Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Robert Glazer is a member of EO Boston and the CEO of Acceleration Partners , a leading independent affiliate management agency with 160 employees. The company was honored with Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award , recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2019. The Employees’ Choice Awards program relies solely on the input of employees, who elect to provide feedback on their jobs, work environments and companies via Glassdoor.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users.

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Venture Well

OCTOBER 16, 2019

From using renewable energy sources to minimizing packaging waste, early-stage innovators can find ways to lessen their environmental footprint. The post how startups can lessen their environmental footprint appeared first on VentureWell.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You insure things that are of value, things you simply couldn’t afford to replace should the worst happen. You buy insurance for your car, your home, and your health. So, it only makes sense that you would also invest in small business insurance. After all, your business is something you’ve poured so much of your time and money into. But, the reality is, that one of the first things to hit the chopping block when a company is working on a tight budget is small business insurance.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We are very excited about open source software. Open source is a powerful distribution mechanism to get software and people’s hands early and easily. In an era where SaaS customer acquisition cost increases monotonically , open source can be a powerful antidote. The other area that we are spending time in is open source at the application tier.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Written by Jeff Shugart, retired senior executive. . After 40 years of working, I was retired. I had always worked long hours in addition to traveling for work. While I was away, my wife handled all of the household chores, family activities and social connections. She made it look effortless, and I was happy to leave our family affairs in her capable hands.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Congrats to Alice , the first platform powered by AI that works as a personal business adviser to small business owners, for securing its series A investment found. Starting and growing a business is hard, but it's great to know that there's a lot of great information and resources online for your business. Smart Hustle covered Alice here , in 2017.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Here we are again in 2019 debating speech online and specifically the case of Facebook. Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown trying to invoke the civil rights movement and to draw a sharp distinction to China. Warren quickly fires back on Twitter. Pundits everywhere weigh in. And yet hardly anyone gets to the heart of the matter: power. And those who are mostly stuck in industrial age thinking recommending a traditional antitrust approach to limiting power.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 18, 2019

By Scott Meacham. When I set out last week to write about Aevus Precision Diagnostics, it was because this early stage startup has a compelling concept for tackling type 2 diabetes (T2D). As I heard more about Aevus co-founders — Puneet Chadha and Yash Sagar Santani — I recognized that their story is also a uniquely Oklahoma story, a story every Oklahoman should hear and repeat.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The AIR Summit (“Alpha Innovation Required”) just posted the video and slides from my keynote on, “Who is building the Renaissance Technologies of Private Markets?” I wrote a detailed paper on this here. If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter. The post Who is building the Renaissance Technologies of Private Markets?

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Angel investing started to break into the mainstream in popular American culture in the early 2000s. It started with stories of individuals striking it rich from investments in companies like eBay, Yahoo, PayPal and Google. Silicon Valley garnered most of the headlines, but angel investors increased their activity in other technology centers such as Boston and Seattle and eventually San Diego, Austin and New York.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A version of this article appeared originally on the blog of Bluetrain, Inc. , founded by Bryan Smith. Smith is a member of EO Edmonton. Plan, implement and maintain. These three steps apply to almost any aspect of a business, but they are often overlooked in web analytics. In an increasingly online world, websites are key to running a successful business.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 13, 2019

At the end of 2016, folks in the startup tech ecosystem looked toward 2017’s impending “uncertainty.” Then at the end of 2017, the same worry about 2018; rinse and repeat last year, looking toward 2019. Yet, looking back, not much changed — there’s more money than every in the early-stage ecosystem, bigger financing rounds, large private pre-IPO growth rounds, and much more.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Business networking is a fun time — mingling, eating, chatting about business. But do you walk away with solid connections? Many business owners attend networking events but don’t utilize the time or crowd as well as they can. They walk away having spoken to a lot of new people, but not having made any real connections for themselves or their peers.

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EntreWorks Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Folks in the business of community building know the story when it comes to outside funders. They fund projects, not organizations. This policy has meant that many local organizations are starved for funds. They can raise money for specific projects, but can’t invest in their people or in building up their organizations. In practice, this means that community building organizations operate with insufficient funds to pay people, to build organizations, and to do the job right.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 16, 2019

We’ve cut down the seventh week of lectures to be even shorter and combined them into one podcast. Kevin Hale gave both lectures this week. Kevin’s a partner at YC and cofounded Wufoo. His first lecture is on how to improve conversion rates and his second lecture is on pricing for startups. Topics. 00:00 – Intro. 00:27 – Kevin Hale – How to Improve Conversion Rates. 1:02 – Why we care about conversion rates. 2:02 – Shareware conversion rate is.5%. 2:22 –

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Haystack

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Hi everyone. I’m at an offsite down in southern California. Yesterday, I briefly tweeted something that was on my mind (during a break at the offsite) just to get it out of my head. I didn’t check Twitter for hours after that, and then got a private message that went something like, “Hey, man, you may want to blog about a topic like this rather than tweeting it.” Whoops!

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Irina Dovganetskiy is like many other moms — she aims to only use the best products for her family, which means finding products without too many chemicals and harsh ingredients. Many other countries have already banned a long list of chemicals from household and personal hygiene and beauty products, while the US has a much shorter list of banned ingredients.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Intelerad Medical Systems , a leader in enterprise workflow solutions, and Zebra Medical Vision, the deep learning medical imaging analytics company, announce a joint program leveraging Intelerad’s newly released Odyssey designed to encourage the adoption of artificial intelligence without the prohibitive costs usually associated with such programs.

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GCUC

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global community of people we think you should know about. Community of Cultivators is a blog series we created to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. Each month, we’ll release new interviews that we hope inform and inspire you.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 14, 2019

I am sitting in the airport lounge in Geneva waiting to board an airplane. I am here because yesterday was the inaugural Libra Association member council meeting. The Libra Association is a Swiss organization which will operate the Libra blockchain network and the Libra reserve. Yesterday was an important milestone for the Libra project. We adopted the initial charter for the Libra Association, we elected the initial five board members, and we set in motion a number of important initiatives. 

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Video is powerful. It humanizes and personalizes your brand. There's a lot of tools you can use to enhance your video production and one of my favorites is Hey Mic , a wireless microphone, which uses Bluetooth to connect to your phone. One of the most powerful things you can do to start creating video is to interview other people. You can use Hey Mic to to stand a few feet from your phone, enabling it to capture video while the Hey Mic captures audio of your interview, or just of your solo talk.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Investors around the world “are looking at Israeli stocks, but they really want to get into Israeli start-ups,” OurCrowd CEO and founder Jon Medved told The Jerusalem Post. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in The Jerusalem Post] OurCrowd CEO: Israel enjoying ‘investment tourism’ boom appeared first on OurCrowd.

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GCUC

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The temps finally dropped here at HQ and we are feeling all of the fall vibes. Below are some of our favorite autumn events to host or enjoy with our community. Volunteer at a local pumpkin patch – In the south, these are everywhere. Grab a group of members and go volunteer at one in your area. Bonus points if you pick on up for the next activity.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 17, 2019

By Amanda Hinojosa, Howard University. Bias is a preference or tendency which can be for or against a person, group, or thing when compared to another. This definition suggests that bias is something prevalent in all aspects of life. While some biases, like your preference to eat at your favorite restaurant, may be harmless, other biases can lead to unfair conditions and judgment, and unethical discrimination.

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