Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

How Faith In People and a Culture Of Hospitality Built a Modern American Restaurant Company, Mitchell shares the keys to his company’s 25 years of success: including a steadfast commitment to a nurturing culture, a “people first” philosophy, and the humility to recognize reckless and ego-driven decisions. WHAT IS THE QUESTION?:

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 9, 2012

I don't think we'd have the same meetup culture here had anyone else kicked things off. We kludged together a Google group listserv, gathering over 3,000 members with monthly events--from Startup 101 to a "Going to the Mattresses" event in the fall of 2008 to talk about how to survive in the startup nuclear winter.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Induced by a pandemic and unprecedented state responses, it is even worse than the last international period of economic decline witnessed in 2008. During the period of economic turbulence in 2008, I formed my technology consultancy firm, ROCK. For most, 2008 was a time to avoid risk. Client first.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A classically trained pastry chef, Christina Tosi spent years in New York City restaurants before founding Milk Bar in 2008. A pop culture hobby transformed into Lisa Sugar ’s sensationally popular media company, POPSUGAR. Christina Tosi / Milk Bar. Lisa Sugar / POPSUGAR.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Ken Lian came to the United States from China in 2008 to attend college. Traditional] banking didn’t understand me or my culture or my lifestyle or what matters to me. Today, Cheese announced the launch of its digital banking platform that is aimed at primarily serving the Asian-American community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

The strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life. Back in 2008, our team did a vision exercise: What would Ruby look like at 10 times our current size? What would our culture look like? Bonus lesson: Mistakes are the fertile ground of innovation! We grew our customer count 30% in 2009. You can read them here.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Equity crowdsourcing advocates are quick to mention that small business loans are at 75 percent of their 2008 peak. The overall effect may radically affect culture, with product trends becoming more bottom-up in manufacturing and distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

That’s why we work with our client to uncover what the numbers say about key cultural and demographic insights. Eric joined EO in 2008 and has written for EO’s Octane magazine about Hurricane Katrina. At Morgan & Co., we use more than 30 innovative audience analysis tools to identify hyper-targeted market segments.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In 2008, I was a medical device salesman frustrated with the fabric, fit and functionality of my undergarments,” says Patterson. “I While recruiting employees who will mix well with your culture is certainly important, be careful not to stack the deck too far on one side or the other.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Grouparoo CEO and co-founder Brian Leonard says that his company has created this open source customer data framework based on his own experience and difficulty getting customer data into the various tools he has been using since he was technical founder at TaskRabbit in 2008.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Millennials came of age during the global mortgage crisis of 2008. Beyond the clear product and network complementarity, what’s most exciting to me and my partners is the alignment of values and culture. They also have record levels of student debt. Even more so than eBay + PayPal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Wider issues seem more cultural; startups not thinking big enough, investors lacking the necessary appetite for risk, and even — among wider society — some latent suspicion of entrepreneurs. While Spain-based investors are champing at the bit for administrative reform and better stock options. Measures to change mindsets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. More posts by this contributor. Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups.

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Not for their feats of “blitzscaling” or similar startup hype-factory nonsense, but for exactly the opposite: for methodically building a product and a culture that delivers real value to real people, with genuine care for the humans involved, fused with a relentless desire to get better every day, no matter how many days it takes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

Since its launch, the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) has been more than a funding vehicle; it’s been a launchpad for culturally inspired innovation and a community of support for under-networked founders. His career began in advertising, but the 2008 recession prompted him to shift to radiology.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2018

Heidi Reimer-Epp , CEO and co-founder of Botanical PaperWorks has been an EO Winnipeg member since 2008. We’re still coming up with ways to integrate more play into the day at my company, but I can already say that these bursts of fun make for a vastly improved work environment.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

It reveals a lot about the company, like the way the organization works, its work-culture, etc. million suppliers since 2008, among other things. It’s just like a brand outlet but in the digital world. Internal Design: The interior of the office is also a part of corporate identity. Corporate Behavior.

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Founders Coop

MARCH 1, 2021

When we started Founders’ Co-op back in 2008, Seattle was still a company town. At the same time, the Bay Area’s dominance of startup culture has eroded, partly due to a recurring failure of civic leadership, accelerated by COVID and the shift to remote work.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The CFE is a unit of the College of Engineering and the Center has helped more than 30,000 researchers and students since 2008. The U-M’s Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) is one of the key engines driving that growth. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of U-M’s entrepreneurship ecosystem is its large and engaged alumni network.

