Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 16, 2017

In 2014, we saw Heartbleed arrive on the cybersecurity scene. Cybersecurity Awareness Training … For the Board of Directors! A CEO or a board member should understand, at a high level, what the vulnerability was, how it could impact the organization and what steps the CISO is taking to mitigate the risks that the organization faces.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

It’s an outstanding avenue for members to give back, especially if serving on the chapter board is not an option. The Atlanta EO chapter had a relatively small Accelerator program with 10 to 15 participants—or companies—and only one EO member overseeing the program on the chapter board. We transitioned to a quarterly membership cycle.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2019

In 2014, my co-founder and I decided to hire our first employees. We didn’t have a board, a business coach or even the right books to guide us. We had to figure out hiring, on-boarding and training. I now had a mini “board” that I could go to for guidance. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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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). I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one.

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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). I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. But every once in a while you get a WhatsApp scenario —where a bigger competitor is so scared of your product that they’re willing to offer almost anything to mitigate that risk (like the $19 billion Facebook paid for WhatsApp back in 2014).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

I’ve sought out CEOs, presidents, board directors and more for companies big and small, ranging from small startups to corporations with valuations in excess of US$10 billion, on every continent except Antarctica. They can fist-bump all the way from the janitor to the board. Manny Padda has been an EO Vancouver member since 2014.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2016

When I had to close my B2B marketing and branding agency in September of 2014, that feeling of optimism shifted toward scarcity and desperation. I didn’t want to make a rash decision for a short-term paycheck, and I figured coaching would give me a sounding board that could help me during my transition.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

. “As we engaged with Marvell, it became clear that our data center optimized portfolio combined with Marvell’s scale, leading technology platform and complementary portfolio, can accelerate our growth and vision of delivering breakthrough switch silicon for the cloud and edge,” he wrote in a company blog post announcing the deal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

He livestreams every Gumroad board meeting through Clubhouse and Zoom, and shares business metrics that most private companies decline to report, such as revenue and profit. (In I preceded this fundraise with a blog post that I’m the only person who works on Gumroad as an employee,” he said. “I Don’t give up.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, compared with a national joblessness rate of 5.7 The great thing about a social enterprise is that everyone wants to help improve social and environmental well-being and will be likely to jump on board if you create a successful business model.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 23, 2016

Fun fact: Even though he didn’t board an airplane until he was 15, Georges has traveled to every Canadian province and U.S. This story was originally printed in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. The post Looking Back: Life Lessons From a Nun appeared first on THE BLOG. state, as well as 83 countries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The blog post from last year also recounts the struggle the super hot startup faced in its lukewarm years. The company had to double down on ensuring that they were well above board and procured whatever licenses it needed. The bank balance dipped to 14 lacs at a point in 2014-15. Others in the sector too got similar scares.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Tiffany Chu, SVP of Via and co-founder and former CEO of Remix, had been working in user experience design at ZipCar when, in 2014, she decided to take a year off for a fellowship at Code for America. An urban planning blog featured the project and it went as viral as a mapping and routing tool for public transit could.

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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. ]. This is why companies and their board of directors agonize over whether or not they are “ready” to go public.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. Any good stories or memories about the process or listing day itself?

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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 the three of us worked together on our commercialization plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) Twitter was my public chat board, my place to share blog content, my place to ask public questions and to debate.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Can you do this online before your visit, or are you handed a clip-board full of forms where you enter information you have already provided on previous visits? From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Can you cancel or reschedule online? Do they respond?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

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. While growth accelerated, Zalando became leaner and more profitable, culminating in a successful IPO in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

He is obviously a big investor, shareholder and involved as part of the board but he and the board are looking to me to run the company,” he said. Since its 2014 inception, Bolt has raised more than $1 billion in funding and was valued at $11 billion at the time of its $355 million Series E raise in January.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

Shonda Rhimes, Dartmouth, 2014. The award-winning producer focused her 2014 speech on the reality of her experience as an exceptionally busy working mom and the importance of doing, not dreaming. and more articles from the EO blog. . I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will, too.”. Watch | Transcript.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” As the Series A investor and board member at Uber, I was quite intrigued when I heard that there was a FiveThirtyEight article specifically focused on the company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability. Pearl Automation (2014-2021). It even got some Y Combinator startups on board. In a blog post that has since been removed, Nuzzel’s team explained that the product needed to be rebuilt in order to scale with Twitter. “To

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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. Companies need to evolve and so do boards. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012).

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Continuations

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The book was originally published in 2014 and anybody reading it then might still have thought that Gurri was overreaching, but the election of Trump to President is a perfect further illustration of Gurri’s thesis. Furthermore I suggest following Gurri on Twitter and checking out his blog The Fifth Wave.

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