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Turning an Addiction into a Dream Job

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Brad Stevens is an EO Atlanta member, Chair of that chapter’s Accelerator program, and founder and CEO of Outsource Access , which helps companies grow by providing highly skilled virtual assistants. We asked Brad about his history as an entrepreneur, below. In part 2 of this article , he explains how he helped grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program.

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Bridge Group 2017 SaaS AE Metrics Report

For Entrepreneurs

Since 2007, The Bridge Group has tracked the Account Executive (AE) role and gathered data on how metrics and compensation change over time. We’ve partnered together to publish the 2017 SaaS AE Metrics Report and offer sales organizations a set of benchmarks to compare themselves against industry standards. This report offers specific analysis and recommendations based.

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Patterns in Startup M&A Processes

Tomasz Tunguz

At some point in the life of your company, you may consider selling the business. Every acquisition process might run a little bit differently, but these are some of the patterns that I have observed after about nine years in the venture business, and also having evaluated a handful of acquisitions when I was at Google. There are two key constituencies within the buyer: the business owner and corporate development.

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What are the odds of that?

Derek Sivers

Three true stories: In 1992, in Tokyo, I dated a girl named Masako. After our month together, she moved to London. We lost touch. In 2008, I was in London for a few days. I wondered if Masako still lived there, sixteen years later. A minute later, she walked by. “Masako!”. “Derek?!”. In 1993, I had a pen-pal from Argentina named Lucia. She was studying Norwegian and planned to move to Oslo, Norway, some day.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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8 Things Your Employees Can’t Stand About You

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Communicating poorly, overworking your team, micromanaging, showing no appreciation—these are classic bad boss behaviors that could be costing you great employees. . These days, it isn’t uncommon for workers to jump ship every two to three years, and some younger millennials have no qualms about finding better work after just a few months under your roof.

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Boy! If I had only learned this before spending a million!

Berkonomics

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. I love absolutes – statements with no wiggle room for gray-area responses. Well, here is one of those, and it deals with market research first and foremost. Close. Let me tell you a short story at my own expense. In 1994, (I know a long time ago), I invested over a million dollars into a company whose entrepreneurs had a vision that I bought into for many reasons, not the least of which was that I had industry experience

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FundersClub Weekly Newsletter - July 6, 2017

FundersClub

FundersClub Portfolio News. Coinbase added one million new users in June, demonstrating a massive increase in its user base in a relatively short period of time in " Bitcoin User Base Surges, Coinbase Adds 1 Mln Users in 1 Month. " Thalmic Labs has filed a patent as it continues to work heads-down on its next product that describes a wearable heads-up display, a photopolymer “often using in holography,” and curved eyeglass lens designs in " Thalmic Files Patent Describ

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The Five Questions You Need to Answer About Your Startup's Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

Michael Porter wrote the seminal book on strategy in the early 1980s. Called Competitive Strategy, I think it should be required for anyone starting a company. Strategy is a seemingly murky amorphous intangible concept, but Porter brilliantly prescribes the five questions strategy should answer. What are the answers for your business? What is your distinctive value proposition?