Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love. Being financially literate gives you freedom of choice.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

Contributed to EO by Saul Simon, a certified financial planner, a registered representative of Lincoln Financial Advisors and founder of Simon Financial Group. This article is the second in a series of three about having “The Talk” with your business partners , parents and adult children. Challenges you may encounter.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

The company touts over 200,000 businesses with, a large portion being startups that use its services as a financial backbone, replacing cumbersome platform switching or thejuggling third-party apps. In 2024, it launched a suite of financial software features and entered the consumer space with Mercury Personal.

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The Seraf Compass

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As a newly minted manager of a venture fund, your initial response to the question “what are we busy about?” might be, “finding great companies, investing in them and waiting for big financial returns.” And, while your response would be directionally correct, it would be woefully incomplete.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Bibiana Dipeo, the director of Alimentando Para el Futuro (Feed4Future) in Paraguay, is empowering her community after more than a decade in the financial sector, by innovating new ways to reduce malnutrition and poverty. Here are her responses to some questions about her work.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

It begins with a theoretical premise about your venture, proceeds to developing a minimum viable product (MVP) — the bare minimum that can still offer value — and seeks feedback from real-life scenarios. Practice Smart Financial Management When financial resources are limited , the impact of every dollar spent is significant.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

How a Jamaican financial educator perseveres through adversity. 2018 YLAI Fellow Kenishia Mais, founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform designed to empower young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, faced a lot of adversity on her path to financial success and entrepreneurship.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Start with a Clear Vision: Write a Business Plan Before making too far of a financial or time commitment to your startup, ensure that you h ave the right skills to start the right business and have a clear vision of the business idea or business model by c reating a formal business plan. They’re done by a team of people.”

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Visa will provide financial tools and digital inclusion tools and resources to its students to improve financial literacy. “As As a creator, artist and philanthropist, I’m passionate about helping others pursue their dreams,” said Williams. YELLOW is a non-profit founded by Pharrell that helps youth through education.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I reached out to about 15-20 other investors, of which about half were interested in taking a meeting. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? I appreciated her desire to get back to work, but I convinced her to agree to a 2-3 week sprint.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As a wealth management advisor and managing director at Northwestern Mutual Santa Monica, he’s seen the need for financial planning grow during the pandemic. . Financial success is built on a foundation of discipline and consistency. Integrated comprehensive financial planning. What’s most rewarding about your work?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Creating the perfect pitch deck isnt about making a visually appealing presentation; its about telling a compelling story that resonates with investors. Provide concrete figures about the total addressable market (TAM), serviceable available market (SAM), and your target market (SOM). The keyword is compelling.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Another one of the challenges that businesses have faced is financial instability throughout the pandemic. You want to do whatever you can to prevent the same financial crisis from happening to your company in the case of future pandemic, natural disaster or other emergency economic situation. Create a strong budget.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On the heels of 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests, we recognized our role in leveraging the Rise of the Rest platform we built to be more explicit about leveling the playing field — not just in terms of place, but also in terms of people. One event held by a few investors focused on Black founders is clearly not enough.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 10, 2021

Becoming a successful entrepreneur is all about working on and developing an entrepreneurial attitude by making certain shifts in the way that you think. Excerpt from Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity, and Achieve Financial Success by Charlene Walters (McGraw Hill, February 2021).

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 18, 2025

Designed to help inspire and empower individuals to redesign their future, INSPIRE + SUCCEED NZ will showcase some of the countrys brightest minds in leadership, entrepreneurship and financial empowerment. Im excited to share what Ive learned about growing a mission-driven product brand that creates real impact., said Brianne.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As active early stage investors and directors of Launchpad Venture Group, we are asked frequently about how we track our portfolio of investments and how we stay on top of the financial performance of each company. And, we are asked about how we track the overall performance of our total portfolio.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital? Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 1, 2021

I’ve written a bunch about the globalization of the startup economy. It seems to me that about half of our “new deal activity” right now is happening outside of the US. You can start and build a tech company almost anywhere these days. That has been true for at least the last decade. And we are doing exactly that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Dan’s ultimate goal is to scale the business for a lucrative exit in about five years. Angel investors want to see that you’re thinking about long-term potential. Focus strongly on customer needs: Think deeply about why you are doing this—what are those customer needs and pain points? Here are 11 tips EO members shared: 1.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

