Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I instantly realized that it was a rare opportunity to correct some of the many environmental wrongs in an industry where harmful and polluting processes were the norm. On top of that, they wouldn’t listen to suggestions about the packaging of the collection—which also must be sustainable in my book. However, I said no to the project.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2020

Nicholas Dancer is the owner and operator of Dancer Concrete Design and he chats with Ramon Ray about concrete, entrepreneurship, leadership, and his new book, Day In, Day Out: The Secret Power in Showing Up and Doing the Work. Nick wanted to write an essay-format book that mirrored the books which helped him develop a love for reading. .

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. If you could magically give one piece of advice to every founder seeking venture capital what would it be? After DataHero was acquired, I felt like it was time to try something new.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

We asked the winners in each city to tell us about their companies, provide advice to fellow entrepreneurs, and share a little more about themselves. I chose to come back to Orlando because I found it most rewarding in terms of personality fit, diversity, and growth opportunities. What advice would you offer entrepreneurs in Orlando?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2019

He has written a Wall Street Journal bestselling book called The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future. . It’s counterintuitive, and many resist it, but it is often the key to changing culture and improving outcomes. That was likely the best advice I ever heard. Why, and what’s the solution?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

One of most fascinating & enjoyable books on the topic is Bill Bryson’s “ Made in America ,” which demystifies the origins of the English language and why Americans speak more traditional English than the English do. (I I know, I know … just read the book). They know how much opportunity we afford them.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2023

At that point, you know their capabilities; you just need to assess their fit and motivation for the opportunity you are presenting. Depending on the role, there are modules of about an hour long: Coding, System Architecture, Program Management, People Management, Cultural Add and so on. Is it a culture add?

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We continue to build trust with a group of close investors and consistently show them the quality deals otherwise inaccessible opportunities. Additionally, Do you have any other advice for anyone looking to start a fund? What’s your advice to entrepreneurs who have a chance to meet investors like you? Build trust. Schwarzman.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 9, 2022

Coming from cultural revolution China where they barely had enough food to eat, they thought I was throwing away all the hard work they went through to come to America. Netflix’s culture was so different than the more secretive culture I experienced before at Amazon. Netflix has a strong A/B testing culture.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A name is a company’s first and best opportunity to harness that power—to convey meaning, make an emotional impact, or stick in people’s minds. Unlike naming a pet, company naming requires legal availability, linguistic and cultural viability, internal alignment and customer acceptance. The name lasts the lifetime of the company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Bird noted that “thanks to our high retention, we’re able to build a company culture that makes up for any of the disadvantages of a smaller labor market.”

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OkDork

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Some books just make you think differently about life… The Big Five for Life is one of them. John Strelecky wrote this book about a fictional businessman who is dying and sharing the lessons he lived his life by. Either way, this book leaves an impression. a) how a person would fit with the company’s culture.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2019

Her company, Food to Eat specializes in connecting immigrant, women and minority-owned food vendors to opportunities for growth. Purposefully and carefully produced, the entire day is maximized for peer to peer networking and expert advice from the experiences of our speakers. An author of four books, two of them best-sellers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

Andy Grove’s book and motto, “only paranoid survive” is part of Jim and Chris’s corporate DNA to be looking to be better and be more accessible to their customers. Covid, gave an opportunity to accelerate the company’s thinking. Young people have so many opportunities to learn that were not available many years ago.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

” I jumped to the opportunity. And really what is the problem, the opportunity that we’re trying to solve? ” Those questions and then having them written into narratives, fundamentally started to change the culture. Who’s the client? And then how do we measure that?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. My advice to people thinking about getting an MBA is to think about the five C’s.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

By Marissa Levin, CEO of Successful Culture and EO Baltimore member. I had the opportunity this week to learn from one of my most inspirational mentors who happens to also be a great speaker: Warren Rustand , a lifelong entrepreneur and former NBA player. Greatness is an equal-opportunity quest. Sign up for a volunteer effort.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. It also just won the Digiday Worklife Award for Most Collaborative Culture. and the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 30, 2023

