Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

but I wanted all the luck I could get, so I consulted an astrologist named Iris. Manage All of Your Crazy Ideas and Review Them Each Quarter Like most entrepreneurs, I have no shortage of ideas. Many years later, I found “my people” through the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). Why did I choose this exact date and time?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

AUGUST 21, 2023

For over a decade, the TechCelerator Startup Boot Camp has been supporting emerging entrepreneurs, and this year is no different. The entrepreneurial teams have been tirelessly crafting their business plan and pitch deck over the 10-week course. Tune in to watch these entrepreneurs pitch their business concepts!

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Andres, an Industrial Engineer by training, was previously investing in the B2B vSaaS space and comes from a background of strategy consulting. He is also an angel investor and former EdTech entrepreneur. At Vencapital, we heard from VCs, learned about evaluating startups, did some deal sourcing, and pitched startups.

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Feedough

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But the problem is that entrepreneurs realise these mistakes only after they make it and get rejected. But fret not, we’ve listed down the eight biggest fundraising mistakes that you need to be wary of while approaching the investors, pitching to them, and signing contracts. Moreover, as an entrepreneur, never be greedy.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Otherwise, you lose sales even before you start Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Do not mistake the perfect pitch for the well-rehearsed (read: memorized) presentation. The cookie-cutter pitch presentation kills your sales pipeline before you actually have one. My team members call it the Pitch Perfect experience.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Here’s a list of top sources for funding minority entrepreneurs. The NASE has been around since 1981, providing entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, including those by minority owners with access to grants and educational resources. It is a great resource for minority entrepreneurs with a more specific funding need.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Angel investment fund selects six companies to pitch live on USD campus on May 9. Tickets for live pitch event now available. Sponsors include C3 Bank, JP Morgan, Clearpoint Agency, Mintz, Knobbe Martens, Coeptus Law, Pillsbury Law, Withum, Family Business Consulting Group, Whittier Trust, Marsh McLennan Agency, Seraf and Gust.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Suddenly, I found myself in a period of my life that so many entrepreneurs know all too well after an exit: I felt unsure of my “place.”. I remember asking myself questions like: Am I still an entrepreneur? Like most entrepreneurs, I started as an underdog, and it remained a key part of company culture as we grew.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 21, 2024

.” Maggie Horne, Director of the Gannon Small Business Development Center (SBDC), echoed similar sentiments, emphasizing the importance of collaborative initiatives like the TechCelerator program in fostering innovation and supporting local entrepreneurs. provides a comprehensive solution for performance measurement and job matching.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

These insights from top entrepreneurs benefit EO members plus the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem. Set Goals Like Google: Why OKRs Surpass Other Goal-Setting Methods for Entrepreneurs Eric Crews (EO Boston), founder and CEO of management consulting firm Crews & co., My consulting firm has used them with over 100 companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#. I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. Many people agreed and added that even the best sales meetings are also discussions and not pitches. A Tale of Two Pitches. is important.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) exists to help entrepreneurs achieve their full potential. In a recent Forum Confidential session, EO Accelerator member “Dan” (not his real name) presented his business challenge to a group of experienced entrepreneurs in search of helpful, real-world tips and best practices.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

I know many entrepreneurs, including myself, have a hard time separating ourselves from our brand. My husband and I are also pitching a second Weird Homes Tour book with all of the cities in it. Pinterest has forever changed our consultation game. I hired a consulting group called Summit that changed my life.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The press enhances this misconception around YCombinator demo days, where the 3-day pitch event is perceived like an auction, with investors fighting each other for the best deals. Many programs still put a lot of focus on demo day rehearsals, prep, and on getting the pitch deck just right. It did for me, at least.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 24, 2018

If enterprise sales is the hard part of what you’re doing, figure out how you can de-risk that first—maybe by trying to pitch some vaporware to buyers or perhaps getting them to pay you to build it on a consulting basis. Too often, an entrepreneur asks me what I think of something, when what I really want to know is what they think.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Recently, our team had the difficult job of choosing finalists from all the applications received from the region’s emerging tech-entrepreneurs and small manufacturers. Consulting House USA LLC (Troy Bingham) , located in Erie County, developed relocatable kiosks that will sell the LUMI “Better For You” food and beverage brand.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2019

Written for EO by Nico Prins, a communications consultant who specializes in internet marketing. . When you read articles by busy CEOs on sites like Forbes or Entrepreneur, you might wonder how they managed to find the time to write the content. Nico Prins is a business consultant and the founder of Launch Space.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

He’s been a founder of more than half a dozen other successful start-ups, a mentor to scores of early-stage entrepreneurs, and an investor in numerous successful tech ventures (and an even larger number of unsuccessful ones). We are an independently-owned forward-obsessed brand experience consultancy based in the United States.

