Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. How are you going to pay for the wedding?” It almost sounds uncontroversial. A CEO should tell her staff everything! Of course not. I do believe in total transparency with your core. “Honey?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 1, 2024

While the entrepreneurial journey can be deeply fulfilling, it’s important to acknowledge the mental health struggles that often go hand-in-hand with the challenges, uncertainties, and responsibilities of starting a business. The emotional roller coaster that accompanies entrepreneurship is undeniable. But I got over that pretty quickly.” “My

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In marketing, as in life, change is the only constant. Trends in marketing come and go—causing a burden of uncertainty that torments every marketer. A highly compelling, profound and intriguing medium of marketing, animation holds the power to provide a massive ROI that maximizes leads and conversions. 2D animation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 2, 2020

What is your advice during this time of uncertainty? . It’s not about picking investments or buying insurance products; it’s about combining investments and insurance tools through a written financial plan that helps our clients achieve their goals as efficiently as possible. How has your business changed during this time? .

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. 2013 has proved to be a wild year. Companies being created has continued to go up dramatically making managing dealflow nearly impossible. eCommerce was battered this year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2024

Be fearless in the face of failure It sounds like the title of a book, but I’m often in awe when I see how so many of these college students dive headfirst into their ventures, unafraid of the possibility of failure and resilient in bouncing back. – Roxana Shershin, US East Regional GSEA Expert Need to reignite your entrepreneurial spark?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 19, 2021

In March 2020 as the global pandemic began—long before work-from-home and Zoom fatigue were issues—we asked Hart about her experience leading her business through crisis. We must lead. Through failure, I gained resilience and learned that a strong vision sees no barriers. During a crisis, leaders lead. At 6:10 a.m.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 15, 2020

It is important to address these changes in leadership responsibly and ethically. Here are a few recommendations for leading with integrity and transparency during a crisis. Crises are full of uncertainty. Know that you are not going through it alone and you are not expected to know what to do right away.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The very best companies lead their customers in that dance. Penetration pricing leads to land-and-expand sales tactics. They dance between asking for too little, leaving money on the table, and asking for too much, only to lose the customer’s interest. Maximization (Revenue Growth) - maximize revenue growth in the short term.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This has changed in my generation. Yet, even though most entrepreneurs have access to mental health services, and 72% of entrepreneurs report experiencing mental health challenges (versus 48% of the general population), far too few entrepreneurs seek help when mental health issues arise. I am 40 years old. Why is that?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 24, 2023

Creating agents of change with English language education in Argentina By Grace Zimlich 2022 YLAI Fellow Danila Blanco Travnicek has always been passionate about education and leading the charge of reforming the entrepreneur ecosystem in her home country of Argentina. entrepreneur ecosystem that she could take back to Argentina.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

That’s how much Invoca raised and we’re announcing it today. As we extended into October the Fall winds began blowing, the chill foreshadowing changes afoot and we could only begin to see the warning signs of a brick wall we were flying toward in the fog in our immediate vision. $30 million.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2016

The title insurance industry, like many others, has faced incredible change over the past few years. in 2007 during the collapse of the housing market, precisely because I believe change and chaos breed opportunity. We consistently engage with our customers in person, on social media, and through email and phone calls.

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Startup Blogpost

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

From instilling empowerment and autonomy in leadership to learning from failures and setbacks, we’ve gathered fourteen insightful responses that reveal how these lessons have been applied to their own leadership styles. Furthermore, the notion of “wealth” has transformed my approach to employee satisfaction.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For example, startups with well-prepared forecasts are better equipped to manage through challenging economic environments. However, understanding financial forecasting and decision-making is crucial for those aiming to scale efficiently. Why is financial forecasting important for startups?

