Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

When I moved to Washington State in 2014, I initially registered my business as Julia L F Goldstein Communications. You can join business groups and share advice with other solopreneurs. Maybe your business name is just your name and perhaps your credentials—Nancy Smith, CPA. If you didn’t, should you do so? You don’t hire employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. I see too many people who do that.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. .” You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. ” Hours and hours if you’re engaged.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. It is one of the primary reasons Sam was able to accomplish so much in 2014 because he could focus his time on what really mattered. This is all about “leverage” which is the key to success.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. Startup Advice' We’re the market leader in a space that is growing so unless there is an exogenous shock we will continue to grow. Photo credit from 500px.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Advice is not a new concept, but Intro is putting its spin on access to in-demand experts through personalized one-on-one video calls. The San Francisco company was founded in 2020 by entrepreneur Raad Mobrem, who previously founded Lettuce, an operating system for small businesses that was acquired by Intuit in 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund. So I immediately felt like I had a partner whom I could call for sensitive advice on topics where there aren’t many sources of input or mentorship.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 16, 2017

In 2014, we saw Heartbleed arrive on the cybersecurity scene. If you were buying a used car, would you trust your mechanic’s advice or the advice of the car dealer’s mechanic who can’t stop smiling ingenuously at you? By Silka Gonzalez, an EO South Florida member and CEO of Enterprise Risk Management, Inc. Yeah, that’s why.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Since forming in 2014, were excited to be part of the sales growth story for more than 50 businesses. But for most […] Advice Magnify Consulting Sales and Marketing Supporter Content Five other reasons your sales pipeline has slowed October 7, 2020 #nzentrepreneur So, your sales pipeline has slowed or stopped delivering altogether.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. I have come to realize that since the great tech boom started in 2009 and given the massive increase in first-time angels, first-time seed funds, first-time accelerators … the market is just filled with well-intentioned, but inexperience advice. Whom you take advice from really matters.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Traditional investors are so focused on “quantitative marketing” that he got a lot of advice that this money was better spent on online customer acquisition. Generic cam’s could never match the security use case as well as Ring could and when consumers went online or to a store to find our product the offering was very clear.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Speakers will share their honest accounts of entrepreneurship, as well as essential startup advice. Since 2014, the Female Founders Conference has helped women who want to start and run their own startups. The one-day event will feature talks and panels (agenda here ), followed by breakout rooms with experts.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). This article was written by EO Vancouver member, Calvin Johnson. That “aha” moment hit us at the perfect time: during a chapter retreat. Brian said, “Absolutely!”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2019

In 2014, my co-founder and I decided to hire our first employees. I appreciated how much we learned just by sharing each other’s experiences, as well as the direct advice offered by a grizzled mentor. I couldn’t have joined EO Accelerator at a better time. I now had a mini “board” that I could go to for guidance.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 3, 2021

SCORE : More than 10,000 volunteer mentors work with entrepreneurs to provide free, confidential business advice to help them start and grow small businesses. Get free business advice from a SCORE mentor. . In 2020 alone, SCORE mentors helped start 45,027 new businesses and created 119,562 new jobs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I’ve been an EO member for 15 years, but it wasn’t until 2014 that I became involved with the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). This article was written by EO Vancouver member Calvin Johnson. That “aha” moment hit us at the perfect time: during a chapter retreat. Brian said, “Absolutely!”

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Speakers will share their honest accounts of entrepreneurship, as well as essential startup advice. Since 2014, the Female Founders Conference has helped women who want to start and run their own startups. The one-day event will feature talks and panels (agenda here ), followed by breakout rooms with experts.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It would be fair to say Anthony Baxter has learnt a thing or two about entrepreneurship, since starting his digital marketing agency “ Firefly ” from an Auckland bedroom in 2014. Firefly Digital provides advice to brands such as iconic Kiwi entrepreneur story, AJ Hackett Bungy.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In a continuing effort to help shift the venture capital funding geographic imbalance in our country, since 2014 our team has traveled to 38 cities to meet entrepreneurs where they are. These five insights from the Summit stood out as critical business building advice that entrepreneurs all across the country can apply: 1. Leverage?—?and

