The processes I used to hire our first COO in 2012 and the second one in 2018 were basically the same and are strongly inspired by Topgrading as well as the Who Method. We used the following methods to generate applications: We spread the job description on all the relevant job boards as well as social networks like LinkedIn and XING.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Gener8tor has flown under the radar a little despite putting a lot of points on the board: It has been operating for more than a decade and has had 34 exits (including Pretty Litter , Curate , GrocerKey and Bright Cellars ). “I think there were more local accelerators between 2012 and 2014 than there are today.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Headquartered in Mountain View, OSRF — which predates Open Robotics — was founded in 2012 with the mission of supporting “the development, distribution and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education and product development.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. I predict this will come before the end of 2012. It isn’t new stuff. And then came AOL.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it. She is also on the board of Nordstrom and previously served on the boards of Dollar Shave Club and Bonobos.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Women entrepreneurs and fundraising. A 2012 study of company performance showed that more than 150 listed German firms excelled when they had at least 30% women representation on their executive boards. Even more interesting, another study argues that women make better board directors than men.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

While we’d nearly always cover a notable acquisition in a relevant tech sector, the extra interesting bit here is a personnel one: both companies were co-founded by the same entrepreneur, David Blake. It feels rare to see serial entrepreneurs have one of their startups acquire another one of their startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Arno Held (AH): E very time I introduce AM Ventures, I say we are engineers by education, entrepreneurs by passion, and venture capitalists by accident. Back when we started, around 2012, there was a lack of VC investors who [were] willing to invest very early stage in hardware technology, particularly in 3D printing. AH: Absolutely.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Mahu City Express , a bus service operating between Warkworth and Auckland, is introducing on-board e-scooter rental and charging options, to address the first-and last-mile gap – how we get ourselves to public transport connections, and then, at the other end, to our final destination.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Kevin Chin is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in London and the author of HyperTurnaround! Martin Bell, who sits on Arowana’s advisory board, founded 100tasks.com to democratize entrepreneurship and is an expert in launching and hyper-scaling companies. That could not be farther from reality. . Tech and Processes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted. I recommend serial entrepreneurs get some version of that tattooed somewhere on their person. Abe Murray, Alley Robotics: We remain unwaveringly optimistic about robotics.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

This is an exciting time to be an entrepreneur in Oklahoma. Our history with MaxQ began when they competed in the 2012 Governor’s Cup (now the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup), Oklahoma’s statewide collegiate business plan competition. MaxQ made hard decisions to streamline operations, including across the board salary cuts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Not a bad thing, but as a result, there are few “hungry” tech entrepreneurs. Our team has been involved and invested in crypto since 2012, so we’ve been excited about the industry for a long time. Entrepreneurs are the polar explorers of 2021. We are really excited about the blockchain and cryptocurrency space.

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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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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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

As of today, TechCrunch understands an influential group of UK entrepreneurs and investors, aided by industry body Coadec , is now making hasty representations this weekend to HM Treasury over the implications of SVB UK’s shut down. One entrepreneur I spoke to did not mince their words: “It’s totally f *d up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Michael Wilkerson founded Tugende in 2012. Once boda boda riders get on board, they can double their take-home profit from $5 per day to $10 per day after becoming owners, the CEO claims. This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Teddy Ogallo , the entrepreneur who founded WayaWaya, joins Ajua as VP of Product APIs and Integrations. Ajua, formerly mSurvey , was founded in 2012 by Kenfield Griffith. Per Crunchbase , WayaWaya has just raised $75,000. “Imagine if we knew what drove consumer habits for businesses.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board. Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. OpenAI: Look at our awesome image generator! Google: Hold my Shiba Inu. Other news from the week: It’s official: Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

No board seats or personal guarantees. 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.” And we don’t take a seat on your board or make you write a big check if you’re having a down month.“. “Up

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Greater governance role for limited partner Boards of Advisors. For 2023, we can expect longer deal cycles due to more extensive diligence, deals with more balanced founder/investor terms and more protective provisions, including higher liquidation preferences and stronger Board governance.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

These people who never had the opportunity to start a store came onto our platform and became entrepreneurs for the first time, because we do not need them to invest any money in working capital or setting up an offline shop. Almost everyone who is using the app today has become an entrepreneur because of us. I can tell you anecdotes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

It was a particularly rough December in what proved a difficult 2012. Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. But it comes across as a whiny complaint about the shitty year that 2012 was. But the reason I couldn’t publish that post is it didn’t capture the greater picture that 2012 represents for me.”

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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. I don’t think entrepreneurs really spend a lot of time thinking about it. Tell me what the priorities are.”

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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. Companies need to evolve and so do boards. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. PHONE CALLS.

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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. And it’s great that you bring up predictable revenue. Sarah Wang: Absolutely.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Our founder, Yves Sisteron, himself was an entrepreneur earlier in his career and has been a mentor to us all at VC having backed too many billion dollar exits to name. I stayed close.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2014

I can assure you that move wasn’t a walk in the park for the board. 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. Foursquare? Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai split.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly. A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

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. So I committed to going back again and partnered with Brad Feld to bring a team of 75 entrepreneurs and VCs to do it with us.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2017

Years after building a successful business of her own, Megan Burton yearned to find like-minded entrepreneurs that could relate to the unique experiences of establishing a business, from bootstrapping a company to achieving unimaginable success. Megan attributes much of her growth and success as an entrepreneur to EO.

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