Sat.Oct 13, 2018 - Fri.Oct 19, 2018

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4 Steps to Hiring a Rock Star COO (Plus, Why You Need a COO!)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written by EO Germany member and CEO Feliks Eyser. A version of this article first appeared on Feliks’ Medium blog. . Building an amazing company requires more than vision. You’ve heard the saying that every success story is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. You have to sweat and execute! Many people have good ideas, but few can execute and build a great company around it.

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FundersClub Portfolio Follow-On Rounds Update - Q3 2018

FundersClub

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: GitLab announced its $100M Series D, led by ICONIQ, and minting it a new $B portfolio company. GitLab provides open source code collaboration software.

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The Willingness to Learn and the Pressure to Be Confident

This is going to be BIG.

Being a founder means showing confidence. It’s nearly impossible to fundraise, hire, or lead without it—but at the same time, founders don’t know everything. There are many things they’re going to be doing for the first time that are ridiculous to expect them to know how to do right off the bat. Just because you start a company doesn’t necessarily mean you’re automatically a good manager, a good recruiter, or good at PR.

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SaaS Freemium/Free Trial Survey is Here

Tomasz Tunguz

Earlier this year, I wrote about MadKudu’s analysis of free trials and asked if readers were interested in another benchmarking survey on the topic, and the response was overwhelming. Over the last few weeks, my colleague Patrick Chase , and I (along with help from many people in the community) have been busy putting the survey together. I’d like to thank Ryan Janssen for lending a hand.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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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7 Habits That Keep Women Stuck

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Women’s leadership expert Sally Helgesen and leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith join forces to address the common and specific roadblocks women face in their pursuit of professional success in the book How Women Rise. The very habits that may have helped women early in their careers may be hindering them as they progress in the workplace. Helgesen and Goldsmith tackle the top 12 habits that could be stopping your next promotion.

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Slow Is Fast: Think Before Chasing Rapid Growth

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written for EO by Dave Pributsky, cofounder of 2920 Sleep. One day, a hare was making fun of a tortoise for being so slow. “Do you ever get anywhere?” the hare asked with a mocking laugh. “Yes,” the tortoise replied, “and I’ll get there sooner than you think. I’ll run you a race and prove it.” No, this isn’t storytime for entrepreneurs.

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