Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

They have the potential to ensure that great ideas arent left behind but instead can take root and grow in communities across the countrynot just in traditional techhubs. Yet entrepreneursespecially those outside Silicon Valley, Boston, or New Yorkstill face significant challenges in accessing the capital needed to scale.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eitan Chitayat (pictured at left, top) is the founder and creative director of the Natie Branding Agency. Dana Satterwhite (pictured at left, below) brings 25 years of creative communication experience, always striving to make a deep connection , move product, shift perceptions, affect hearts and influence culture.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2020

We left Africa knowing we have been deeply transformed. Africa smiled a little when you left. So Africa smiled a little when you left. “We You have not left us yet.”. We were challenged to consider how our time on this planet could matter. The search—and living the answers—will be a continuous journey. Bridget Dore.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 11, 2024

With the rollout of AI impacting one business sector after another, one wonders what areas or companies will be left behind. Cakes mission is for businesses of any size to readily deploy the latest technologies without requiring an army of engineers.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

As Collins puts it: The moment you believe you have nothing left to correct is the moment you’ve started your decline. But as leaders, we often find it remarkably difficult to recognize when correction is needed, especially when we’re busy, successful, or have a long track record.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 23, 2015

If there were suddenly a flood of fantastic deals at Series A valuations--the cheapest valuation a big fund is likely to ever get in on, wouldn''t VCs be doing them left and right? New venture funds get raised all the time--and big ones, too. So what if they put their fund to work earlier than expected?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2022

When clients didn’t accept our quotes, didn’t like our creative work, or teammates left to pursue other opportunities, it left a deep mark on me. It was part of my self-image and my self-worth. When things didn’t go well, I would take it very personally. I took it to heart. The physical toll on me was worse than it needed to be.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Today I couldn’t be more delighted to tell you about one such individual — Gregg Johnson —  who just left Salesforce.com after 10 years to come and be the CEO of Invoca , a company I proudly backed. So when I left and became a VC I stayed in close touch with Gregg and he was on my very short list to hopefully work with again one day.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 23, 2024

She left the YLAI Fellowship with new ideas on growing her business, as well as experiments that she learned from other teachers to bring back to her students. Thank you for your entrepreneurial journey, Kavelle!

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Will this bubble also end in a blaze of glory with companies shutting down left and right in a massive startup apocalypse? Still, no one wants to be the one holding the back when things do pop--and they will, right? Doesn''t every good run have to come to an end? Probably not, since that''s not exactly what happened the first time around.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The intense workload, demands on our time, and the constant weight of responsibility and accountability can first trigger small stressors but left unchecked could morph into what feels like a huge burden. The autonomy and meaningfulness that follows going from a vision to launching a company come with challenges.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

But I can tell you that one hell of a lot more lives will be affected if you run out of cash entirely or if you get your feet too close to the fire and you end up hitting the panic button with 4 months of cash left and you lay off 60% of your staff to stay alive. ” because they have limited cash (~ 1 year).

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 22, 2018

If you’ve left your firm or have other deals that require more time, you can’t just become a ghost or check out on a founder after negotiating all sorts of legal incentives for the founder to be motivated for the long term, which makes someone assume you’ll be doing the same.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2020

Some VCs have no money left in their funds, but they still like playing VC. Some later stage funds will take a meeting long before they ever plan on writing a check with the promise of “opportunistic” seed investments (to the guy or girl they went to grad school with).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

When Antonio Lennert left Brazil at 20 years old, he was in search of a community. Ever the adventurer, Lennert soon left Toronto’s advertising scene, at which point his new venture really took off. Marina Byezhanova interviewed Antonio about his entrepreneurial journey and contribute this post.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It was Bell Labs for most of the first half of the twentieth century and became an artist community in 1970 about twenty years after Bell Labs left for New Jersey. The Gotham Gal and I have lived a block away from Westbeth for almost fifteen years. Westbeth is a treasure. That project was funded and is over now.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

With some time left on the clock, ask them if you believe this warrants a deeper dive in another meeting. If you have time, share something interesting about how you do what you do—which, you can of course weave into the answers above—but 20 minutes goes really quickly. If they say no, just thank them for their time and move on.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

So by the time that’s all done, we’re only left with roughly ? So in that short amount of time, I need to walk away from our meeting with a good understanding of a couple key elements. I like to start my calls with quick small talk, then jump right into an overview of Dreamit, where we play, and how we add value.

