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Opendoor alums raise $15M for Kindred, a home-swapping network

TechCrunch

Opendoor alums Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina teamed up in 2021 to start a company, Kindred , with the goal of giving people the choice of booking lodging through a unique home-swapping model. Kindred is building a members-only network to allow people to essentially exchange homes. It’s a give and get policy.

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Understanding the Power of Your Human Networks

Both Sides of the Table

The critical skill is not just your immediate network but the network beyond that you can tap into if you’ve earned the right through nurturing your 1-degree relationships. Building Your Network. Either you have a well established network or you don’t. “I know mothafuckas who know mothafuckas.”

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How to thwart collaboration overload by working smarter

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This makes following some of the practices I discuss in the book to streamline collaboration critical for both performance and well-being. These “warm” relationships then prove to be critical when opportunities enable a person who has done this well to see a possibility and mobilize a network. What is dysfunctional collaboration?

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Leveraging the EO Network

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A luxurious hotel by the countryside was booked, and various outdoor activities that tickled the soul were lined up. And if we couldn’t confirm our hotel, we couldn’t pre-book the restaurants. We were locked and loaded for the time of our lives! . Alas, it was not to be. Our first thought was: “Jakarta?! We had a lot to do. A WhatsApp?

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Road trippers can rejoice as RVshare raises over $100 million to grow its RV rental business

TechCrunch

The company saw a 650% increase in bookings from April to May of 2020, according to a report in The Drive. There’s Outdoorsy , a peer-to-peer RV rental company that was founded in 2015; bootstrapped by its founders for a couple of years, it has more recently attracted $88 million in venture funding.

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EO Global Speakers Academy grads share transformational results

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed to EO by Marina Byezhanova , an active member-leader within EO and a member of EO Canada Bridge chapter. An entrepreneur, global speaker and university instructor, she is on a mission to inspire entrepreneurs to stand out, speak up and be radically authentic. Entrepreneurship is a blend of many skills.

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Disrupt 2023 — we’re shipping a big new release

TechCrunch

On the Builder Stage you can expect to learn how to build your early VC network, finding product-market fit early and negotiating your first term sheet among many other topics of immediate value to any founder. What’s new at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023? That’s certainly true for the Builder Stage.