American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2025

Next NJ Program and AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program will increase AI investment and catalyze groundbreaking research TRENTON, N.J. The AI Innovation Challenge Administration Grant Program will provide $3.8 For more information, including additional eligibility requirements, click here.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I was also part of the original New York Tech Meetup board and participated on it until last year. I offered to step aside to bring a few more faces onto the board last year. Now that there are four open spots, I’d like to return and I have a few specific things I’d like to accomplish. Thanks for listening.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

As a global talent acquisition leadership guru and expert on hiring diverse leadership teams, Debbie shares her insights on how to drive real change within your organization. Here are five essential blueprints every company can adhere to in order to diversify their leadership team. Get everyone on board with your WHY.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

I’m involved with a few boards where we have taken a position of revenue-centric spending. Focus on Growth and Innovation. For the future, focus on business model innovation. If your business has taken a beating given the sector that you are in, is it possible to innovate out of this crisis?

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Maria King’s governance career has focused on supporting and building innovative new businesses, so when she undertook the Institute of Directors ’ Advanced Directors Course (ADC) , she was delighted to see a section on startup governance included. Listen to Board Matters Season 3, Episode 2 to hear more from Maria King. Absolutely!”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2021

.” I don’t entirely agree with that and my experience with it has been different, but it brings up an incredibly important topic about leadership. I like to keep things simple and in my simple mind, leadership comes in two flavors, visionary leadership and operational leadership. It will be an incredible trip.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 25, 2025

Building Your Self-Correction Toolkit Based on Collins’s principles and my experience, here are tools to build self-correction into your leadership: 1. Learn More For more on building self-correction into your leadership, see Chapter 9 in BE 2.0, particularly pages 140-147 where Collins discusses the power of facing reality.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 19, 2022

Last year, after more than five years at the helm, Julie decided it was time to pass the baton to a new leader and she and I and a group of board members spent the fall talking to lots of people and we found a fantastic new leader named Jason Clark. We called it Tech:NYC and I first wrote about it here at AVC in March of 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2011

He said that when talking with the board and with investors he realized that he was no longer visionary in this particular field and certainly no longer passionate about it. hasn’t innovated, hasn’t led. When that happens it is no longer acceptable to be the founder on the board trying to reinvent yourself.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Companies can’t sustain their innovation after a founder leaves.” I have seen leadership teams take over great businesses from founders and get them to the next level. Etsy, where I am Chair of the Board and a large shareholder, is a great example of that. I’ve heard it called “moral leadership.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 13, 2020

In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. Here, he explains what an Innovation Stack is, plus what makes a real entrepreneur. . What is an Innovation Stack? If you succeed, you have an Innovation Stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane? She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us. Now they are partners.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2024

Thousands of member leaders give generously of their time and expertise to help EO connect, inspire, and propel entrepreneurs in their leadership journeys and help move the world forward. Winnie truly exemplifies the true spirit of servant leadership to which all members aspire.

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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 diverse background has equipped her with invaluable skills in project management, budget oversight, and team leadership.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 11, 2025

Our board chairman called me in for a conversation. My standing with the board didn’t just recoverit soared. Years later, that same chairman who delivered the tough feedback hired me to be his Chief Innovation Officer! His message was clear and direct: I wasn’t paying enough attention to our financials.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. When you pitched me I really did love you. everything.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 22, 2021

It includes people from across the country and even from overseas (such as myself), it includes people with different levels of tenure, and it includes members with varying levels of leadership experience. She wants to reconnect with members that she served with in volunteer leadership positions in past years. Anything goes?as

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

Travel to EO’s annual Global Leadership Conference (GLC), held in Singapore in 2024, featuring full immersion of Learn Arounds , and guest speakers Mo Gawdat and Chatri Sityodtong. Fast-track your leadership journey on the EO Path of Leadership. One of my first EO events was the Global Leadership Conference in Singapore.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I don’t think that Google would have become the success story we all know without the leadership of Eric Schmidt through the years he led the company. It seemed that Google was being out innovated by another Silicon Valley technical leader, Mark Zuckerberg. Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

And while my relationship with Chuck was critical to my investment, so too was the leadership of Trevor Templar , the Chief Revenue Officer. Part II, Market) The Enterprise Software market feels ripe for a massive shift and Tact has made big innovations at the forefront of the most important changes. Why Invest?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

This round is about seizing the opportunities ahead for our next phase of growth, including driving innovation with new products, exploring acquisitions, and ensuring long-term financial flexibility, said Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

But our board chairman asked a simple question: “Is filling out forms fun?” Check out Chapter 8, “Innovation,” section “Culture is Strategy,” page 124 of BE 2.0. It seemed logicalbetter matching would help entrepreneurs succeed, right? Learn More Want to dive deeper into culture as strategy?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

During my career — spanning entrepreneurship, academia, arts management and venture capital — I’ve learned the importance of female leadership in contributing to successful outcomes. Public companies with at least one female board member typically outperform companies with only male members. Hiring to improve results.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2021

You can build a brand, design a product and be the next great innovator, but if you’re not a pleasant and driven human being, what’s the point? Designate time to play Apples to Apples, Punderdome or Cards Against Humanity ( a company favorite, but certainly not appropriate for every work environment ) or other card or board games.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

Not only has the NYC ecosystem changed, but the whole ecosystem around early and seed investing has innovated. Here are five things that I think angel groups should take a look at, because I do think they can continue to play an active role going forward: 1) Industry Leadership. Are they members of the same food co-op or school board?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2023

We need to embrace and celebrate different leadership styles, perspectives, and approaches. This will not only make businesses more inclusive and innovative but also create a more just and equitable society overall. Finally, we need more women on boards and in leadership.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

He’s also a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sits on the boards of several startups, is a many-time entrepreneur himself, and was previously an exec at GE and Intel. At Stanford, you teach a class with Jeff Immelt called Systems Leadership. Many also struggle to build systematic management processes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 24, 2020

We asked Adrienne to tell us more about the MyEO Tasimba leadership experience. She reminds me daily to stay connected to all I learned about myself and the world during our MyEO trip into the Tasimba leadership experience. Since transitioning from an active management role at the firm, she continues to serve as a board member.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 27, 2020

A variety of backgrounds in your business means a variety of perspectives—which leads to unique innovations. McKinsey studies have also shown that companies with diverse leadership outperform their peers. A diverse and inclusive organization amplifies the number of potential hires—which means access to the most talented candidates.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Photo from Startup 815 IR – NEXT event | Image courtesy of Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation) Gyeonggi Center for Creative Economy & Innovation holds the ‘Startup 815 IR – NEXT’ event every month to discover early-stage startups and match them with investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

You’d think tech companies should be the paradigm of how to prep for leadership transitions, since they operate in such a constant state of flux. It’s best to record this history well before the intense swirl of a leadership transition begins. History is the mother of innovation for any type of company,” one respondent said.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. These are all creative processes. Strange, I know. So I thought I would.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Our global goal is to ignite women leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and future-preneurs to spark startups, drive economic expansion, and advance communities worldwide,” Milena shared. We’ve helped our portfolio companies with introductions with potential customers, board members, key employees, and advisors.”

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Startups that embrace inventiveness and creativity rise, and such innovation happens when leadership and teams unify in pursuit of a shared vision within a culture that highly values collaboration. Here are six ways to establish the foundation for collaboration and innovation within your startup: Establish a company mission.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Entertainers could be on tour, shooting a film, or recording an album.

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