Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

So you start to see the importance of managing both sides of the infinity loop. Contributed by Rob Cross , professor of global leadership at Babson College, cofounder and research director of the Connected Commons business consortium, and author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Three Core Pricing Strategies There are only three pricing strategies startups should pursue: Maximization, Penetration and Skimming. There are exceptions: Oracle’s database, Tanium’s security product, Workday’s human capital management software. A bottoms-up strategy lends itself to penetration pricing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

But the Majority of the Dollar Increases Have Been in “Mega Rounds” If you look one layer deeper at what has happened in the Venture Capital industry the funding increases have gone overwhelmingly to “mega rounds” of late stage investments with round sizes of $100 million or more. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced.

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Jason Malki

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Gururaj Pandurangi, a three-time entrepreneur and now the CEO of ThriveStack.ai , a product designed to help B2B SaaS companies grow rapidly and efficiently. They are at the forefront of industry transformation with their integrated tooling approach. What motivated you to launch your startup?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Tecton.ai , the startup founded by three former Uber engineers who wanted to bring the machine learning feature store idea to the masses, announced a $35 million Series B today, just seven months after announcing their $20 million Series A. Del Balso says this works hand-in-hand with the other layers of a machine learning stack.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Contributed by Miranda Naiman, founder and managing partner of Empower, a Tanzanian consulting firm and a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. . It’s 2:17am on December 17 2020 and my tightly booted feet trudge gradually forward in zig-zag formation up a 70 percent incline in the eerie darkness. Respect the mountain.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. Evan and I met regularly over a three year period from the time he was running Flux, which he sold to Viacom ( who was his strategic investor ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. In their early days they had an enormously effective blog on the topic of personal financial management. Type “personal financial management&# into Google. By definition, you read blogs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 15, 2021

Invest in great managers early. Post-PMF, the organization must evolve: it has to grow headcount and then manage that headcount well. How many hiring managers are in each of the two hierarchies from above? On the right, three. More hiring managers implies a broader pool of candidates to fish.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 12, 2024

Working with driven entrepreneurs has been my life for over three decades. It is one of my greatest joys. I happen to be one myself. Being a driven entrepreneur is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that we are the creators of most things on this planet, we have superhuman stamina, and we are superheroes who save the day.

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Red Rocket

OCTOBER 4, 2022

executives vs. lower level managers) or different size of companies (e.g., Let’s say you have three core personas and three stages of the marketing funnel, that would be a total of nine different creatives that need to be created (not just one). Layering on the customer personas may allow you to convert 20% of your leads.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The program has cohorts three times a year for 10 weeks, Qiao Wang, a core contributor at Alliance DAO, said during the event. About three-fourths of the teams are focusing on NFTs, infrastructure or decentralized finance (DeFi), while the majority of the teams are building on layer-1 blockchains Ethereum, Polygon and Solana.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad Feld is a fountain of knowledge & wisdom. I had the chance to sit down with him for an hour and ask him loads of questions that I thought you’d enjoy hearing. If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Or, as always, summary notes available below.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2019

Here’s a primer on manageable things a founder can do to create and take advantage of social media driven opportunities for the benefit of their company. The Base Layer The very basic level of participation on social media isn’t posting—it’s listening. Running a startup consumes a ton of time. No, of course not.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. The Europe goal was shaped by three random things: My father is from South America and his native language is Spanish (although his father was from Romania and escaped oppression there).

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 10, 2022

The People’s Choice Award of $2,500 went to John Brooks and the team at Brinc Building Products, also located in Clarion County. The company manufactures ThermalTight, an energy-efficient building envelope solution that manages all four layers of exterior walls.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Get ready for three days packed with top-notch speakers and opportunity. Three Ways to Leapfrog Your Competition Using Quantum Computing — Without a PhD : Michael Biercuk, Q-CTRL CEO and founder. Where Matters — Building on the Location Layer of the Internet : Foursquare CEO, Gary Little and Pocketnow’s Myriam Joire.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

And I’m also mourning my blue Twitter check mark , which left me today. — Christine The TechCrunch Top 3 Passwords are hard to remember : The company behind the encrypted email service Proton Mail has now unveiled the Proton Pass password manager so you don’t have to do any remembering. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, and Happy Thursday.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Zeta co-founder Aditi Shekar has spent the past three years tracking the ways couples share and manage their finances, from each card swipe to every split bill. In reality, the startup works as a First Republic or Chase replacement, providing a digital layer of banking services that can integrate with pre-existing bank accounts.

