Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

With members in more than 70 countries, EO is truly global, but that does not mean that our members around the world share the same culture, views or experiences. Without being honest with ourselves about why our strategies went awry, we cannot improve. Look for the global context in local business conversations (and vice versa).

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Specifically in the case of the development and introduction of an innovative product/service, constructing an MVP can save a lot of time and money when starting a business. Knowing the Value Proposition is key to establishing a marketing strategy that distinguishes a company from its competition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 30, 2017

Rules, regulations and bureaucracy are part of corporate culture, but, done right, they don’t have to squelch morale and productivity. Here are six strategies for paying attention to what matters in a corporate environment rich with rules. Don’t get me wrong—meetings done RIGHT can be amazing, collaborative and constructive.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Governor Phil Murphy has made a commitment to bring a resurgence to our state’s downtowns by bringing more business, arts, and culture to attract residents and commuters. They also serve to foster arts and cultural activities, which drive dynamic, thriving communities. This first tranche of A.R.T.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For Greg Isenberg , a growth advisor to TikTok and former head of strategy at WeWork, entrepreneur homes are a signal of what the foreseeable future of building could look like. Not all entrepreneur homes are following suit in terms of strategy, for more reasons than one. Product Hunt, and then TikTok.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

From Scott Jeffrey Miller with Todd Davis and Victoria Roos Olsson, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the support and strategies you need to be a better leader. we share an excerpt from the chapter, “Creating a Culture of Feedback.” The post How Do Great Managers Create a Culture of Feeback?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2023

Therefore, no matter what your organization is up to, video content can enhance your communications strategy. Videos can help generate opportunities for a two-way, individualized conversation, even in remote work settings , offering emotional context that might translate constructive criticism better than a long, heavy-worded email.

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StartupNation

MARCH 19, 2021

By clearly setting boundaries, assigning roles and establishing ownership, you’re building a culture of accountability. A healthy family business embraces this constructive conflict, manages it well, and allows it to create new approaches, innovations and strategies. Key takeaways.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Gig and Take is helping us expand our talent pool and see the possibilities beyond normal shift schedules.” – Susan Wallace, VP-HR at Carlisle Construction Materials (CCM). Gig and Take has a unique solution that enables factories to adopt flexible labor strategies and expand the available labor pool through more dynamic work.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Jason Dressel is president of History Factory , which helps companies use their history and heritage to enhance and transform strategy, positioning, marketing and communication. Crucially, it will help the incoming and future generations of leadership understand critical aspects of its track record, the lessons learned, culture and identity.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Scharf, a Bio + Health strategy leader and active early-stage investor in the life science and digital health sectors. They are using 3D printing robots to advance construction technology to build faster, cheaper, and better housing. A great example is a local unicorn called ICON.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Simultaneously, diversity and inclusion strategies have become more widespread; 43% of firms have implemented a diversity strategy (against 32% in 2018 and 24% in 2016), while 41% have an inclusion strategy (versus 31% in 2018 and 17% in 2016). On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Two of the main reasons this deck “sings” is the line it draws to the Justworks culture and that the deck isn’t “artificially simple.” I want to know what you want the company to look like so that I can push you and we can have constructive conversations around the plan,” said Loughlin.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

To the untrained eye, these zombies might have appeared to be alive and well– but they got deaded a long time ago by unsustainable business models and trading strategies. There exists a universe of projects that are category leaders in the substrate that will allow the faithful to construct an entirely new decentralised financial system.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

This impacts portfolio construction and possibly returns, though on the flip side, end-markets are larger and outcomes can be greater — look at Datadog, for instance. I don’t have the data, but I’d bet the “minimum ownership” requirements VC funds started 2010 with have gone down dramatically.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Pair that with a well-constructed pitch deck and you’re off to the races. Investors love unrealistic goals based on pragmatic strategies. OpenView’s Kyle Poyar can talk through how to grow your business without all the same benchmarks, milestones and strategies as the SaaS companies who’ve come before.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Amy: Risk Solutions really is all encompassing from loss control and safety, cost containment strategies, and more behavioral-based–looking at someone’s organization holistically. Michael: Amy, how are the risks in something like manufacturing different than construction, different than transportation? Where do we start?

