Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Widespread layoffs during the pandemic contributed to an initial rise in female entrepreneurship in 2020, along with the need for flexibility. Setting the tone from the top that women belong in leadership roles and having women’s voices championed in decision making for business is an important starting point.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2020

We asked Adrienne to tell us more about the MyEO Tasimba leadership experience. She reminds me daily to stay connected to all I learned about myself and the world during our MyEO trip into the Tasimba leadership experience. Since transitioning from an active management role at the firm, she continues to serve as a board member.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A total of 233 EO-member companies were named to the 2020 Inc. Learning to improve your leadership, your business practices, your focus, your relationships is a hallmark of EO’s benefits and a significant driver in the success of any business. “EO 4,694 on 2020 Inc. 3,091 on 2020 Inc. 3,467 on 2020 Inc.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 22, 2020

In response, ACA wanted to provide our members and strategic partners some valuable updates, as we re-group post Summit for 2020 Showcase Awards, reflect on the past year, and look forward to what is in store for the organization. Moderated by Juliana Garaizar, ACA Board Member, International Committee Co-Chair, Greentown Labs.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2019

His strategic leadership skills would be tapped once again to serve as CEO of i2E, later as President and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and finally as President of St. This award was established by the family of Greg Main as a tribute to him and his lifelong passion for education, leadership and entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

At your board meetings, you have one investor complaining that you aren’t growing fast enough, another complaining that your burn ratio is too high and another warning you to extend your cash runway. Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. Now, it’s not so simple. You aren’t the only one who is confused and stressed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For the time being, the board replaced him with Kenneth Kinyua , the former CEO of Kopo Kopo, a Pan-African payments business, who recently joined Dash for a regional leadership role in East Africa. However, Dash’s board, in a joint statement, communicated a different angle regarding the former chief’s current status to TechCrunch.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Ramon hosted his 2020 holiday party with some of the best industry experts out there. Many companies spent a lot of time figuring out where they wanted to be at the end of 2020. Kevin is the only motivational leadership speaker in the history of America to have a day passed by the United States Congress. Changing the Plan.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But how are you supposed to promote engagement among your team when conventional leadership principles for on-site employees no longer apply? Trust not only powers successful teams across the board, it’s an essential aspect of a healthy, productive relationship between a founder and his or her employees, remote or otherwise.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This morning, employees were notified via email by the Better board of directors that Garg would be taking time off effective immediately after the “very regrettable events over the last week.”. million as determined by the Board based on his 2020 performance,” the S4 filing said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. Over the past five years in particular, we have evolved our organization with the addition of best-in-class leadership, investing talent, and infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million round raised in May 2020. billion in 2020 and is expected to be $6.28 Equally, we’re seeing really interesting things happening with large, traditional healthcare organizations and with government leadership,” Hultman Kramer added. Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Including the new round, the company has raised a total of $62 million, which includes a $13 million Series A raised in 2020. and moved to San Francisco in 2020, was co-founded by Andrew Butt and Denys Shortt in 2015 but launched fully in 2016. leadership team,” he added. The company, which started in the U.K.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2023

US productivity jumped in Q2 2020 as offices closed, and stayed at a heightened level through Q4 2021. They might face an inflexible Board of Directors, or the C-suite might be united in demanding that employees return to the office for much or all of the workweek. In reality, data shows the opposite trend.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Excerpted from “Culture Ignited: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership,” by Jason Richmond (Ideal Outcomes, Inc., As Vibhas Ratanjee, Senior Practice Expert, Organizational and Leadership Development, Gallup, says, “You may not be ready to think about the next catastrophe, not now when the unknowns outnumber the knowns.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The last time we checked in with Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, was in 2020 when the company raised a $50 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital. Since then, Khusid said the company grew its user base by 500%, from 5 million to 30 million users, and also its paying customer base by 550%.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

As a global talent acquisition leadership guru and expert on hiring diverse leadership teams, Debbie shares her insights on how to drive real change within your organization. Between February 2020 and February 2022 in the US alone, the unemployment rate barely shifted from 5.7 Get everyone on board with your WHY.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2020, complaints of suspected internet crime surged by 61%, to 791,790, according to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. Insight Partners Managing Director Jeff Lieberman, who is a Sift board member, said his firm initially invested in Sift in 2016 because even at that time, it was clear that online fraud was “rapidly growing.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A total of 233 EO-member companies were named to the 2020 Inc. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc. It’s been like having my own board of directors, for both my business and personal life. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing, privately held companies. We asked these elite leaders about their entrepreneurial journeys.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2023

