Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2017

The Mali Rising Foundation was formed in 2004 to provide accessible, quality education for children, focusing on middle school education. The work Mali Rising accomplishes is EO Global Board member Fred Johnson’s passion. We asked Fred to share his experience in helping to increase literacy rates and access to education in Mali.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). billion).

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 31, 2021

Engaging Your Community. Community engagement is about involving the people you serve as beneficiaries and as partners in your mission. Learn about ways to foster community engagement. Community Engagement. Understand what community engagement is and why it’s important. Transcript. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 31, 2021

Engaging Your Community. Community engagement is about involving the people you serve as beneficiaries and as partners in your mission. Learn about ways to foster community engagement. Community Engagement. Understand what community engagement is and why it’s important. Transcript. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 1.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Freedom to make an impact in our community. We can positively affect the lives of our team, clients and community. When we get it right it means that we are good citizens that contribute to our communities and the world.” . Education changed my life. That is why I support university education of young women.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

To effectively support any entrepreneur, you must develop an infrastructure of resources in your community. After working with over 100 communities, we know that resources tend to cluster around the type of entrepreneur served and stage of business. Early-stage entrepreneurs, like all entrepreneurs, have their own set of unique needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To provide an opportunity for VCs and senior executives to engage with the community by giving back rather than just attending more cocktail parties. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. Can the community support them? Report Card.

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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. . We recently asked her more about responsive leadership.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

What if it turns out she feels most herself in the LGBTQ+ community? Am realistically supposed to send her to a school in a state where she can’t turn to a trusted educator to confide in for guidance and support around her sexual identify? I’m supposed to participate in a tech and startup community under these conditions?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

The platform, produced by Vivendi, includes documentaries, podcasts, articles and interviews between experts and known players in the chess community. In many ways, it’s a vertical-specific version of the chess MasterClass he did years ago, with a big focus on community and variety.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . We discuss below all of the different ways you can work with the investment community. Board of Directors. CrunchBase (free). PWC MoneyTree (free).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

On 25–26 June 2019, EO presented a two-day International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations focused on inspiring, educating and connecting business leaders to promote sustainable business practices. Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 31, 2022

We started raising funds in addition to making gifts over a decade ago when we started our computer science education work in New York City and Gotham Gives takes that approach to philanthropy and allows us to use it in other areas. It reminds me very much of the way early-stage venture capital works. The entire team is shown on this page.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2010

So, I figured, why not ask the community? The potential downside is that, as a Principal, you're not really as front and center as you'd like to be on decision making and board participation. So what, then, NYC innovation community? I think there are a number of ways to do that, but picking one isn't that easy. See recruiting.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

by Erick Slabaugh, a long-standing EO member in Seattle and former director on the EO Global Board “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” The Origins David Galbenski and I served on the EO Global Board together in 2007. I loved the idea and his vision.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Some of the common best practices to keep in mind when building an inclusive workplace, according to Ideal , include fair treatment and equal access to opportunities; a focus on teamwork and collaboration; representation at all levels; diversity, equity and inclusion training, and education; and effective and consistent communication.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

We talked about how startups have changed over the last few years, what support has meant to them, Startup Catalyst missions and their impact, as well as ways to get involved in the startup community. He has been a supporter of the startup community since before the word startup was in general conversation. Tweet this quote ).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

EO has given me so many educational opportunities that have been: (1) worth their weight in gold; and (2) perfect for spending time with people who are “in the same boat”. I was running my security company and I had an Advisory Board. The first time I heard the idea that “entrepreneurship is a lonely journey” was in my late twenties.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 10, 2024

We provide jobs that help drive the economy, give back to local communities , and create sustainability practices that support climate neutrality to make our world a better place. His efforts culminated in three Living Donor Awareness Games in the major leagues this week with the goal to honor, educate, and inspire.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

