Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

More enjoyment, more opportunities, more challenges. Entrepreneurs with an ongoing thirst for learning often turn to executive education programs to expand their knowledge base to tackle new challenges and opportunities. Hao Lam is an EO Seattle member who joined the organization in 2014.

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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). He explained, “I want to share the same opportunities I had.” The post We Recast Our Business Expertise Into Valuable Incentives for Young Entrepreneurs appeared first on THE 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). He explained, “I want to share the same opportunities I had.” The post The Power of People: How We Recast Our Expertise into Valuable Incentives appeared first on THE BLOG.

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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. billion people, combined with little or no environmental consciousness, spells a large opportunity in India. EO was the root cause of my awakening. One evening, I developed a wheeze.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I’ve had so many amazing opportunities; it’s hard to choose between dogfighting in a fighter plane, training with the SWAT team, speaking on a panel in Germany alongside the undersecretary of cybersecurity for the US Department of Homeland Security, or finally achieving my dream lifestyle of traveling the world. Yes, absolutely!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 15, 2019

Of small businesses started in 2014, only 56 percent survived four years. Look for ones with growth opportunities inherent in the business model. How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur Without a Winning Idea appeared first on THE BLOG. Too many individuals believe they need revolutionary ideas to become entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I There’s an opportunity here. and more articles from the EO blog. I am now an alumnus). On my first trip, I made friends with people in other WEF communities like Young Global Leaders and Technology Pioneers.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2016

VAIZA is an accessory brand that works with artisans who have the same passion, discipline and compromise for work to give its consumers a bit of their cultural heritage through products that become art pieces, creating opportunities that become jobs for people with unique abilities to treat leather and textile design.

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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 a group, the 75 million people between the ages of 19-35 [i] , are digital natives and yearn for opportunities to learn and grow on the job. CMO, 15 Mind-Blowing Stats About Generation Z, June 12, 2015.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 27, 2017

This article was originally published in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. At the very least, they can see a few examples of other opportunities out there. The post Flashback Friday: How to Raise Financially Intelligent Children appeared first on THE BLOG. By Clint Greenleaf. I’m a lucky guy.

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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

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

In the United States and beyond, such extraordinary wastefulness is an opportunity of epic proportions. 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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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

Although entrepreneurship is presented as an opportunity and alternative form of employment, people with disabilities face considerable challenges related to business development. In addition, as an incentive, those who finalise the academic programme have the opportunity to ask for financial support to develop their projects.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2016

Nowhere is this truer than in the IT security industry, especially in the aftermath of 2014’s endless string of high-profile network security breaches at the tech security company, Blue Coat, for example. It can be tricky to spot ready opportunities in the marketplace and very tricky to tailor your operation to fill that void.

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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 I saw an opportunity to both positively affect social impact in the technology industry and meet the growing demand for affordable, qualified software developers, so I created Techtonic Academy. Step Two: Create a Solution to Address Issues.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

The SEC notes that private investments, exempt from the rigorous oversight of public offerings, are tilted toward areas of the economy that “disproportionately create new jobs, foster innovation, and provide for growth opportunities,” making them increasingly attractive to sophisticated investors. in 2014 to a target of 23.5%

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

OurCrowd has been an investor in Sight Diagnostics since 2014. See some opportunities below: Senior NLP Researcher for Signals Analytics (Israel). The post NewsLetter: Revolutionizing Blood Tests + Covid-19 Tracking and Testing appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Webinar Aug.12: 12: Protecting Data in the Quantum Age.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

. “As we engaged with Marvell, it became clear that our data center optimized portfolio combined with Marvell’s scale, leading technology platform and complementary portfolio, can accelerate our growth and vision of delivering breakthrough switch silicon for the cloud and edge,” he wrote in a company blog post announcing the deal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

I preceded this fundraise with a blog post that I’m the only person who works on Gumroad as an employee,” he said. “I 2014: income <$10,000 2016: raised first $1.2M But the founder sees this as an opportunity to make crowdfunding mainstream and an attractive asset class. Don’t give up.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 23, 2016

I can choose to focus on words like “waste,” “loss” or “fail”… or I can choose to focus on words like “learning,” “preparation” and “opportunity,” just like my mom did when she transitioned to a new life. This story was originally printed in the March 2014 issue of Octane magazine. Nice” Does Not Mean “Weak”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 29, 2017

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). You give recovering addicts the right culture and environment—the concept of love and connection, put into action daily to transform lives—and it’s a miracle, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

Q: In preparing for our interview, I loved reading about how you want to give more power and opportunities to women, who carry the burden of day-to-day work but are under-recognised. All adapted garments available around 2011-2014 were very poorly designed and not fashionable at all! Rut Turró, Founder of Moving Mood. Stay tuned!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Meanwhile, Silicon Hills News (operated by the very talented Laura Lorek) reported that Austin-based insurtech Decent is “shutting down all of its operations to just a core team,” which was confirmed in a blog post published by Nick Soman, the company’s founder and CEO. All parties are staying quiet. Amex isn’t the only one focusing on SMBs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It started as a hobby, but by 2014, with the support of my EO Fort Worth “Tamarindo” Forum, it became a real business. I might not have understood the value in shared experiences if I weren’t immersed in Gestalt learning via my EO Forum , the Entrepreneurial Masters Program , and other one-of-a-kind EO learning opportunities.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

Every milestone was an opportunity to tell the biggest possible story. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. I thought maybe Glossier would be another opportunity for that type of story — either in beauty specifically, or e-commerce more broadly.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. Health and wellness companies continue to receive increasing amounts of early-stage capital through 2014 before suffering a mild decline in 2015.

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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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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

OurCrowd was an early investor in BioCatch in 2014 and invested in the recent $168M lead by Bain Capital. See some opportunities below: Finance Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis for DailyPay (NY). The post Newsletter: Tech jobs soar + Sweeter berries appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Job Vacancies.

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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. Collaborations: Partnering with different businesses and influencers helps reach a wide audience and can open doors to new brand opportunities.

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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. ]. Over the last few years, the late-stage (pre-IPO) market has become the most competitive, the most crowded, and the frothiest of these financing stages.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

While the term “Pre-Seed” may have been what grabbed the event headline, today’s conference was really about how seed continues to change and presents both opportunities and challenges for investors, founders, and LPs. Below are my brief notes & high-level takeaways from the sessions.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 10, 2020

OurCrowd has been an investor in Sight Diagnostics since 2014. See some opportunities below: Senior NLP Researcher for Signals Analytics (Israel). The post In the News: Revolutionizing Blood Tests + Unmanned Vehicle Fleet Control appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Webinar Aug.12: 12: Protecting Data in the Quantum Age.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

And so we have this network effect that we're bringing to venture capital, and that's one way that we're significantly different: traditionally VC has always been a very human capital focused, typical VC firms don't look at that as a product opportunity. It's that kind of thing that we see as a unique opportunity.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 27, 2021

The SEC notes that private investments, exempt from the rigorous oversight of public offerings, are tilted toward areas of the economy that “disproportionately create new jobs, foster innovation, and provide for growth opportunities,” making them increasingly attractive to sophisticated investors. in 2014 to a target of 23.5%

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

On being deliberate in building your network to create opportunities: “Five years into BCG [Boston Consulting Group], I learned a lot about private equity investing, but I missed tech. This was 2013, 2014. Instead, I messaged Jeff Jordan and said, ‘You know, I read your blog post about retail, and the transition of retail to online.’

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