Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 1, 2024

shared his experience around starting a business, the effects it had on his mental health and his advice on taking care of yourself and your business. was born out of my desire for autonomy and to create an investment group founded on family values,” Andile says. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2020

What is your advice during this time of uncertainty? . Seek professional advice. One of the best pieces of advice I ever received—and that I consistently share with my clients—is that we should never make long-term decisions based on short-term emotions or circumstances, particularly when it comes to our finances. Absolutely!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the top blog posts EO published on Inc.com in 2023: 1. My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations. And don’t miss Eden’s follow-up post for EO Blog, How to Stay Ahead of Crisis PR with ChatGPT. Did you catch them all? Don’t be afraid to get creative and explore new possibilities!”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 11, 2022

Emma Allen is active in the Charlotte, NC chapter of EO Accelerator , which empowers first-stage entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to catapult their business to the next level. Emma Allen State Farm offers a variety of insurance services, mortgages, investment planning and 401K rollovers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 15, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Creating successful online courses, Unexpected turnarounds to become investors, Sources of investment during an economic downturn. Send blog posts, not sales emails ?—?Rather a large, rich population.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 14, 2020

From debt management and saving tips to investment inquiries, you have money on your mind. It’s a resource and has a fairly robust online community of users to talk about budgeting and debt.”. What is your advice for a beginner investor? Kenishia provided further resources for those looking to get started with investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

You need to constantly ask yourself whether your actions in rapidly scaling an online community are worth the potential downsides of destroying trust amongst your users. There are some communities in which “anything goes” is the norm (think Reddit) and others where a zero tolerance approach is required (Disney).

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

Invest in yourself, and your hard work will blossom.”. In the years since the YLAI Network team first spoke with Neish about the importance of entrepreneurs focusing on their health and well-being, Neish is taking his own advice and is concentrating on soon stepping back from the role of Executive Director at TransWave.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

She has invested US$1 million to create a unique educational and empowerment program for children, the Superhero Program. It teaches children how to tap into their inner strength, empowering them to become strong, confident, and resilient individuals who can make a positive impact on their communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” But local VCs don’t deserve to get beat up for not investing. Mostly kidding. Very, very few pan out.

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Onevest

APRIL 1, 2015

By Michael "Luni" Libes In the traditional world of early stage, Angel and VC investing, money is local. Over in the impact investing space, this rule is not true. This post was originally published on the blog of Michael “Luni” Libes. Onevest does not give investment, legal or tax advice. Register Here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the top blog posts EO posted on Inc.com in 2023: 1. My advice to all entrepreneurs: Don’t shy away from hard conversations. And don’t miss Eden’s follow-up post for EO Blog, How to Stay Ahead of Crisis PR with ChatGPT. Did you catch them all? Don’t be afraid to get creative and explore new possibilities!”

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

What is the role that ThrivingDollars plays within your community? At the age of 21, with a nudge from my mentor, I started teaching myself how to invest in the local stock market and, as I was learning, shared my knowledge with others through a blog. Create community.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. According to her, other people working for The Family have asked several times to see documents that proved that investments went through.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 2, 2021

They are an integral part of eliminating and mitigating bias in their community. Remember that completing one training session, reading one blog, or starting one discussion is not alone going to eliminate bias, and mitigating bias is an ongoing effort and commitment. Here is what young leaders need to know about implicit bias.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2020

The best advice for business owners I can give: Listen to your heart. Are your investments smart decisions? Think about other front lines: your community and its people. The post 4 Reasons to Be Optimistic Today appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. In the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. Co-Working Space.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

5000 shared: Knowing what you know now, what advice would you share with your younger self? I aggressively invest in people. The coaches and the community have made me a better mom, wife, leader and person. 5000 company leader shares her entrepreneurial journey appeared first on THE BLOG. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2019

David Cusimano shares how he worked through the stages of hearing and actually doing a key piece of advice for business owners. . ” Hearing this advice, accepting it and actually living it are three distinct stages. ” Puzzled as to why these would be mutually exclusive I answered, “I want to grow a business.”.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

From using listicle blogs for high-value traffic to maximizing content accessibility and reach, these experts share their most effective tactics to achieve marketing goals. You can also create blogs for alternative tools. This strategy has proven to be a hit and has earned us featured snippets or top positions in SERP.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. Here are just a few suggestions: 1) Advise first, invest later. Angel investing is part lifestyle, part asset allocation. Before you start writing checks, just spend some time with startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

It is 12,000 sq ft of indoor /outdoor space and we’re building into a community work environment. Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies. Startup Advice' We chose a location that fit our style. That seems pretty superficial!”.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We are trying hard to live up to the guidelines we laid out for our investors, our portfolio companies and our community. Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. You can follow Hamet on Twitter here.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. It got me thinking about the advice that I often give to new VCs. And when I’m asked – as I invariably am every time – “What are you looking to invest in?”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Erik Torenberg is no longer the co-CEO of On Deck, a tech company that is trying to productize the community in a way that helps founders secure capital and advice. Torenberg, an early Product Hunt employee and the founder of investment firm Village Global, assumed the role only a year ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. ” “Sam?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ’s Accelerator program empowers early-stage entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow and master their businesses. The Angel-Sharks committed to investing a minimum of US$250,000 and ended up topping that with a total investment of US$400,000.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

In fact, thanks to increased scrutiny of investment funds in a post-Madoff world, this imbalance will probably get bigger and bigger. But crowdfunding investments in startups is the answer to all our worries in life, right? If venture funds could be supported by the local communities they invest in, you'd create a fantastic dynamic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?—?one Thank you to Hamet Watt for being such a positive leader in the African American community?—?I Upfront has consistently ranked in the top decile of investments to female founders and the top 20% of investment team diversity. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I will even take to emailing people I don’t know offering small bits of advice. You’re writing a freaking blog post! I had a pre breakfast with a CEO of a company in which I invested talking about his next fund raising round. Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. I try to be helpful. Operations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Before we see a whole wave of AI prompt engineering consultancy practices for hire — just kidding, we already are — I figured it would be helpful to aggregate some of the top tips I’m hearing from the community on how to better interact with AI to get it to give you the answers you want. Ask for help. million in funding. million in funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. He built a practice around a growing community in the Mid Atlantic and beyond. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. Invest they have. It was very widely read. Startup-focused.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As Our Colleague Kate Stern Departs Homebrew To Go Back to Company Building, Here’s Her Advice. We mutually anticipated it would be a three year role, after which Kate could decide if she liked investing or wasn’t ready to leave the world of operating (she joined us from 5+ years at Uber).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. I think most great angel investing is done at a local level. There was some Twitter chat before the event about whether this “replaces&# local angel funding communities like the Tech Coast Angels. As a former entrepreneur, I’m a big supporter of Jason’s goals.

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