New Markets Venture Partners general partner Jason Palmer and Learn Capital managing partner Greg Mauro will join Nexford’s board. . The tech-enabled startup, launched by Fadl Al Tarzi in 2019, is filling affordability and relevance gaps in education. accredited higher education and lets them study at their own pace.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 3, 2024

” A Journey of Realization Eight years ago, I joined the EO Entrepreneurial Masters Program , a three-year executive education course for CEOs who are members of the Entrepreneur’s Organization. No matter how hard we work, success is a communal effort. As entrepreneurs, we are never self-made.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 31, 2024

My EO Forum served as a sounding board to examine my challenges—both personal and professional. Here’s how, with the support of the EO community, I found new ways to work and began to truly gain traction in my business’s success. I used to suffer from imposter syndrome , feeling like I was less than my fellow entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 11, 2018

For Jabez LeBret, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals combined with his experience as an EO San Diego member provided the inspiration to serve his community’s marginalized youth—an effort that’s earned him a nomination for EO Global Citizen of the Year. Ever since, I knew I’d be involved in education somehow.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

So if we’re talking everyone getting funded without getting the benefit of an experienced set of mentors in a small, focused program like TechStars, or a lead investor who will spend a lot of time with you upfront, I’m not on board with that. —making all of those harder to get for everyone else. Want to get these folks help?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations. You’re there to leave an impression – not to educate.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 16, 2022

Kate is president of the EO Winnipeg chapter and serves on the EO Canada Board as Canada’s Member Products Director. She also serves as president of the board of directors of The Dream Factory , a non-profit for children with life-threatening illnesses. I joined Entrepreneurs’ Organization four years ago, unsure what to expect.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 10, 2024

Eight entrepreneurial teams presented their business startup ideas to a panel of judges, friends, family, and other community members for a chance to win $10,000 to launch their business. On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Ben Franklin Technology Partners hosted a virtual pitch event for their TechCelerator Startup Bootcamp.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

Judge or coach EO’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) Apply to EO Executive Education opportunities such as EO@INSEAD Discover the Leader Within , EO with Harvard Business School, London Business School Growth Forum, and Global Leadership Academy. The personal and family-like relatedness has made the process comfortable and safe.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

Contributed by Hao Lam, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Seattle, Washington, and founder and CEO of Best in Class Education. MyEO Education. The MyEO Education group is championed by Joyce Lasecke of EO Minnesota, with support and encouragement from Peter Fan of EO Dallas. MyEO Angels.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2020

For companies ranking in the top quartile of executive-board diversity, returns on equity (ROEs) were 53 percent higher, on average, than they were for those in the bottom quartile … earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) margins at the most diverse companies were 14 percent higher, on average, than those of the least diverse companies.”. “For

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Total raised: $29.5mm. Competitors: Knewton.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. Founder fighting, IP lawsuits, high-profile resignations, trouble fund raising, bad product release, 409a complications, community is rebelling against the CEO: You. I simply want founders to be educated on the topic to be helpful.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As the EO member leader who coined the EO term “insta-macy” to describe the immediate connection EOers feel when engaged with the EO community, Dave experienced the most profound form of insta-macy through Mark’s living liver donation. “I Contributed to EO by Dave Galbenski, an EO Detroit member who served as EO Global Chair in 2008-2009.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 21, 2024

In creating a governance system, families should focus on critical areas such as establishing behavioral guidelines, developing a shared vision and mission, fostering communication and education within the group, and coordinating philanthropic or community roles.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It says it is the largest community of healthcare professionals in Southeast Asia, with more than 350,000 doctors on board. While teaching and exam-style education is a key component, we believe that experiential learning through case discussions among peers in a major learning source for doctors,” said Roychowdhury.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2018

If you work to educate and train people, for example, perhaps SDG 4, “Quality Education,” is one that naturally fits with your existing priorities. This [focus on SDG 4] turned things around and gave our board purpose, excitement and unity,” Steve says. Then use this as a starting point. There were no smiles or excitement.

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