Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2021

Chances are strong that you used the pandemic as an opportunity to reset your business and redefine success. One method is to focus on your company’s business success metrics by creating a unique business scorecard. A scorecard is essentially the “health report” for your organization. Employee motivation.

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Dream It

AUGUST 2, 2021

Evan gets this question a lot from entrepreneurs: “I’ve got great technology that I’m ready to bring to market. Evan says he usually asks 3 rhetorical questions to help entrepreneurs understand what it takes to build a successful channel program: 1. That’s your job as an entrepreneur. your product strictly great for retail?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 24, 2021

In the past 12 months, salary cuts, crashing economies and general crisis paralysis have left many leaders wandering aimlessly through the smoking debris of their businesses. There will not be clear answers to things anymore. Be there for your team. These are big discussions, and I don’t think anybody has all the answers.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

From qualifying leads to supporting online customer service, there are several ways to effectively utilize chatbots for your small business. Buy technology that, through automated chat and conversational experiences, can take work off your plate and create better experiences overall. Think of chatbots as assistants. What happened next?

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2024

We asked the question about their member behaviors compared to the previous 12 months and in the 2021 survey 42% indicated the membership meeting attendance had increased compared to only 30% who indicated that in the 2023 survey. Figure 1: How Have Your Portfolio Companies Changed in the Past 12 Months?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 26, 2024

BAB also automatically totals the items you add, ensuring you stay on track with your budget. What inspired you to start your business, and how does your personal journey as a woman influence the direction of your company? How has your experience with i2E impacted your startup journey?

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

Typically, investors don’t take a board seat until you raise your first equity round—which means that it could be *years* before you have a real board meeting: A year of nights/weekends work researching, prototyping, and fundraising. You raise your pre-seed round and if you're lucky and good, you can get to an equity round in 12-18 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. They told you how much they loved your space. I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially You had an amazing meeting with an investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? I often answer the same way … * “First, yes, nearly every corner of our market is over-valued. What Has Changed in Financing? Are we in a bubble?”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. Provide the last 12 months of product management data for Engineering (e.g. Explain the roadmap for the next 12 months. Describe your architecture and provide architectural diagrams. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jira tickets).

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Audience Choice voting opens for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 It’s time to make your voice count! Enlist your colleagues, family, friends and fans to vote and make it happen! Go to the Audience Choice voting site , read the full topic descriptions, filter and search by topic, and upvote your favorites.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

October 17 — Moscone West Lobby | 12:00 p.m. – Please bring your ticket and a government-issued photo ID to pick up your badge. Please bring your ticket and a government-issued photo ID to pick up your badge. you can access the app in-browser on your mobile device or computer. 12:10 p.m. –

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Regardless of whether you plan to seek a buyer or take advantage of shifting market dynamics to make a strategic acquisition, it’s important to note that M&A processes typically require 12–18 months from start to finish. You and your potential acquirer may have different definitions of “scalable systems.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2022

Kimball thought about my question and simply responded, “Business is hard.”. After nearly 12 years of entrepreneurship, I now realize that was the gold nugget. You and your business are two separate things. I grew up intimately watching and bearing witness to the ethos and work ethic of my mother and father. I wanted the secret.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

Treat Your Vendors as Partners (and With Kindness). Manage All of Your Crazy Ideas and Review Them Each Quarter Like most entrepreneurs, I have no shortage of ideas. Identify Three Unique Qualities of Your Company. Market research and keeping your finger on the pulse of your industry can help identify these for you.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2019

If you have—and your experience was positive—then you understand how much you can gain from regular contact with someone who has been where you’d like to go. Learn more about EO’s Mentorship Program and, for EO members, how to be connected with your mentor or mentee. . I learned to ask questions rather than provide answers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Here’s another edition of “Ask Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Whether you’re in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column.” I’ll share more details below.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Even contact centers need tech : Customers have lots of questions, and to provide the best experience, you need more than just a friendly voice on the other end of the phone. PDT, subscribe here. Thursdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Whether you’re in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column.”. What are my next steps?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

The event records live and is available to watch at 12:00pm PDT. Enter a meeting with the spirit of having an intellectual conversation about your business v being in hard-core “sell” mode. If you don’t know the answer to a question, saying so gains respect and trust, while avoiding the question destroys it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The event takes place on September 7 at 2:00 pm CDT/12:00 pm PDT. It’s free to attend, and it’s free to submit your Minneapolis-area startup to the pitch-off competition. TechCrunch is thrilled to be (virtually) headed to Minneapolis, Minnesota. I hope you can make it.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

After all, once your company goes public, you’ll be expected to justify every dollar you spend. So, when you’re at the beginning of your budget planning process, how do you figure out if you should spend $30M, $50M, or $100M on R&D? And then how do you figure out where, exactly, those dollars go within R&D?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We brought together some of the best AI founders and leaders—from those scaling the underlying foundation models to those building products that could transform entire industries—for a series of conversations on where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in the field. I ask it a question and it answers the question.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Turns out like most things there are no simple answers. So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000. My first question is, “If you’re only burning $100k / month why on Earth would you raise so much money now?”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

I had been thinking a lot about this recently because I’m often asked the question of “what I look for in an entrepreneur when I want to invest?” In the comments section a clever question popped up about whether I would have invested in myself before I became an investor. To invest in your future. I often say.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To optimize for growth, study your down-funnel metrics. Considering the fact that growth marketing wasn’t even a formal function at startups 12 years ago, I think it’s okay to say that we couldn’t have predicted how growth hacking would evolve. Why growth activation matters. But let’s discuss what growth hacking is and isn’t.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

And they told us that nobody had ever asked them those questions.”. In hindsight, the answer was quite simple and obvious. within 6 to 12 months,” co-founder Guillaume Perrot told me. “We talked with kids attending 30 or 35 different high schools,” co-founder Florent Sciberras told me. “We Building the community behind the app.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The question the company asks is simple: Can it bring the newest and most innovative technologies to bear on civilization’s oldest and most optimized industry? Answering that question in this TC-1 is Brian Heater , TechCrunch’s hardware editor. We’re always iterating on the TC-1 format.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Companies want to build for the pain point you never dreamed to disrupt; VCs want to invest in an emerging trend before it becomes a household name; and those breaking into tech are told to lean into their earnestness, because you never know who is going to answer your cold email.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

.’ If you ask him to think about something and respond, he’ll think about it and come back with an answer that has four pillars underneath it. He’ll create a framework that not only answers your specific question, but can prove to be a model that will answer future questions of the same type.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But that involves some coding and complications in your roadmap. You can design something new in your favorite app and start a new test based on that project. From your web browser, you can ask your user to do something in your app, provide some context and ask a quick question at the end of the test.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re refreshing and re-imagining TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in a big way, with more of what you love and new ways to accelerate your growth. In these salon-like sessions, industry leaders will share their deep expertise, insights and trends within your sector. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

. “Therefore, it’s essential to clearly communicate the benefits of your product and develop use cases tailored to the challenges businesses are facing.” Which begs the question: When was the last time you checked your reviews on Capterra or GetApp? “It’s an option for everyone, even CEOs.”

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Recent developments in AI have unlocked an entire universe of possibilities , presenting a resoundingly clear answer to the question of “ Why now? We want you to be a conviction investor: make your own call, do your own research, and get to know the founders and their spaces. If it all resonates with you, invest.

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