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How to Fix Broken Communications During a Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

According to a Harvard Business Review article entitled “Dismantle Office Politics by Being Transparent,” forcing people to read between the lines can result in “misinterpretation and gossip.” The article recommends being “open about your motives.” Be consistent and on-point with your internal and external crisis communications.

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From Misfit to This Fits: My Entrepreneurial Journey

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Kate is president of the EO Winnipeg chapter and serves on the EO Canada Board as Canada’s MPD (Member Products Director). I realized that for so many entrepreneurs, “design” was a mindset: our lives and businesses could be designed with the right series of decisions, habits, systems, processes and frameworks. ask me why I’ve changed.

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Why Challenging Times Can Help us Learn, Grow and Find our ‘Flow’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Once we have taken stock, we can arm ourselves with the new data and use it to challenge the thinking of our boards or investors. This will not be a surprise to many business founders and owners in the EO community, but if it helps to hear it again: any organization that scales will inevitably experience varying degrees of stress.

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10 entrepreneurial superpowers at work in Eastern Europe

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I got the sense that their feeling is, “What’s the point of running a business if you’re not completely involved in what’s happening in your community?”. They’re staying true to their values of helping people in need and serving their community, country and region. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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The Startup Community Way: Five Lessons for U.S. Policymakers

Ian Hathaway

This article originally published on the Center for American Entrepreneurship Ideas Blog My new book with CAE Advisory Board member Brad Feld published yesterday. Here are five suggestions for policymakers in Washington to consider to better support high potential entrepreneurship in communities throughout the country.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

TechCrunch

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Singh Cassidy, founder of premium talent marketplace theBoardlist, will discuss making the leap into entrepreneurship after leaving Google, her time as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners and the framework she’s developed for taking career risks.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten VC

RBI is really designed to replace equity with a patient, flexible, long-term growth funding framework while factoring, MCAs and receivables financing are more of a short-term, working capital oriented set of solutions.” . Inflection Community. I posted this as a contributed article in Techcrunch. Conferences. Also of interest.

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