Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2020

When Pete approached me for advice, I recommended the “Failure-Proofing” strategy, which is a pragmatic and easy-to-use technique to defend against planning and project disasters. Step 1: Imagine that the decision, project or process failed, and brainstorm reasons for why your plan failed. Make sure to provide all the details.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Ideas for a startup business emerge from a variety of sources that should be thoroughly researched and evaluated. When you drive through your local community or go to your place of employment, you are coming in contact with businesses, both large and small. Does a business model appeal to your interest or match with an existing skill?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2023

I sat down with three business leaders last week to interview them about how they handle strategy. But in my opinion, they are not the best one(s) to own how the company gets there — in other words, strategy. This also means that, generally speaking, planning is not their strong suit. ” All three replied they did.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2023

Many professionals quit their jobs to launch new businesses during the Great Resignation. However, giving up a reliable paycheck to start a business is a risky choice, even with convenient access to expert business counsel and other tools that the internet affords. Leaving a job to start a business can be overwhelming.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

And so how does that play out with a terminal cancer diagnosis? Think about it from your life perspective: If you took total and complete responsibility for every outcome, how different would your life be?” It is teaching me how to be more loving, more present, and more honest.” To define agency, I mean I’m my own agent.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

Contributed by Julia L F Goldstein, the founder of JLFG Communications , which helps businesses share their world-changing ideas through clear and concise content. During an online business workshop in December 2020, the presenter asked me whether our venture was a hobby or a business. Running a business.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

ChatGPT can do anything from explaining quantum physics in basic terms to writing emails and tweets. The plugin is compatible with all Zapier plans, but is currently rolling out to users with a ChatGPT Plus account. The plugin is compatible with all Zapier plans, but is currently rolling out to users with a ChatGPT Plus account.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene last year, AI writing tools have been big news. Of course, all AI writing software needs human supervision to deliver the best results. Of course, all AI writing software needs human supervision to deliver the best results. The best AI writing software Jasper for long-form content Copy.ai

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Possessing a fervent passion for business, Mr. Reid entered the entrepreneurial realm, leveraging his skills and experiences gained over the years. In 2021, I embarked on a venture into the box trucking business, a journey that led to the creation of Serv-U Hub LLC in 2023. What are your future plans for your startup?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Despite the quickening pace of layoffs, there is some good news for SaaS startups: 70% of SMBs plan to increase IT spending in 2023, and the procurement process is getting faster. “At the awareness stage, businesses are looking to solve a problem or challenge using technology,” writes Hogan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Do Kwon in custody : It looks like law enforcement caught up with Terra creator Do Kwon, who was reportedly arrested at the Montenegro airport, Jacquelyn writes. Startups and VC At first glance, Boston Dynamics is a strange fit for a show like ProMat, Brian writes. PDT, subscribe here. That represents about 2.5%

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

For example, at the ripe age of 30-something, I learned a new language, learned how to knit, and even became skilled at writing with my non-dominant hand—all equally important life skills. I could write an entire article devoted to this question, but that's not why you're here.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Aisha writes that this storyline takes place at the end of the High Republic era before the events of the main Star Wars films. Kyle , Devin and Manish teamed up to look at Anthropic’s $5 billion, four-year plan to take on OpenAI. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, and welcome to your Friday. Or maybe you had today off.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 25, 2022

For small to mid-sized enterprises, the annual strategic planning process can be fraught with frustration. Additionally, the research is clear, there is a staggering high failure rate of 70% for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) when they attempt to go from vision to result. The classic “build a better mousetrap.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We carry it from relationship to relationship, job to job and business to business. The paradox of success You don’t suddenly stop being an entrepreneur after you sell your business. Between the exit and the new business, I ran experiments: teaching, writing, going on podcasts and publishing Ten Year Career.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Now that you have said subscription, head on over to Haje ’s story about your pitch deck needing an operating plan. E-commerce is hot, hot, hot, but it can be daunting to sift through something like 7,500 apps, which Shopify has, to find the ones that will be best for your business. PDT, subscribe here. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marco Argenti, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, turning developers into clients, and how AI is a major inflection point in the history of technology. David Haber: Marco, thank you so much for joining.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Romain writes that after raising over $380 million in 2021 , in today’s dollars, Ledger brought in $108 million, raising at the same valuation and from a long list of investors. That’s where Parloa comes in, raising $21 million to add a little automation to contact centers, Kyle writes. PDT, subscribe here. Thursdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Well that’s one way to do propaganda : The search engine giant Google was hit with $375 million by Russia for failing to take down certain content, Ivan writes. Blossoming business : Bloom, a Sudan-based fintech, banked $6.5 AM Ventures raised $100 million for industrial 3D printing , writes Haje. PDT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It seems the layoffs are mostly on the advertising tech side of the business, so hopefully the TechCrunch team’s jobs are safe — but this is tech layoffs hitting really close to home, with 1,600 coworkers shuffling on to new pastures. Remember the piece we published about how a feature doesn’t make a business ? Ivan has more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