Becoming a climate neutral company requires a shift in thinking from leadership to employees. Our company, CauseLabs received climate-neutral certification in 2020; we’re here to help! Include employees in the planning process and get them on board. Don’t worry. What does it mean to be climate neutral? Purchase credits.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

It is also a resounding vote of confidence in the UK’s fintech sector, and its leadership in financial services provision,” co-founders Andrew Evans and Will Wynne said in a joint statement. We welcome Aquiline to our board and we’re incredibly excited for the years ahead.” Going global While the trillion-dollar U.K.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

He also co-founded Dream Forward, which was acquired in 2020. Generally speaking, the best way to get company leadership on board with such investments is to highlight what competitors are doing to help them understand the competitive threat. Share on Twitter. Grant Easterbrook is a fintech consultant based in Amsterdam.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zingtree’s enterprise annual recurring revenue grew three times in 2021 after growing two times in 2020. It was bootstrapped for six years before taking its first institutional seed funding in 2020 to scale the business. It has 46 employees currently after having 10 employees at the end of 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

That’s when he and Michelle Lee, his first bizops hire, decided to start the subscription intelligence startup Subscript in December 2020. From there, the user can slice and dice the data into what they need for investors, board of directors and leadership teams to make data-driven decisions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Intel (which first invested in 2020 ) is a strategic backer in this case, meaning a financial investor and significant customer.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Foundation achieved 501c3 status in 2020 and since has held the Gold Seal of Transparency awarded by Candid and GuideStar. Under Dannielle’s leadership, ACA’s frequency and quality of social media and other communications, especially using video, has exploded. Margaret Bacheler with Bill & Ann Payne.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic having sent so many to work from home, those investments have paid off — the company has transcribed over 100 million meetings with more than 3 billion minutes, and has seen an 8x increase in revenues during 2020. added Zoom integration back in April 2020 — the early days of the pandemic.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

The opportunity to meet personally (or virtually in 2020) with a group of trusted entrepreneurs who run a variety of businesses, to be able to share experiences, and to be able to learn from each other in a safe and trusted environment is second-to-none. . I was running my security company and I had an Advisory Board.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

since 2015, and in 2020, women make $0.81 Our board — which is packed with studs from the Bay Area — is expecting that to soar within two years! Get your board on board: Educate your board as to why this matters. If your board doesn’t value this, it ultimately won’t matter. Asian women made 77.1%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

million Series A raise back in 2020. It’s great to see more women in leadership roles in the fintech community. Landsman had been an independent Stash board member since mid-2022 and has previously served in operations and leadership roles at Jet.com, Citigroup, BlackRock and E-Trade. TechCrunch had covered its $20.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When the pandemic hit in 2020, RedRoute moved further into the contact center space and is now working with customers like Brooklinen, UNTUCKit, Pair Eyewear and GNC. “It Schiff plans to use the new capital to grow the business across the board, product development and key leadership. The funding round he refers to is $6.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

He calls what Aircover is doing a “large interesting problem we are solving that requires some difficult technology because it is real time,” which is why the company was eager to partner with Bob Rosin, partner at Defy Partners, who joins Aircover’s board of directors as part of the investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Businesses have struggled to establish diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) work environments for some time now, but the events of 2020 put a spotlight on just how bad most organizations are at building impactful DEI efforts. According to Pew Research , “It would take an extra 42 days of work for women to earn what men did in 2020.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Since the company’s seed round in 2020 , fabric went from two customers to more than 60 today — including new client Honest Co. — As part of the investment, Robert Kaplan, investment director at SoftBank Investment Advisers, is joining fabric’s board of directors. and grew its headcount six times during the same period, from 45 to 280.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

She grew the business to over $100 million in annual sales before exiting to TravelPerk in 2020. Prior to founding NexTravel, Lam worked with startups in leadership roles. He is a board member for Skolem Technologies and has led more than 13 investments for Galaxy. TC Sessions: Crypto takes place on November 17 in Miami.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For 25 years, Salyer led Accel Financial Staffing, until the sale of the company to key employees in the 3 rd quarter of 2020. She is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma, Leadership Oklahoma City, and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Oklahoma City. How did you get into the accounting and finance staffing industry?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

This also caused the global pet care industry to boom, and it is now projected to reach $343 billion by 2030, when it had been valued at $208 billion in 2020. He also expects to hire more people on both the sales team and in executive leadership positions.

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