Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 9, 2016

This story was featured in the March 2015 issue of Octane magazine. I talk ideas out with peers, gather feedback and then methodically move forward. At a recent entrepreneurship summit, a group of speakers were discussing the perfect time to launch a company. The consensus surprised me a little— start before you’re ready.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Fujiyo Ishiguro speaking at the Brookings Institute. Yesterday, 8 February, my colleague and I had the pleasure of attending the Womenomics 2.0 event , hosted by the Brookings Institute to discuss the “potential of female entrepreneurs in Japan.” When asked what motivated her, Ms.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

I have been reading Fred’s blog AVC for about a decade now. I sort of feel mentored by Fred via his blog, which is pretty remarkable for just writing words on the web and sharing them. Well, that time has finally come. Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? These questions have been rattling around my brain.

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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?’ ’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 11, 2016

Siplo is an online peer tutoring platform. Remedia BVBA uses technology to push people to meet each other, manage your team on the go and promote your services using location-based advertising. They offer an organizational tool to companies which make it possible to organize their employees based on their location. ” Canada.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

James and Andrew [the co-founders of Firebase] really treated me like a peer. In this interview, Vikrum tells us what he found most valuable about his YC experience, how to build successful developer tools, and why Gold Fig is going to put an end to embarrassing and costly configuration changes, once and for all. It’s really endearing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

Contributed to EO by Marina Byezhanova Justinus Adriaanse is an EO Canada Bridge member who grew up in a middle-class family in South Africa, keenly observing the glaring disparities that were unmistakably present in his surroundings. It was a pivotal moment, and a true litmus test for Adriaanse’s resilience. You solve a problem by taking action.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In a single day—25 April, 2015—the earthquake had left almost 9,000 people dead, nearly 800,000 homes destroyed and more than 30,000 classrooms damaged. It was noon on an ordinary Saturday when a 7.8-magnitude magnitude earthquake struck the land of snow peaks and Sherpas, yaks and yetis, monasteries and mantras. So, I stayed where I was.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Cendana founder Michael Kim was amongst the earliest and certainly the most focused LP to spot the changes in venture capital leading to seed stage funds and has backed many of the best in the industry so it’s always a pleasure to come and share thoughts with all of these great peers. Boom and bust. Are LPs to blame? None of these.

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