Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Manage your own expectations. Manage your own expectations, and then manage the expectations of those around you. This might mean taking services projects to keep the company going. Manage your stress level. Perhaps most important, is to manage the stress in yourself. Stress builds up over time.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 14, 2025

For those whose prior experience did not enable them to fully master discipline and prioritization skills, they must pass through a learning curve that drills home that they need to manage their time better and work to create a healthy work-life balance. Set Achievable Goals Clear goals are foundational to effective time management.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 14, 2020

Ryan Decker, helped you work through your most pressing money management questions. From debt management and saving tips to investment inquiries, you have money on your mind. To best address these pressing questions for those unable to participate, we included below your top four money management questions, answered.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2015

A little more than a year ago, I got a note from Brian Fitzgerald, a Product Manager I met while I was at First Round. Brian, on the other hand, doubled down on family and decided to work on the side project he started with his wife Meg. He was "taking time with family" to figure out what's next.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Use project management platforms and collaborative tools to stay in touch, monitor progress, and track task completion.”. Use project management tools like Asana, Trello, and Monday.com to track projects and monitor your progress. Self-discipline. And don’t forget to celebrate milestones along the way!

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 15, 2020

Following our Global Money Week Facebook chat on money management, budgeting, and financial planning in March 2020, we noticed an influx of questions about how to best manage your money and project growth during uncertain times. Managing your money during a period of uncertainty can seem like a daunting task.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Liziane is the founder and CEO of Ink Inspira , a social business that consults and mentors nonprofit professionals to maximize project impact and develop long-lasting strategies in the vibrant Brazilian social sector. Here are her top three pieces of advice: Surround yourself with diverse professionals with different skill sets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Simplified decision-making An organized set of systems and processes, along with effective data management, have allowed me to “delegate and elevate,” making informed decisions as we scale. Break it down Begin by examining project objectives. The options are endless, whether Trello, Asana, Basecamp, Monday, Podio or ClickUp.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This historic shift is evidenced in a report published by Women Business Collaborative, C200 and Catalyst, which announced that the number of women CEOs has risen from 6 percent in 2019 to a projected 8.2 In addition to overseeing a company as CEO in a global pandemic, I launched two passion projects. Managing expectations.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 18, 2020

Enter Kickstarter , the crowdfunding platform for bringing creative projects to life (and a USV portfolio company). A few weeks ago, Kickstarter launched Lights On , a call for projects that “sustain your cultural space, event series, creative organization, or independent business” [link]. You can learn more about it here.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 3, 2021

We both have multiple personal and professional projects that we’re involved with, and we felt like were getting sucked into spending time on things that weren’t moving these efforts forward—everything from too many meetings, or just getting sucked into social media rabbit holes. Which projects? Was that enough product time?

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 3, 2025

Appointment Scheduling: Enhance customer relationship management by automating the booking process, reducing back-and-forth communication. Inventory Management: Predict stock levels and automate reordering processes. Start Small: Begin with a single, manageable AI project to build confidence.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2020

EO members are helping to drive the MillionLives.org project, which aims to deliver Personal Protective Equipment to front-line health workers. In early March, when the COVID crisis hit the US, Andy Steggles of EO DC was completing the final part of Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management (OPM) programme. Here’s how.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Educating against waste management. Hernann had previously worked as a lawyer and educator at a local university, and always had an interest in finding ways to help the environment and address waste management. Managing a team with strong values. From there, they founded EnerGea. Courtesy of Hernann Zabala Naoumov.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2020

To support healthcare providers, British telecommunications provider Esendex is giving 1,000 free credits and full account management to those sending emergency communications. I’m running a ‘100 letters’ project—100 letters to people from different parts of the world,” she explains. “I

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2025

The company uses proprietary machine learning to optimize uptime, reduce operational costs for its residential and commercial clients that generates long term value important to institutional investors and asset managers who demand predictable returns from solar and battery assets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 19, 2024

