Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2021

It probably felt strange and disconcerting, perhaps with a tone of outrage, as in “I don’t believe things more if they’re repeated!”. Reading the second sentence did not inspire such a strong reaction. Your reaction to the third sentence was tame by comparison. It feeds into their fears, which is a very cognitively fluid part of our mind.

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Feedough

JANUARY 11, 2021

Today, women entrepreneurs are making it big in the entrepreneurial world. To shed light on women’s problems as entrepreneurs, Women’s Entrepreneurship Day is celebrated on the 19th of November. To shed light on women’s problems as entrepreneurs, Women’s Entrepreneurship Day is celebrated on the 19th of November.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Octane: EO Accelerator is EO’s program for first-stage entrepreneurs. I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. I was referred to EO Accelerator by a former EO member and applied to the program in 2015. How did you hear about EO Accelerator?

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Network with other entrepreneurs. Contact peers you have met through networking, both ones who have used this investor, and ones who haven’t. Ask the investor for “references,” meaning contacts at companies where previous investments were made. Here are some techniques for making the assessment: 1. Talk to other investors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. If you’re an investor who’d like to participate in future surveys, fill out this form. Which avenues enjoy new tailwinds?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s very easy in venture capital when you’ve seen thousands of companies have read thousands of decks and spreadsheets and been to numerous conferences and exchanged ideas with other investors and entrepreneurs to feel like “you know better” and that’s precisely what we try to encourage Team Upfront not to feel or how not to behave.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Welcome to EH Weekly, the new newsletter from the team behind Medium’s biggest entrepreneur-focused publication. It’s referred to as “The Struggle,” and there are endless reasons why founders face The Struggle : Limited control, 100% responsible  — Founders want control. A better, cooler version of this first appeared on beehiiv.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In case you don’t know – as VCs we have have 2 sets of customers: LPs (limited partners) who invest money in our funds and entrepreneurs (who we in turn give money to and help support them in building businesses we hope will be valuable). Who else is going to tell a VC if he got a bad reference from an entrepreneur or fellow VC?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

I recently wrote a piece about how Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved. The premise was that some leaders are too enamored with the approbation of their peers than making the tough decisions in the business that are bound to upset some people. So you make four more reference calls. You ask them to hit another milestone.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Luckily, I had the support of numerous advisors, mentors, and peers, who helped share their tribal knowledge and lessons to propel Supademo to a successful outcome. With this post, I’m hoping to stitch together the snippets of advice, tactics, and tools I used to create the playbook I wish I had at the beginning of my fundraiser.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

[if you're not old enough to get the reference between this image and the title you can click on the image for a prompter]. This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. Entrepreneurs need to share more information with each other.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Impact enterprises refer to SMEs (small-medium enterprises), SGBs (small growing businesses) and micro enterprises operating at the crossroads of entrepreneurship and social and/or environmental impact. Our mission is to build locally rooted and globally connected entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 13, 2021

3 Ways to Set up New Senior-Level Hires for Success in a Hypergrowth Start-Up How we’re doing it at monday.com Created by the author Successfully retaining senior managers is challenging in hypergrowth start-ups like monday.com. External hires can add new energy and a fresh perspective to your start-up.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

event , hosted by the Brookings Institute to discuss the “potential of female entrepreneurs in Japan.” The event was predicated on legislation passed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, promoting female participation in the Japanese economy – the policy is widely referred to as “womenomics.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

My favorite two quotes of the weekend were: “Never trade your cat for somebody else’s dog” (referring to selling your company for stock to another privately held company – quote was from Alan. Entrepreneurs always walk away with new relationships, knowledge, deal discussions and enthusiasm.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. Alpha Partners , Proof VC ) which share the carry earned in their coinvest to the referring party. But how do you do that? . How to find a job as a VC scout.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Although many entrepreneurs would argue that even working on your life’s passion has its ups and downs, most would agree that working on something you love gives you a true sense of accomplishment. Or so the, somewhat controversial, saying goes. Many of us still make career decisions based on location, status, opportunity, or profit.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Ramon Ray, founder of SmartHustle.com spoke with the founders of Maison de Papillon , Danielle Salinas, and Shriya Bisht about their journey and how a strong partnership has helped their business. In this powerful discussion they talked about: How to find and succeed with partners in your business. Do you have the right MINDSET for business growth.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Clients stuck around and referred new clients to us! Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. Below is an excerpt from the original article. I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing customers and employees who brought us to this milestone! 2004 / Cash and financial management is a matter of survival.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 29, 2020

