TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla says that by avoiding six-hour board meetings, he spends “more time doing decks for presentations for our founders than almost anybody I know.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

” Here are several pieces of advice for growing businesses from successful women entrepreneurs. Credit.com spoke with a handful of seasoned female entrepreneurs for advice on running a firm from a business perspective. If we are unsure about the contract, then we will seek legal advice from our attorney,” she said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 5, 2023

It’s Small Business Week in the US, April 30 – May 6, a time to celebrate entrepreneurs and startups for their big ideas and their unrelenting drive to bring them into reality. It’s also an ideal opportunity for entrepreneurs to share experience, inspiration, and the challenges you’ve overcome to make your business a success.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss: Why you shouldn’t always trust billionaire’s advice. The founder lessons found in Uno (yes, the game). Should you trust billionaires for startup advice? Whose advice should you follow? The result?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

Contributed by Julia L F Goldstein, the founder of JLFG Communications , which helps businesses share their world-changing ideas through clear and concise content. After 25 years of self-employment, I felt ready to make the shift from freelancer to entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs, however, usually call themselves founders or CEOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. What is a founder to do? The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

Having recently survived his first bout with cancer, the legendary Apple founder delivered an emotionally vulnerable speech that has become one of the most watched of all time. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc. Watch | Transcript. Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Heidi Zak , Elon Musk, Oprah, Warren Buffet, Kendra Scott , Sara Blakely and Bill Gates—entrepreneurs may appear quite diverse, but they typically share a few key qualities. What makes an entrepreneur? The adage couldn’t be more true than in the context of successful entrepreneurs. A passion for connection.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 31, 2021

EH Founder Dave Schools + an editor Amardeep Parmar Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. In this end-of-year special, we pick some of the best advice from all our guests in 2021. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube. Give us a follow on Medium , Instagram , and Twitter. #9.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 24, 2021

For years, he went on to advise other founders about how to generate VC interest, which really could have amounted to, “Be a warm body with a pulse in a sector that firm got shut out of a deal in.” Founders get “happy ears”. The ecosystem is full of bad advice from founders that couldn’t raise.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

What advice would you give your past self? Most founders I speak to agree that the startup journey is generally discouraging, overrun with unsolvable challenges and many many mistakes. I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. The best advice I can give is to dive in with the mindset that done is better than perfect.”

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 21, 2023

When a startup founder is trying to raise money, they know they should use referrals to get introduced to investors. Usually entrepreneurs try cold-calling investors or asking investors they know to make referrals. It is 100% a waste of an entrepreneur’s time to cold-call investors. Contact them and ask for advice.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. ” Marta Meszaros – Founder. ” Abbe Hyde – Founder. Never give up.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The most valuable lessons any entrepreneur can learn are from the successes and failures of others. Psychology Today notes that taking advice somehow feels like admitting that we don’t really deserve our high status. If you could have coffee with one person, currently living, whose business advice you would seek, who would it be?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

I'm often the last one to leave an event, held back by the most persistant of entrepreneurs trying to squeeze as much advice as they can out of me. I have one failed attempt at a startup under my belt as a founder and I don't have any particularly usable skills that anyone would pay for like selling, designing, building, etc.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. Obstacles and Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur . Overcoming adversity and growing as an entrepreneur can be tough, but with each challenge there is something to be learned. The Origins of Young Help Suriname (YHS).

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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. government.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 2, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Janelle Fenwick – Founder. Jack Coleman – Founder. Double Yolk. “ Chatterize.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 1, 2024

Entrepreneurs must wear multiple hats, make critical decisions, and shoulder the weight of their venture’s success or failure. Andile Khumalo, founder and CEO of KhumaloCo., 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

And so, generally, the people who invested in tech companies — the traditional venture investors — could tap their extended talent networks and apply their knowledge to bring talented people into startups, or at least coach the founders on how to select the right talent to scale and grow. It’s a great time to be a founder.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2023

These 4 misguided tactics are secretly killing your business Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I surveyed six seed- and early-stage investors to get their tactical advice for laid-off tech workers who are thinking about starting up. White (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Black entrepreneurs face a unique set of challenges, but Captain founder Demetrius Gray raised $107 million after his Y Combinator experience.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Ed Hallen is the co-founder and chief product officer of Klaviyo , a unified customer platform for email, SMS and more that empowers online brands to own their data and grow on their own terms. And for a founder, less luck means you’ll encounter less risk. Here are the three pieces of advice I start with: Identify a problem.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

14 Leadership Lessons From Successful Startup Founders To gain a deeper understanding of effective leadership, we asked startup founders and CEOs to share the most valuable lessons they’ve learned from successful entrepreneurs. This was great advice received from the CEO of a multi-million-dollar start-up.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Owner and founder of the vocational training company Royal Globe Inc., Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Advice for YLAI Network members. Avena advises young entrepreneurs to start small, particularly due to the possibility of unforeseen obstacles. to where she wanted. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” The narrative of this discussion is something like this: I meet a 35-40-year-old founder with two kids and mortgage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

It offers information on loans and grants and is accompanied by a quiz that provides specialized answers for founders regarding their capital needs and wants for expanding their businesses. The Tory Burch Foundation, which was launched in 2009 by fashion designer Tory Burch, has a long history of supporting women entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. Most entrepreneurs (and VCs raising from LPs) think this means progress. Entrepreneur : “Sure. Some people find this elitist?—?I

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. Right here.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 21, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask startup founders and innovators from around New Zealand, What is one piece of advice you would give to people working on their first startup and why? Tina Chou – Founder.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 16, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. “ Terry Wen – Founder. “ Ankita Dhakar – Founder. SecurityLit.

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StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

That’s not as crazy as it sounds because entrepreneurs started businesses in record numbers in 2020: there were over 4 million businesses formed last year in the U.S. As a repeat founding team, we have one huge advantage over the first-time entrepreneur: we’re not seeing issues and challenges for the first time. according to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Successful startup founders do not spring fully formed from the head of whatever god or goddess keeps tabs on entrepreneurs. Here’s the great news — TechCrunch Early Stage, taking place April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts, is designed to help both early and future founders accelerate the learning curve.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

These insights from top entrepreneurs benefit EO members plus the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem. Set Goals Like Google: Why OKRs Surpass Other Goal-Setting Methods for Entrepreneurs Eric Crews (EO Boston), founder and CEO of management consulting firm Crews & co., I’ve set many goals in 30+ years as an entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

Are you a seed-stage founder who’s building a unicorn? After giving a presentation he’d previously shared at Harvard Business School, Stanford and MIT, Currier outlined the mental models unicorn founders adopt and offered candid advice for early-stage entrepreneurs.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 17, 2022

Are entrepreneurs born or made? While it helps to have that entrepreneurial flair inbuilt, there’s no reason you can’t learn and develop the qualities of an entrepreneur. Founder of rental matchmaker technology platform Pickmee, Felix Scholz, believes this is the first place all entrepreneurs need to start. We think both.

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