Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

From 13–19 November 2017, we’ll share exclusive content designed to inspire and inform every entrepreneur—whether you’re in start-up mode or you’re a battle-scarred founder. The post Global Entrepreneurship Week 2017: Failing Forward appeared first on THE BLOG. We believe in the power of learning to grow.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2017

Cameron Madill is an EO member in Portland, EO’s 2017 Global Citizen of the Year winner, founder of B Local PDX, and founder and CEO of PixelSpoke , a web design and marketing agency. In April 2017 at EO’s Global Leadership Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Cameron Madill was named EO’s Global Citizen of the Year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

From 13–19 November 2017, we’ll share exclusive content designed to inspire and inform every entrepreneur—whether you’re in start-up mode or you’re a battle-scarred founder. The post Global Entrepreneurship Week 2017: With Strength and Purpose, Women Rule appeared first on THE BLOG. We believe in the power of learning to grow.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

InfoTrust has enjoyed a successful November: first by organizing its international Basket Brigade to benefit 435-plus families in need, and by being named to Ad Age’s 2017 Best Place to Work list, which includes 50 U.S. He is also an EO Cincinnati member. companies in the advertising, marketing and media space.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2017

Comparing 2017 averages to seven year highs, we observe Series A, Series B, and Series Seed round sizes are effectively at their all-time highs, ignoring some minor differences. Should the current trend continue, 2017 would see the fewest number of rounds since 2012, and a 45% reduction from 2014 high. billion from $4.2

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire in " The 2017 US Startup Team Gender Diversity Study. " Investor Thoughts. FundersClub explores the gender diversity of U.S.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 9, 2020

His successful journey to freedom is taking a new detour Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

And this data implies that fewer earlier stage companies raised, which means there will be fewer Series Bs in 2017 and fewer Series Cs in 2018. Despite this increasing amount of capital on investor’s balance sheet, 2016 was a slower year by round count.

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Revolution

JULY 18, 2024

JD Vance worked at Revolution for about a year and a half, starting in 2017, following the publication of his best-selling book, Hillbilly Elegy. The book’s focus aligned well with Revolution’s Rise of the Rest, an initiative started and championed by Steve Case to shine a spotlight on emerging startup ecosystems between the coasts.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Janese, a 2017 YLAI Professional Fellow, is the founder of Jan’s Empowerment Institute (JEI) in Antigua and Barbuda. Her experience in the 2017 YLAI Professional Fellows Program has been pivotal to the growth and success of her company. “I By Caroline Sachdeva. “I

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2017

In 2017, there will be a lot of comparison between the prices public bound companies fetch at IPO compared to the last round private valuations as the public window opens. Given all that change, which early round will be the hardest to raise for founders in 2017? So, which is the hardest round to raise in 2017?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 28, 2017

Meet the amazing students who took part in the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s 2017 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). The post 2017 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards Recap appeared first on THE BLOG. The 2018 GSEA is open for applicants! Learn more today.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2017

This trend started in 2014 and has continued through the first quarter of 2017. The anomaly in 2017 is due to an outlier. Only one company has raised two seed rounds so far in 2017, qualifying it into this dataset. These two forces in opposition netted a 10% increase in total dollars in 2016.

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For Entrepreneurs

OCTOBER 31, 2017

You can find the full 2017 survey results here: Part 1 shares growth rates, go-to-market trends and cost structure Part 2 covers application delivery methods, operational costs, gross margins, contract terms, churn rates, capital requirements and accounting methods.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

After my job salary was cut on February 10, 2017, I had to quickly figure out a solution for success. Despite having zero business background, I started my first company on April 16, 2017.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Firms invested a total of $434 million in Q3—the lowest figure since the second quarter of 2017, according to PitchBook data. Well, I missed something in the data that was subsequently reported on by PitchBook , one of the authors of the report: Venture funding for female founders has hit its lowest quarterly total in three years.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Damaris, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, is working hard to combine her love for her home country of Nicaragua and her love of tourism to give back to those in her country, providing employment and education opportunities across her community. “But I cannot change the world, but I can contribute to make it a better place to live.”.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Avena, a 2017 YLAI Fellow, also offers advice for future entrepreneurs. Avena noticed the large-scale unemployment throughout Dominica, and her concerns were confirmed by the Central Development Bank in 2017 when Dominica was listed as one of the Caribbean countries with the highest unemployment rates.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Nayleen, a 2017 YLAI fellow, is from a small rural village in the province of Los Santos, Panama. Before she began this project, she felt as if she had exhausted all her options, and when she participated as a 2017 fellow, YLAI showed her to never stop trying. By Elise Kemp.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

