This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. How do we create tools that let people explore their own presentation of themselves without injecting all sorts of societal baggage about what’s “acceptable” or “preferable”?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

As the CEO you have a team that is counting on you and a board that is measuring your performance. It also applies to other parts of my life such as presentations. I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. We rise to the occasion as it stirs our creative juices.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

Some of you have gotten along forever without a board of directors, or used your spouse as the “other” board member from the start. But there are some very good reasons to build a great board composed of some outside members. And good board members can add real value to you and the company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Board meetings are quickly increasing in their significance to foster consistent and vital interactions as an organization. As we move into 2021 and Q1 meetings are being put onto calendars, take some time to modernize how you conduct your board meetings. Remember the board works for you, so be sure to put them to work.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

That''s kind of like what it''s like being on board with these companies after you make an early stage investment. You can try and alert them to other traffic, slow it down, ease pain by being calm and present, but ultimately, it''s up to them to get stronger and stronger with every step and continue on down the road.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. presented pricing challenges when compared to a whole new set of offline competitors we didn’t know well. We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 13, 2020

Kalika Yap , an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Los Angeles, is founder and CEO of both Orange & Bergamot , a creative agency for female founders, and Citrus Studios , a branding and design agency. Appoint a board of directors for your life. She’s also an author and the host of EO Wonder podcast.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

We have a great board chat and talk about our strategic direction but then you go out and execute. We spend the entire day together on Mondays in our partners’ meetings and seeing companies present. They said, “yeah, but we get that through our board interactions. I hate not getting to own results.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. I often tell teams that you need to create product deadlines that are semi-public (or maybe board commitments) that help you focus on shipping product.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In this keynote presentation from AI Revolution, a16z general partner Martin Casado explains why with generative AI, that’s changing. [0:00] Then they come to us, we invest in them, and I join the board. There’s creativity, like any component of a video game, that you can automatically generate.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

As a founder or CEO over 13 years I raised $35 million, sat on boards with 7 different venture capitalists and I’m in touch with every one of them today. VC or entrepreneur, we need to all stand up for creativity, innovation and the moral compass within all of us. We need more inventions that will solve global problems.

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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. The level of engagement, passion and commitment demonstrated by attendees was beyond expectations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2023

During their podcast discussion, Adi and Camela covered why processes are critical and how they can minimize loss and increase profit—even if the business owner is a creative. Perhaps you had a presentation that didn’t work because you didn’t have a system for building, testing, practicing, and ultimately presenting it.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

For as long as I can remember, when asked the popular question, “Whom would you like to have dinner with — present or past?” Like many, I’ve admired Richard for his authenticity, creativity, resiliency, generosity, ability to push the limits of what’s possible, and his focus on family and fun. my answer has been Sir Richard Branson.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Zack is the creative talent. I took for granted that having the team mostly on board was enough. So creating and launching hundred million dollar+ video game titles was part of Scott’s DNA. Add that to mobile and you’re talking about one talented executive. Interstate ’76) that each grossed more than $250 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Any advice or insights on how to present a strong case for an O-1A or EB-1A? If demonstrating an employer-employee relationship, that usually involves showing that your startup’s board of directors oversees your work and can fire you. Savvy Startup Founder. Dear Savvy, Congrats on your success so far! Take a listen!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2020

Doing so empowers everyone, even those who are confident that the plan will succeed, to tap their creativity in coming up with potential reasons for the failure. He recruited Ann, a member of the firm’s Advisory Board, to be an independent facilitator. Everything—even business meetings— would be done online after four weeks.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2023

Some of you have gotten along forever without a board of directors, or used your spouse as the “other” board member from the start. But there are some very good reasons to build a great board composed of some outside members. And good board members can add real value to you and the company. Generative.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In 2015, one of the largest healthcare intermediaries in the country presented us these challenges. Dreaming gets us started, creativity gets us excited, fear keeps us humble and relentless iteration gets us to the finish line. . We celebrate the scrappiness, grit and risk tolerance. Krupa joined EO Las Vegas in 2018. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Some of my greatest assets were qualities like willpower, curiosity, creativity and impatience. My curiosity and creativity made it hard to predict my behavior. We used the following methods to generate applications: We spread the job description on all the relevant job boards as well as social networks like LinkedIn and XING.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Any spreadsheet that Adobe’s corp finance function used to justify the multiple, or the bankers presented to suggest what valuation it would take to get this deal done, is basically CYA math. Once the acquiring company CEO and Board is framing the transaction this way the startup has won. Is Figma really worth $20 billion?

