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How EO has impacted my life and grown my business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

I feel fortunate to have attended three high-level learning opportunities through EO: I attended EO with Harvard Business School Executive Education : Inspiring Entrepreneurial Strategy, with 95 other members from around the globe to develop groundbreaking strategies and skills in analyzing industry evolution that helped our businesses grow.

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Defending your organization from misinformation with neuroscience

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It probably felt strange and disconcerting, perhaps with a tone of outrage, as in “I don’t believe things more if they’re repeated!”. Reading the second sentence did not inspire such a strong reaction. Your reaction to the third sentence was tame by comparison. It feeds into their fears, which is a very cognitively fluid part of our mind.

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How Duolingo became fluent in monetization

TechCrunch

Co-founders Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker never wanted to charge consumers for access to Duolingo content, a purpose imbued throughout the company’s culture. As its meandering route to monetization will demonstrate, Duolingo isn’t mission-oriented, it’s mission-obsessed.

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3 ways to set up new senior-level hires for success in a hypergrowth start-up

Entrepreneur's Handbook

But many of those same advantageous qualities can also be problematic, as new hires try to make an impact while adjusting to a new company culture. We applied the same strategy that had worked well for us in the past for team members that we had elevated internally.

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Learnings of a CEO: Snapdocs’ Aaron King on navigating market cycles

Y Combinator

After we closed the round, our lead investor revealed how capital efficient we had been compared to our peers. Welcome to the fourth edition of Learnings of a CEO. You can read previous editions here. Snapdocs is the leading digital closing platform for the mortgage industry. Even after YC, we didn’t raise much immediately.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

TechCrunch

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. Changing your meeting culture is difficult, but given that 26% of workers plan to look for a new job when the pandemic ends, startups need to do all they can to retain talent.

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Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Clients stuck around and referred new clients to us! Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! 2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival.