Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

If you enjoy travel, language & culture as much as I do then buy all of Bill Bryson’s books and gobble them up. I love foreign-born entrepreneurs precisely because many of them don’t grow up with the sense of entitlement that comes from winning the birth lottery. (I know, I know … just read the book).

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

He oozed a quiet confidence--like a baseball pitcher who had all his stuff working and knew exactly in his head the pitch he was going to finish you off with. No need to get worked up about it--it was just about executing what you had in your head, like he had done on each pitch before during this game. (A The answer: it wasn't.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

World Entrepreneurs’ Day, celebrated each 21 August, honors the innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who shape industries, drive economic growth, and inspire others. At EO, we celebrate and support entrepreneurs on World Entrepreneurs’ Day—and every day! EO supports entrepreneurs at every age and stage.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As a minority female entrepreneur, Lou shared her observations on the Olympics and how they reflected and exposed the struggles of female entrepreneurs striving to build sustainable businesses. For example, I’ve had to post a 30-second pitch video on my social media and direct my followers to visit the company’s website to vote for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2011

In the past I’ve given some tips for handling meetings effectively, covering topics like: - How not to let your meeting go down a rat hole ; - Dealing with the elephant in the room ; - Dealing with skeletons in your closet ; - How to make meetings discussions, not “pitches&#. -

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2024

As the world’s premier, purpose-built organization with a mission to empower entrepreneurs from every industry, culture, and sector, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a member-led community created for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

From left to right above is Tristan Walker (founder of Walker & Co), Magic Johnson (successful NBA basketball player and successful business man – his two life goals), Beatriz Acevedo (founder of Mitu, the largest Latino digital media company) and Troy Carter (founder of Atom Factory and Cross Culture Ventures). ” Too right.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 7, 2012

I've spent the last few days touring the city and researching the startup culture here and I'm impressed on both fronts. If they are out there, others need to hear about them more--not in a pitch but in a better way to share cutting edge ideas. There are clones of Fab, Birchbox, Pinterest, etc.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

Tom Charman is a “studentrepreneur,” an EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) finalist in 2016 and co-founder and CEO of KOMPAS , a city exploration application helping people discover amazing but little-known adventures hidden in the world’s urban jungles. What lessons or encouragement can you share with other student entrepreneurs?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It’s true that we also fund more mundane stuff like B2B software aimed at productivity improvements but we want some big bets in every fund where we feel we can contribute to “making our own little dent in the universe” as the saying goes – by backing ambitious entrepreneurs with that same goal.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

The one word the best entrepreneurs never accept. As my wife will tell you – arguing is cultural – you grow up with it or you don’t. I’ve been pitched by hundreds of entrepreneurs who never actually asked me whether I would invest. It’s a skill you’re going to need as an entrepreneur.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 1, 2022

Some entrepreneurs are born salespeople, others find it more awkward but ultimately realize getting comfortable pitching — to investors, to the team, to potential employees, and so on — is part of the job. Hopefully every startup finds the right investors! But as a venture investor, I hate it. Don’t try to reverse engineer.

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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., I’ve set many goals in 30+ years as an entrepreneur.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

STATE COLLEGE, PA –Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerator @StateCollege; a partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, is again offering local entrepreneurs, grad-students, professors, and university researchers its VIRTUAL 10-Week Business Startup Boot Camp. One-hour on-line mentoring/coaching sessions will also be provided each week.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

Networking is not just handing someone a business card or giving them a pitch. I've written about this before , but if you can build a relationship with someone through sports, books, and various cultural interests without the pressure of each person trying to get something explicitly professional out of it.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 18, 2020

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, The Tech Celerator @StateCollege, a partnership with Invent Penn State that has helped create more than 130 new startups, hosted a zoom pitch event. Thanks to everyone’s cooperation we were able to not only host the weekly sessions via Zoom, but to also present the final pitches virtually.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 1, 2022

STATE COLLEGE, PA –Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerator @StateCollege; a partnership with the Invent Penn State initiative, is again offering local tech entrepreneurs, grad-students, professors, and university researchers a fun, informative 10-Week Business Startup Boot Camp. Invite your friends and family to the pitch event. Visit [link].