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Source Link

MARCH 25, 2020

That means the coronavirus lockdown will do more than damage the economy — it will ravage local culture across the country by robbing us of businesses, owned by our neighbors, that make one town a little bit different from the next. It's not just livelihoods that are threatened, but our very sense of community.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Competition became an integral part of society due to historical, cultural, and other factors. For instance, in 2008, UPS agreed to ship DHL’s packages (because DHL couldn’t do it at the time and asked a competitor for help). They were willing to talk openly about corporate culture, the onboarding process, product managers’ goals, etc.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Buildings are the same, however often historically and culturally significant and therefore protected. As of February 2017, nearly 200,000 construction jobs were left unfilled across the U.S.,

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

AUGUST 15, 2021

After all, Selexys scaled from a TBFP investment back in 2008, to being acquired by Novartis in a $665 million deal. There is a certain level of cultural awareness that had to happen — changes that we all are going through — to connect with this segment of our state’s population. Building trust.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Induced by a pandemic and unprecedented state responses, it is even worse than the last international period of economic decline witnessed in 2008. During the period of economic turbulence in 2008, I formed my technology consultancy firm, ROCK. For most, 2008 was a time to avoid risk. Client first.

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Jason Malki

MAY 3, 2023

She has considerable experience in launching businesses as well as managing million-dollar businesses by bringing together cross-cultural, diverse teams and stakeholders. Radha has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode and graduated in Electronics Engineering from Anna University.

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Feedough

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In 2008, Google launched the Android Operating System (OS). But because of the corporate culture that was prevailing, it never saw the light of the day. Nokia refused to take Apple as a threat to their high sales numbers. It also considered Apple phones inferior as they run on 2G technology while Nokia’s mobiles ran on 3G technology.

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Y Combinator

MAY 30, 2024

"When the iPhone came out in 2008, that was the true end of my physics career." " When the iPhone came out in 2008, that was the true end of my physics career. It’s something we even try to design into our company culture, too — like… remember, this is kind of fun, right?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Salyer made the decision to take her community service commitment to a new level in November 2008 when she successfully ran for the Ward 6 City Council seat. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking. What are your thoughts on Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial community?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Evan developed a three-part hiring process to ensure that we identify the right talent fit for our culture. When you care about each other as teammates, it shows and leads to a positive culture that attracts more top talent. Once Evan joined us, we focused on hiring the talent that we needed in order to grow.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 28, 2022

The meteoric rise of Bitcoin from nothing to a $1 trillion dollar plus asset in the span of a decade created the HODL culture. Bitcoin therefore must move, and movement between parties is the antithesis of HODL culture. HODL culture taken to its f(x): maxima would result in the complete destruction of Bitcoin.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

Trevor started his career in consumer electronics in 2008, at a small startup in San Francisco called JOBY. We represent our brands’ identity; protecting their cultural values while using our local market competence to build brand awareness. Within two years he was managing the global sales team and responsible for the companies $28.7M

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Haystack

JUNE 25, 2018

4/ 2008 Feels Like 3 Decades Ago – This isn’t fair to AppNexus at all, because a $1.6B+ exit is huge stuff, but it is a long time ago, and the way news cycles move today, feels eons ago; additionally, in the wake of $7.5B at the right time across both broadband and mobile networks.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

And it happened again in early 2008, as CEOs reported the first evidence of order slowdowns and issues with customer payments – right before the ‘great recession.’. Every leader has stories to tell. Her recruiting business survived and flourished even as others closed their doors during the recession – and have remained shuttered.

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

At a minimum, getting to the Series A derisks (perhaps temporarily) a seed investment in a world where the shapes of investment outcomes can take a decade or more (consider, Uber is now a decade old and DocuSign, which just went public, was started in 2008).

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 8, 2020

These pandemics and disease outbreaks are not presented in chronological order but arranged differently to support a different narrative on their impact economically, culturally, and otherwise. This outbreak or pandemic occurred during the Great Recession caused by the financial panic of 2008. The pandemic infected between 0.7

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

They launched SEMrush at the height of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Oleg Shchegolev and Dmitriy Melnikov are the cofounders of SEMrush , an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform. . Shchegolev and Melnikov began experimenting with different SEO strategies in 2006.

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