Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Damaris, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, is working hard to combine her love for her home country of Nicaragua and her love of tourism to give back to those in her country, providing employment and education opportunities across her community. I cannot change the world, but I can contribute to make it a better place to live.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup. The company’s misogynist culture was well documented before Susan Fowler tipped the scales in 2017 and I don’t recall a single investor saying anything about it up to that point.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Problems with workplace culture A major obstacle facing many women in tech is an unfriendly, male-dominated culture. While it is difficult to quantify culture, several pieces of information point to common problems that women experience. Unwelcome cultural environments create situations where women may feel compelled to leave.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire in " The 2017 US Startup Team Gender Diversity Study. " Investor Thoughts. FundersClub explores the gender diversity of U.S.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2017, we shared 3 ways to empower your entrepreneurial community. Identifying and filling these cultural competency gaps benefits your entire community, and it is an essential component of continued economic and social progress. Culturally competent consulting service provider ThirdEye Network. Make your ecosystem adaptable.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2017, I started my own facilities maintenance company, Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). I’ve grown IFSH from US$54,000 in 2017 to US$4.9 You received multiple awards for business growth and culture. They gave me the confidence to start fresh and continue to do what I love. million in 2021. IFSH ranked No.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

2017 YLAI Fellow Victor Rujano Bautista is the co-founder of Culturas Indígenas y Medio Ambiente Sustentable (CIMAS), an organization committed to promoting and defending the human rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. By Bryce Kelly.

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StartupNation

JULY 15, 2021

To embrace its limitless opportunities, businesses need to adapt an AI-first culture. How to adapt an AI-first culture. This partnership has the potential to advance the world of work at a systemic level if it’s accompanied by a substantive shift in mindset and culture. Here are four ways to build an AI-first culture.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 13, 2020

As a member of EO Puerto, he’s also seen the company through the 2017 hurricane Maria. But it is a major challenge at the same time for our corporate culture because personalization and a strong connection to our guests is our biggest strength and the key value I grew this company up with. Carlos Melendez, Wovenware, EO Puerto Rico.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2023

So, Nathan conducted a culture assessment at the company’s corporate office and discovered that employees felt undervalued and underpaid. By 2017, the majority of employees reported significant improvements in how they were treated, a stark contrast from their response in 2015. Check out what they’re up to.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

We remain steadfast in our commitment to continuing to increase all of the above. And now, with Silver Lake’s investment and support, we can accelerate our growth investing even more into our strategic roadmap, and placing some new bets on ideas we’ve had but haven’t been able to find the space to explore.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

I was able to grow our monthly revenue by more than 30X in under two years without venture capital or angel investors.” – Michael Tindall “In 2017, two freelancer friends and I founded BigOrange, a firm supporting flexible work for women balancing motherhood, marathons, or other pursuits. I now spend more time working on my business.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

Trying to reach everyone is “impossible and hard to do,” says 2017 YLAI Fellow Mariery Young, who recommends that “it is vital to work with a specific target audience in mind.” When thinking of a name for her studio, she wanted to embrace her diversity, culture, and interests. Knowing your target audience.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Making Waves Lennert and Murnaghan opened a newcomer-friendly, Toronto-based surf and coffee shop in 2017, Surf the Greats. While the film’s original concept was to showcase Canada’s surf culture at large, filmmaker David Kalinauskas uncovered Lennert’s story—and knew it was one that needed to be told.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

2017 feels like a very long time ago. With members in more than 70 countries, EO is truly global, but that does not mean that our members around the world share the same culture, views or experiences. By Dr. Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. The world has changed significantly. A global pandemic. A brutal war.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As somebody who has seen the shift from Innovation to Systematization many times I can tell you that culturally it is very hard for organizations. With $30 million raised in 2017 ($57 million total) we feel in a great position to execute against our ambitions and truly scale our operations although we know each new phases adds new challenges.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In fact, as the keynote speaker at the University of Oklahoma graduation in 2017, Piyush paid off one of the graduate’s student debts. Make your impact grow exponentially by cultivating a giving culture in your business. Piyush’s background is in elementary education. We had different categories and one was philanthropy.

