Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 2, 2023

The Vietnam Angel Network (VAN) provides funding, mentorship, and networking opportunities for early-stage startups. But entrepreneurship is a challenging journey, no matter where you are in the world. In Vietnam, the road to entrepreneurial success can be especially tough. Talent shortage: Skilled employees are hard to find.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. 1) Freebies for Student Tech Founders. 1) Your school.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Nominees compete against their peers from around the world in a series of local and national competitions in hopes to qualify for the GSEA Global Finals. Arnold Shoko of Tanzania is the CEO and co-founder of Samaki Farms, a company that transforms food waste into protein feeds. We asked Arnold about his GSEA experience. Apply today!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. Mentorship / Modeling Behavior An important part of leadership is being a role model for those who may come after you to look up and say, “If she can do it then why can’t I?”

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Ashna Mahepal, founder of Young Help Suriname (YHS) , is a member of the YLAI Network and 2016 YLAI Fellow. She created the organization out of her passion for social entrepreneurial impact. Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

To be eligible, one of the business founders has to be black or a person of African descent. However, do note that even BEYOND FUNDING – what’s MOST important is that you build a business that has the right team, solves the right problem, for the right customer base. If you have a suggestion to add to the list, just let me know.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

They helped attendees meet self-defined aspirations, encouraged an entrepreneurial spirit and peer networking, offered one-to-one clinics and workshops with GoDaddy guides. At the beginning of each mentorship, goals and objectives were established with the ambition of following a defined plan of action. Impressions & Outcomes.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

The Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator, in recognition of the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia, aims to bridge the gap in mentorship, networking opportunities, and funding. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

To help our founders in transition , some of which are interested in becoming scouts. Our goal is to invest in, coinvest with, and/or recruit founders in transition. We’re launching our own scout program, and want to benchmark compensation and structure against our peers. But how do you do that? . Monetizing our deal flow.

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Impact Hub

JULY 30, 2021

Besides founding and leading INMI in Valencia, Spain, she is also the co-founder of ALDEA, a social organization where she develops consulting projects, training and territorial-community development through sustainability, interculturality and social innovation. . 10 years ago, my purpose was to run a social business.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

Amit Bhatia, Founder of Aspire Impact and Aspire Circle, spoke about the ‘much-needed’. incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. Amit Bhatia, Founder of Aspire Impact and Aspire Circle, spoke about the ‘much-needed’. impetus especially, in challenging times post-Covid.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. I have been involved with a high profile one in Los Angeles – Launchpad LA – and we’ve decided to make a shift so I thought this was a good time for reflection. Yeah, he was LA, baby!

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:00:40] – Matt Hackett, who is Casey Neistat’s co-founder. 00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. Google Play. SoundCloud.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 3, 2019

EO is a peer-to-peer learning organization , so it made perfect sense to offer free mentoring sessions to conference attendees who wished to spend time with an entrepreneur. Santoro attended the 2019 Startup Grind Global as an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ambassador and mentor. We share his thoughts below. .

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In addition to getting the help you need and gaining perspective from your peers, there’s an added, less obvious benefit to asking for help. Monkey and Me: A Real Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs” by Mike Smerklo. Copyright 2020 Lioncrest Publishing. Now when I have an issue to resolve, I typically ask four to five people for help.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It’s commonly known that 50% of businesses close within five years of opening – this report helps us understand how we can work with women founders to beat those odds.” It revealed a rarely discussed confidence gap that over half of female business owners have, while a lack of mentorship was also a common theme.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 26, 2018

On top of that, there are personal mentorship opportunities and huge networking events. Nothing is more valuable than the exchange of experiences among peers. I remember it as if it happened yesterday. I received a message from a friend about a global entrepreneurs’ organization coming to the city of São Paulo.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired. This difference comes from the outlier returns driven by backing founders who are different. More to come in batches of five answers each post.