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 23, 2019

EO is committed to supporting the next wave of entrepreneurs. One way do that is through the EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) , EO’s premier competition for university students who own and operate a business. When did you know you wanted to be an entrepreneur—specifically a shoe entrepreneur?

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The We remain steadfast in our commitment to continuing to increase all of the above. I’ve always said nothing beats the high of getting that first customer to sign up. The next sale isn’t quite as sweet.). This moment in WP Engine’s saga is one of those.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

All the participants are running some type of program or space to support startup entrepreneurs or build the startup community in their region, from running accelerators and co-working spaces, to startup meetup groups, student entrepreneurship groups, and maker spaces, as well as University faculty and Government policy makers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 31, 2016

For participants of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), EO’s flagship program for nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs, opportunities for leadership and business growth are boundless. What motivated you to become an entrepreneur? In my country, fashion and art is an up-and-coming industry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In this special interview, the co-founders of Pronexia—a new generation recruitment firm—open up about their bootstrapping days, their unique hiring methodology, and the role authenticity plays when building relationships and company culture. ME/ “When we started out in 2010, we were the definition of bootstrapping entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

and how cultural disparities and gender can be factors to consider when you enter into a transaction. PITCH ANYTHING: AN INNOVATIVE METHOD FOR PRESENTING, PERSUADING, AND WINNING THE DEAL. He incorporates research results from neuroeconomics, which reveals how the brain functions when making a decision and reacting to a pitch.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

He talks about the fact that as an entrepreneur himself attracts other entrepreneurs to want to work with him. “Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn’t understand the culture.” And he said it so elequently.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

You know this isn’t likely to lead anywhere and frankly you didn’t quit your job to pursue your life dream of being an entrepreneur to sell 12 months later in an acquihire. It is because when you share too much of this information with staff you develop an “options culture” the I find unhealthy.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. These five insights from the Summit stood out as critical business building advice that entrepreneurs all across the country can apply: 1.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Pitch Deck Get your idea onto paper; it’s far easier to convey that way. A pitch deck is a teaser, where its goal is to create an appetite for further conversations and this can work equally well with prospective co-founders as it does with investors. Get the pitch right Tell a great story Startups that tell a great story get funding.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs. 2/ Pitch Deck Design: There’s a robust debate about slide decks. ” And, surely, it “can” work. We won’t get into that here.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

To honor its entrepreneurial roots, the program’s goal was to elevate entrepreneurs from under-served communities through a range of support. To honor its entrepreneurial roots, the program’s goal was to elevate entrepreneurs from under-served communities through a range of support.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 24, 2025

Kevin Bulger is an entrepreneur and investor with a diverse background spanning startups, sustainable ventures, and international tourism. His ventures reflect a passion for innovation, conscious business, and connecting people across cultures. I think it is important to remember that you dont have to swing at every pitch.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 13, 2020

Being unable to fully and objectively review applicants perpetuates the existing weaknesses of the selecting culture, misses out on diamonds in the rough, and it is costly. Drawing inspiration from research on blind auditions , we created packets containing 20 randomly selected Pitches without information about the founders.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 13, 2024

This year’s Entrepreneur’s Cup awards dinner also celebrated a milestone 20 years of advancing innovative business ideas and building the next generation of Oklahoma entrepreneurs. In addition to the main awards, standout students were recognized for their 90-second pitches, each receiving a $1,000 cash prize.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Zappos also offers opportunities to learn about its company culture, which you can apply to your business. Brad Feld helped co-found the venture capital firm with one goal in mind: to help entrepreneurs. “We Boulder, Colorado. More than 400 companies call it home and contribute almost $40 billion to the local economy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi Contributor Share on Twitter Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member and mentor to startups, and an angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. Turnover disrupts the company’s operation, culture and growth trajectory.

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StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Smith discuss the 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase , a partnership between the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) and InvestMidwest , which will showcase 57 companies actively seeking funding to an audience of top-tier investors, entrepreneurs, researchers and business executives. Are you an entrepreneur with a great story to share?

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