Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 8, 2016

When you began formulating the idea of creating a business, what did you think of first? The business model? Your “why” statement? Ideal employees? Every entrepreneur knows that the success of their company can be made – or crushed – by the quality of their core working team. CEOs and business owners want their company to be well-run, and oftentimes, that means formulating a rockstar group of people who will give their best to help you succeed in realizing your dream.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 7, 2016

Daniel Kahneman wrote about his experiences with the inside/outside bias. Kahneman, a team of graduate students, and the Dean of the Hebrew University School of Education collaborated on curriculum for judgment and decision-making for high schools. At one point, Kahneman surveyed his team to estimate the amount of time remaining to complete project.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2016

The other day, I sat in on a pitch practice with a company who, by all accounts, is the leader in its category. They are doing things no other company like it has been able to do, on relatively little capital compared to their peers. When they focus on sales, they crush it. When they focus on making product improvements, they make great strides. Consumer buzz in their market has been off the charts.

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For Entrepreneurs

APRIL 6, 2016

This is part of our series “Pitching to Investors” that shares real examples and practical advice from the Matrix General Partners on creating your pitch deck. See intro to the series here: Five Ways to Nail Your Pitch and Win Over Investors. Our goal in this series is to help entrepreneurs nail their pitch so.

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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 6, 2016

This entrepreneur’s story is movie material: Quit your job, hop on a plane to Mongolia, drive 20 hours out in the desert with some goat herders (who you just met at dinner two days ago), and then get stuck out in the Gobi desert for a month. That was the beginning of Naadam, a clothing brand arguing for supply chain innovations. Matt Scanlan and Diederik Rijsemus, two Marco Polo types, are looking to replicate what they’ve done for cashmere in Mongolia around the world: travel to corners of the

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Berkonomics

APRIL 7, 2016

Here’s a formula for success… Let’s say you have been told by your board, by your chairman, CEO, or direct leader to solve three problems you identify and report back within a month showing progress – or that you have solved these three. First, you’d worry that this is an artificial way to focus management. Why three? Why now? After a short moment, you’d turn into action mode, perhaps calling in senior staff for a brainstorming session.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2016

Production processes perfected by the private sector can help the social-minded scale efficiently. The Toyota Effect series from Toyota highlights the car company’s fundamental mission to share good ideas to positively impact the world. Over the next month, PSFK and Toyota will demonstrate how the company and other thought-leaders are using the power of the collaboration to innovate, and create change for people, society, and the planet.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2016

Over the last six years, seed rounds have grown in size by 12% annually. Series As have grown by 14%, series Bs by 9%, series Cs by 14% and series Ds by 11%. In that same timeframe, the median series A and series C has doubled. Median seed rounds have more than tripled in size. This tripling of seed round sizes is a recent phenomenon, taking place in the first quarter of 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2016

Losing a seasoned and beloved team member can be tough, whether it’s their choice or yours. But it can also be for the better. Keith Roberts, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member from Colorado, is the President of Zenman , a Denver-based web design/development and digital marketing agency. We asked him about the importance of having the right people in the right positions and why that’s vital to a company’s success.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 4, 2016

The Future of Machine Intelligence is a free collection of 10 interviews machine learning experts filed by David Beyer. The interviews explain exactly where we are with the state-of-the-art, the challenges to advanced machine learning, and some of the applications. In the last interview, Oriol Vinyals, a research scientist at Google, describes sequence-to-sequence machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence that has been used to create descriptions of images, and could be used to summari

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 4, 2016

Can all your sales problems be solved with a single question? Dr. Karl Blanks is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member from the UK – London. He is the co-founder of Conversion Rate Experts , a consultancy that scientifically grows many of the world’s most successful web business, including Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. We asked Karl for tips on growing sales.

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