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Gust

JULY 3, 2012

As I wrote in Part I of this post , many of the most creative and disruptive startup businesses in recent years have involved the use of intellectual property in innovative, non-traditional ways that defy easy categorization and stretch the boundaries of concepts such as the fair use doctrine in copyright.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. Research them ahead of their process and present them with a term sheet next week. When you have a supply/demand imbalance like this one, the financial markets innovate to trade dollars for shares in creative ways. Then, every 12 months.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 9, 2016

[Email readers, continue here…] The Lion was delighted with the cockroach’s report and asked him to produce graphs to describe production rates and analyze trends so that he could use them for presentations at board meetings, so the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and recruit a fly to manage the IT department.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 16, 2022

From automating mundane processes to satisfying changing customer demands, startups count on agility and creativity to see them through. From gifting stocks as Christmas presents to offering debit cards for kids and teens, FinTech startups broaden their familial services to keep up with the demand. Creative edtech solutions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Ponce City Market presented that opportunity. Kelvin serves on the Georgia Restaurant Association’s board of directors. Kelvin is the creative, free-spirit and I am the type-A, uptight, detail-oriented person. They’re invaluable as a sounding board for support and advice. In Their Words. We are complete opposites.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

This presented a dilemma for my fledgling role as an angel investor. Fast forward to today, HubSpot has thousands of startups as customers, and a special program, creatively named " HubSpot for Startups "]. No board seats or advisory roles. But, I also knew that would get messy -- and present potential conflicts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are more than 2 billion websites in existence in the world today, millions of apps, and a growing range of digital screens where people and businesses present constantly changing arrays of information to each other. Stein and Jesse Robbins, a partner at Heavybit, are both joining Sanity’s board of directors with this round.

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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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HPA

AUGUST 15, 2019

Currently, she sits on four corporate boards, including a New York City technology startup called Xformative, Vantage Technology, Illinois Liquor Control Commission, and Lake Land College. Focus your presentation and energies on the execution plan and the key stakeholders involved, and less on the idea.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Its solution, in part, may be based on creative ways of presenting content to users, but also keeping a focus on strong material to use in those channels. ” In this latest Series B, “we shifted our focus from total dollars to representation on the board,” they said.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Otherwise, you lose sales even before you start Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash Do not mistake the perfect pitch for the well-rehearsed (read: memorized) presentation. The cookie-cutter pitch presentation kills your sales pipeline before you actually have one. For me, the first 10 minutes is crucial. That is okay.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

If a company’s CEO or executive team possess the soft skills necessary to be a true leader — such as empathy, compassion, humility and a hunger to continue learning — this tells me that they would be a good candidate for mentorship, even if they aren’t presently the best candidate to receive an investment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

When a consumer first joins the platform, Allara asks them to go through a virtual on-boarding visit with a medical provider. If it pulls it off, this is where the heart of Allara’s innovation lies: creative ways to take care of people. The company describes it as a “collaborative care management model.”. Image Credits: Allara.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 5, 2022

To help you get started, we’ve rounded up tips to get your creative juices flowing : Keep it short and sweet. A brand story presents an opportunity to communicate on a human level, making a direct emotional connection with your consumers. Focus on your unique selling position. Make it timeless. Don’t overpraise yourself.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2018

After just two hours there, we boarded the bus again to make our way to Sorrento and Pompeii. After 10 years, I was still just “surviving” the creative agency I had always dreamed of building. Every day since I’ve been presented with countless, seemingly inconsequential choices. But I was also a little sad.

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