Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 16, 2017

In 2014, we saw Heartbleed arrive on the cybersecurity scene. If you were buying a used car, would you trust your mechanic’s advice or the advice of the car dealer’s mechanic who can’t stop smiling ingenuously at you? appeared first on THE BLOG. Yeah, that’s why. The post Cybersecurity: What’s With the Attitude?

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

This partnership is based on the complementary expertise and experience of both organisations – while ESADE Business School and its faculty brings academic rigor and quality, Fundación Prevent offers advice and guidance on how to ensure the curriculum and classes are adjusted to the needs of the people with disabilities. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. I became aware of Sam several years ago as I started noticing his name repeated in the comments section of my blog. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. So what is an EIR and why Sam?

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

All adapted garments available around 2011-2014 were very poorly designed and not fashionable at all! Q: I have to ask then, what advice do you have for female entrepreneurs? . A: My advice for any entrepreneur is: do something that makes you vibrate from every pore of your skin. It did not work very well. Stay tuned!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. I see too many people who do that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). The post We Recast Our Business Expertise Into Valuable Incentives for Young Entrepreneurs appeared first on THE BLOG. This article was written by EO Vancouver member, Calvin Johnson.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). The post The Power of People: How We Recast Our Expertise into Valuable Incentives appeared first on THE BLOG. This article was written by EO Vancouver member Calvin Johnson.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. 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. Profitability.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

While there’s lots of advice out there on how investors can exit successfully, there’s less for entrepreneurs in the trenches. Here’s the Secret to a Successful Exit appeared first on THE BLOG. Don’t do an exit off the side of your desk. Manny Padda is the founder and chief people connector at New Avenue Capital.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. My advice to people early in their career is pretty simple: your mission isn’t to pursue a career, it’s to discover it. Put yourself in interesting situations. It was also one of the hardest.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The idea for this book dates back to my time at ProgrammableWeb (2009-2014). Blog articles are certainly core, but you want to make sure you’re covering the right topics in the right way. Do you have any final piece of advice to share with developer-focused companies? Your “marketing” should not feel like marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And while John & I have been through these phases ourselves (and have even written several blog posts on the topic like this one and John keeps a great blog with many similar concepts) we simply haven’t been running large sales teams for the past 8+ years. Startup Advice' Photo credit from 500px.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

By: Kathie Priebe and Cristina Almeida, Managing Directors of Golden Seeds Reposted with permission from Golden Seeds blog. Editor’s note: This is an update to the original blog post, “How did she do it? In September 2014, we received a $3.6M KP and CA: What advice do you have for early-stage founders?

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

Frankly, we’re still thinking about Anu’s incredible advice for women founders. Anu is never short on advice for founders, but her words are particularly salient for women looking to build and grow their startups in the aftermath of the pandemic. But if I could go back to my twenties and give advice, I’d go join a startup.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

Airobotics has raised $130M since it was founded in 2014. The company has integrated a disease management feature into its platform that can track key fungal diseases on over 320 crop and fungal disease combinations, and offers advice on when to spray. TechCrunch: Maolac CEO, from supermom to superfood.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 4, 2019

You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” In turn, a 2014 study of IT projects found that only 16.2 appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. That phrase is a misleading myth at best and actively dangerous at worst.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

I have a blog post on that, fundraising advice for founders raising for the first time. My first piece of advice is to consider not raising money from VCs. So FC tries to provide a peer group that helps to calibrate founders, give them encouragement, help them with motivation and advice that comes from experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

They wanted advice. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. It is advice I give entrepreneurs often as I have written here on why most businesses should never raise VC. Even tech blogs know this. This team is talented.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

[An edited version of the following blog post originally appeared in a modified form in the pages of the weekend edition of the Financial Times last Saturday. ]. We might all do well to heed the advice of Warren Buffet who said, “there is a fool in every market and if you don’t know who it is, it is probably you.”

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