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Impact Hub

JULY 14, 2021

Covering business areas from sustainable living to circular fashion, gastronomy to well-being, the program provided participants with mentorships, business skills, one-to-one clinics with GoDaddy experts, and peer networking. In 2020 it expanded to Germany through Impact Hub Munich and the target audience for each location changed. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. Indonesia emerged as the best choice.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

In mid-July 75 women of color-owned small businesses will learn of their grant awards and be given access to a “self-paced learning portal and peer-to-peer community networking.” The Fund is dedicated to WOC-led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or series A financing. times more likely to achieve that number.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho. Vidit Aatrey is cofounder and CEO of Meesho. Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. They were in the Summer 2016 batch of YC and you can check them out at Meesho.com.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Nominees compete against their peers from around the world in a series of local and national competitions in hopes to qualify for the GSEA Global Finals. Inspired by the book Start Something That Matters by Toms founder Blake Mycoskie, Joe decided to tackle the world water crisis. The problem at hand: Access to clean water.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A Forum, which is also often referred to as a Mastermind, is a group of peers who meet regularly, with the goal of helping each member improve personally and professionally. Almost 10 years ago, I had my first experience with a professional Forum when I joined Entrepreneurs’ Organization. In my experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. I will also outline how to select them and incentivize them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

On the other side of the spectrum is Benchmark Capital who famously eschews platform services and believes that having nobody between their partners and the portfolio companies they work with makes for the most productive relationship between VC firm and founder. It is clear to me that both approaches work.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Develop for Good “was in response to [the pandemic], but at the same time, a lot of our peers were having their internships canceled, [and] a lot of companies were having hiring freezes,” Zhu explained. Unfortunately, tech talent is expensive and hard to find, particularly for often cash-strapped nonprofits.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

Tom Charman is a “studentrepreneur,” an EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) finalist in 2016 and co-founder and CEO of KOMPAS , a city exploration application helping people discover amazing but little-known adventures hidden in the world’s urban jungles. We asked Tom about his experiences and inspirations. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Mitsue Kurihara gave an overview of the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center and the competition they’ve held for the past four years which invites women of all ages to present their business models for a grand prize of 5 million yen and a year of mentorship. Fujiyo Ishiguro speaking at the Brookings Institute.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Qureos was founded in August last year by Alexander Epure , Mehrad Yaghmai and Usama Nini in a bid to make mentorship more accessible to individuals that are starting out in their careers, or are looking to switch jobs. As such, you learn from peers and from the best in the world,” said Epure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

She then decided to drop out of school and focus on the company, which was becoming a service startup founders would use. Our operations team is 100% women led and operated, and we’re building world-class training and mentorship along with flexible remote work opportunities within a supportive community of peers.”.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired. It takes time (as in decades, not years) to learn the art of opportunity identification and hone one’s individual style for engaging founders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ureeka , an SMB mentorship platform for next-wave entrepreneurs, has today announced the Kevin O’Leary Bootcamp , which will offer members access to an exclusive curriculum of his knowledge and advice. million in April , looks to offer a full-scale mentorship platform for underrepresented founders across all industries.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 12, 2022

This month-long series is a way for participants to meet black technical founders and engineers of YC startups, learn about their career path, get mentorship from YC alum, and build a community of peers. Note that profiles are visible to YC founders and hiring managers at YC startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

The first is a Medicaid-reimbursable state provider-led peer specialist training; the second is a custom internal program developed by Somethings and built alongside the US government’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Called Somethings , Gilligan’s now 14-month-old, New York-based startup is the outcome of that effort.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

The company, which focuses on working with remote-first startups, launched in 2019, with co-founders Greg Gunn (CEO) and Beier Cai (CTO), who met as early employees at Hootsuite, bootstrapping the company while they worked out the details of how they wanted Commit to work. So the team decided to figure out ways to remove these barriers.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

This month-long series is a way for participants to meet black technical founders and engineers of YC startups, learn about their career path, get mentorship from YC alum, and build a community of peers. Note that profiles are visible to YC founders and hiring managers at YC startups.

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