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? A Q&A with Rita Hansen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Onboard Dynamics,” published on Oct.

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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. From 2014 to 2015, we are proud to have grown the program from 14 to more than 40 companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The fresh cash will be put toward several efforts, CEO and co-founder Frederic Lalonde said in a press release, including supporting Hopper’s new social commerce initiatives.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

We still share good and bad news with each other and provide much-needed support if one of us hits a wall–it’s priceless.” Hao Lam is an EO Seattle member who joined the organization in 2014. He is the CEO and founder of Best in Class Education , an education center designed to help students and teachers grow.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Today, there are more nonprofits and incubator programs supporting potential entrepreneurs than ever before. If you’re a startup founder ready to gain the tools you need to get to the next level, check out the EO Accelerator program. Hall actively supports entrepreneurs and start-ups. appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He did not provide further details, saying only the company would provide the affected “with generous packages, engage in consultation where required, and support them with their transitions.” The New York–based firm, started by Joshua Kushner, also led the company’s $70 million Series C in 2014 when it was valued at $3.5

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Supply chain Sesamm founders Pierre Rinaldi, Sylvain Forté and Florian Aubry. Image Credits: Sesamm Founded out of Paris in 2014, Sesamm has amassed a fairly impressive roster of clients from across the financial realm specifically, including U.S. Sesamm also manages licenses for proprietary data sources from premium news channels.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

Or maybe it was because the founder left to go start a second company before the sale was complete. Founder Jayesh Parmar always looked at his options for exiting while building his business. For founders, there are some clear signs that it’s time to get out. Get support from trusted people. Know when to go.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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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 was 10 years into my entrepreneurial journey, unemployed with zero savings and had no back-up plan to support me. The post Making Failure Your Friend appeared first on THE BLOG.

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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. It started as a hobby, but by 2014, with the support of my EO Fort Worth “Tamarindo” Forum, it became a real business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO. This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. Just don’t spam people.

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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 home buyer has been a major supporter of Techtonic Academy, and as a result, they have saved 20% percent on software development over the past two years without sacrificing quality or time-effective solutions.

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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. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 23, 2016

In my years of being a business owner, I’ve discovered that inspiration—and support—can come from the most unexpected of places. Georges Levesque is the founder and president of GAL Consultants and The Levesque Group. This story was originally printed in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. state, as well as 83 countries.

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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 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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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve been talking about the unique challenges facing women founders for years, but the pandemic was particularly hard for women looking to start their own companies. Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner.

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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. Ensure you’ve raised enough capital to support operations in your current markets (as well as in your new ones). The post How to Lay the Groundwork for Success in a New Location appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). Even tech blogs know this. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. During the onset of the pandemic, Aboyeji, via his blog post , said Future Africa Fund was looking to raise institutional investment.

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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. ]. Many companies embed costs that are truly variable (for instance customer support, marketing, credit card processing) below the gross margin line.

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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. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster.

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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. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway. It’s male founder friendly. Founders have to reckon with that.

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