Sat.May 28, 2016 - Fri.Jun 03, 2016

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Benefits of a Shared-Economy Business Model

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Photo: Praveen (left), with founder of ShareShed, Daniel DuBois , an EO GSEA finalist. The sharing economy is reinventing the way people think, act and play while affecting nearly every industry. We’re witnessing a generational shift toward people collecting memories over stuff. Praveen Varshney, a long-time EO Vancouver member and investor in Lyft, Guiides.com, ShareShed and other sharing-economy companies, is capitalizing on this new movement while helping the environment through support

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Half Lives. Social Media. And Snapchat Stories.

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. I love to watch networks evolve, see how crowds gather and communicate and curate and share. Twitter was the most unique social sharing platform that had emerged in my experience because it unintentionally innovated on a constraint of 140 characters (initially so that it could send messages as SMS, which it self had a size constraint).

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The power of NO!

Berkonomics

Over the years I have counseled entrepreneurs to think of a “no” response in terms of “yes, but…” There is always another way to say “no” that leaves the door open for creative thinking. Well, almost always. Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and say “NO” with strong conviction. It usually happens after several attempts to find a “yes, but” solution to a problem or issue that just can’t be resolved.

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Start with the Premise that Everything is Noise

Tomasz Tunguz

We each know that focus is the most effective way to work, but hearing the mantra to focus doesn’t help narrow our scope. What’s the best way to focus? Start with the premise that everything is noise and then work to find the exceptionally valuable or important things for each day and for each project. That’s the thesis of a book called Essentialism.

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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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5 Ways Entrepreneurship is Like a Demanding Professor

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Diving into entrepreneurship can be a scary thought for many, but it can also be a worthwhile endeavor. Rusty Shelton, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member from Austin, is president of Advantage Marketing and co-author of Mastering the New Media Landscape: Embrace the Micromedia Landscape. We asked Rusty about what he has learned during his entrepreneurial journey – here’s what he had to say.

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How to Make a Million Dollars By Starting Your Own Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It takes more than just a good idea to become a millionaire. There are many perks to starting your own business — being able to set your own hours and working on something that you’re truly passionate about, for starters. But if you want to continue enjoying those perks, you need to figure out how to make money (and lots of it). Inc. asked several CEOs who made our 2015 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list–all of whom were able to generate more than $1 million in annual r

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The Beginning of Consolidation in SaaS

Tomasz Tunguz

Three billion dollar SaaS acquisitions were announced this week with Salesforce paying $2.9B for DemandWare, an eCommerce platform provider, Vista Equity Partners paying $1.8B for Marketo, the marketing automation company, and Thoma Bravo buying Qlik, a business intelligence companies for $2.9B. In addition to the absolute size, the first two trans transactions distinguish themselves high valuation multiples of 12x and 8x on trailing revenues.

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Comparing Two Ways to Build a SaaS Sales Team

Tomasz Tunguz

There are two main ways of building a SaaS sales team: top down or bottoms up. Top down SaaS sales organizations start with a VP of Sales who often hires senior account executives. Bottoms up sales teams hire the first account manager and promote from within. Which is better? Let’s create a framework to compare the bookings capacity, the ramp period and the cost for three levels of sales hires.

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