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Hecken: “EMP provided some of the best speakers, tailored to entrepreneurs’ most pressing challenges, who provided concrete, actionable insights and advice which we could implement in our companies immediately. Hao Lam is an EO Seattle member who joined the organization in 2014.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

When I joined YC in 2014, I thought I was transitioning from the management role I had as a startup founder to a job where most of my time would be spent doing office hours with YC founders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Ironclad launched in 2014 and today the company has raised more than $180 million and, according to reports , is valued just under $1 billion. Make a friend! If you’re not an Extra Crunch member yet, what are you waiting for?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

It was launched by President Barack Obama and the Prime Minister of Malaysia in 2014.) Additionally, do you have any other advice for anyone looking to start a fund? What’s your advice to entrepreneurs who have a chance to meet investors like you? What types of companies/sectors do you look to invest in?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

“They had users and in Silicon Valley, there was this notion that if you have users, you can turn anything into money,” said Bing Gordon, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) partner who led Duolingo’s $20 million Series C in 2014. This was not very controversial back then, at least with investors,” von Ahn said.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 16, 2020

Since 2014, YC has funded over 250 bio, healthcare, and life science companies, making us one of the largest seed stage bio/healthcare funders in the world. If you’re looking for advice on turning your research into a company, have questions about fundraising or about YC, we hope to meet you.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

SecurityScorecard has been helping companies understand the security risk of its vendors since 2014 by providing each one with a letter grade based on a number of dimensions. Every company can see its own scorecard for free along with advice on how to improve that score. Today, the company announced a $180 million Series E.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

If 2024 Kieran could whisper something into the ear of 2014 Kieran, what would you have told her about the difference between leading a team vs leading a company? If I could give 2014 Kieran one piece of advice from 2024 Kieran, it would be to center this much more explicitly in how I approached my job as CEO.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

While there’s lots of advice out there on how investors can exit successfully, there’s less for entrepreneurs in the trenches. Along the way, I’ve learned that a “successful exit” for a startup—that critical moment when the founding team and investors decide to get a return out of the business—will be different for everyone.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Now that it’s 2014 and prices have gone down it doesn’t feel so good. I want that 20% discount you promised me! Seriously, dude? That was part of our deal. Convertible Notes felt good when prices only went up, didn’t they? So that $500k I took from you not only didn’t convert at $5m but it converted lower than $2.5m?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Ryder was then a Maven “customer” for her following three pregnancies, using the platform for after-hours advice, virtual access to specialists or, more recently, guidance on how to prepare for a breech birth. The company was founded in 2014 to help working women plan and start families.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

In 2014, he started an exchange, Bitreserve, which morphed into Uphold, a money transfer product that supported over 30 currencies, including crypto. What advice do you have for new founders right now? Since his initial foray into media, Minor has taken to cryptocurrency and blockchain in a big way.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As evidence of that, the firm led Credit Karma’s Series A in 2009; led Remitly’s Series A in 2014 and participated in Nubank’s Series A in 2014. Very, very few can augment that with proven, actionable advice and insight that can help them tomorrow.”. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Habitto is Japan’s first digital bank offering financial advice that primarily targets financial novices, with an emphasis on a savings interest rate of 0.3%, which is higher than most traditional banks. That might not be the case, actually. Fintech start-up Habitto saw new openings even when the doors all seemed closed.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2021

All adapted garments available around 2011-2014 were very poorly designed and not fashionable at all! Q: I have to ask then, what advice do you have for female entrepreneurs? . A: My advice for any entrepreneur is: do something that makes you vibrate from every pore of your skin. It did not work very well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Ironclad launched in 2014 and today the company has raised more than $180 million and, according to reports , is valued just under $1 billion. PST and stays open a half hour after the episode ends. Make a friend!

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Impact Hub

APRIL 15, 2022

This partnership is based on the complementary expertise and experience of both organisations – while ESADE Business School and its faculty brings academic rigor and quality, Fundación Prevent offers advice and guidance on how to ensure the curriculum and classes are adjusted to the needs of the people with disabilities. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

” WizeHire was founded in 2014 by Upadhyay and Jay Niblick. Upadhyay didn’t directly respond to a question about algorithmic bias, but he pointed out that WizeHire also provides advice from hiring and business coaches.

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