Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s an incredibly valuable event for both EO Accelerators and EO members with startups that want to attract investments in addition to EO members who are looking for the right investment opportunity. The attendees must be EO members, EO Accelerator participants, or their vetted guest, such as a spouse or business partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Make sure your board challenges you enough about long-term vision & innovation. Your board likely won’t unless you have visionaries who are also egg breakers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

While you may be a strong leader, she asserts, the ability to adapt your strengths to each new organization, or to changes within the organization—new board members, new staff members, new shareholders—is the quality that will help you remain successful. .

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Head of Global Operations of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, and the Co-Founder & COO of the Vet-Tech Startup Accelerator. Sutton, an entrepreneur, is a Board Member of YPO, a global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives, and the Nevada Policy Research Institute.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

He is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners , an affiliation marketing company. These shifts are also likely to change how people work and shop far into the future and accelerate the pace of changes already underway. Hasbro , which currently has five of the 10 top-selling board games on Amazon, has major potential here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. More than 1,000 companies have cycled through its accelerator, and it was named 2022’s VC firm of the year by The International Trade Council.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Snap’s in-house Yellow accelerator program, which invests in startups, has debuted its fifth batch of investments. The company invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake as part of the accelerator program, which first launched in 2018. Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat’s new startup accelerator.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which serves to house and connect the various components that allow the device to function as a whole. To accelerate its mission to “automate electronics design,” Celus today announced it has raised €25 million ($25.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2023

Miranda is Board Director of CRDB Bank Plc and Board Chair of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative that empowers hundreds of women from across the continent. She is Board Vice Chair of CCBRT Hospital and an active member-leader of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization where she serves as Chair of Global Learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Other key investors include Superguts founding investor, Dave Friedberg, through The Production Board, along with Cultivian Sandbox, Strand Equity, Access Capital, Alpha Edison, LivWell Ventures, and Rocana Ventures.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2014

You start out at an accelerator or just raising some friends and family and that tends to be small potatoes. Launching may or may not give you less dilution based on whether you''re looking at the median or the average, but across the board, having revenue changed how much dilution an entrepreneur had to take. No Revenues.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 31, 2022

About 20 years ago I was a kid running my first startup and Baer was one of the early people to join our Board of Advisors. He came to every board meeting with deep insights and deeper belly laughs. The world lost Baer Tierkel last week at the age of 61. I learned a great deal from that man that proved pivotal.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 30, 2022

This approach lets you get wins on the board quickly, building momentum to effect larger and larger culture change to facilitate ever greater innovation & impact. Other companies buy into an enterprise platform just to learn they are costly, take years to generate results, and disrupt the core business.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. I am VERY careful in board meetings and in startup pitches to tell entrepreneurs, “I feel very strongly about my opinion on this topic. What is a founder to do? In the End Go with Your Gut.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We created one of the first accelerators in Los Angeles, Launchpad LA, which has gone on to help launch > 50 startups in the past 4 years who together have raised in excess of $150 million in capital. That seems pretty superficial!”. Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In some instances, schools serve as accelerators, providing students with resources and helping them connect with VCs to find seed funding. The UTLP initiative seems to be more focused on licensing IP to existing companies, rather than accelerating university startups. Marc De Leeuw, partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I''m super proud of Rob, Ben and the whole Backupify team--and this is particularly special for me because Backupify was the first investment I ever made as a VC, and the first board I ever sat on. I joined the board and I was assuming everything would always be up and to the right, because that''s the way success happens, right?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. The investor joined Tackle’s board when his firm led the startup’s Series B round, and sees it as a category leader.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 22, 2021

Since 2005, she always had a role in shaping EO: as a local board member, an area director, a committee member and a facilitator. Roles can range from being a coach in Accelerator, a day chair for an event, a board position or a global committee role.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2016

A lot of accelerators treat solo founders the same way--making it an implied requirement to participate. Well, of course there are, but that doesn't mean the people doing them also need a board seat and 40% of the common equity to do it. The same holds true for VC funds.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Brad says: “Talk to people you trust, whether they’re investors, board members, co-founders, mentors, whatever; make sure you’re open about the stress and the struggle you’re going through both financially in the business and personally.” I can personally attest that it’s very easy for a startup CEO to feel alone and isolated.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

He signed a release and remained on the board. He regretted the decision and sued the company and the board – it’s still not totally clear to me what he was suing about. No acceleration. Because no VCs would fund them with a pending lawsuit of this nature. I funded a company where the CEO stepped down.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Death because just 3 extra non-performing employees in a company of 15 can either accelerate cash out date or can dramatically lower your productivity. I have sat through scores of board meetings in the past year and in at least 25% of them the topic of a senior employee we hired that hasn’t worked out comes up.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Contributed by Eden Gillott, an EO Accelerator participant in Los Angeles. The Board approved the choice, and the new CEO was announced without ­explanation or context. Is the Board aligned with management? We asked Eden how she guides companies to navigate difficult internal communications challenges and minimize brand damage.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

In our early years, we focused on partnering with strong regional investors to accelerate our market penetration. Now, with Flourish Ventures on board, we are laying the foundation for global expansion. Their deep expertise in fintech will be invaluable as we enter our next phase of growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Each time, I’ve been telling founders why they should join an accelerator. Now, I am changing things up and going to lay out six reasons you shouldn’t join an accelerator. Accelerators usually take more (equity), because they provide more than just money. If you don’t need any of that, then you don’t need an accelerator.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2020

She participates in the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Accelerator program in Los Angeles. While every situation is unique, some basic principles apply across the board when writing statements and issuing apologies after a crisis, incident, issue, slip-up, or whatever you want to call it.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country. If I could close with some advice for startups and boards …. What is a reasonable payback period and how quickly do we want to grow?

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2024

Give one percent equity to each outside board member vesting over two to four years of service. Many early-stage CEOs and board members have asked for some guidance regarding pay and time commitments for board members. Here is my best advice, based upon many boards and many years. Realistic human images.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Contributed by Robert Glazer , a former EO Boston member who is the founder and chairman of the board of Acceleration Partners , a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

But I hate worse when I let down the people for whom I’ve totally committed my time to: the boards I set on, my limited partners, my colleagues at Upfront, companies that are pitching me and looking for feedback and my family. I try to speak at universities, high schools, startup accelerators?—?as I just can’t make everybody happy.

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Paul G. Silva

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For those unfamiliar with it, Launch413 was a Post Accelerator that helped startup CEOs scale for sustained success by providing coaches with deep domain expertise. We provided each startup: Board of Advisors that acted like a board of directors, holding the entrepreneurs to account.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 29, 2024

Tribe, a Singapore-based ecosystem builder, and Digital Industry Singapore (DISG)—a joint office of the Economic Development Board, Enterprise Singapore, and the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA)—have teamed up with global […]

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This critical investment will enable Apptronik to ramp up the production of its groundbreaking humanoid robot, Apollo, and accelerate the development of next-generation robots tailored for a wide range of industries. Founded in 2016, Apptronik has rapidly gained recognition as a leader in humanoid robotics.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. But if you’re a concentrated investor who takes board seats then you know the hard bit starts the day after. If an accelerator is writing you they’re also writing 25 other VCs. Pay attention.

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