Such real-world input is crucial for deciding whether to persist with your current strategy, tweak your idea, or abandon the project altogether. With finite resources, it’s critical to focus on projects that align with your broader objectives, optimizing any resource utilization. Plans also help with prioritization.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Read his earlier posts on how EO members define success , the impact of core values , lessons learned from their best and worst partnerships and the best advice they’ve ever received and nine lessons learned from entrepreneurial projects. When asked, “What was your first entrepreneurial project? What did you learn?”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Project your voice. No one gives a s**t about your features other than your product manager and your developers. The best way to manage to a time is: a) practice with a stop watch and b) have less slides than you think you’ll need. But it looks really stupid PLUS your voice projects in the wrong direction.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Example: If your product is an app designed to help people manage their mental health, explain how it offers more personalized tools than existing options backed by cutting-edge research or incorporates unique features like real-time emotional tracking. Investors know that projections that are years away will likely change.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Cost and schedule overruns are normal: 98 percent of mega-projects suffer cost overruns of more than 30 percent; 77 percent are at least 40 percent late; average slippage is 20 months behind schedule; average cost increase is 80 percent of original value ( Mckinsey & Co ).And Lack of funding to address labor shortage: VCs poured $3.1

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 2, 2024

With the AI-powered voice generation industry projected to grow fourfold in the coming decade ( Market.Us We’ve been early big believers in the nascent and rapidly-evolving generative media space,” said Steve Jang, Founder and Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. “AI report ) , investors are backing PlayAI.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N. She is also focused on projects that have a qualitatively positive effect, with increased chances of continuity or added value rather than merely the quantitative value.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Even as you invest more and more time managing emails, your to-do list keeps getting longer, not shorter. A well-managed calendar needs constant attention and can get quickly out of hand: Double-booking yourself. Suddenly, you’re a project manager again. Yes, scheduling apps help, but they don’t schedule for you.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As you hire new staff members , as you assign projects, as you assess salaries, as you engage with potential clients, as you set goals for growth, as you market your services—all the areas of running a business are impacted by how intentionally you advocate for equality, diversity and inclusivity.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

YLAI Network member Jimmy Regis, the public relations manager of ADIVAH (Association for Integral Development of Haitian Values) in Haiti, is a lifelong advocate of lifting up others in the community. He stepped in and was able to help this family recover their plot of land to make an agricultural project. Jimmy Regis.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2020

Besides this, we’re also working on several projects that will help our company thrive during and after the pandemic. Every day, we meet on Zoom not only to discuss pressing issues impacting our business, but also to bond over books we’re reading and television shows we’re watching.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

This presentation teaches business owners how to turn their projected profit and loss (P&L) into a cash flow forecast to project cash impact from the COVID-19 virus. Look at management labor last. You have to have a management team, but those are some of the higher-paid people. Can you make temporary pay cuts?

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Dream It

AUGUST 10, 2020

Adam Dakin , Managing Director of Dreamit Healthtech, sees founders make the same common pitch mistakes over and over. Adam strongly urges against describing your sales projects and market size as “conservative”. Speaking to investors can require a language of its own. It’s about showing, not telling.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 21, 2021

There is a common saying in construction that for every project, you can pick two of three attributes: speed, quality or price. . For example, if you want a project to be done quickly and at a high quality, that will cost you more. You can also have a project done quickly and cheaply, but you’ll be sacrificing quality.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 23, 2023

Look to your account manager. 4 Qualities of a Good Account Manager From the start of your agency partnership, you’ll want to make sure you experience the following qualities of a good account manager. First, your account manager’s communication should be clear and consistent. And you’re hardly alone.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unfortunately, in 2017, Surcos Argentinos shut down due to a change in its business model, management, and mission. What is the biggest challenge that you faced managing any of your organizations? . What projects are you working on now? How has the YLAI network helped you in managing and growing your organizations?

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