Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2024

Who better than our EO community to offer creative strategies for mitigating the adverse effects of stress? I also practice meditation while sitting in my home infrared sauna, an affordable and valuable investment. Recognizing the toll on my health, I had to get creative. My strategy?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2020

Under these circumstances, entrepreneurs become focused, intentional and highly creative. Are your investments smart decisions? Use this time to make your commitment to health and safety a selling point and differentiator in the market. When someone tells me that, however, I respond, “Are you sure?” This isn’t high-level stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

When I work with community leaders I often encourage them to “pool capital” together from many angels into a fund structure run by a small investment committee that can make more rapid funding decisions, take more risks (it is pooled capital so goes across more investments), and standardize investment terms.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This lack of impact and usage means that companies are getting very little return on their investments in workplace wellness initiatives. Many employees are hesitant to take advantage of wellness offerings because they feel unsafe admitting they have any kind of mental health or other wellness challenges to deal with.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

With World Mental Health Day just behind us, I thought about how the tech industry can be a difficult place to stay mentally well. Software development at its best is a creative endeavor. However, health is something more fundamental, almost on the lowest level of the hierarchy of needs , which includes mental health.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The key, as we will learn, is a set of creative tactics that the company used to bind as many stakeholders into its business as possible. For RapidSOS, which had to scale to support hundreds of partners over the years, the key has been building its team and training them for the unique partners they have signed agreements with.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

After pursuing a degree in graphic design from Ontario College of Art & Design, Lennert launched and scaled a successful creative design agency, which he ran for over three years. “In my mind, I had basically said goodbye to surfing entirely.” The agency was an early foray into the entrepreneurial world—but one that took its toll. “I

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Alyssa Jaffee is a partner at 7wireVentures , a digital health-focused venture capital firm, where she focuses on investments that empower consumers to become better stewards of their heath. This was a record-breaking year for private investment across digital health. Take access to mental health care, for example.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

I judge the health of the creator economy by one single controversial factor: ease of access and probability of survival for its participants. That is, if you are someone who wishes to earn a minimum viable living being creative, what is the likelihood you’ll be able to do so? A singer who wants to sing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2023

Outside investment is not mandatory when starting a business. Because many founders do not plan to exit with an IPO where outside financial capital would help reach that goal, it’s necessary to consider other options that may be better for the long-term health of the business. To raise or not to raise?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2019, a report showed that 72% of surveyed entrepreneurs self-reported mental health issues, according to Forbes. As this TechCrunch article points out, what drives the mental health epidemic among entrepreneurs is their propensity to accept risk. and global funds: chasing projections and trying to fit into inflated valuations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Think about the creative tension. But wait, aren’t you the guy who invested in Ad.ly, the in-stream advertising company? Two things : 1) when I invested in Ad.ly Naturally every other CMS company was pissed off and felt that they had wasted all of their investment in integration with Salesforce.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Thus, you have to invest a day or two to get all things into moving. Be creative with what you eat. This is the main cause of gaining lower abdominal fat, along with other health-related issues. But, are you confident about the future? No, we can’t be so authentic, and take chances. Mix Vegetables And Fruits. Don’t Sit Too Much.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MN – The Forge North startup coalition announced the first close of the MSP Equity Fund – the first-known venture capital fund of funds in the country designed to invest across race, place, and gender. Lead investors include Allianz Life, Allina Health, Xcel Energy, and Abōva.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Research and invest in work space options. Salaried positions come with added security and benefits, like health care and paid leave, but salaried employees also tend to put in more work than hourly workers. Offer free access to a gym or health classes. Invest in professional development.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

We need to make some key investments in people and platforms. And at the university, which is not a notable university, there was a lot of investment from DoD in supercomputing and they’ve bought supercomputers and I worked on them as a researcher, and that led me to a job in Lawrence Livermore National Labs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

It’s a creative expression. Balancing portfolio My “portfolio companies” (which means the companies in which I’ve invested) get my top priority. Health Everybody has something that gets sacrificed. tl;dr version courtesy of Tuvia Elbaum which made me laugh so I’m adding it after the fact.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

The entrepreneur left her investment job at General Catalyst to join a portfolio company they had been backing since its seed round: Ro. But Blank left her director position at the health tech unicorn, last valued at $5 billion, to start her own company in women’s hormonal health. Hormonal health grows bigger.

