Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Who is Anju Rupal, and what is she doing to better the world? Watch her Project Octane video, “One Hand Washes the Other,” and read our sixteen insights into her career as a social entrepreneur. 1. Anju is inspired in her work by the cleanliness of Switzerland, where she lives. 2. She is empowering girls and women through her business, Abhati. 3.
For Entrepreneurs
DECEMBER 14, 2015
The following is part two of a guest post series by Rob Gonzalez. You can find part 1 here. Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution that I invested in in 2013 and where I currently serve on the board. Prior to founding Salsify, Rob was at.
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Berkonomics
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Years ago I led a deal and invested in a company that looked like it had lots of promise to disrupt the women’s clothing industry with special algorithms and an online store. But something had bothered me from the very start – unsalable inventory.you trusted the data. You see, women’s clothing is subject to fashion changes so frequently that inventory becomes obsolete quickly.
Thomas Grota
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Recently I had some discussions with investors and founders about the state of investments in tech.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 14, 2015
By Arman Sadeghi, an Octane blog contributor and CEO of Titanium Success. There are 14 powerful secrets to supercharging your business and doubling your company’s profits. However, you must first make sure you are in the right industry. It doesn’t matter how good your company is, how well you do marketing, and how hard you work if the industry you are in is dying.
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Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 15, 2015
When I was at Google, we worked with a user experience team frequently to help us design changes to the AdWords front end. After having reviewed our designs within our product team for weeks, we often thought the design was complete and foolproof. But we were consistently proven wrong by the UX team whose work surfaced face-slapping oversights. At UserOnboarding , Samuel Hulick has taken this approach with more than 40 different on-the-mark and a bit irreverent UX critiques of many top internet
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 13, 2015
I don't know a single venture capital investor who doesn't get a firehose of e-mail. You have money, they have ideas, so BAM, e-mails. It's just the nature of the job. You could try and hide your e-mail, make people jump through hoops to get it, but at some point, everyone's got it again. Even if not, by making it difficult to contact you, except through trusted introductions, you're implicitly saying "I think my next best deal is going to come from in my circle, as opposed to from outside of it
Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 18, 2015
By Tim Hamilton, an EO Austin member and Founder of Praxent. For one fiscal quarter, I tried an experiment to boost my firm’s productivity. By the quarter’s end, the results were clear— painfully clear. Like many custom software agencies, we estimate and bill our work based on the hours our developers devote to client projects. Given that our developers are expected to work 40 hours a week, it seemed logical that the more of those hours they devoted to client work, the more productive they would
Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 18, 2015
American actress and activist Susan Sarandon, when asked about the importance of movies in shaping identity, responded with this thoughtful statement: “Oh, movies are important and they’re dangerous because we’re the keeper of the dreams. You go into a little dark room and become incredibly vulnerable – on one hand all your perspectives can be challenged, you could feel something you couldn’t feel normally.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 15, 2015
“The EODC Accelerator Program has, by far, been the biggest positive influence on my business in terms of learning new business strategies and connecting with great people, and for this I’m extremely grateful.” – Heather Cox. Click here to view the full article! The post EODC 2015: Looking Back and Feeling Grateful appeared first on THE BLOG.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 12, 2015
Work isn’t always the most fun place to be, but many people spend the majority of their weekday in the office. Staring at the cubicles and following the routine has the potential to take a huge toll on your employees, and that can really knock down productivity a few notches. If you aren’t doing anything to mitigate the problem, it’s an inevitable pitfall that can swallow the success of your business.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Check out these photos! Four EO Insignia Forums and eight Quantum Leap Forums from North America gathered for the EO Insignia & EO Quantum Leap Campus event in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from 21-23 October, 2015. This 1.5 day event brought these 12 Forums together with additional members for an event focused around the theme of “From Success to Significance.” Event Chair, Sue Hrib (EO At-Large) hosted the final night dinner event at her home, known as the Hrib Crib.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 17, 2015
17 December is a milestone date in history for many reasons; on this date in 1790, the Aztec stone calendar (“Sun Stone”) was discovered in Mexico City, Mexico, which greatly influenced the way we view Aztec history. Also on this date in 1770, Ludwig Van Beethoven was baptized and began a life that would produce nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, one opera, five piano concertos and numerous chamber works.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 14, 2015
“How do you deal with fear, versus danger?” EO is thrilled that Chris Hadfield, renowned Canadian astronaut, will be one of our keynote speakers at EO Banff Global University this March. Hadfield has completed 14 hours of spacewalks over his illustrious career, some of that time without eye sight. During his 2014 TED Talk, the astronaut gives a vivid picture of the experiences he has had preparing for his time in space.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 13, 2015
What word would you use to describe the Entrepreneurs’ Organization? “Engaging”? “Community”? We asked a few EO Global staff members to answer this question, and here’s what they had to say: What word would you use to describe EO? Write it in the comment section below, and your response could be featured on EO’s social media channels!
Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 12, 2015
2015 was a year of expansion and change at EO. In addition to launching 9 new chapters across the globe, our new CEO, Vijay Tirathrai began the fiscal year with the theme EO Together. Here were the top 12 most engaging social media posts of 2015: Follow us as #EOlooksback on the calendar year during these 31 days of December. We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
DECEMBER 15, 2015
Which of the world’s biggest businesses are “going green?” This is the question Newsweek asked, along with Corporate Knights Capital and HIP (Human Impact + Profit) Investor Inc., in their study, “ Top Green Companies in the World 2015.” The contenders were scored based on 8 KPIs, each of which served as a percentage of the final score: Combined energy productivity – 15%.
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Tomasz Tunguz
DECEMBER 13, 2015
The fundraising markets have infused more cash into startups in 2015 than in any year since 2001. But, the venture backed IPO markets touched five year lows and whispers of a bubble have become a meme in the past six months. What’s really going on? And should that impact when founders start companies? No one can time the financial markets. If you can, you should be trading stocks, bonds and options and retiring very soon.
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