This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2014

There''s a 60+ year old sign in Brooklyn leftover from a company that went bankrupt years ago. Even the old Pfizer headquarters, active as recently as 2008, is now home to the production of everything from microchips to pickles. The current owner of the property wants to take it down and has every right to do so.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Shortly after completing this exercise, I quit my job and devoted my full-time effort to growing my now 15-year-old side hustle. I decided to roll the dice, take out a second mortgage on my home and go for broke. An unexpected challenge. Doubling down. I kept coming back to the same answer: YES!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 14, 2022

I was 14 years old, and my first entrepreneurial project involved selling cookies, that my mum baked, at school. When I was 8 years old, there was a girl in school who always had extra pocket money to buy treats at the canteen for herself and all her friends. Success doesn’t come by choice—it comes when we have NO choice.

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Revolution

AUGUST 8, 2023

The pre-2020 artificial eight-hour workday forced most people to spend the vast majority of their time in two distinct places: home and work. Due to post-war suburban sprawl and decades-old zoning policies, these places were typically far from one another. HQs This trend² seems to have normalized in 2022.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

They’ve been a long-term investor in our fund – GRP Partners – and it was important to me to spend time with them in their home market and meet the people with whom they deal locally. And those in CA and NY are quick to dismiss that which doesn’t feel like home. It’s easy to discount Cincy – it’s a “flyover state.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 9, 2020

The unthinkable had suddenly become reality as we hunkered down with our loved ones, staying in our homes to ensure our safety. And yet, am I not simply back to my old ways? The proverbial cycle of life happening before my eyes, and I am sitting in my home office away from my kids as it happens. Old Versus New.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 11, 2020

With the Nurx mobile app, women (and men too) can find the prescription or home diagnostic test they need, connect to a doctor who can review the request and write the prescription, and get the medication or test shipped to them at home. Nurx is a great example of how technology is helping to reshape how healthcare is delivered.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 8, 2021

It’s a new year—but are you stuck in the same old rut? A fellow EO member turned me on to a home boxing app called Fight Camp. We’ve been doing this since he was 3 years old and he is now 8. 5000 list how they start their day. I sometimes miss a day due to travel, but I have a goal to never miss two days in a row.” ?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Their old home at 10 Jay was being renovated and that community was trying to figure out where it would go next. Gowanus is an up and coming Brooklyn neighborhood that is now home to a Dino BBQ, the best pie place in NYC , a shuffleboard club, an Ample Hills and soon, a new boutique hotel.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Hits driven businesses come when production costs or distribution costs are so high that you need a home run to cover the huge costs of development. ” Your antiquated systems are necessary for your old-line businesses. At Maker Studios we can produce content at $200-$400 / minute. ” Me, “I see. Well played.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

“We also helped funeral homes during lockdown period by live-streaming services for family members and friends.”. The old saying still rings true: Play to your strengths.” The studio has become the venue for various live stream events—from Easter Sunday church services to five-day virtual conferences.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

It can feel especially awful after you have had a particularly difficult day, and you come home and try your best to describe it to your loved ones only to be met with “stop doing it and get a job so you don’t have to suffer”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home. Try getting them to send you anything at all!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2020

The following article is an abridged version of “Digital Leadership: Leading Virtual Teams From Your Home,” an e-book written by Erik Kruger. Can you lead a virtual team, an organization, a revolution or people from your home? Thankfully, there are some easy steps to setting up your team while working from home.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Many of their innovations that allowed this to work when nobody else had solved wireless transfer at a distance (several meters) included: A transmitter compact enough to be practical to hang in restaurants, coffee shops, your car, your home, etc. And finally it comes down to the good old instinct test.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. My dad brought home an IBM PS/2 in 1987. It''s probably the first time I''d really ever had the thought of starting my own fund. Well, I was born in 1979.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Clearly, they need more to live on than a 22 year old that is still living at home. Let’s say your situation of having kids in good private schools, an elderly parent at home and being the sole breadwinner as well as the payer down of medical school debt means your number needs to be $170k, or even $200k.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

It’s like trusting your 28-year-old fresh-from-MBA-school McKinsey consultant to make executive business decisions about your 128 year-old-business that they know nothing about just because they are wicked smart, have a blackbelt in Excel & Powerpoint and do better graphs than you. These are mostly VCs I would avoid.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Please take a quick click on the GroveLabs website to see a visual of what the system might look like in your home. There was certainly some strong internal debate about whether US consumers were ready for fresh veg in their home piped into a fish tank!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Summarize – The old line about presenting was, “tell us what you’re going to tell us, tell us and then tell us what you told us.” Everybody leaves early on a Friday to get home. ” If you literally do this it will be very boring. They pay less attention. You’re not.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

