Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

If you are interested in more information about how to join an accelerator and learning more about the process, access one of these directories in Latin America , Canada , or the Caribbean and explore your options. Connect with your peers. Accelerators such as Union Kitchen, a startup food business accelerator in the Washington D.C.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Featuring topics like mobile apps, cloud-based resources, collaboration tools, creator communities, developer tools, e-commerce, low code, recurring revenue and marketing tools The Security Stage: Gain the keys to protecting sensitive information and thwarting hackers intent on unlocking details of your business and your life.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With a curious mind, the leader will seek knowledge and understanding from a variety of sources including subordinates, peers, experts, and trusted advisors. Jackie Jenkins-Scott has more than three decades of experience in executive leadership positions in public health, higher education and corporate and non-profit governance.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 6, 2019

After all, no one is more informed about his life than him. Investing in your employees also happens to be a great way to invest in your business. Bob Dusin , a partner of the leadership development organization HPWP Group , shares what happens when managers focus on coaching, rather than punishing. Then, he was right back at it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2016

As someone who’s dedicated her career to helping small-scale entrepreneurs grow their businesses, I’ve heard many skeptics say a business accelerator program is just a cover for startups looking to increase capital. On a personal level, giving entrepreneurs the support and resources to realize their potential is immensely valuable on many levels.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Peer-to-peer communities and forums are available to help you connect with other businesses and share information and tips. . Peer-to-peer communities and forums are available to help you connect with other businesses and share information and tips. . Long-term Advice. Shifting is scary.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We use this try to draw some context that informs our funding decisions. We also are dependent on money, advice and support of many of our friends & colleagues in the venture industry who co-invest with us in nearly every deal we do. Every year at Upfront we try to analyze the venture markets. VC survey data 2016 from Mark Suster.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

As you can imagine, being married and in business together, sometimes information coming from your spouse’s mouth isn’t the same as hearing it from the source! It gives founders the tools and accountability to take their business to the next level. How did you hear about EO Accelerator?

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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. They almost unanimously share a drive to seek and absorb new information. SBOs seek to take in as much information as possible. small business owners (SBOs) and decision makers.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2012

You know now why I would take her advice for new employees. ” She gave me a special one-time permission to write about her in a blog post so I could publish the advice she gave our friend. General Advice. But if you seek one out, most talented employees would gladly become your informal mentor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Surrounding yourself with successful peers from different industries and walks of life provides some of the best learning opportunities and provided a significant competitive advantage.” The Entrepreneurial Masters Program class of 2016. Continuing education is important, especially when you’re trying to challenge the status quo.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 19, 2020

Although we had most of the information their team was looking for, i2E completely organized us in a way we did not even know needed to be done. “e3 was a powerful distillation of the things we didn’t know we didn’t know. We now feel very confident going to market knowing we have a team of proven experts behind us.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

VCs constantly share cross fund information and are therefore always getting dialed into what is going on in the industry. Entrepreneurs need to share more information with each other. [if you're not old enough to get the reference between this image and the title you can click on the image for a prompter].

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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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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 23, 2019

I had been inadvertently searching for this kind of peer support for several years, but didn’t even know it existed. Many times, we would bring in an outside facilitator to help us follow our strict protocol of “no advice—just sharing.” During my start-up years at Aqua-Guard Spill Response, Inc., But that was about to end.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

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. I had to laugh a bit reading it. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future. ” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Launched the ACA syndication pilot with current ACA peer groups and a new deal-sharing platform. Without our members, none of our accomplishments would have been possible and our hope for the future would be unfounded. More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In addition to discussing potential use cases for advertising, fintech and enterprise apps, respondents shared advice for web3 founders who are hunting for funding, along with their concerns about factors that could stall its development. 7 investors discuss web3’s present and peer into its future. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

To build successful businesses, entrepreneurs must fall in love with solving customer problems more than their own ideas. Entrepreneurs often rush to build and test their ideas using the lean startup methodology. They are taught and believe that they should “fail fast.” Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs do a great job failing. A plan for success.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

The other day, I got interviewed for Business Insider. It was a good interview, save for that little vein that I had no idea was so prominently featured on the side of my head--but what's a bald guy to do? At least it's not a weird fold in the back or a dent at the top. All hat and no cattle as they say. How about as a VC? And you know what?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Employees working remotely often struggle to speak up when they face challenges since they cannot turn to the desk next to them for quick advice. Teamwork combats this issue, with employees connecting to their peers and opening the door to new lines of communication. Contributed by Sam Hill, head of people and culture at BizSpace. .

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. This will fail.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2022

There’s a lot of hard work involved but if you follow the steps I outline below, you’ll be well on your way to establishing yourself as someone people, media and companies gravitate toward for advice. Level up your peer group and get some accountability Too many intelligent people suffer from the curse of knowledge.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Every entrepreneur wants to hear “yes” during the fund-raising process but I would argue that being too risk averse and not pushing hard enough and be willing to hear a “no” is what holds back many people from “yes.” I believe people generally hate making decisions and especially so when they involve commitments and risks. Do they have influence?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Her risky pregnancy caused her placenta to burst during childbirth, almost killing her and her son last year. Walton, who feels lucky to have survived, says the haunting experience made her an example of a reality she had long known: To be a pregnant Black woman is to be at risk , regardless of economic background.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. million users making it considerably larger than some of its peers that have historically received more tech press inches. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

" Oohlala focuses on helping students feel connected to their institutions, peers and professors through a user-friendly app that unifies and centralizes university information, events, resources and more in " Montreal tech company Oohlala Mobile tackles college-dropout problem. " Investor Thoughts.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

After we closed the round, our lead investor revealed how capital efficient we had been compared to our peers. Welcome to the fourth edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here. Snapdocs is the leading digital closing platform for the mortgage industry. Even after YC, we didn’t raise much immediately.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

It spoke to me because it so resonates with my nearly daily advice to entrepreneurs and VCs alike. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. All advice you receive is too generic to help you – you need to decide for yourself in your exact situation.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

New and aspiring entrepreneurs often fall victim to impatience and imperfection. When something’s not working perfectly to their standards (or worse, fails), they take it personally and don’t know how to move on to better iterations after the setback. But that’s what startup life is all about. 8 Surprising Strategies for Unstoppable Focus.

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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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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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