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OkDork

JULY 1, 2022

What's interesting about it was her pitch. Then he hired more freelancers and consultants to write articles and books that he could sell to the audience they built up. The post 3 Entrepreneurs Making +$1,000,000 With 0 Employees appeared first on OkDork.com. —but Rachel knew that wasn't for her. Check this out….

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 31, 2020

.” Working remotely, we negotiated term sheets, concluded a major funding round for an exciting new Oklahoma startup, and held the Loves’ Entrepreneur’s Cup Business and Pitch Competition and Awards Ceremony (all virtually). We would have preferred mentoring and advisory sessions in person.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Hustling comes naturally to entrepreneurs, and during the pandemic, it has become even more essential to get out there and make a buck. He brought his tech skills to a couple of entrepreneurs working on new media that developed into the Risk! A few months ago, he blasted out cold emails to pitch an intrapreneurship class.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 26, 2022

Dozens of emerging entrepreneurs who are developing an innovation related to the maker economy, forest products, outdoors and recreation and even tech manufacturing, visited the site to check out the rules, eligibility, and application process. Nearly 40 submitted an application by the contest’s deadline on April 18, 2022.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2017

By Larry Alton, business consultant. At some point, every entrepreneur needs to write copy for his or her company’s website, sales pitches, blogs, and other marketing materials. While there’s a case to be made for both sides, most successful entrepreneurs have found that it’s far better to hire a copywriter.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 30, 2023

But that’s where Investment Ready comes in, it wraps around young businesses and prepares them with the confidence and capability to pitch to different investment sources. If we didn’t have total agreement on a thought pattern, we could utilise the contacts we had through Investment Ready and bring in a consultant to help,” Richard says.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In the heart of Pennsylvania’s innovation ecosystem, a virtual pitch event held on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, marked a defining moment for seven entrepreneurial teams. ” About the TechCelerator Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator is a dynamic 10-week business boot camp designed for local entrepreneurs, academics, and researchers.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

His story of overcoming child abuse, a missing arm ligament, a decade in the minors and going on to reinvent himself in his mid-30's using a pitch few have mastered is nothing short of inspirational. Oh, did I mention it turns out he's been pitching with a torn abdominal muscle all season?

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 27, 2023

Dolphin Consults (Drew Piispanen from Dauphin County) Dolphin Consults is building chatbots with contextual learning for better business-customer interactions. The goal is build a chatbot into a plugin that would be usable for three primary ecommerce platforms (shopify, woocommerce, and Magento 2).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

She’s been an entrepreneur, served on plenty of boards, is a contributing author at Marie Clare, has been a senior advisor to Bumble and worked as a consultant in marketing, business development and more. With all that experience, she knows all too well that the process of fundraising starts well before your first pitch meeting.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor). Many accelerators have come and gone during these past five years.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Meet Ventures is a consultancy firm that specialises in running startup accelerators and market access programs. Its team comprises of former VCs, program directors, consultants, and startup CXOs. Winning many pitch competitions and hackathons does not automatically mean that a startup is good.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Completion is a real obstacle for many entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are great initiators. Too many projects with no traction are a problem that I regularly consult and coach on with many entrepreneurs and business leaders. You don’t pitch to prospects because your slide deck needs additional work. But hold on.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Ali also spent the bulk of his career at Microsoft, while Zubair — another Microsoft veteran — has several startups under his belt besides Sofy, including Enfoundery, a tech consultancy for entrepreneurs. ” But Hamid pitches them as a net good because, in his eyes, they can lead to faster release cycles.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For any entrepreneur to be successful in starting a business, they must have the right help and resources to support of their hard work. It has a small business loan guarantee program and runs awards that recognize entrepreneurs and ecosystem stakeholders who provide assistance to small business owners. Learn more here.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2024

Cloverleaf also helps workplace consultants and coaches access unique insights into the way people and teams work to help sustain and scale their practices. The firm provides flexible financing to growth-ready entrepreneurs and industries located in communities that often lack access to conventional sources of capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The sales process typically involves identifying potential customers, developing relationships with them, pitching them a product or service, and closing the sale. Consultative selling. The consultative selling approach is about creating value and trust with potential customers and exploring their needs.

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