The vast majority feel that making connections—connecting entrepreneurs to resources and stakeholders, and connecting the dots—is a primary attribute of who ecosystem builders are and what they do. ” There are so many ideas as to what an ecosystem builder is. The resulting set of answers is intriguing and informative to read.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

For reference, Pony.ai Unlike some peers that concentrate resources on “Level 4,” or real driverless passenger cars, Momenta is selling semi-automated driving software to carmakers while investing in more advanced tech that is years from mass adoption. It seems to have chosen well. Ethics in the age of autonomous vehicles.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 5, 2021

There was a need to connect entrepreneurs coming out of a Small Business Development Center (SBDC) training program to investors and funding. Pooling money allows many small contributions to add up to significant funding for the entrepreneur. has held steady at around 300,000 for the last ten years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

For the first time, I met entrepreneurs and saw an actual concept that you can pursue a career you like, be successful and make a difference in the world,” she said. I admired them, but I just didn’t see the pathway for me to get there,” she said, of the entrepreneurs she met, who were then largely white and male. “I

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. There’s a kernel of truth in every joke, so whenever someone quips, “This meeting could have been an email!” “Help them feel empowered to decline a bad meeting.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In a perfectly decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) network, the number of parties running nodes would be equal to the number of nodes in existence. You’re leaving on the table if you continue to stake with Exchanges. When it comes to Proof of Stake (PoS) chains, people often talk about passive income earned by staking their coins.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Its philosophy was simple: reward customers with free storage space for referring other customers. The good news is you can quickly learn which growth marketing strategies work by studying other companies’ success and adapting it to your own business. In 2008, it was an absolute revelation. A golden ticket. Doing SEO right: Flo.

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Red Rocket

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Before COVID, companies were not fans of virtual employees, and thought they needed to be in one place for them to be managed and contributing as part of the team. But, once virtual work became required in the wake of COVID, they quickly learned “hey, the staff seems to be doing just fine working remotely”, with revenues still coming in as normal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

“The ability for people to train models on their own is difficult because you need money,” he said, referring to the divide in the world of AI between the well-capitalized ‘have’s’ and those with less funding who are the ‘have-nots.’ and Europe). The capital behind Fetch.ai Using Fetch.ai

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. ) That is why inflation, at least from a goods perspective, will remain sticky. I discussed this at length in “Energy Cancelled”.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Being an effective founder means questioning current paradigms, asking ‘Is there a better way to do this—and am I the person to do it?’ ’ It’s that line of thinking that leads people to create disruptive companies, to solve problems that were thought to be intractable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

The latter refers to companies that are working on the infrastructure the sector will rely on once in full bloom, and the consensus among specialized investors is that they make for very worthy bets. Bearish markets and high interest rates often cause private investors to turn away from anything resembling a risky investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

In my Twitter bio is says that I’m “ looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs ,” which almost sounds like I was just looking for a cliché soundbite to describe myself. Passion is also the featured heavily in nearly every presentation I give to entrepreneurs or on college campuses or in talks with MBA students.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

My thesis is that it will become a major I/O computing metaphor or as this field is sometimes referred to HCI ( human-computer interaction ). Today I am so excited to announce our latest investment in the category —  Nanit  — which is a smart baby monitor. The objective behind Nanit is to help parent “sleep more and monitor less.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As you know, I run our Founder Experience program here, the set of tools and programs and people that we have to support our entrepreneurs in their growth journey. Good morning, afternoon, and evening Redpoint community. Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. I’m Travis Bryant. Excited to be back emceeing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2013

Many first-time entrepreneurs have grown up digital natives so have a really good intuitive feel for technology & design but don’t yet have the business basics down. . I’m talking about simple and quick calls to your business peers, VCs or other players in your ecosystem. How Can I Help?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It’s the story of persistence in entrepreneurs. As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. I try not to go out to entrepreneur events in LA every night – I have work to get done and a family.

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