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. every day for a month. That includes abstaining from water, despite the 95-degree heat.) ”What’s the problem?”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. Switzerland ended up ranking third out of 31 European nations, according to Nimblefins.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2024

However, as I spent my first year working in Netscape’s nascent professional services group, it became clear that most companies were neither ready to embrace this big change in their approach to technology nor particularly clear as to why they were doing it in the first place.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

“Working with uncertainty is very much the nature of the beast.” “Working with uncertainty is very much the nature of the beast.” India has long harbored a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and it’s not uncommon to see people leaving jobs to set up their own businesses.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Check out the first post on bringing your best self to work in an age of uncertainty and the second post on optimizing strengths for better work/life fulfillment. “We have an opportunity to use technology and use what we’ve gotten from the pandemic to really change the nature of work and make it a better life for everyone.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months ? A recent survey by TechCrunch+ indicates that investors and founders are, instead of simply looking for attractive opportunities, increasingly putting their minds to building the foundations for an industry that can employ the power of psychedelics to change lives.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

It basically talks about how, instead of betting everything on one big idea and risking it all, you need to start by firing small “bullets”—testing out various ideas on a smaller scale. This allowed us to explore different verticals and find what worked best for us.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Business owners always say that each company has to live through a real crisis before it becomes a real business. There are a lot of studies about crisis management on the web, but none of them tell us how to manage a company during times of war. I’ll use our example to explain how we dealt with it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

These innards show an exciting business — and a larger story about how the year is going for tech companies in general. That is 226% growth in 2020 thus far… How high-quality is DoorDash’s revenue? A COVID-19 vaccine appeared on the horizon this week, and could lead to the pandemic ending as soon as next year.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 28, 2021

It also constitutes a heavy psychological burden, with the impact of increased anxiety and financial uncertainty having a much greater influence than it normally would. So how do you go about not only maintaining it but showing people that you are providing value for their dollar? With the consumer price index (CPI) increasing by 6.2%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

It’s unclear what these numbers are now; however, it is very likely that they would’ve increased significantly in light of the pandemic, the uncertainty caused by the SVB and FTX collapse, and the widespread impact of the economic downturn that has resulted in a severe cash crunch and massive layoffs. There are other subtler impacts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Building a profitable business during a period of economic uncertainty is nothing short of intimidating. To help you set your business up to thrive during economic turbulence and beyond, I’d like to share some of the strategies that proved successful when building Hotjar, the company I lead. From there, it was off to the races.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When in-person reopens, probably some amount of learning will stay online since we all learned how to do it, but likely not 100%. Navigate through the uncertainty (and reevaluate quarterly). How can we budget through this? How do we know? More posts by this contributor. So it was ramen every night.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 billion, according to data from Partech. What drove such volumes when the rest of the world was reining back the collective enthusiasm of 2021? These are all indications of a growing ecosystem,” he added.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

Stories, Slides, and Data Primary data set of public 3-minute pitches and 2-minute Q&As I have spent more than a decade coaching thousands of people on how to tell stories. Halfway through the journey, I realized that something was fundamentally off in how founders tell them and how investors receive them.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 29, 2023

With their innovative solutions, they aspire to transform how researchers, medical professionals, and stakeholders interact with clinical trial data, unlocking its full potential for advancing medical knowledge and patient care. How has MEDIAIPLUS changed the scope of clinical trials and related services in Korea?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2020

I found myself thinking, how do I become an entrepreneur? But then the idea of putting myself out there, exposing myself to random critiques, and the uncertainty held me back. Some examples of challenges within the world of entrepreneurship: How to brand yourself? How to show up consistently? How to keep the discipline?

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 8, 2024

All this to say—it’s time to figure out how to access, pay for, and deliver curative therapies (amongst other high-cost, complex, specialty drugs), at scale. All this to say—it’s time to figure out how to access, pay for, and deliver curative therapies (amongst other high-cost, complex, specialty drugs), at scale.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

If you’ve ever renovated a house, you’ve suffered through the ordeal of getting custom-made cabinets, a costly and lengthy process that involves rounds of back-and-forth with dealers and designers taking up to half-a-year to complete. The four-year-old company recently landed a $10.5 China trade war. “On the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

However, this seems to be changing for the better, and foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important growth factor for the ecosystem. Although there remains uncertainty around how Brexit will affect Northern Ireland, one executive said, “If we play our cards right, we can capitalize on it.

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HPA

APRIL 7, 2020

As a result, we wanted to provide you with relevant resources and tools you need to lead your company through this time. As a result, we wanted to provide you with relevant resources and tools you need to lead your company through this time. How to Prepare Your Business for New COVID-19 Laws. Talent Resources.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s the first of Y Combinator’s two-day Demo Day event, which means that TechCrunch will spend most of our working hours watching startup demos and tracking how many companies from the batch are in particular sectors and geographies. A closed IPO market and antitrust vibes from U.S. Restoring market confidence in tech companies.

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