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EO Accelerator Story: Bryan Luoma

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Bryan Luoma is an EO Accelerator (EOA) participant who owns a CAD drafting business based in the New York metro area. Bryan and his employees credit the EO Accelerator program with building his confidence and expertise as an entrepreneur scaling his business. See more EOA stories and learn more! EO Accelerator Stories: Bryan Luoma from EO Network on Vimeo.

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How Much Money Should I Raise for My Startup?

Tomasz Tunguz

How much should a founder raise for their startup? I imagine almost every founder contemplating a fundraising round ponders this question. There are many different paths to developing an answer. The right answer that every startup founder has told me is as much capital as possible at the highest possible price. But what strategies exist to justify increasing the round size and consequently price?

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About personal use of corporate assets

Berkonomics

It is no secret that the IRS looks carefully below the surface for personal use of company assets (including cash) in its corporate income tax audits. This insight addresses more the impact of such behavior upon the actions of employees and others who observe that behavior from a senior manager or owner of a business – and know that they cannot say anything about it without jeopardizing their jobs.

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Trump is everyone's problem now.

This is going to be BIG.

Just realizing that I forgot to list one risk factor in my Fund II PPM--the possibility that the US turns into a fascist dictatorship. That probably won't have a positive effect on venture capital returns. I mean, think about it--how well do you think those late 1930's German venture capital vintages did? How about Venezuela funds from 1998? So, if you're annoyed or distracted by all your favorite tech and startup people talking about Trump--you should probably get used to it because this admini

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Adopting and Abandoning Technology in Your Company

Entrepreneurs' Organization

John Brandon , contributing editor at Inc.com, just published an article entitled, “ How to Help Your Company Adopt New Tech Tools ,” with a byline reading, “Skip being an early adopter. Become a fast changer instead.” Brandon provides a solid argument for embracing change–a message we know all to well–but his follow-up argument deserves a closer look. “Be quick to adopt and quick to abandon the trend when you see it doesn’t offer any benefits or a

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Don’t Let Anybody Tell You Not to Speak Up. Here’s Why …

Both Sides of the Table

Trump. In a week there is enough evidence to know that he truly is the narcissistic child and xenophobic race-baiter we saw during the election and that wasn’t just reality TV to get him elected. Here is a quote you should regret believing “ The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” You should all take him literally.

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Right Message, Right Situation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

By Caryn Kopp, Chief Door Opener at Kopp Consulting. A sales message designed for one situation will not necessarily work well in another. For example, you may have perfected your 30-second elevator speech (or “30-second commercial,” as it’s often called). This works great if you are actually in an elevator and have someone’s complete attention. But it will get you those glazed looks if you try to work 30 seconds of monologue into a conversation in the buffet line at a networking event.

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Which to Prioritize - Churn or Growth?

Tomasz Tunguz

Which is the more important priority? Growth or churn? Churn or growth? Early-stage companies have limited resources to focus their efforts. On one hand, growth is important in order to raise a venture capital round. Growth shows demand for a product. On the other hand, churn is a huge source of friction and raises questions of product market fit. Especially in the early stage, churn is the more important of the two priorities, and when founders ask me which to emphasize that the seed and series