Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 10, 2024

You’re up there carrying different weights, trying to balance your career, family life, health, and personal growth. When something knocks you off balance, you feel like you’re about to fall and lose it all. If that sounds scary or exhausting, it’s because the concept of life balance is outdated. Work-life Harmony.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

Having the right business advisor can be a game-changer for an entrepreneur Starting and growing a business is a challenging and often lonely endeavor. Entrepreneurs are presented with both business and personal challenges as they travel their entrepreneurial journey.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

BTW – if anybody at Twitter reads this you need to fix your “embed Tweet” code because as you’ll see from above it doesn’t properly embed when you have a quoted Tweet. **. How do you have time for all your entrepreneurs? How do you have time for your freaking families?!?! HSzvQK63th.

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Startup Grind

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Aneme Dlamini of Startup Grind chats to Simone Musgrave of Musgrave Gin about perseverance, building an actual business, and bringing your femininity as a force to be reckoned with in the business world. You mentioned in your SG talk that you actually started Musgrave as a side hustle. S : Thanks. A : Awesome!

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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. My greatest source of relief from business responsibilities and mental stress is my family.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

But alas I must scale with businesses and make money. It’s such a tricky balance between being cost-focused & scrappy versus being impractical with how you spend your time. For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

If you’re like most business leaders and entrepreneurs, you know what it’s like to be stressed. Sitting alone in silence probably sounds like the worst way for a busy business entrepreneur to spend their precious time. Becoming a Mindful Leader. I first started my meditation practice back in 2005.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2022

“Start now. — Alberto Soto, Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) Alumnus and EO Guatemala member. Explore your endless opportunities. Many GSEA alumni suggest taking advantage of the safety net you have, rather than waiting to start your company when you have more to lose. Don’t wait for anything.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 18, 2020

What inspired you to create your latest short film, “She’s That Woman”? We started with over 3,000! From start to finish, it was a balancing act. We started the script three years ago and then?well, well, life happened and the project stalled. We see you. We hear you. We respect you. We thank you.

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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. As a driven and passionate young leader, she recalls her entrepreneurial journey really feeling like it got started when former U.S. You have to find balance. Absolutely!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. “There’s something going on in LA.” LA By The Numbers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Get connected to the right mentors and your business may catapult to the next level. Since selling Matt has gone on to become one of the smartest angels I have seen operate. Getting started: o Matt founded LowerMyBills.com in Dec 99, exited to Experian in Jan 05 for $400M. The answer? Something so simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The top quartile funds have performed well. Many funds have not performed and will start to disappear. It takes less to start a business these days – We all know that it takes less to start a technology company these days. I also think that seed funds with a very clear sense of purpose will do well.

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Gust

JULY 6, 2014

I talk to many people who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder who dream of jumping ship and becoming an entrepreneur. I hasten to tell them that every job move is fraught with risk, but the move from employee to entrepreneur is on the high end of the risk curve. Be ready to cut your losses and move on.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

In my bones I’m convinced that entrepreneurs are more nature than nurture although I know both are involved. I have recently written extensively on what I believe the 12 characteristics of an entrepreneur are. Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made.&# The data in this article is at best, a stretch. from a young age.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I attempted to do a fair balance job of an increasingly important service – AngelList – started by a friend of mine – Nivi with the feelings of a colleague who I respect – Bryce – who has opted out of the service. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A lot of consumer goods entrepreneurs either worked at Procter & Gamble or Coca-Cola or Unilever. HW: What’s something you believed about the beverage business, or consumers, when you started which turned out to be completely wrong. It may seem academic, but living it means building a business much differently.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

These insights from top entrepreneurs benefit EO members plus the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem. Read the post to learn how to implement this time-saving process in your company. Also, check out Real Simple Business , where Barry shares his successful business secrets. Did you catch them all? But the No.1

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. ” and you can see that the balance of caution vs. optimism is 82% to 18%. When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld.

