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How to Grow Your Chapter’s Accelerator Program

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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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Interviewing 5,000 People Taught Me 5 Surprising Traits of Great Leaders

Entrepreneurs' Organization

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. A version of this article appeared in Fast Company.

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Innovation Through Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I’m involved with a few boards where we have taken a position of revenue-centric spending. You can use the time to optimize your owned media, such as social media , newsletter, blogs, or to even start new content channels like webinars and podcasts. Ruchir Punjabi has been an EO member since 2014.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? Leadership over backbenchers? I wish I had 20% of her confidence, focus and leadership skills at 25. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. Are you willing to give them the benefit of the doubt?

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walk

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. Any good stories or memories about the process or listing day itself?

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Forever21’s parent company sued Bolt, but now it’s a shareholder

TechCrunch

Jamie Salter, founder, chairman and CEO of ABG, said in a written statement: “ABG looks forward to deepening its ties with Bolt by becoming shareholders under the new leadership of Chief Executive Maju Kuruvilla and we are excited to continue exploring broader opportunities with our businesses.” .

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

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.