How much are you willing to bet on yourself? Each shared details about the sort of deals they’re looking for right now and indicated how they prefer to be approached with pitches. Many tech workers have never experienced a job market like this one. Losing a job unexpectedly is more than a financial shock.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Joyce Chou writes growth marketing insights for startups. Copywriting isn’t just about combining the right words to sell your product — it’s how your messaging connects with users. For better results, here are 10 common copywriting mistakes to avoid, plus, how to fix them. Writing in passive voice. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Choosing the right mix of people can impact everything from fundraising to hiring: “Investors often ask founders about their board [because] it says a lot about their character, their judgment and their willingness to be challenged,” he writes. How Ward van Gasteren thinks about growth hacking today. His initial advice?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There is a lot of news today, much of it posting as I write this — for example, the Federal Trade Commission is now suing to block Microsoft from buying Activision. Instead of taking screen grabs, Ivan writes, ShareGPT creates a link to your ChatGPT conversations that you can grab instead. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, Happy Thursday.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

He writes that the video app is “popular for supporting a wide range of video formats and reliability on low-cost Android smartphones, has expanded to original content in recent years and has amassed more than 300 million users globally.” PST, subscribe here. The company said the attack gave hackers access to documents and source code.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2024

She insisted that our class outline every essay before diving into the writing process. I remember how she would enthusiastically explain the benefits of an outline, emphasizing its role in organizing our ideas and ensuring a clear, logical flow. This is the machine generated example of metawriting that I mentioned in this post.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

“Unless aggregators change how they operate, their future is bleak at best and nonexistent at worst.” “It’s comparable to the financial crisis of 2008, when poor financial products were lumped together in order to diversify risk and make them look better than they actually were,” he writes. Walter Thompson.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2021

If you want to start a new business in the new year, then you’re not alone. According to QuickBooks’ New Business Insights report, 3 out of 5 (57%) US employees thinking about taking the plunge into entrepreneurship. QuickBooks’ New Business Insights Report. The coronavirus affected most small businesses.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the most important elements of a business plan is a financing request, or the amount of funding your business is requesting of potential investors. This leaves the business in a sticky situation, as many investors require a form of equity (such as shares) in the business in exchange for capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

In a previous era, startups that gained influence with CIOs could skate through the procurement process and start planning seminars for new customers as soon as contracts were finalized. Today, a decade or more into the End User Era, consumers have become the tail that wags the dog. They also tend to go public faster.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

And like the others, CEO Sundar Pichai took his turn explaining how the company “hired for a different economic reality,” Paul writes. But that’s how much PLAI Labs just raised in a deal led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) , reports Connie. PST, subscribe here. Happy Friday! Welcome aboard!! Enjoy your weekend! Jagmeet has more.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Of course, we are referring to that time of year when all the startup chaos continues apace, and we are just hanging on for dear life to see how it all ends, clinging to our cups of hot chocolate, as holiday-appropriate music is wrapping around us like a warm blanket. PDT, subscribe here. It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Papier , a startup leveraging technology to bring very non-tech products into the world, has raised some funding to continue expanding its business on the heels of strong demand for its personalized notebooks, planners, cards and other paper-based stationary that it sells online. This funding is an important part of that plan.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Blogs are a great example: Because they’re a cheap way to drive SEO, companies crank them out, then use KPIs like time on site, pages per session and social media likes to demonstrate how successful they’ve been. “The truth is: vanity metrics don’t measure how engaged potential customers are, ” writes Christopher P.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital. ” Thanks very much for reading. Have a great weekend! Median liquid wealth for a Black family in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

He goes hard out of the gate with his inaugural story on the site, covering how Wheelocity raises $12 million for its supply chain network for fresh commerce in India. He goes hard out of the gate with his inaugural story on the site, covering how Wheelocity raises $12 million for its supply chain network for fresh commerce in India.

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