Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While on a sabbatical in Costa Rica dedicated to recharging his mental and physical health, which included a 10-day silent meditation retreat, something began to shift for him. “I Making Waves Lennert and Murnaghan opened a newcomer-friendly, Toronto-based surf and coffee shop in 2017, Surf the Greats.

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The 2017 Future Founders Mission just wrapped up it’s two-week stint in Silicon Valley, and in this post we share some of the insights and reflections from participants. Here are some of their blog posts post-mission: Startup Catalyst: Initial Ramblings by Nicholas Moretti. The partners and sponsors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

My friend Marie was the Irish finalist at EO GSEA 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany. Well, after EO GSEA 2017, I realized how little I knew of the world after meeting people from a few countries I hadn’t heard of and many more I couldn’t point to on a map. I wrote a blog post a week or so before my GSEA about impostor syndrome.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A version of this article originally appeared on the The Center’s blog. . In our 2017 Gen Z national study , we discovered that 60% of these younger workers want multiple check-ins from their managers during the week. The post The Secret to Engaging Gen Z Employees appeared first on THE BLOG. pictured, at left).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2018

I’ve made monthly peer-mentoring sessions of 10 to 12 other entrepreneurs an integral part of my ongoing education. For example, an active mentor of WIFIPLUG, another startup at the 2017 Ameren Accelerator, found ways for the founders to demonstrate their products in front of Ameren employees—gaining both pre-orders and product evangelists.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

So you might hear 9–10 “no’s” in the early stretches of your fund raising process. You’ve lost your swagger because after 10 “no’s” you assume that everybody is going to see the same potential flaws in your business. “I Confidence sells 10. It is CRITICAL that you not let this get inside your head. Remind me why I love you?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In fact, as the keynote speaker at the University of Oklahoma graduation in 2017, Piyush paid off one of the graduate’s student debts. “When I joined EO almost 10 years ago, my Forum did an activity around bucket lists. So, he has three areas of focus for giving: education, children and mothers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 30, 2017

Think about it: What do you know now that you wish you had known five, 10, or even 20 years ago? So ask yourself: What do you know now that you didn’t know five, 10, or 20 years ago? In 2016, Amobee was named one of Fortune’s Top 10 Workplaces in Advertising & Marketing. What lessons would you teach your younger self?

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. 500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The founders of Rill first got into databases a decade ago when they started a company called Metamarkets, which was eventually snapped up by Snap in 2017. This is the not-so-secret reason why our dashboards offer incredibly high performance,” the company wrote in a blog post announcing the funding. Image Credits: Rill.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2018

Our oldest, Ryan, now 12, has had a job since he was 10 years old: He convinced a local barber to hire him for a couple of hours every Saturday. Adrian, an accomplished runner at age 10 who had won his age group in about 90 5k races, was inspired. Adrian started on 9 December, 2017, and is more than halfway to his goal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. Having seen both frustrating losses and plenty of coveted 10-baggers (industry speak for 10-times return on investment), I’d like to pass on a few key factors that can make for smoother exits for new entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

A 2017 survey found that, of nine options, employees’ top three preferences for learning are: “instructor-led training (ILT), short-clip videos, and mentoring,” according to a press release from the survey authors. Read more on employee engagement from other top Octane blog posts. .

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. She lives with her husband, 3 kids ages 10, 8 and 6 and one spoiled dog. Favorite business book, blog, podcast? Prior to co-founding Floodgate , she worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2020

One of the biggest dangers for entrepreneurs comes when their enterprise grows from being a small shop of 10 people to a midsized company of 100 or more. Imagine you flipped a coin 10 times, 100 times, 1,000 times, 10,000 times, and then 100,000 times. Contributed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky. To illustrate why, let me tell you a story.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

The Atlanta EO chapter had a relatively small Accelerator program with 10 to 15 participants—or companies—and only one EO member overseeing the program on the chapter board. For the 2017-18 year, we are taking it to the next level to create a foundation to support 50-plus Accelerator participants. Learn more about EO Accelerator. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

From 13–19 November 2017, we’ll share exclusive content designed to inspire and inform every entrepreneur—whether you’re in start-up mode or you’re a battle-scarred founder. Celebrate with us by visiting the EO Octane blog every day this week! We believe in the power of learning to grow.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

In a blog post in February 2017 , she described her boss coming on to her in a company chat channel on her first day on the job. It’s worth noting that Fowler was also an SRE who worked on the same team as Medina (who was later part of a $10 million discrimination lawsuit against Uber).

