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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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While starting a business is a common new year’s resolution, soon-to-be entrepreneurs make the leap for a variety of reasons. To effectively support any entrepreneur, you must develop an infrastructure of resources in your community. Early-stage entrepreneurs, like all entrepreneurs, have their own set of unique needs.

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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

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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. So far from not taking advice from other people – I want more advice, more data points, more opinions.

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Why Emmy Award-winning documentarians focused their lens on 5 GSEA student entrepreneurs

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Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) encourages young entrepreneurs through its Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) , EO’s premier competition for college students who own and operate a business. What was your biggest takeaway about student entrepreneurs? I found that to be pervasive among entrepreneurs.”.

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Why experience sharing is key to entrepreneurial growth

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Almost 10 years ago, I had my first experience with a professional Forum when I joined Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Given the request for input and feedback, you might expect a presenter to receive various advice from the other Forum members. However, most Forum organizations train members to specifically avoid giving advice.

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EO’s Most Popular Inc. Posts: A Lookback at 2023

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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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He Sold His Startup for $130 Million, Here’s What He Learned, and Questions to Ask When Considering Whether a New Job is a ‘Fit’ for You, Plus Other Great Reads [link blog]

Hunter Walk

Here he provides actionable advice for founders who are building long-lasting companies but know M&A might be the eventual, and successful, outcome. This is about the bread-and-butter, $50M-$500M acquisitions of mid/late-stage startups who probably took the offers because they had serious doubts about whether they could go the distance.

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7 EO members explore the impact of core values

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Kym is fascinated by entrepreneurs and their journeys, so he asked EO members from various chapters to share their experiences. Read his earlier posts on what EO members wish non-entrepreneurs knew about entrepreneurs and how they define success. How do you bring them alive in your business?”