Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For me personally, I question everything the doctors say and take total and complete responsibility for my health and medical treatment,” Rick said. Think about it from your life perspective: If you took total and complete responsibility for every outcome, how different would your life be?” I’m paralyzed by that question.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Here are the 7 most effective ways for AI-native consumer companies to improve their retention. Minimizing the time it takes users to experience the magic of your product, whether that’s through minimizing latency or frictionless design, could significantly improve your retention. And not every user may be worth retaining!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2023

Run Your Non-Profit Like a Start-Up A three-part series showing alternative paths to the traditional model of making a boatload of money at all costs and then giving it away. I wrote the book Conscious Wealth because I realized how hard it is for people to answer the question, “How much is enough?” Start by doing something.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Demand Curve: 7 ad types that increase click-through rates. But to turn passive searchers into active shoppers, your ads should answer their question and entice them to click. This post breaks down 14 questions your paid search ads should answer to ensure you’re only paying for the highest-intent shoppers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2023

It will make or break your startup, team or project. For every hire I made, I had to interview 6–7 candidates on average, and I hired over 150+ people with various expertise, functions, skill sets, and seniority. The questions and difficulty were always tailored to the level of seniority of the candidate.

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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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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In your answer to the question “If you have a referral code”, include the string: NYW24 The deadline to apply is December 13 at 5pm Pacific Time. Yes, that’s a 7 day turnaround time) This is for founders that did not already apply for the W24 batch at some point in the past.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. What are your marketing and customer acquisition channels? This question is only partially answered by Careerist, and that worries me a little. Turning $1.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The 7 deadly sins of startups. A few quick ways to see if bottom-up is the right place to start for you: Product: People can easily try your product. Decision-maker: Your decision-maker is a line-level employee (not C-Suite). What is the value you deliver to your customer and how do you determine pricing that matches that value?

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Y Combinator

JULY 14, 2023

If you want to apply to this special round of early interviews, you should submit an application by Tuesday 7/18 @ 9PM PT.  We  We will run interviews on Friday 7/21 and make decisions that day. FAQ If I get accepted to YC in this early decision process, when does the actual YC investment happen?  Do

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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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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 26, 2020

This brings up lots of uncomfortable questions. ” That is the power of simplifying your numbers. Everyone else in your audience (which is probably everyone in your audience) has no idea what these numbers mean. People don’t know what to compare your numbers to. Here is the normal way (BAD!!!!).

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

My answer depends on whether the company would answer yes to any of the following questions: 1) Did you raise an overpriced round in the last 18 months—one you know was over the top? No one raises venture money on a 7 out of 10. 3) Do you need to raise a large amount of growth capital in 2022? Mediocre deals?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. PDT, subscribe here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2022

Kimball thought about my question and simply responded, “Business is hard.”. You and your business are two separate things. The post 7 EO members share the best business advice they ever received appeared first on. I grew up intimately watching and bearing witness to the ethos and work ethic of my mother and father.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2023

So it might be a fair question to ask why I’m accepting this responsibility. How EO helped me evolve as an entrepreneur The answer is that being a member of EO taught me that spending time working on and thinking about things other than my business is healthy. It was around the clock, 24/7.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Got your tickets to the 2022 NZ SME&E Festival this 8th and 9th of November? How to develop your business idea into reality. Are you not sure how to start your business? If you need the above question (s) answered, then this is the podcast for you. What is the mindset you need to be in to start a business?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 12, 2021

Ask questions. Being from the tech sector—she was formerly vice president of e-commerce at AOL—her curiosity and love of learning kicked into gear, and she started asking questions. When you’re trying to disrupt an established category: Go outside of your business to search for inspiration and ideas. Do things differently.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

What was the post money on your last round (and how much capital have you raised)? It’s not uncommon for a VC to ask you how much capital you’ve raised and what the post-money valuation was on your last round. A second thing a VC may be trying to determine is whether your last-round valuation was significantly over-priced.

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StartupNation

JULY 26, 2021

However, your blog posts can impact your bottom line just as significantly. . However, to ensure your blog posts convert as many visitors as possible, you should also align them with different stages of the customer lifecycle rather than choose them based on keyword difficulty or monthly search volume. .

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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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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

There are some smart if not somewhat cerebral bloggers I read who say that you shouldn’t take any startup advice at all because it’s too generalized to be useful to your situation. Because I’ve asked more than 100 VCs similar questions I start to notice patterns in thinking. Think Critically about Your Situation.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Give yourself a point for every one of these you can say “yes” to: 1) Are you an expert in this space because of your own firsthand knowledge—enough to be asked to speak at a conference on the topic? 7) Does such a model get you to a long term size that makes sense for venture capital investors (north of $100mm in revenues)?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

It was then able to grow the product into a business worthy of a $7 million cash injection. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that. But if you’re an investor, your next logical question is likely: “How many Dereks are there?”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The nuanced balance to creating value for your customers Image: IWantProductMarket.Fit Problems are at the core of each startup. It shapes your solution that generates value. That’s why I write about understanding problems so often ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ): to enable you to generate value for your customer. So what is love?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Step 1: Decide what questions to ask. And that’s why we suggest keeping your first survey simple, by just asking three questions: On a scale of 0-10, how likely are you to recommend [company name] as a place to work? The other two questions help answer the “why” behind eNPS.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Step 1: Brainstorm topic ideas for your online course. First things first, you should brainstorm topic ideas for your online course. Your course topic comes down to: what you’re skilled at + what you love doing + what your audience needs.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Answering the question: “Why did you start your own business?” Since writing that answer, I hadn’t traveled. Instead of my aspirations to work from wherever in the world I happened to be, I was commuting into an office 9–5, going to the gym before work and being available for the team and clients 24/7.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

How to use video to grow your business? 7 marketers got together on Clubhouse to speak about how to create and amplify video to grow your brand. Quick video vs keeper video – it’s important to have a “keeper video” that you use as a professionally designed professional video for your brand.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Whether your kids will one day run the family business or you simply wish to pass on the values and work ethics that helped you succeed in starting and owning a business, devoting time to coaching your children can feel like its own challenge. 1 answer to the question, “What’s most important to pass on to the next generation?”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Write a Plan, Work Your Plan, then Adapt In terms of communications, I started with an outline of a plan. Be Confident One question I heard most often was posed to our project manager by the media and others: “Are you confident this proposed fix is going to work?” The answer was always a resounding “Absolutely!”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The 8-Part Blueprint For Starting Your (Online) One-Person Business Even alongside your 9–5 Image by Bonnie Kittle from Unsplash Do you have an interest and want to make some extra cash out of it? If you want to start your one-person business and are ready to take things more seriously, you’re at the right place.

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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. Mira Murati, OpenAI 7. AI today 1.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

We brought together Udacity co-founder and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun , Eschaton founder and college drop-out Ian Dilick , and Cowboy Ventures investor Jomayra Herrera to answer our biggest questions. If you celebrate, thank you for spending part of your Thanksgiving with the Equity crew.

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Red Rocket

MAY 20, 2022

And, your sales team either closes the leads handed to them by the marketing department (inbound sales), or they actively hunt new end-clients down with prospecting efforts (outbound sales). This post will help you understand what channel sales is, and how best to set up your channel sales efforts for maximum success.

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