Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 11, 2016

VAIZA is an accessory brand that works with artisans who have the same passion, discipline and dedication to their 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

DECEMBER 11, 2015

” Any predictions for a 2016 equivalent? Company culture. This is another way of describing a CEO or business founder who is caught-up in the daily operations of their organization. We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2020

5000 , your company must: • Be privately-owned, based in the United States and independent • Have started earning revenue by 31 March 2016 • Show revenue no less than US$100,000 in 2016 • Show revenue no less than US$2,000,000 in 2019 • Revenue in 2019 exceeds revenue in 2016. To qualify for the 2020 Inc. And he should know!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

As founder and CEO, it is my responsibility to address the concerns you may have, and this will be a priority for me moving forward.” F or most, the delayed response was a terrible look and spoke to a weak company culture that might lead to more tea spilled. No exceptions. What Flutterwave and Agboola didn’t address.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

As history often reminds us , due diligence matters from a human perspective — and vetting a founder beyond their ability to attract talent can save firms from headaches or legal woes. Traditional investment that prioritizes pedigree and culture, or the “art” of a founder, has left out an entire class of historically overlooked individuals.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 29, 2017

By Glenn Cohen, founder and CEO of Beach House Center for Recovery. Since welcoming our first client in March 2016, we’ve treated more than 800 people. Hiring and retaining recovering addicts just entails creating a culture that is friendly to sobriety and puts clients first. Nobody is immune to addiction—not even entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 31, 2016

Just ask Violeta Martinez, winner of the 2016 EO GSEA Global Finals and founder of VAIZA, an El Salvador-based, luxury brand crafted from the heart. With my brand, VAIZA, I’m able to promote my art, culture and the local artisan heritage through the creation of luxury handbags, wallets and shoes.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

On the other side of the spectrum is Benchmark Capital who famously eschews platform services and believes that having nobody between their partners and the portfolio companies they work with makes for the most productive relationship between VC firm and founder.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2016

For 2016, I’ve made what I think is a game-changing resolution, which will ultimately help me to be a better entrepreneur. One of my first big projects of 2016 is realizing a super aggressive integrated marketing strategy. Management of my newsletter & blog. The post My Big Resolution for 2016 appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor. hit nearly $1.8

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 23, 2016

Early on we recognized that one of the best ways to mitigate risk was by hiring right and having a positive culture emphasizing excellence and personal responsibility. Ryan Swehla is Principal & Co-Founder of NAI Benchmark with his business partner and lifelong friend Joe Muratore. The Right Team is Critical.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2017

Paul Binsfeld is an EO Arizona member, as well as the founder and president of Company Nurse, LLC. In 2016, Paul launched Enspiri Solutions, LLC , the first-to-market SaaS solution for workers’ compensation nurse triage management. The post Building a True Client Partnership appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

I believe this is an important post for both founders and investors in the Bay Area and outside the Bay Area to read carefully. 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. Global and Local.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Contributed to EO by Natalie Kaminski, an EO New York member and co-founder and CEO of JetRockets. Fast forward two-plus decades, and I’m now the CEO and co-founder of JetRockets, where we develop high-performing web and mobile app solutions that help our clients transform their businesses and grow.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2019

We went live on World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2016. After all, we as a culture are fairly judgemental. Founder, BetterLYF.com. The post Building a Groundbreaking Platform for Mental Health Support With Passion and Purpose appeared first on THE BLOG. When Reality Gazed at Naivety. We wanted to normalize counseling.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 9, 2018

Peninsula Luxury Retreats founder Peter Noble had carved his path as an entrepreneur by launching and running Citrus, a marketing automation business, for almost 20 years. In 2016, Peter made the bold decision to close his business and embark on a new journey in the hospitality space. Staffing, culture and ego.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Hire for Culture. He taught me the importance of culture in business. His company’s hiring decisions are based, in large part, on cultural fit. If Welles’s story did not inspire him from the outset, he was just not the right cultural fit. The post Man in Red Bandana appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 12, 2017

EO Costa Rica’s Marcelo Burman (pictured above, on right) is the leader of Latin America’s Good Deeds Day initiative—in 2016, the event was on 2 April. We always talk about how we can do something different and this simple but powerful idea unites people of all cultures and backgrounds on one day to do good together.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. My blog has always been a mixture of what was on my mind and a blend of venture, startup life, tech views and current society events that related to my interests: Venture, startup & tech.

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