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Gust

AUGUST 17, 2014

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Solve one problem really well.

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StartupNation

MAY 16, 2021

Starting and building a business is outrageously difficult. One moment, you’re riding high on your latest successful breakthrough. The ambiguous nature of business goes hand-in-hand with uncertainty, stress, anxiety and even crushing depression. Related: How Thriving Entrepreneurs Structure Their Morning Routines.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business. As always a balanced perspective is in order. Or your A-round investor who wrote a $5 million for 25% of your company may not be well positioned to write another $5 million (25%) of a $20 million round.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In turn, teams ensure alignment between their real estate decisions and business successes. When it comes to going back to work after COVID-19, they’re willing to make a major switch in order to find the balance they want in their personal and professional lives. The sky’s the limit in terms of your workplace real estate approach.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 10, 2023

A leader can be the most brilliant product person, strategist, entrepreneur, and business builder, but if they cannot get people to follow them, trust them, and care for them, they will not be an effective leader. It is a fairly natural tendency to hold your emotions in check when you are in front of a large group of people.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

To build a thriving company, successful business leaders know they need to balance the needs of employees, customers and shareholders. A reported 52% of American workers are not engaged in their work and, as a growing body of research has found , employees’ happiness has a direct impact on your company’s performance.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Monique Maissan is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Shanghai, CEO of Vision Textiles, and founder of Waste2Weave. That’s why I started my company, Vision Textiles, in 1998, with a commitment to operate with sustainability at the forefront. Have you ever said “no” to a project to make room for your greater purpose?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

It takes a great entrepreneur with a great vision to start a business, but it takes a collaboration of many people to make it a success. It all starts with how to be the leader in your own life, but then extends to learning the following skills she outlines for building a great collaborative team: Build and maintain trust.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Schools call our kids back, and the quickening pace of business demands our increasing attention. The more I grow, not only as an entrepreneur, but as a father and husband, the more I see how these two parallel priorities need not be separate. And that starts with being aware that our time is finite, whether we like it or not.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 9, 2023

At age 21, I took control of the debt-burdened family business my parents started many years earlier. The business was on the verge of bankruptcy. We have weathered recessions, market crashes, and challenges that would have destroyed most businesses. What” and “how” become easier to figure out once we know “why.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

It’s why so few can really start a business from scratch. If you have existing investors of course you feel a degree of comfort knowing that they would likely have your back in tough times — but of course you never really know. It’s the ultimate in accountability and public judgment. Fund raising is hard for everybody.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 9, 2022

Contributed by Cindy Norcott , EO Durban, a motivational speaker, author, entrepreneur, business coach and philanthropist. She is the CEO of Pro Talent and Pro Appointment, as well as the founder and chair of The Robin Hood Foundation. She’s a woman entrepreneur whose second book, How Does She Do It? Don’t multi-task.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

Be well prepared for what to expect instead of hoping for positive experiences only Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash Don’t get me wrong?—?I However, I assume there is a high chance that aspiring entrepreneurs can get so caught up in the magic behind the words that they could be caught off guard when things become tough.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 27, 2019

When we asked EO members what lessons they wish they had known at the start of their careers, EO Arizona member and CEO of The James Agency Veronique James shared the following four insights. Mistakes are part of human nature, but they are particularly painful when it relates to your work. My mantra has always been “fall forward.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

By Miranda Naiman, accidental entrepreneur, motivational speaker, organizational development practitioner, writer, and founder of Empower Limited , a Tanzanian human capital consultancy firm. If I could fly back in time to Empower’s start-up phase and give my younger self advice, I would offer these six thoughts. What do you represent?

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 4, 2024

A lot of effort is required to master the art of delegation, similar to the Goldilocks Challenge The growth of a small business or early-stage scalable business often rests on the shoulders of the founding owner or entrepreneur. To be a successful and effective manager, one must be a strong delegator.

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