One of the biggest—and most disappointing—surprises about starting a business with your friends is realizing your friendship doesn’t automatically mean business compatibility. Remember that about half of all businesses fail during the first two years of their existence. Friendship Doesn’t Equal Business Compatibility.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 9, 2020

When it comes to financial goals, most of us know what we would ideally like to reach, but not many of us know how to set a specific financial trajectory for a frontier we have not yet pioneered. Identify and write down the few specific goals you have for growing financially. What about the next year? Buying a car.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

The Good Soil Forum tackles this issue head-on, providing financial tools, mentorship, and a network of supporters committed to helping businesses flourishespecially in undercapitalized communities. The Good Soil Forum is about more than ideasits about action. Jakes, Chairman of the T.D.

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Revolution

MAY 12, 2025

I couldnt stop thinking about it. But it was all about finding my path to entrepreneurship. So whatever desire you feel right now, whatever nudge has whispered to you about starting something, fixing something, inventing something: listen toit. Its about seeing something missing in the world and deciding, Im going to build that.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 17, 2020

No matter how you have managed your money in the past, it is important for you to now equip yourself with the knowledge you need to make sound financial decisions for a strong financial future. The Avoider does not want to talk about money and goes out of their way to not approach their finances. The Spender.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 17, 2015

People are excited about the idea of starting a company, but don't spend nearly enough time vetting what to work on. It will help you figure out why you're doing something, what you bring to the table to an unknown thing, and how to start thinking about pacing your progress. Choose one or more of the following directions.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 3, 2020

I have written about stablecoins a bunch here at AVC. We got some big news yesterday about USDC which is that the VISA card network is going to “help select Visa credit card issuers start integrating the USDC software into their platforms and send and receive USDC payments.” I explained why here. We cannot allow that.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Inspired by her inclusive mission, the YLAI Network team asked her a few questions about how she advocates for and empowers members of her community and how she recommends you become an agent of change. I then moved to Beijing to learn more about my Chinese culture and the language while also learning how to handle business with China.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By The beauty about being a leader is that you get to create a world where you can make a difference.” By working together, we can move the needle.” Shaivi believes that empowered women empower women.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 11, 2022

EO staff member Cydney Melton asked Emma about her experience. After experiencing insurance and financial services businesses take advantage of people she cared for, State Farm agent owner Emma Allen knew she would go into that industry to support her community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Working in wine during the financial crisis of 2008, I quickly noticed the opportunity to innovate within the alcohol logistics industry alongside my business colleague, Tim Elenteny. The ability to be honest and realistic with others about what is possible in a challenging situation is something that I pride myself on.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give. It’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.” ? I own and run a regulated financial services firm based in the UAE’s Dubai International Financial Centre, a high-cost jurisdiction even by global standards. A fallacy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2024

These programs often offer financial assistance, valuable mentorship, and networking opportunities. Navigate Manufacturing on a Budget Transitioning from a prototype to mass production can seem daunting, especially with limited financial resources. Leverage the power of social media to generate excitement about your product.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 14, 2020

The YLAI Network hosted three experts on financial planning for a Facebook chat in March 2020 for Global Money Week for network members. Many financial experts suggest making saving a priority. It’s a resource and has a fairly robust online community of users to talk about budgeting and debt.”. By Jewelle Saunders.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

Despite the IPOs scale, investor enthusiasm was tempered by concerns over CoreWeaves financial sustainability. Microsoft alone accounted for over 60% of CoreWeaves 2024 revenue, raising questions about customer concentration risk. The company reported $1.92 The company also acquired AI platform developer Weights & Biases for $1.7

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 13, 2020

As Sandy Kemper, founder and CEO of our portfolio company C2FO puts it in this blog post : The greatest financial relief we can give small and mid-sized businesses in this economic crisis is faster payment of their outstanding invoices — liquidity. It makes a lot of sense.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

Also, examples of ones that can be readily integrated into small business operations are given, plus other valuable insights about AI agents to help you grow your business. This is useful in marketing, sales forecasting, and financial planning. Xero AI AI-driven bookkeeping and financial reporting for small businesses.

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