Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Whether it’s securing investment capital, marketing a concept, recruiting new talent or leaning on peers for support and advice, having a solid network can seriously work to your benefit. Let’s focus on the traits shared by most entrepreneurs—and how you can tap into these characteristics to jumpstart your own success. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

What advice would you give your past self? I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. I recently caught up with a friend who’d founded a company. And I do remember them. It took years before my startup Anchor began to gain real traction.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

In that prior post, I had offered Y Combinator as a positive example, but I didn’t break down exactly why. This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Step 1: Find the best founders An uncomfortable truth about this work is that not all founders are created equal.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Many investors would not offer this kind of advice to a founder they had just met, but because the startup had potential, I encouraged the founder to redo her homework. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Does your startup have enough runway? 5 factors to consider. Be an entrepreneur who leads with transparency.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

As an independent woman with a go-getter attitude, she shared insights with us into her life as an entrepreneur and what it was like getting YHS off the ground, as well as her advice for other young entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment using robotics and innovation.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

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

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 18, 2016

Advice for entrepreneurs is often reduced to absolute statements and black-and-white “do’s” and “don’ts,” but I’ve found the truth is more nuanced. Here are some of the lessons that have meant the most to me: Advice can be unhelpful. A number of large companies have programs offering advice from their staff directly to startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Over the past year, there has been a surge of newly formed digital banks aimed at specific demographics. The banks in nearly all cases are trying to meet the needs of certain populations that they believe are feeling left out or underserved by traditional financial institutions. It is expensive to be a queer person,” he said. “Not

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The most common advice given to aspiring entrepreneurs is to start a business that ignites your passion. The most common advice given to aspiring entrepreneurs is to start a business that ignites your passion. It may be a hobby or something of personal interest that enables you to develop a level of expertise that other people value.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. More on that later.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2012

You’ll be on the other side of the financing discussions (a board member, rather than the CEO). . You’ll have a peer relationship with another CEO that you have a vested interest in that crosses over to a board – CEO relationship. . So I’m going to follow Brad’s advice. You’ll get exposed to new management styles.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

After a student gets into a coding school, Career Karma puts coders into small peer mentorship groups, called Squads, to give students support during the program and into the job search process. Career Karma , founded in 2018 by Ruben Harris , Artur Meyster and Timur Meyster , wants to help.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I had served many roles previously on the BC Children’s Hospital Board, but I wanted to transition into something that engaged young entrepreneurs – and I found one. Our chapter president approached me and asked if I would be interested in creating a competition, with the catch that we’d never participated in GSEA before. Create Incentive.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 9, 2019

She posts how she's helped a client or saved them money or helped them in some way OR Rachel's sharing how a prospective client's finances are quite messed up and how she's GOING to help them or a lessons learned. Listen to their journey (challenges and success) in hiring, marketing and financing their growth.

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Gust

MARCH 8, 2014

While it sounds tautological, the most important thing a law firm brings to the startup table is… a knowledge of the law surrounding everything having to do with founding, financing and operating a startup! After all, they are *lawyers* not peers in your industry. But while obvious, that doesn’t make it any less important.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 29, 2019

Purposefully and carefully produced, the entire day is maximized for peer to peer networking and expert advice from the experiences of our speakers. Listen to their journey (challenges and success) in hiring, marketing and financing their growth. Smart Hustlers seek to build healthy, profitably, great business.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2019

Why was Goldman Sachs earning so much in profits relative to its peers? Finance, like many other industries, and many software segments, sells a commodity. My partner Alex often shares the advice Marc Benioff gave him: “great businesses are formed at the Venn diagram intersection of a great product and equally great go to market.”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Surely because they are more successful than their peers, it stands to reason they’re extremely sharp or even smarter than their non-CEO cohorts. Closely Monitor Finances. There’s a misconception that the most successful business leaders are born with their leadership credentials imprinted in their DNA. Management Style.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

The number one challenge women face is a significant disadvantage in securing access to venture capital funding compared to their male peers. Practice your pitch, have them look over your business plan, and solicit their advice to so when you go into the lion’s den you’re as prepared as possible. . In 2017, just 2.2%

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 21, 2022

Curiously they are actually often better at explaining the nearterm roadmap and rationale for funding than their peers. The advice I give mission-driven founders in this area are: don’t assume everyone understands or cares as much as you do. How do I define that term? Because they just went through that introspection themselves!).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 9, 2016

I talk ideas out with peers, gather feedback and then methodically move forward. Vision: When talking with investors and other advisors, it’s easy to get pulled off task by following advice that’s not right for your idea. This story was featured in the March 2015 issue of Octane magazine. Start before you’re ready? I’m no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Both firms were able to establish themselves as clear market leaders in early-stage finance even though they were effectively startups 10 years ago in their own right because they did things a different way. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

What does it mean for the purchasing process to be aligned? Well think of it this way – you have your sales process. You know exactly when you want to sell to this customer and presumably it’s this quarter! And with scarce resources it’s your job to decide which door this lead must go through – sales or marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) I have been involved with a high profile one in Los Angeles – Launchpad LA – and we’ve decided to make a shift so I thought this was a good time for reflection. We had a specific goal in mind. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The next few posts are going to talk about scaling your sales operations as you move out of the evangelical phase. In the early days of selling it can sometimes be an advantage to not have rigid pricing schedules, complex service level agreements (SLAs), hard-and-fast rate limits, etc. Ultimately he & I had a bad cultural fit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

New financing and the boom of the mental health focus amid the coronavirus pandemic puts Expectful in a coveted spot. Her risky pregnancy caused her placenta to burst during childbirth, almost killing her and her son last year. The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new mothers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. I have talked about this publicly a great deal – how I prefer “missionaries” over “mercenaries.” It’s your baby.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

If you can associate with people who challenge you to think positively, dream bigger and offer advice, your path to success becomes easier. If anyone has given you tips about starting your own business, they’re sure to have missed something, too. Here’s what I’ve learned from 19 years of experience: 1.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Expert Networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. It is natural to feel this way. But first, what’s the purpose of a board? option grants). A note on board composition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

For EO Chicago’s Zak Dabbas and Ryan Unger , co-founders of Punchkick Interactive, a mobile app and web development agency, the secret to their sustainability comes from “going flat.” WALK US THROUGH THE ORIGINS OF PUNCHKICK INTERACTIVE. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START A BUSINESS TOGETHER? I wanted to be a part of it, so we started working together.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Last week, on Martin Luther King Day, I decided that instead of saying something in my weekly newsletter , I would do the opposite--I would listen. I asked, "What is your experience of being be black in tech today and what can allies do to improve it?" I will not, however, tolerate hate in anyone's direction. Ducks head.] Ok, let's dive in.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In-house legal teams play a critical role in companies, but a lot of them don’t have the same kind of technology as their counterparts in sales or finance. The startup serves in-house legal teams, instead of law firms, because “in-house lawyers have very different incentives and objectives to their private practice peers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Knowing what you know now, what one piece of advice would you give your earlier self? We are all learning as we go, and it is essential to lean on your peers, ask for help and be authentic with where you are.” – Adrienne Cornelsen. We interviewed four people for Octane magazine. Check out their responses…! “I

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 22, 2019

Purposefully and carefully produced, the entire day is maximized for peer to peer networking and expert advice from the experiences of our speakers. Listen to their journey (challenges and success) in hiring, marketing and financing their growth. Junk removal is a messy business, but profitable if you do it right.

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