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StartupNation

JULY 5, 2025

In my experience, the best way to communicate such metrics is to present them in the form of a story. You shouldn’t be tunnel-visioned by raw data. You must demonstrate how your venture helps solve certain problems. Leveraging before-and-after scenarios may help, enabling you to showcase how your solutions solved specific customer problems.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

So, I’ve put together three main strategies to put you on the path to fully digitizing your business and noticeably improve the closing process. Completion and management of closing checklists. She has worked with Fortune 100 companies such as Marriott and Freddie Mac. Automate low-value tasks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

When it raised in September, Jeeves — which describes itself as “an all-in-one corporate card and expense management platform for global startups” — was valued at $500 million. Its success is yet another example of how competitive — and lucrative — the corporate card and expense management category has become.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Today’s round was led by Red Dot Capital Partners with help from Exor, Claridge Israel, Samsung NEXT, Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, LP, as well as TLV Partners, Battery Ventures, 2i Ventures and other existing investors. “We focus on the two latter layers. So classical hardware and the software that drives it.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.).

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Thus, it is necessary to establish a complete app-managed network solution to help you increase customer engagements and overall business productivity. Thus, it is necessary to establish a complete app-managed network solution to help you increase customer engagements and overall business productivity. So you must be flexible.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Over the past three years, some platforms have looked to solve this problem. We realised that the data infrastructure layer was critical and a massive pain point in most of sub-Saharan Africa,” the COO added. With this mobile money ecosystem growing in double-digits year-on-year, a lot of data is being created in the process.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As more people moved to remote work over the past few years, there was also an uptick in people choosing freelance or contract work, leaving companies to figure out how to manage that worker segment. Co-founders Yunas Reguero, Cassandra Aaron and Dylan Hattem started Archie last April and officially launched three months later.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Through its unified cloud security platform that offers cloud workload protection, cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM), vulnerability management, and more, Wiz has revolutionized the way its customers secure everything they build and run in the cloud.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

While it declined to reveal hard revenue figures, the Minneapolis-based startup says it has seen over 2,000% growth in the last three years and 700% year-over-year platform growth in 2021. More recently, Branch is rolling out expense management cards with large enterprise customers, including trucking and logistics companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“In the last three years, we have seen the rise of the data warehouse and we have gone from almost no architecture being based on a data warehouse to becoming the dominant implementation,” Carto CEO Luis Sanz told me. You can move around a map, select and unselect layers and see the real numbers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. “The market timing for this investment is ideal,” he added.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Birds are “the perfect collectible,” Zidar said, an observation which manages to be both a crucial insight and face-palmingly peak tech. After the resounding success of several crowdfunding campaigns for its gamified smart bird feeder, Bird Buddy has raised an $8.5 million seed round. and huge internationally,” he said.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So early in my career, I prioritized being close to engineering teams, teaching myself how to build software, and learning how to be a product manager. Homebrew makes investments by consensus – it works because there’s just two of us. Its like how they describe the professional leagues of any sport: things move faster.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

Or, let's say you're managing a content team. I'll also share a step-by-step approach to bringing AI into your workflows (no neural implants required). Table of contents: What is AI integration? Think of it like plugging smart functionality into the tools you already use. Faster, smarter decision-making.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. The “fully remote” Jeeves describes itself as the first “cross country, cross currency” expense management platform.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 26, 2022

Combine these three things, and you have a brand. One Netflix manager did this with his “ Front End Happy Hour Podcast.” In the above examples, the same product combined with three different channels creates three different businesses. So I did what everyone in Silicon Valley does?—?start start a startup.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Initially, the company is looking at bill payment, micro payments for insurance and other benefits and then how to manage the costs of starting to become a gig worker, Campbell told TechCrunch. They were really excited by the strength of our marketplace, and how we could actually provide this as another layer to offer financial inclusion.”.

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