He was a 23-year-old at the time and as much as I wanted to believe he cared about how to get children to eat properly, poop on the potty or sleep through the night – it was a stretch. So we haven’t yet worked together but I’m still hoping.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2021

Whether attending presentations, signing up for new courses or coaching programs, adopting new skills and refining old ones?the EO: My home sweet home. Ultimately, I found a home in entrepreneurship, among other entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs around me exhibit a true passion and thirst for learning.

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Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

Revolutions mission is to build disruptive, innovative companies that upend age-old industries, with a unique focus on startups based outside of the coastal tech hubs. Post-AOL, I dedicated myself to backing and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs as Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Revolution. Based in Washington, D.C.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

He believes that the term “growth hacking” is misleading and potentially dangerous and in stead endorses good old fashioned online marketing techniques. So please read Muhammad’s post because it drives home many of the important online marketing lessons everybody needs to remember. But ignore his rant and hack on.

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Revolution

JANUARY 18, 2022

the proptech company seizing an untapped opportunity within the $85B pre-sale home improvement market and the latest addition to the Revolution Growth portfolio. What They’re Solving For: Today’s consumers want a move-in-ready home. and every seller to unlock the value in their home. That’s why we founded Curbio?—?to

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured. We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. the modern buyer of home products?—?better

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2020

In January 2020, when the COVID-19 crisis hit China, I was busy planning a two-week spring vacation to Europe with my 14-year-old daughter. Team Pulsar delivered and donated more than US$70,000 in PPE Masks to area nursing homes, MEDWISH, children’s hospitals, cancer centers, police stations and local government agencies. #2

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

After exiting the company, I felt like I had no “home base”. I put more time into building deeper relationships with my family and others in my life, both old connections and new ones. Sometimes, an underdog mindset can be the best motivator for growth. Live and Think Nomad. Suddenly, I was a nomad wandering the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

But like all 36-year-olds, we’re old enough to appreciate the wisdom of our journey to this point, but still young enough to experiment, adapt, grow and keep charging ahead. I got out of the cab and walked home. We’ve learned a lot in our 36 years, some lessons came easily; others, with more challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2016

That’s why I’m so excited to announce today that we’ve hired Kobie Fuller as a Partner at Upfront Ventures — he will move down to Los Angeles with his wife and 1-year-old son and start later this summer. Kobie joins us from Accel, a firm we deeply respect and have worked closely with over the past few years. Kobie scored highly on all fronts.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

But here’s a story that hit home with me. Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl. From the book … “They had never been a thirteen-year-old girl,” Justice Ginsburg explained to the USA Today.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

He started Ample Hills Creamery four years ago with his wife, Jackie Cuscuna, after turning a home ice cream making hobby into a reality with a cart at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. Brian Smith was a science fiction movie screenwriter, penning low budget alien movies starring the likes of Lou Diamond Phillips.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

I called my wife from SFO before boarding a red-eye flight back home to Toronto and told her that we needed to talk when I got home, as I wanted to quit my job and join Instacart. We talked about it and it honestly was not a controversial decision.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Today we are thrilled to announce our investment in Orchard , a company dramatically simplifying the process of buying and selling a home with a modern, digital experience from search to close. Orchard fits this mold perfectly with its tech-forward approach to improving the outdated, status quo experience of home buying.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I picked up take-out dinner on the way home, ran into an entrepreneur, Luke Kervin , that I really like and agreed to come by his offices in August to check out PatientPop’s progress. I got home at 9:00 or so, ate dinner and talked to the boys about their first day at soccer camp and put them to bed. That’s what I do.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 21, 2023

He was disturbed when served tea by a 7-year-old, whom his guide explained was orphaned at 5. He returned home with the first thing an entrepreneur needs to make a change: a real problem without a solution. Arriving at their home, I learned that each child has tasks, such as cooking and cleaning.

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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. Upon arrival in California, he met his partner in both business and in life, Lucas Murnaghan, and the two built a new home in Canada. Marina Byezhanova interviewed Antonio about his entrepreneurial journey and contribute this post.

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