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StartupNation

JULY 12, 2021

Consumers are changing how they shop , how they work and where they live, creating opportunities for new and creative business models. As the pandemic hit, many workers found themselves either out of a job or out of the office, working from home with time on their hands and creative energy to burn. America’s innovators deserve no less.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Register Cellico (CEO Kim Jungsuk ) won CES Innovation Awards in three categories: Wearable Technologies, Digital Health, and Accessibility & Aging Tech, for their augmented reality (AR) smart glasses (product name: EyeCane), which they are developing for visually impaired patients.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 16, 2022

From automating mundane processes to satisfying changing customer demands, startups count on agility and creativity to see them through. Other creative features fintech startups are offering minors include: Virtual banks for kids. Budgeting and financial health classes for kids and teens. Creative edtech solutions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

million pre-seed investment led by U.K.-based Spoke brings together the seemingly opposing worlds of music culture and mental health,” Ariana Alexander-Sefre, founder and co-CEO of Spoke, said in a statement. “We There are many mental health apps available, but there is a generation being under-served. It’s now secured a £1.1

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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. Jason invests in startups at the intersection of the technology, biology, and the consumerization of health. How did you break into tech investing?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Here’s how to extract insights that will make this approach work, enhance your ad creative strategy, transform hypotheses into proven facts, personalize your product and increase lifetime value. The “New Year’s resolution” mindset makes people ready to invest in themselves. Improve your creative ad strategy.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Each cohort member receivesa $250,000 investment (£250,000 in EMEA) from Morgan Stanley plus a variety of mentorship opportunities, a tailored entrepreneurship curriculum, and access to business-growth resources from the firm’s ecosystem of internal and external partners.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

A SaaS mindset just isn’t relevant for deep tech investment, which means traditional VCs must recalibrate their behavior (and expectations) before diving in. “Software investors’ founder-first mantra is simply wrong in the world of deep tech,” writes Suthipongchai.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 27, 2024

Last week the Mayor and Invest Newark announced $1.2 It includes encouraging businesses to create private sector jobs through public and private investment. “These grants are not just investments in businesses, but investments in our community’s future,” said Marcus T. .

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Currently, he is a venture specialist for emerging technologies at Schaeffler and manages start-up ecosystems for partnering and investments. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. How did you break into entrepreneurship and tech investing?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

“I believe that the best consumer investments come from people who have unique insights on consumer behavior and ways that new tech products can allow new forms of social interaction,” said Charles Hudson from Precursor Ventures , who led the pre-seed investment round. The company raised the pre-seed round of $750,000.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Employers are under fresh pressure to retain talent, which has made some turn to more comprehensive and creative benefits, from pre-conception and postpartum support to text-based mental health care and on-demand meditation. Freshly capitalized, MasterClass and Outschool are looking for ways to grow into their valuations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

As one of four general partners at Andreessen Horowitz who are investing the venture firm’s new $2.2 AS: I think it was crypto Twitter, which honestly is where we’re finding a lot of our gaming investments. TC: Which leads us to your newest investment, Yield Guild Games, or YGG. TC: Zed Run is really interesting.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

Some ideas sound unbelievably creative – and may be that. Which leads us to the second class of creative board thinking…. Importantly, these also help a board to cover the legal “duty of care” for the health of the company. The punch line: Investing in the creation of a governance board is not enough.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The same is true for your health. Therefore, the key to a successful relationship with stress is maintaining adequate energy throughout the day by oscillating periods of spending energy with strategic energy investments.”. When stress is acute, it actually causes short-term health improvements as a way to help protect the body.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. InvestNext is a Detroit fintech startup that has created a platform to streamline how real estate investment firms raise and manage capital. Waymark is a digital creative marketing company with offices in Detroit. Boon Health. Perigon Health.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 12, 2021

These natural disasters directly impacted the production of plastics materials and resins that are used in the health care industry (think face shields and sharps containers), manufacturing industry (especially automotive and technology) and the construction industry (PVC in particular). Invest in materials requirement planning (MRP).

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