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Why Emmy Award-winning documentarians focused their lens on 5 GSEA student entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) encourages young entrepreneurs through its Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) , EO’s premier competition for college students who own and operate a business. What was your biggest takeaway about student entrepreneurs? I found that to be pervasive among entrepreneurs.”.

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What It’s Really Like Being a New Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Lessons to help you transition from employee to entrepreneur Source: productlessons.xyz Since I quit my tech job, I’ve received a lot of questions: “Do you regret turning down your Instagram offer?”, “What are you doing now?”, “How does it feel to be free?” As an entrepreneur, you’re on a rollercoaster with no seat belts and no guarantees.

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The Benefits of Top-Down Thinking & Why it is Critical to Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

It was difficult to make the transition to a “top down&# thinker but as a senior executive – and as an entrepreneur – you’re far less effective without this skill in your arsenal. I had to understand their business requirements and document them all. But applied correctly and this is golden.

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A Tool for Consistent and Sustainable Startup Growth

Paul G. Silva

We already knew entrepreneurs were one of the best ways to create prosperity in our communities and we knew how to help them. We also knew entrepreneurs were one of the most powerful forces for good in the world. We have other core business documents and they have their place, but they’re not super useful day to day.”.

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Perform a quality of earnings analysis to make the most of M&A

TechCrunch

He is an ex-PwC senior consultant in financial due diligence and the creator of The Financial Due Diligence Framework online course. This post is a framework for how to think and organize your QofE and go through the most common items that you’ll want to keep top of mind for every M&A and private equity transaction you may be part of.

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Scaling across Series A to C

TechCrunch

Arthur Nobel is an entrepreneur turned investor, now working as principal at Knight Capital in Amsterdam, specializing in scaling companies. This statistic is partially explained by a lack of a good organizational framework for scaling companies across seed to Series C. Documentation and enablement. Arthur Nobel. Contributor.

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Why Startups Really Fail, and How To Fix It

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Many entrepreneurs who claim to embrace the lean Start-Up canon actually adopt only part of it, neglecting to research customer needs.” — Tom Eisenmann, Harvard How to fix the mistake of trying to build a great product immediately: Use a data-driven approach and test your value proposition properly before building a product. The others die.

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