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). And I wanted it to be great – something cool that celebrates entrepreneurship and provides a unique perspective not only to the EO members, but to the community, as well.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Notable investment successes include: Crescendo Bioscience , an early i2E investment, was acquired for $270 million in 2014. By leveraging its extensive network and resources, i2E is committed to supporting innovation, driving economic development, and nurturing a thriving entrepreneurial community.

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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). And I wanted it to be great – something cool that celebrates entrepreneurship and provides a unique perspective not only to the EO members, but to the community, as well.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2019

In 2014, my co-founder and I decided to hire our first employees. I found a community of entrepreneurs going through the challenges of building a business. appeared first on THE BLOG. I couldn’t have joined EO Accelerator at a better time. Thankfully, I was introduced to the EO Accelerator program because of David Carnes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

From 2014 to 2015, we are proud to have grown the program from 14 to more than 40 companies. I served as co-chair and in 2014, took over as chair with Ethan King as co-chair. We hit a high of 43 participants in 2014-15, up from 15 Accelerators when we started and had eight graduates who exceeded the US$1 million mark.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2016

I founded Albany Can Code in December 2015, as an initiative to develop an inclusive software talent pipeline for New York’s capital region, joining some pathfinders founded in the past 24 months: Code Louisville, founded in November 2014 in Louisville, KY, is helping to fill a need for educated employees. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

Lamey Wellehan is pursuing abundance by weaving sustainability and business strategy together, simultaneously producing outstanding results for the enterprise, planet and community. By 2014, mobile banking offered a full range of services and processed over $16.3 Waste as a resource. Read the rest of the article!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

During the onset of the pandemic, Aboyeji, via his blog post , said Future Africa Fund was looking to raise institutional investment. But before CcHub launched its $500,000 accelerator programme and Aboyeji founded Andela in 2014, Jason Njoku of iROKO had already begun to invest in startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

For example, Bigfoot Capital open-sourced its RBI model, outlining it in a blog post and sharing their RBI financial model and anonymized term sheet , but a thorough, quantitative, industry-wide analysis has not been conducted until now. Thankfully, there have been some notable efforts to drive transparency in the RBI market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And while there’s a long way to go in terms of workplace equality, women entrepreneurs are making their mark on their industries and communities now more than ever. The post 20 Women Entrepreneurs Changing Their Industries (and the World) appeared first on THE BLOG. Written for EO by Michael Neidert, a writer and consultant. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

At Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) , our vision is to build the world’s most influential community of entrepreneurs. I learned a lot and applied that knowledge to my company and then, in 2014?six The post My Journey from GSEA Global Finalist to Digital Nomad appeared first on THE BLOG. And I’m not done yet!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This work is embodied in Child & Youth Finance International , another extraordinary global coalition, which reached 36 million children and young people in 2014. Her mother, a social worker in the schools for poor members of the Parsi community, focused on family and other non academic issues. Jeroo felt this was a mistake.

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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 Traditional paths to training — like universities, community colleges or software training “boot camps” — are not viable for those who cannot afford tuition or fees, or cannot forego full-time employment (and pay fees) to participate in a boot camp.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

Then head to our Impact Blog and get to know Syed Hasnain , Larissa de Moura , and Monica Moldovan , who are making the difference by advocating and leveraging opportunities for under-represented groups. Interested in reading more action stories related to the program?

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EntreWorks Consulting

MAY 23, 2019

Back in 2014, Congress wisely opted to try a new approach for revitalizing American manufacturing: the Manufacturing USA Network. EntreWorks Blog. Manufacturing USA is a public-private network of 14 Manufacturing Institutes that fund and promote research in key disciplines related to manufacturing. Evaluating Manufacturing USA.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

Launched as a women-centric dating app in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumble aims at building an empowering and inclusive community. Gradually, the company’s focus shifted its business model from dating towards building a community wherein everyone built and maintained healthy connections. Who Are Bumble’s Customers?

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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! Over the upcoming period, we’ll be sharing more stories of inclusive entrepreneurship in this blog. A: The initial idea was to develop a clothing line for people with reduced mobility. It did not work very well. Stay tuned!

