Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

I put my ambitions of becoming an entrepreneur on pause for a couple of years until finally walking away from the corporate world in March 2014. At the age of 21, with a nudge from my mentor, I started teaching myself how to invest in the local stock market and, as I was learning, shared my knowledge with others through a blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

There is a need for the voice of entrepreneurs to be heard in Davos. I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I At the same time, my entrepreneur friends kind of consider how they are Improving the state of the world, but it’s often not at the forefront. and more articles from the EO blog.

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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. We also scoured newsfeeds.

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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. My motivation for becoming an entrepreneur was the ability to do anything, anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Great things happen when like-minded entrepreneurs get together! Where are you now?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 16, 2017

In 2014, we saw Heartbleed arrive on the cybersecurity scene. Learn more about the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and apply for membership today ! appeared first on THE BLOG. By Silka Gonzalez, an EO South Florida member and CEO of Enterprise Risk Management, Inc. Yeah, that’s why.

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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. It’s a similar model employed by AngelList , the company founded by Indian-American entrepreneur Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi as a fundraising platform for startups to raise money from angel investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 22, 2016

I signed up for the half-marathon at the EO Global Leadership Conference in Athens, Greece, in 2014, and I started training on the streets of Delhi. The post Health and Hope: Using Entrepreneurship to Tackle Air Pollution appeared first on THE BLOG. How did you take advantage of a health scare and turn it into a successful business?

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

The first virtual session took place at the end of May 2021 and we got inspired to hear about what different entrepreneurs and experts are doing to build more inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystems. One of the participants is Rut Turró , she is, in her own words, a social entrepreneur in the fashion industry. It did not work very well.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

During the process of assessing it by means of interviews, most of the entrepreneurs who participated in the program shared their tales of change and growth, and above all, how the opportunity to experience Aula de Emprendimiento added value to their personal and professional lives. .

incubation

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) November 1, 2014. Which is why I''m sure the dude who picked apart the physics of the latest round of UBeam will undoubtedly get eviscerated in the tweet and blog world. ".Here’s And then I promptly got Twitter flack from one of the people who works at one of the company''s investors.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

And then we also have a growing portfolio of entrepreneurs in about 20 countries now. We want to harness that network effect for best optimizing the discovery of great ideas and great entrepreneurs. And the reason that I say it in that way is because we have backed many first time entrepreneurs.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

” We explained what we felt the core values of a firm of the future needed to uphold: Provide real operational insights to entrepreneurs (the days of being “money men” are gone). Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). But I miss blogging.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Kevin Chin is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in London and the author of HyperTurnaround! Aspiring 10x entrepreneurs must excel at both—hyper-turnaround and hyper-scale because of the inevitable ups and downs faced in the quest to rapidly build a 10x company that’s made to last. .

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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 The post How an ex-cop turned entrepreneur gives back by combatting human trafficking appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

I began comparing my personal experience as an entrepreneur starting my business 50 years ago to the entrepreneurial ecosystem today. Unfortunately, we have created a widening opportunity gap for most Americans to become entrepreneurs. We start half as many new businesses in this country today as we did 30 years ago.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Joi Ito’s TED Talk from 2014 remains pertinent and valuable in 2016 – are you working too hard to predict the future of your industry, rather than working in the present and foregoing permission? The post Joi Ito’s Call to Become a “Now-ist” appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

He is also a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) UAE chapter. A version of the following article originally appeared on Entrepreneur Middle East. But as every entrepreneur knows, every crisis offers opportunities, and this one is no different. For entrepreneurs, cash is everything right now.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

3- If you have an idea + a solid team, you can raise capital What I failed to understand the first time in Dreamit was that ideas rarely get funded- but that's not the picture that is painted to us entrepreneurs. Many early-stage entrepreneurs believe funding is the first step on the journey of building a business, and that is NOT the case.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Ashoka is a partner of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. But in 2014, the average job tenure was a mere 4.6 Enter the entrepreneurs. The post Why Young Entrepreneurs Are Crucial to Growing the Economy appeared first on THE BLOG. This article was originally published in Ashoka’s column on Forbes.com.

entrepreneurs

A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. I’ve always said nothing beats the high of getting that first customer to sign up.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups. Our vision has always been to facilitate the connections between entrepreneurs and early stage investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2019

Ryan Villanueva is an entrepreneur, educator and co-founder of Best Delegate , a rapidly growing education company with a goal of making Model United Nations a worldwide program in order to help this generation of students lead the world to a better, more peaceful, just, and sustainable future. appeared first on THE BLOG. ” .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

’s annual GrowCo conference on Wednesday, the entrepreneur, investor, and Internet advocate divulged the most valuable lessons he’s learned since he launched the hugely popular website in 2005. Ohanian returned in November 2014 as chairman, and Huffman eight months later as CEO. In remarks at Inc.’s

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

Manny Padda is an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan. Get support from trusted people.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 27, 2017

This article was originally published in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. Introduce Them to Entrepreneurs : Kids are inundated with all sorts of images of high-paying professions they might want to pursue when they grow up … but rarely is entrepreneurship an option. By Clint Greenleaf. I’m a lucky guy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Mitch Allen, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Fort Worth, is founder and Head Elf of Hire Santa , a service that brings the season to life with thousands of professionally trained Santas worldwide. As an entrepreneur, I’m drawn to the concept of Shark Tank. It’s like the Super Bowl for entrepreneurs!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The influx of Millennials into the workplace is providing today’s entrepreneur with a number of new challenges and opportunities. As entrepreneurs, we must embrace this dynamic and design a workplace that accommodates their hunger for learning and sharing. The post Creating a Millennial-Friendly Workplace appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2016

This tactic of using waste as a resource is as relevant for Fortune 500 companies as it is for early entrepreneurs. By 2014, mobile banking offered a full range of services and processed over $16.3 The post How To Unleash Sustainable Innovation That Matters appeared first on THE BLOG. Read the rest of the article!

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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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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. In the second part of that same journey, I stumbled upon what I believe to be a large and investible trend — and that is the key subject of this blog post. Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

health

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.

startup

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. There are 2.9 PHONE CALLS.

SaaS

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Are LPs to blame? None of these. Not so fast.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

After 25 years of self-employment, I felt ready to make the shift from freelancer to entrepreneur. When I moved to Washington State in 2014, I initially registered my business as Julia L F Goldstein Communications. Entrepreneurs, however, usually call themselves founders or CEOs. But I could change my perspective and my goals.

entrepreneurs

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. There are a lot of things I think entrepreneurs should care about when raising from a VC: How big or small their fund is? I could go on for a long time.

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

“Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. ” So it’s now March 2014 – 5 years since I started investing. So I think it’s now fair to rate me at 9/10 on follow-on fundings.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 1, 2024

For high-performance entrepreneurs, retreats are remarkably powerful tools — and the best ones can offer a significant transformative power to entrepreneurs who are seeking sustained success. Now, think about the advantages self-reflection could bring to entrepreneurs for an entire three days and three nights.

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