Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2020

She recently attended a Facebook Live stream hosted by Warren Rustand , co-founder of EO’s Leadership Academy in Washington, D.C., Rustand says he’s had calls from more than 300 business leaders at small and medium-sized companies looking for advice. where he addressed the global pandemic.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

By Luisfer Pelayo, founder of ATÁLIA. Some advice to start with would include: Answer these questions: What is your mission? Luisfer Pelayo, the founder of ATÁLIA, has a master’s degree in digital marketing and e-commerce. When we start a brand, we rarely begin with thinking about the community around it. What is your vision?

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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

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. The post Pomp and Reality: Real advice for today’s graduates appeared first on. Watch | Transcript. Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Psychology Today notes that taking advice somehow feels like admitting that we don’t really deserve our high status. But truly successful people understand that the advice and knowledge of people who have been-there, done-that is priceless. ” Thomas Edison, inventor/founder of GE (1847 – 1931). What would you ask them?

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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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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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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017 to support founders actively working on building their companies. On November 9th, we’re also opening Startup School to potential founders who are interested in starting a company in the future. You can register for the new course today.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

At this crucial juncture, the views of venture capital market leaders, mentors and experts carry greater weight, and many of them have publicly and unequivocally advised founders to lengthen their project’s runway and push it into the black. One of the most interesting companies in our portfolio almost fell victim to this advice.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Anyone , an audio app that’s building a ‘marketplace for advice’ one five-minute phone call at a time, is launching new versions of its iOS and Android apps today* and beginning to large-scale onboarding after operating in a limited closed beta for the past six months. It’s one-to-one only.

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Y Combinator

MAY 10, 2023

Curtis Fonger and Matthew Busel met on YC’s Co-Founder Matching (CFM) Platform, a tool we built to help co-founders find each other. Even in early conversations, their fit as co-founders was clear to each of them. What brought you to YC’s Co-Founder Matching Platform?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. Female Founder Office Hours gives founders the mentorship and the role models to see that it is in not only possible but also to have a plan to make it a reality.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The post Angel Investors Spotlight: An Inside Look at Hudson Valley Startup Fund’s Investment Process & Advice for Founders appeared first on The Gust Blog. Read more >.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On November 17, we are hosting our second Aspiring Founders Forum for women who aspire to become a startup founder. Speakers will share their honest accounts of entrepreneurship, as well as essential startup advice. Speakers include: Jessica Livingston , Co-founder at Y Combinator. Holly Liu , Co-founder at Kabam.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

As lines of code continue to proliferate through the world, as the rate of startup formation increases to seize those opportunities, and as the VC industry expands to support those new teams and opportunities, there is no shortage of people to visit for advice — not to mention all the resources online.

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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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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. I never thought of this until I became the Founder & CEO of my first startup company. Why you should never have a data room?—?the

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Y Combinator

JUNE 30, 2022

YC has run events to educate and support women in tech, and now we’re doubling down to offer tailored advice that’s specific to you and your career. We’re setting up chats for women engineers to get one-on-one career advice from YC, starting with Anu Hariharan, Managing Director of YC Continuity.

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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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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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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. It’s best known for its fellowship program that provides education grants, networking opportunities and business advice to women entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

3 views: How should founders prepare for a decline in startup valuations and investor interest? Investors are pushing founders to be lean, but at the same time, offering them $10,000 to take PTO for a week and try their hand at entrepreneurship. Cram downs are a character test for VCs and founders (April 2022). January 2022).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

For the last 20 years, Ajay’s worked with early-stage founders to build companies from seed to unicorn such as SendGrid, Clari, Gainsight, FourKites, 6sense, and Bloomreach. For the uninitiated, TC Early Stage is our annual founder summit. Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003.

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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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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We believe that technology startups should include a technical founder because it is critical that a CTO have a seat at the table where key decisions regarding the future of the startup are made. Additionally, throughout the year, YC group partners will give talks on the most essential startup advice.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Putting on your mask first: knowing when to spend as a first-time founder. “Be Be scrappy” is great advice for most founders, but for first-generation and minority founders, it’s often the wrong advice — and one of the most challenging things I had to unlearn when I built my first company. face by being too frugal.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 31, 2019

Ginger's advice to women business owner? Most female founders started their business for PURPOSE over PROFIT and they want to make a difference. The post Reducing Startup Failure - Mastercard Exec Shares Her Insights and Advice for Female Founders. Keep focused on the REASON you started your business.

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