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

OurCrowd was an early investor in BioCatch in 2014 and invested in the recent $168M lead by Bain Capital. Westbrook will advise on the direction of Varo Bank’s programs aimed at underserved communities, including communities of color. The post Newsletter: Tech jobs soar + Sweeter berries appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. However, Fred Wilson blogs and Jackson Palmer smartly tweets that Git is already a decentralized system with GitHub built on top of it. Satya strikes again.

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

This unique concept went viral in 2014 and initiated a chain reaction that helped spread awareness about the disease ALS and encouraged donations to research on the same. Increasing local reach: Grassroots marketing drives can help businesses impact society, especially the local communities. Disadvantages Of Grassroots Marketing.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 18, 2016

That’s certainly true for EO Vancouver’s David Katz, a 2014 EO Global Citizen of the Year Award winner who’s incentivizing people in impoverished communities to recycle plastic and improve their lives. The post Revealing the Value of People: Revisiting an EO Member’s World-Changing Idea appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2021

I joined EO in 2014. I was blown away by the Forum-type experience they created and realized that having a community of other entrepreneurs was missing in my life and would benefit me greatly as I grew my business. The post Jamie Pujara: The 2021 EO Mark Lincoln Volunteer of the Year appeared first on THE BLOG.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

And beyond the network, we take software very seriously, and so we have about a half a dozen people on our product, engineering, and design team who work in partnership with our venture team, our community team, others to look at software as core to the VC model. We want to build software that actually helps our founders.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Casper is a directto-consumer sleep brand that broke onto the scene in 2014 with a re-designed, high quality mattress that shipped directly to consumers’ doors. A big part of this is building a community of people that value sleep and want to share that with us,” says Casper SVP of Experience Eleanor Morgan.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

The tendency here is we want to join a lot of societies and communities, and I would say that our tendency is to join ‘Women in Product’ groups, or ‘Women in Engineering,’ and that’s how we’re going to try and invest our time. This was 2013, 2014. Those are not things I want to do; I’m not hanging out with them on my weekends!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014. It all began with a blog post. Back in 2003, that was the context for the so-called weblog, which would shortly be elided to blog. Mullenweg became the center point of a growing community. billion valuation. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 9, 2020

This is the third “iteration” of this blog. That lasted from September 2003 to February 2014. 3/ I wanted to improve search so that we can all find those old blog posts that we know exist but are no longer on the front page. 3/ We continue to show full blog posts on the front page in reverse chronological order.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 2, 2018

Virtual currency or cryptocurrency is “the digital representation of value that is issued and controlled by its developers, and used and accepted among the members of a specific (virtual) community.”. As of 2014, “76 percent of US residents were not familiar with bitcoin and 80 percent said they would rather own gold than bitcoin.”.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Some members of the “urgent care” community are intelligently rebranding their services as “convenient care.” Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

In 2014, I started working a cocaine trafficking case, which eventually led to the largest cocaine haul and most complex wiretap case in Nashville history. (I With my extensive knowledge in complex investigations involving trafficking organizations, I thought, “How can we give back to our community?”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

My hope is that this book will appeal to a broad audience that includes entrepreneurs, policymakers, the business community and all citizens who are passionate about preserving the American dream of starting your own business for future generations. appeared first on THE BLOG. Who is the audience for this book?

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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.” If you live in a suburban community, there is little chance you could walk out your door and hail a cab. billion, far short of the value recently determined by the market.

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OurCrowd

JULY 22, 2020

That’s not to say many didn’t see it coming: WHO published a strategic action plan for pandemic influenza in 2007 and in 2014 Bill Gates, representing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, presented a TED Talk about his anticipation of both a pandemic and societal lack of preparation for such an international medical crisis.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

OurCrowd is proud to have been one of the leaders of Israel’s business community in establishing ties with our new partners in the UAE, and I am confident we will be in the vanguard of Israel’s future economic relationship with Saudi Arabia. Airobotics has raised $130M since it was founded in 2014.

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