When Katherine, the co-founder of Stereomatic Estudios , discovered the profound impact of music as an instrument to achieve a brighter future for impoverished Colombian youth in Medellín, she began to utilize digital marketing and branding strategies to guide emerging artists in their musical careers.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 24, 2020

2017 YLAI Fellow Marie Flore Morett, owner of Delices de Marie Florett , has worked to create a welcoming community in Haiti to empower women to seek employment opportunities and work to decrease the job and wage inequalities present in Haiti. By Caroline Sachdeva.

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For Entrepreneurs

JULY 5, 2017

We’ve partnered together to publish the 2017 SaaS AE Metrics Report and offer sales organizations a set of benchmarks to compare themselves against industry standards. Since 2007, The Bridge Group has tracked the Account Executive (AE) role and gathered data on how metrics and compensation change over time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

has declined every year since 2017, according to a recent report by Electric Capital. share of blockchain developers has fallen 2% per year in the last five years, dropping to 29% last year from 40% in 2017. Europe (excluding the United Kingdom) maintained a consistent share of around 29% during the five years from 2017 to 2022.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

In 2017, I started my own facilities maintenance company, Integrated Facility Services Hawaii (IFSH). I’ve grown IFSH from US$54,000 in 2017 to US$4.9 They gave me the confidence to start fresh and continue to do what I love. million in 2021. IFSH ranked No.

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The 2017 Future Founders Mission just wrapped up it’s two-week stint in Silicon Valley, and in this post we share some of the insights and reflections from participants. This year we had 529 applications, from which we interviewed 71 to ultimately select the final 20 successful applicants. The partners and sponsors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

After the correction earlier this year, public valuation multiples had reset to those of 2017. Before this announcement, US venture-backed software M&A was tracking to its worst year since 2017, at about $7b, down from $71b last year. Congratulations to team Figma on building their impressive business.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 14, 2022

In a section called Kitty Down , Packy describes the challenges that the Dapper Labs team went through between late 2017, when CryptoKitties launched, and the summer of 2020, when Top Shot launched. Well buried deep in a 66 page blog post on the Flow blockchain by Packy McCormick lies the answer.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2017

5G wireless: All eyes are on 5G in 2017. Augmented reality: Along with VR, it’s close cousin is also going to be big in 2017. However, companies like Acer, Lenovo, and especially Microsoft will launch augmented reality headsets in 2017 to help with training, sales demos, and more. Read the last five trends!

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Since the launch of crowdfunding services in 2017, businesses have leveraged platforms like Fundinno and Ecrowd to secure funding from retail investors. billion yen from 2017 to August of the current year. Japan initiated its startup crowdfunding framework in 2015 through revisions to the financial instruments regulation.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

LU UM was co-founded by Kurt Amundson, Lynn Heublein, and Nathan Harding in 2017 collectively leveraging their backgrounds in technology, robotics, and marketing. She raised the company’s largest round of funding to date and received accolades from customers and awards such as TIME Best Inventions and BeautyMatter NEXT.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

BusyBee, founded by Arun Kumar in 2017, started as an on-demand courier […] The post Deliver.sg Deliver.sg, a Singaporean long-distance delivery platform under Maxima Logistics Pte Ltd, has completed the acquisition of BusyBee, an Indian Mobility Lifestyle Platform.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 24, 2023

Rachelle received her Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy in New York City in 2017. Rachelle founded Dare to Run, a nonprofit that trains women how to run for public office, in June of 2017. I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachelle Suissa. Prior to that, Ms.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Established in 2017 by fintech visionary Eric Barbier , Triple-A facilitates secure and efficient transactions through stablecoins and blockchain technology/ It offers support for prominent tokens like USDT, USDC, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. In total, the company has now raised $14 million.

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