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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. And some angels running around like Reid Hoffman & Keith Rabois. But not many others.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. But then one person – who happens to be a physicist – wrote a back-of-the-envelop calculation of uBeam and said it’s not physically possible.

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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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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 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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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

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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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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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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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. I usually send short marketing-related blog post links or eBooks that look like a one-time personal email rather than a salesy blast (though you could create those too if you wanted). From this screen, it's straightforward.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Long before that, the company engaged in anti-competitive practices and antagonized critics, especially female journalists like Sarah Lacy, who called out years of the company’s toxic issues as early 2014. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake.

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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 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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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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