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Revolution

MAY 4, 2022

We leaned in during weekly board meetings and reinvested when others left the cap table. We aren’t the type of partner that agrees with everything and rubber stamps decisions, but our support for Convene never wavered. From day one of our partnership, we believed in Ryan’s vision.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

If funds cannot make capital calls, startups can be left in a very precarious position during a financial crisis. This led to Uber staying private longer and shielded the founder from the scrutiny of the public markets; in addition, the founders’ supervoting shares left him unchecked and left board members powerless to reform the company.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2021

I’ve been working exclusively from home since the end of November 2019 when we left NYC to go to LA. So the Gotham Gal and I took an hour-long walk with our dog Ollie. It cleared my head and when I got back to work, I was full of energy and clarity. It has been a stretch of incredible productivity for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But I walked out and asked our entire team to go in after I left. I spent one hour with them. I had back-to-backs all week and that’s what it’s like when you squeeze in a last-minute meeting. I said simply, “That’s the most ambitious project I’ve seen since I became a VC.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 6, 2022

But left unmanaged, they harm not only our workplace productivity but our mental health. It’s not an exaggeration to say, when left unchecked, over-messaging is ruining our mental health. One study reported remote workers are interrupted every six minutes. Not a bad ratio. .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2025

For too long, entrepreneursespecially those from undercapitalized communitieshave been left without the support and access they need to thrive, said T.D. Jakes, Chairman of the T.D. Jakes Group and Founder of the Good Soil Movement. The Good Soil Forum is about more than ideasits about action.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

After several years he left to pursue his own interests and become an EIR with Andreessen Horowitz. He inked some amazing early deals like American Express and became the Silicon Valley public face of FourSquare – nearly as recognizable as Dennis himself.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The picture looks very similar in my current business, which has left me—let alone the entire company—in the fortunate position of frictionless transition into a COVID-19 world. I have used Zoom for more than half of that period. You could call this lucky; no one could have predicted this pandemic (although Bill Gates came close).

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Source Link

MAY 5, 2021

Justin Lair from Klamath IDEA shared how their organization is filling the gaps left in their small resource network with for-profit providers, which generated quite a bit of interest from other affiliates. Next steps. The group suggested adding additional conversations to learn more about private sector engagement.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 14, 2022

There are many alternatives to venture capital these days, particularly in web3, but there are few, if any, alternatives that stick with you, when times are tough, when a global pandemic hits and you have weeks of cash left, when everything seems lost and you are at rock bottom. And that is what Dapper had by its side.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 22, 2020

Faced with a health threat and choosing between taking sick leave and paying your rent, I think the country is going to take a dramatic turn left—realizing that no one should have to make those decisions. We aren’t going to be able to fix everything. Some people have been riding high on the horse for too long.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

Mercury has stepped up to not only fill the gap left by SVB, but to redefine banking for founders of all kinds of ambitious companies. Through my work on the SVB collapse, I became acutely aware of the importance of banking options that serve entrepreneurs and the tech community, said Mayopoulos.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In my company, projects left and right were being cancelled or put on hold indefinitely. I am an avid entrepreneur and have now been in the events industry for 15 years. In March 2020 when the pandemic hit and the US shut down, the events industry was completely disrupted. The entire industry ground to a halt.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2021

When doctors ran a brain scan, they found an acorn-sized tumor behind his left ear. Around that time, Reza began to feel a constant pain behind one of his ears. He thought it might be a bad headache or a migraine but after a week it was getting worse. Thankfully it wasn’t cancerous, but it needed to be dealt with immediately.

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