Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 22, 2021

The YLAI Alumni Advisory Board is excited to invite you to an upcoming virtual event entitled “ Challenging Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship “, presented in honor of YLAI4All and International Women’s Day. The event was inspired by the 2021 International Women’s Day theme, “I Choose to Challenge.”

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 11, 2025

Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Our board chairman called me in for a conversation. My standing with the board didn’t just recoverit soared. This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 We doubled our membership, became profitable, and soon were running out of space.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2025

When Tinybop first launched, before they ever made their first app for kids, they started a newsletter that featured products they loved for kidsfrom everything from books to board games. Engaging an audience and building a following is a bit of an entrepreneurship rainy day fund. The thing weve been building.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The immersive three-and-a-half-day programme is based around three key themes – board leadership, cultural intelligence and climate awareness. Each day focusses on a different facet of being a director – you, your board and practical governance. Listen to Board Matters Season 3, Episode 2 to hear more from Maria King.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). Instead, our board pushed us to think bigger: What would it take to truly transform our region’s economy? ” At the time, we were running a startup accelerator for 6 companies. The safe play would have been scaling to 9 or 12. We jumped to 30 startups that first year5x our previous capacity!!!

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Miliary veterans possess attributes, experience, and skills that can be well-applied to entrepreneurship through leadership and knowledge of technology. 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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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

In 2021, we saw new programs and funding opportunities from the EDA and SBA to rebuild, sustain and grow entrepreneurship. Jon Krajack came on board to provide project and pioneering entrepreneurship research support, and Johanna Cook started this fall to support enhanced marketing and communications activities.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 16, 2020

I’ve been asked this question a bunch in the last few weeks in response to my post about more diversity on Boards. A Company should have a Board the day it is formed. The Board should contain one Founder (or possibly two) and at least two independent Directors. My answer to this question is simple.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 16, 2014

I am there, along with other investors and board members to audit their thinking--to make sure they were considerate about the plans *they* came up with, not me. That does not mean telling them how to run the company, but to help them create a management discipline--a framework for thinking about problems and solutions.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Earlier this year, 15 top U.S. universities joined forces to launch a one-stop shop where corporations and startups can discover and license patents.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). This post is part of my ongoing series exploring lessons from Jim Collins’s book, BE 2.0 The Challenge of Seeing the Truth In BE 2.0, Jim Collins makes a powerful observation: the most successful organizations don’t stagnatethey continuously self-correct.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

March 18, 2025) Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved the creation of the Next New Jersey Program – AI and the AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. It’s not an “entrepreneurship manual&# but it will broaden your thinking nonetheless. American Pastoral by Philip Roth.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 23, 2024

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA (Ben Franklin CNP) is pleased to announce the appointment of Angie Singer Keating to its Board of Directors as President. Her thought leadership extends to her role as the former board president of i-SIGMA, the International Secure Information Governance and Management Association.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Image provided by Marc Randolph Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. link] Today’s guest is Marc Randolph, the Co-Founder of Netflix who has had an entrepreneurship career that spans four decades. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 1, 2025

He understands the emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship—finding product-market fit, scaling a team, securing key customers, and all the strategic decisions in between. We couldn’t be more excited to have Tyler on board. But what truly sets Tyler apart is his extraordinary skill in sales. Welcome to YC, Tyler!

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Entrepreneurship is a very personal endeavor. Perhaps if we spend more time talking about board participation, counseling entrepreneurs on decisions, helping them solve problems and working hard to recruit people, the type of people who apply to the job might change. At least, that's how a lot of entrepreneurs feel. So what gives?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 15, 2020

And I am not saying that VCs will stop traveling to attend board meetings. So let’s stop worrying about Silicon Valley, it will be fine, and start celebrating the rise of tech entrepreneurship everywhere. I am not saying that founders will stop traveling to raise money, although I think that may stick post-pandemic.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Hans Tung, Managing Partner at Notable Capital and a new board member of Parafi n , shares what made the startup an attractive investment. The post Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today.

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Source Link

JANUARY 29, 2022

University entrepreneurship and innovation centers that partner with the community to provide tools, facilities and education to local business owners. There are a lot of misconceptions of what sort of registrations and licensing are required, and that probably deters a lot of people from ‘jumping in’ to entrepreneurship.

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The Seraf Compass

JANUARY 19, 2022

Liz Leahy is the Founding Partner of Purple Sage Ventures, Board Member of the Columbia Business School Lang Entrepreneurship Center and Chairperson of the Georgetown Angel Investor Network (GAIN). This profile is the third in a series of interviews highlighting the work of interesting female investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2024

As I grow into my new role as EO’s Global Board Chair , I begin by looking back on my entrepreneurial journey over the past decade and see now, with the benefit of hindsight, how my understanding and approach to leadership have drastically evolved. Or as one of my EO Board Chair predecessors, Marc Stockli, once wrote, as a Leader’s Leader.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Harding remains a board member and an integral executive team member. The post LUUM’s Eyelash Extension Innovation Garners $30M Series A Round appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2012

It’s why I teach entrepreneurship at Fordham University and why I find the job of being a venture capitalist so rewarding. I got a term sheet out less than 100 days into the job and was lucky enough to get to work with my friend Rob May as a Board Member for my first investment, Backupify.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

In conjunction with the funding, Mercury also announced an expansion of its board of directors, including the appointment of four new members. Billion Fueled by Powerful One Banking Account Model appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today. The post Mercurys $300M Series C Doubles Valuation to $3.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Entrepreneurship can be a lonely and stressful journey. Contributed by Jamie Pujara , EO’s Global Board Chair and a member of EO Kenya. A huge life change, whether the happiness of welcoming a new child to the family or heartbreak over the end of a relationship, can jolt us into feeling constantly overwhelmed.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

I also think startup boards need to evolve. There should be many more independent directors and many fewer investor directors on startup boards. Investors should be more open to observer seats and founders should have more say in which investors sit on their boards. I think independent control is the most sustainable solution.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 21, 2025

Now, with Flourish Ventures on board, we are laying the foundation for global expansion. Ameya Upadhyay, an investor who joined MoneyHashs board of directors, adds, MoneyHash has built a must-have product for enterprises that delivers better payment performance and higher margins from day one.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. I blog on entrepreneurship & VC precisely because entrepreneurs and other VCs are my customers. I’m told she just signed with one who will be on-boarded soon.

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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. We used to chat a fair amount via our respective blogs about management and entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

10 tips for running effective board meetings. A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on TechCrunch about how to run a successful board meeting. Since then, I’ve been asked one question over and over: What does a good board update actually look like? Learn who your board members are and find out which other boards they’ve served on.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

About a year and a half after starting my business, I joined EO and was quickly invited onto the board of directors where I sat with a woman who is so unapologetically herself. Let’s keep our focus on the end goal, which is to get 50–50 equality in entrepreneurship and pave the way for our children and future generations of leaders.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a nation we know the benefits of encouraging entrepreneurship across backgrounds: Entrepreneurs create jobs, spark innovation and allow us to maintain our position as the most competitive nation on the planet. Initially, my board, which is all white and male, didn’t understand this market and was a bit cautious.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Fei-Fei Li, AI pioneer, and Nimble Board Director, describes how Nimble’s technology will transform FedEx’s operations and other companies in the future. “By The post AI Robotics Fulfillment Company Nimble gains FedEx as an Investor and Strategic Client appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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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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