Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

There is a need for the voice of entrepreneurs to be heard in Davos. Overall Takeaways from the WEF meeting in Davos John Metcalf, co-founder and CEO of Upgraded , shared his experience at Davos 2023: This year was my fifth time to visit Davos during the WEF annual meeting. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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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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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 That doesn''t mean I have anything against the founder or the investors. What was said, who''s right, etc.,

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Entrepreneurs with an ongoing thirst for learning often turn to executive education programs to expand their knowledge base to tackle new challenges and opportunities. Why, as a successful entrepreneur, did you seek additional education? Hao Lam is an EO Seattle member who joined the organization in 2014.

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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

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. Or maybe it was because the founder left to go start a second company before the sale was complete.

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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

JULY 10, 2017

Brad Stevens is an EO Atlanta member, Chair of that chapter’s Accelerator program, and founder and CEO of Outsource Access , which helps companies grow by providing highly skilled virtual assistants. In part I of our interview , we asked Brad about his journey as an entrepreneur. Learn more about EO Accelerator. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2017

With more than 12,000 members in 161 chapters and 50 countries, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) continues to make a mark on the lives of those entrepreneurs who are transforming the world. Here’s a profile of one of our members, Moisés Cohen, a member since 2017 and the founder of Capital Bank.

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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. This was a turning point.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2016

Fifty-one student entrepreneurs, each representing their respective country arrived in Bangkok to compete for the GSEA crown and most importantly — to digest 2.5 But only one could be EO GSEA Entrepreneur of the Year. Winner: Gladys Martinez , Founder of Vaiza (El Salvador). About the winner.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Here I make the case that entrepreneurs must stay focused on the prize, not the doubters. Entrepreneurs. ” **. It can be one of the strongest motivators.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

By Julia Langkraehr, a member of EO London and founder of Bold Clarity. This post first appeared on Bold Clarity’s blog and has been reposted here with permission. However, founders who have taken all the risk and who own all the responsibility can be intimidating figures, particularly if something goes wrong.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. 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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2016

As an entrepreneur, it is jokingly said that we suffer from “shiny object syndrome,” where there’s always a great opportunity around the corner and everything is an optimistic path toward achieving the next million dollars. The post Making Failure Your Friend appeared first on THE BLOG. Contact Russ at russ@designpickle.com.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

By Susan Michel, an EO New Jersey member, and the founder and CEO of Glen Eagle. 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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

Contributed by Robert Young, an EO Nashville member, who is the founder and CEO of Covert Results , a private investigation and security firm. He’s also the founder of Operation Rose , a non-profit focused on solutions to prevent and combat human trafficking.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 12, 2016

I launched Flow Forum in September 2014 and since then, we’ve held nine meetings and our activities have included a one-mile swim in San Francisco Bay, snowshoeing up a 10,000 ft. Bowen Dwelle is a member and former chapter president of EO San Francisco, the founder and former CEO of AdMonsters , and the founder and CEO of 8 Meter.

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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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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.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 29, 2017

By Glenn Cohen, founder and CEO of Beach House Center for Recovery. Nobody is immune to addiction—not even entrepreneurs. percent of Americans aged 12 and older battled some type of substance abuse issue in 2014 (the most recent year for which data is available). According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 21.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

By Manny Padda, the founder of New Avenue Capital and an EO Vancouver member. Take Canadian entrepreneur Hamed Shahbazi. Manny Padda has been an EO Vancouver member since 2014. The post Interviewing 5,000 People Taught Me 5 Surprising Traits of Great Leaders appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 23, 2016

How many times as entrepreneurs do we let our blemished past affect our unspoiled future? When I started out as an entrepreneur, I operated under the concept of cutthroat business. Often as entrepreneurs, we look for guidance and direction from business books, learning events, organizations like EO and our peers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. There are just as many bad entrepreneurs who do bad things. Founder’s perspective.

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StartupNation

JUNE 26, 2021

Maviglia-Morgan was crowned Miss Michigan in 2014 and is the founder of The KT Maviglia Fund, which helps Michigan residents with hearing loss. Next is Bunnell, the founder and CEO of NaviSavi , a video-only travel app that shows prospective travelers what they’re in for on their vacation of choice.

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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 Techtonic Academy Founder and CEO, Heather Terenzio, has more than 20 years experience in the technology industry and is passionate about increasing diversity in the technology.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

By June of 2021, the iOS app and API service officially had expiration dates , with co-founder Adam Grossman writing: “ Support for the Dark Sky API service for existing customers will continue until the end of 2022. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ That line of questioning led Mittal and co-founder Boris Silver to build FundersClub in the way they did. Why have you switched to the dark side? What's the insight there?

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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

MARCH 2, 2018

As of 2014, “76 percent of US residents were not familiar with bitcoin and 80 percent said they would rather own gold than bitcoin.”. He manages the People HR blog where he tackles topics ranging from building a strong culture to navigating HR tech. Yet, many people don’t know what a bitcoin is.

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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

MARCH 25, 2016

By David Adams, founder of HomeSuite. Uber learned this lesson when it launched in Las Vegas in October 2014. David Adams is the founder of HomeSuite , an online marketplace for temporary furnished housing that uses technology, data, and customer service to provide the best possible experience for tenants and landlords.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Even tech blogs know this.

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