Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 26, 2017

Lynette answered questions about changes that have impacted her business since Colorado legalized marijuana in 2012. Q: What business challenges and opportunities has your company experienced? The post Business Ramifications of Legalized Marijuana: Trouble or Growth Opportunity? appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company. And I can tell you without a doubt that the system works.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. We recently added Richard Mumby to our leadership team.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Podcasting is, in some ways, natively disconnected from a singular social media platform – which means it creates opportunities to reach people you have never met, known about, or marketed to. In 2012, this percentage was only 14%. It’s a rapidly-growing segment — one that is diversifying in terms of appeal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. If you feel like you need some extra training in this area, seek out workshops or mentorship opportunities to make sure you have these skills down before you pitch for funding. Gender equality in VC makes more business sense.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

“Much of the growth and success of CoinX was reinforced by a combination of my EO forum, the EO network, and the opportunity to serve other EO members through leadership. When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset. Learn more about EO today!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities. I predict this will come before the end of 2012. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities: Sprout Social, CoTweet, awe.sm, LocalResponse. The explosion of data is creating opportunities just in the management of the data in and of itself.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Alex Rinke, Bastian Nominacher and Martin Klenk launched the company as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, and in 2012, Celonis joined the SAP Startup Focus program, an accelerator for analytics startups building new applications on the SAP HANA platform. Other participants include Activant Capital, Arena Holdings, T.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. When markets turn to fear, smart investors turn to greed (metaphorically speaking) and saw the opportunity very clearly.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

3 Tips to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company. And I can tell you without a doubt that the system works.” or EO on Inc. ?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Historically, the industry has been reluctant to embrace technology, but as there have been generational shifts in leadership, that has slowly changed. So that suggests for somebody who’s thinking about maybe an opportunity in this sector, there’s still an awful lot of whitespace,” he told TechCrunch. billion and $40.5

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced. 5/ “Decentralized Everything?”

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Creating opportunities for women and minorities to grow. This passion was one that I would foster and come to utilize within the VC space in order to support women from diverse and underserved backgrounds and communities so that they wouldn’t hesitate in the face of opportunities out of fear of not feeling like they belonged.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. Since inception, my goal has always been for Initialized to outlive its founders.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Each speaker stressed the importance of asking questions (from clients and employees) to further opportunities and garner a better perspective from which to make decisions. When asked what motivated her, Ms. .” I was particularly captivated by Fujiyo Ishiguro’s story and presentation.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

HW: Greenhouse, which powers the hiring process from sourcing to onboarding for thousands of companies, will soon be a teenager, having been founded in 2012. What does 2023 Daniel know that 2012 Daniel didn’t? I really loved getting to use my know-how and wits to forge my own path, make money, and get to work on cool computer stuff.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

So how can you make sure you’re maximizing your leadership skills and embodying these necessary traits? Sometimes, you’ll have to turn down a seemingly great opportunity in order to stick to your company’s core goals, make sure the lights stay on and keep customers coming down the line. Here are three ways to get started: 1.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Diversifying an investment portfolio to include more women-led ventures means trusting in the leadership of women, which research has shown to be worth believing in. A 2012 study of company performance showed that more than 150 listed German firms excelled when they had at least 30% women representation on their executive boards.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Once you reach a decent level of professional success, lack of opportunity won’t kill you. Once you’ve learned to identify and execute on the right opportunities, how do you achieve work-life balance?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

The opportunity is often worth the investment, but without close contract governance, businesses stand to lose up to 40% of a contract’s value, a KPMG survey found. “In 2012, myself and Claude Marais, the ex-global head of outsourcing in General Motors, began to brainstorm and envision SirionLabs.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

“Adelene’s proven credentials and entrepreneurial spirit in scaling and growing Grab across Southeast Asia fits perfectly for this next phase of growth for Grab in Malaysia and I’m so excited to welcome her back to the country leadership team,” said Russell Cohen, Group Managing Director of Operations at Grab.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 31, 2022

Identify the opportunity. I saw a significant opportunity to improve it. When the plan to take over my friend’s business fell through in 2012, I started Aureus Auto Body (which is now The Aureus Group). As an industry, auto repair severely lacks leadership, which creates awful work environments. I am not a “car guy.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 8, 2019

In today’s Octane blog, we bring EO members and non-members alike behind the scenes of 2019 EO Global Leadership Conference Macau (GLC), profiling one of the event’s carefully selected speakers, Dr. Neville Sanjana. GLC is EO’s flagship leadership event, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2021

She became the youngest self-made female billionaire in 2012, according to Forbes. Also in 2012, TIME named her one of the World’s Most Influential People. Sara says that what motivates her are the women in her life who didn’t have the same opportunities. She began her mindfulness and leadership journey quite young.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

He teamed up with Codacy’s other co-founder, João Caxaria, to launch the startup in 2012. But what is verifiable is that Codacy sees a strong business opportunity beyond code reviews in the area of engineering performance monitoring. In other words, leadership cares for the forest and not the trees. Image Credits: Codacy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your trivia quiz is an excellent opportunity to tell your brand’s “story.” At the other end of the spectrum is Tony Robbin’s What is your leadership style? In 2012, Jonah Berger published a now-famous study , in which he identified the key “share triggers” that make content go viral.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2023

Aside from his history in tech sales, Mike leans on his expertise to build sales teams, identify market opportunities, develop partnerships, and strategically increase ARR through multi-product sales and cross-selling efforts. It was the summer of 2012. That is as true today as it was in 2012. Thank you so much for joining us!

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

2000, and in 2012 the growth of Beanstalk, the workflow software that was one of their core products, plateaued. In the years since, not being defined by one project or product has given Wildbit more freedom to “celebrate every opportunity to learn,” which is one of their core values. She and her husband, Chris, founded Wildbit in.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. Occasionally you get really wealthy people running accelerators who view it either as a fun use of time or more often as “an option” to find interesting personal investment opportunities. Management talent is usually transitional.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Harris and Richard Castle founded San Diego-based Cloudbeds in 2012 to provide hospitality management software to lodging businesses, from independent hotels to vacation rentals, that combines previously siloed business functions, like operations, revenue, distribution and growth marketing, into one integrated, cloud-based tool.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Doing so ascribes all the fundraising success and the leadership work underpinning it to the founders who are men, effectively propagating gender bias. From 2012-2016, this number hovered around 20% and, in the mid- to late 2010s, the number was in the mid-teens.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people. That starts with sales leadership and sales management. Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up. We decided to go for it.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills. So, for example, when I first started here back in 2012, there was a ton of energy being put towards building a network of executive relationships that is now somewhat more about sustaining those relationships. We do back channels. Sometimes it’s business context.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 26, 2023

FIGURE 1: National CEO Transition Experience Source: The Founders Dilemma, Noam Wasserman Academic and author Noam Wasserman, perhaps best known for his 2012 book The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, offers some data on the prevalence of founder transitions. How Prevalent Are CEO Changes?

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

“We always say unapologetically: we’re here to win, we’re here to win big, and our opportunity is big.” Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. Don’t let venture capitalists deter you from opportunity. Lori’s advice to women entrepreneurs seeking funding?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 31, 2025

Among the VCs who publicly share that they have an equal-carry model are Aleph Partners , Atlas Venture, Benchmark , Charles River Ventures , Eniac , Foundry Group , IA Ventures , Kepha Partners , Madrona Venture Group (in Dan Primacks Term Sheet, June 6, 2012); and NextView Ventures.

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