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Our role, then, is threefold: We come up with strategies that we carry out by experimenting with several proven marketing tactics based on our extensive in-house knowledge and experience. We then construct a framework as part of our growth program that also allows room for certain beliefs a company has.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Toward the end of 2022, a number of entrepreneurs, some citing Elon Musk, told me that they’re bringing back an in-person work culture in the following year to help promote productivity and, in some cases, loyalty. Pinterest lays off 150 people as a part of its ‘long-term strategy’ Is Instagram considering paid verification?

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FundersClub

JUNE 1, 2017

" Harry Stebbings of The Twenty Minute VC chats with Brian Ascher of Venrock on how both founders & GPs should construct their pitch, why VCs are eternal optimists, and what makes the best post-investment VC/founder relationship in " 20VC with Brian Ascher of Venrock.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

real estate technology fund Round Hill Ventures and Norway’s Construct Venture. This is where Spacemaker’s mission, and Nordic culture more generally, was also a strength. Other investors on the cap table include Nordic real estate innovator NREP, Nordic property developer OBOS, U.K.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

Constructive and actionable feedback can be hard to come by. It’s purpose is honest feedback to facilitate awareness and constructive discussion. Our CEO is building a positive company culture that people want to be a part of. Our CEO can communicate a vibrant company vision and culture where new hires want to work.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

DeepHow is using this technology to bridge the skilled labor gap in the manufacturing, construction and service industries. They hire locally and remotely and have a close-knit culture built on authentic connections between team members. Qodex uses agile methodologies and is all about team collaboration. EXPLORE DETROIT STARTUP JOBS.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Successful companies will need founders that will be able to raise significant funding and will need successful strategies to maintain healthy margins in the early days and while scaling. Construction vehicles (4%): Very early category with limited progress to date. These opportunities may not be as straightforward as they might seem.

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Haystack

JANUARY 16, 2019

The more I discover about going beyond just writing checks into startups — concepts like portfolio construction, cross-fund management, and new fund formation — the more I realize how critical the parlay is. Let’s focus on the noun first. Of course, if the fund does well, that investment compounds nicely.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We used to meet to discuss our strategy, plans, take stock of new teams coming in and build the basic processes of the network. Networks like ours are deeply relational constructs. In the early years, there were only four people in the global team and most of us worked part-time. Across London, Vienna, Zurich and Brussels.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Nuro is closing its Phoenix facility as it shifts its commercial strategy away from the desert metropolis and toward the San Francisco Bay Area and Houston. Audi started construction of an EV factory in China that is expected to come online in 2024. A few employees were laid off as a result.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

But through media depictions of male leadership, stories and culture, we have, for the most part, been socialized to more easily trust a white male persona, so when it comes to early-stage investing, this concept of trust is quite insidious. A huge driver of early-stage investing is betting on the CEO and their team.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Teams looking to transition to hybrid work should poll their employees and design a strategy that best suits them. After two years of new construction, they opened in March 2020, and had to shut down two weeks after opening for the pandemic.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Hope is not a strategy. Shelly Porges, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Beyond the Billion , observed, “While we all want to have invested in those exciting home-runs/unicorns, most investors are seeking the data points to construct reliable portfolios. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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Reforge

JULY 12, 2022

Directing is clarifying the strategy, goals, and roles that are required for a team to reach an impactful outcome. Frequent behavior modeling can easily create fixed cultural norms about what management looks like and does at your company. For example, they give constructive feedback about how a project was handled.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

His most recent job was as a project manager at a construction firm. The cybersecurity skills crisis continues on a downward, multi-year trend of bad to worse and has impacted more than half (57%) of organizations,” said a recent report by the Information Systems Security Association and analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

Hope is not a strategy. Shelly Porges, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Beyond the Billion , observed, “While we all want to have invested in those exciting home-runs/unicorns, most investors are seeking the data points to construct reliable portfolios. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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A Smart Bear

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Startup strategy is like Kung Fu. Founders almost never have a real strategy. They say things like “we have a unique feature” and “the incumbents are dumb,” which might be true, but isn’t a strategy. Your culture, and even your purpose, is the outcome of living your values. There are many styles that work.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Brief History Of Game Engines Humans have always desired to construct and explore worlds of our own imagination. From the age-old realms created in myths to the digital domains we traverse today in video games, the fidelity of these worlds has never been more immersive nor culturally impactful.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In this conversation with a16z’ Vijay Pande, she discusses how an LLM for cells could revolutionize drug discovery and how to bridge the technological and cultural divide between building with atoms and building with bits. [00:32] How do you build that culture? 00:32] Why life sciences? [03:23] How can AI help that?

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