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 13, 2019

I’m like, ‘I love it,’” Herjavec said in a blog post for The Bouqs in February 2017. “So The post [The Bouqs in CNBC] Top 10 best-selling ‘Shark Tank’ products appeared first on OurCrowd. [He] draws it out for me, shows me what they’re doing. So I took part of their last round. We just raised $24 million.”. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

It’s a sort of crowdsourcing approach to model testing, OpenAI explains in a blog post. As an example to follow, OpenAI created a logic puzzles evaluation that contains 10 prompts where GPT-4 fails. Called Evals , OpenAI says that the tooling will allow anyone to report shortcomings in its models to help guide improvements.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 21, 2021

When we first started working with Convoy in 2017, the company had fewer than five large shippers on its platform, served less than half of the United States, and relied on manual operations for more than 30% of shipments. million carriers, 95% of which operate 10 or fewer trucks 2.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2023

It took 10 years to get our business profitable and stable. After delivering an acclaimed TEDx Talk in 2017 titled “Imagine a World Without Chocolate,” Jean has been on a mission to spread the chocolate revolution. and more articles from the EO blog. Like most entrepreneurs, I spent the first years focusing on survival.

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OkDork

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

10 million from his fight against Nate Diaz. $12 million in 2017 and plans to turn it into upmarket apartments as well as rentable social housing units. Conor McGregor has also developed a media company called The Mac Life which includes a blog, YouTube channel, and social media presence. . $200/week to $200 million net worth??

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Over the years, the company managed to raise $12 million, including a $10 million Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) back in 2017. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability. Companies like John Deere are investing a lot in homegrown solutions and acquisitions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2017

He shared tips gleaned from 20 years of partnering with long-term clients in our March 2017 Octane issue. My clients gave me some breathing room, the transition was completed successfully, and we recently celebrated 10 years of service with that municipality. The post Building a True Client Partnership appeared first on THE BLOG.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

In other words, if 10 female founders pitch a fund, and one gets funding, that means 10% of the founders that pitch a fund get funded. However, I can also say that I feel less isolated in this role now than I did 18 months ago for one main reason - I had the good fortune of being part of the 2017 class of SLP.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Casey Newton’s Deep Skepticism Of Twitter Replacements & Getting More Comfortable With Substack’s 10% Take Rate. When I last interviewed Casey, back in 2017 , he recognized there’s a “natural, & healthy, tension between myself & the people I write about.” I think you’re the first person I’ve interviewed twice on this blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 17, 2018

According to a 2017 study, photos with faces received nearly 38% more likes than those without faces. And while the program allows up to 30 hashtags, some marketers recommend limiting yourself to 10. The post The Five-Step Formula to Increased Instagram Engagement appeared first on THE BLOG. more engagement.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

A version of this article originally appeared on Violet’s LinkedIn blog. The transition from one year to another seems like a perfect time to say thank you to these 10 women entrepreneurs whom I have had the pleasure of meeting and learning from. Global Shopping Festival broadcast in November 2017! You go girl!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Perspectives and pointers from the FY 2016/2017 PEAK Global Winner , EO Utah. Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Utah chapter decided to pursue a FY2016/2017 PEAK win due to, at least in part, tradition. However, they went “after it with a twist,” explains EO Utah President FY2016/2017 Matt Glover. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2017, I started my own facilities maintenance company, Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). I’ve grown IFSH from US$54,000 in 2017 to US$4.9 We started using Traction in 2019 and created our company core values, vision statement, mission statement and 10-year target. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

My story of ceding control of the business that I had no intention of ever leaving In 2017, I sold my startup to the largest company in the college sports recruiting industry. Starting as a 14-year-old, I would pore over sports blogs to find out who the future stars of my favorite college football programs would be.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What was surprising was that Haus announced this shift after it crossed the $10 million in revenue threshold and announced that it would be hitting national distribution with Winebow — two markers of growth. Sebastian Thrun at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Kitty Hawk. Image Credits: TechCrunch. Onward Mobility.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2019

He is president and co-founder of imageOne , a managed print services provider, and a 2017 Forbes Small Giant. The post Success Through Silence: Why Silent Mindfulness Retreats Create Stronger, More Present Business Leaders appeared first on THE BLOG. We asked him about his experience with silent retreats.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

He was up to 90 there for about 2017. I mean, man, in 2012, about 10 years ago or so, my wife and I were school teachers in Southeast Kentucky. When they get older and can speak, 10 years old, 13 years old, you still got to be careful. And he realized people were coming to his website and they were reading his blog posts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The idea is that light can travel faster through air than glass; in a trial with Comcast in April, a single strand of Lumenisity HCF was reportedly able to deliver traffic rates ranging from 10 Gbps to 400 Gbps. ” An illustration of Lumenisity’s cable design. Image Credits: Lumenisity. million (~$15.35

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

A bit about the podcast team Bettermental is the third version of a podcast I began working on with my former client, now friend and business partner, Mike, in 2017. By the time we wrapped season one, our workflow had grown from 10 to-dos max to between 40 and 50. Here's how we did it.

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