Read his earlier posts on how EO members define success , the impact of core values , lessons learned from their best and worst partnerships , the best advice they’ve ever received and nine lessons learned from early entrepreneurial projects. When asked, “What is failure in its greatest sense? What did you learn?”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

“Lean” is great in the early days but if you discover an attractive market opportunity you need to get “fat” really quickly or somebody else will. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. ” I don’t love that culture. And that burned through cash too quickly trying. Not Google.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Having gained 15+ years of experience in a range of businesses — from startups to conglomerates, and experience of Series A to private equity — I’ve had the opportunity to actually apply the tried-and-tested practices of hypergrowth, as well as offer the full stack of C-level support.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards ….

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

First, the costs for under-performance are both tangible and intangible, with lost revenues, lost opportunities, lost savings and loss of productivity from low employee morale difficult to estimate. But, he stated, as I recall, “This one is for the books.” He had no advice other than to just do it and now.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Responses to those questions automate risks, growth opportunities, and playbooks that companies can take action on to deliver more value to their customers. This cultural interview is critical. If you had to share “words of wisdom” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be? the people in the room.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

And it seems to be creeping back into startup culture of late in a worrying way. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. If you’re a startup or product person and haven’t read his book Four Steps to Epiphany please do. Yet it tempts us all.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 14, 2020

EntreLeadership is many things: A book, podcast, event, program — but it started as a little living room business by Dave Ramsey. Answering these questions can create long-term visions and help a company know what it stands for, even when it comes to culture. EntreLeadership . As Alex said, “.the The Questions That Need Answers.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Following Fred Wilson’s advice, I want to build my own platform. I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should. I think there’s a market opportunity for a talent agent for microinfluencers, who would help me better leverage my audience. Instagram is primarily a place to showcase our culture.

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Startup Blogpost

MAY 19, 2023

Mentors have years of working in the industry they are consulting for and can identify business opportunities for the startup. Mentors can be a great addition to a startup, as they provide wisdom and advice to emerging businesses. No course, mentor, or book alone will provide the key to success.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2020

Pick up any book for entrepreneurs and you’re bound to find a chapter on networking. There’s a commonly overlooked opportunity to continue nurturing these early relationships into meaningful communities that help small businesses scale and grow through pooled knowledge, resources, insights and data previously exclusive to larger companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. Later, I got the opportunity to live in Barcelona, but they speak, ironically, Catalan there. This culture of asking. Startup Advice'

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

He suggested I read a book called ‘Emergence,’ which motivated me to learn more about the model. And then I came across ‘Reinventing Organizations,’ a book by Frederic Laloux, and I was freaking out about what I was learning. I remember being on a plane with Zak, trying to get him to read a summary of the book.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2011

First, the costs for underperformance are both tangible and intangible, with lost revenues, lost opportunities, lost savings and loss of productivity from low employee morale difficult to estimate. But, he stated, as I recall, “This one is for the books.” He had no advice other than to just do it and now.

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Your values are tested only when the decisions are tough, like losing money, hurting your brand, firing a highly-productive employee who isn’t a culture-fit, or a wonderful culture-fit who isn’t able to be productive. Your culture, and even your purpose, is the outcome of living your values. Leave money on the table.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

In just liking to make fun of things, or liking to try and be funny and criticize things, it seemed like a good sort of opportunity to do that. ” C++ is not a great first language to learn, especially if it’s just from a book. Craig Cannon [00:02:12] – Yeah, it’s kind of like a softball.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After having read Elad Gil’s book, I understand why. In fact, one of the defining chapters in that book was her user instructions for her as a manager. Maybe we can start with that backstory on how that chapter inside of Elad’s book came together. Her team loved working for her. Claire, welcome to Office Hours.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

She has also created a culture that authentically values giving back and making a positive difference in the world. Merry has inspired millions of people through her books, her seminars and even her own movie! Meeting Suzanne makes me realize that there are so many opportunities out there that can help us make a difference.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 47:40 – What’s a must read book and why? These people who never had the opportunity to start a store came onto our platform and became entrepreneurs for the first time, because we do not need them to invest any money in working capital or setting up an offline shop.

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