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OnStartups

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Today the State of Remote Work 2017 report revealed that 63% of people in product and engineering roles work remotely at least once per week, which is 21% more than the average. Considering stage, sense of innovation, hiring needs and nimble state, startups have the upperhand when adapting to this cultural shift toward flexible work.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 30, 2019

As media technologies continue to expand in scope and reach, with little regard for physical or cultural borders, how we educate students about the role of media in their daily lives increasingly incorporates more global perspectives. Media literacy education is a global and international focus.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. Founders, take note: your startup’s location is a strategic lever.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

By Rob Dube, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization member in Detroit, is the author of D o Nothing, The Most Rewarding Leadership Challenge You Will Ever Take , set for release in late 2017. He is president and co-founder of imageOne , a document lifecycle management provider and a 2017 Forbes Small Giant. .

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Hire more diverse investors and change your culture. More importantly, you need to fix the culture that has allowed bias to flourish for so long. In 2017, HBR discovered that male and female founders are asked different questions during interviews , with women asked about downside protection and men asked about upside potential.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

To create big ideas, you have to create the space and encourage that sort of behavior and culture. Developing a creative culture takes time and it begins with management, being more open-minded and less judgmental to the suggestions of their team. Originally published March 9, 2017. Dopamine, curiosity and creativity.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A pop culture hobby transformed into Lisa Sugar ’s sensationally popular media company, POPSUGAR. POPSUGAR is poised to remain one of the biggest names in pop culture news as it continues to expand its partnerships and launch its own subscription box and beauty products. Lisa Sugar / POPSUGAR.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

My friend Marie was the Irish finalist at EO GSEA 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany. I learned a lot about different cultures, as well as their businesses and specific industry insights which have been extremely helpful. We recently caught up with him to ask him to reflect on his experiences at EO GSEA. I appreciate EO doing that!

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Morgan Stanley’s tenth Lab cohort of 25 disruptive tech and technology-enabled startups joins 117 companies that have participated in the Lab’s culture of innovation to date, tackling the world’s toughest challenges.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This year, as funding for female founders drops to 2017 levels , Feinzaig realized why accelerators, hers included, might not work for women as well as they work for men: demo day. Health In Her HUE : Founded by Ashlee Wisdom and Eddwina Bright, the company is a digital platform connecting Black women to culturally competent providers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2017, Delahunt was at Ralph Lauren and had her first look at the blockchain, but it wasn’t until years later while working to pioneer some digital wardrobe projects with companies, like Snap, Bitmoji and Roblox, that she had an opportunity to see that web3 was going to be “more than a niche community” for luxury fashion.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2019

In 2017, my wife and I had recently become empty-nesters, and I was itching to get into something new. We decided we want a chapter culture that strives for business growth and plenty of time to enjoy our families and life. That changed in late 2018 when Brannon helped with launching a new EO chapter, in Charleston.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Since its founding in 2017 the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Labs has established a track record of success. Health in Her HUE : is a digital platform that connects women of color to culturally competent and sensitive healthcare providers who are committed to providing culturally sensitive and empathetic service.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora, which was founded in 2017, is focused on building the full self-driving stack, the underlying technology that will allow vehicles to navigate highways and city streets without a human driver behind the wheel. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take a board seat in the newly expanded Aurora. Uber wasn’t a party to either arbitration.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Challenging your employees more often will require a shift in the status quo, from goal-setting to your company culture. Create a Culture of Feedback . Creating a culture of feedback, however, can be challenging. Peformance tracking tools such as 15Five make it easier to provide ongoing evaluations and comments.

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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. You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Zoom today announced plans to acquire Workvivo , a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ internal communications and culture. Founded out of Cork in 2017, Workvivo has amassed a fairly impressive roster of customers too, including Amazon, RyanAir and Bupa. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Burns joined the firm (formerly known as Google Ventures) in 2017 as a principal, then was promoted to partner last year — making her the first Black female partner at GV, and its youngest partner as well. This year, at our second virtual Startup Battlefield , GV partner Terri Burns will be joining us as one of our judges.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throughout the company’s culture. By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

billion the week it was supposed to go public in 2017. The fact the numbers are the same was not lost on Bansal, and in fact the Cisco deal closed at the end of March in 2017, almost exactly five years ago. He says that starts with building the right culture where everyone feels welcome.

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