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25 Lessons In 25 Years: Tips for Success from a Self-Made Beauty Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Manage All of Your Crazy Ideas and Review Them Each Quarter Like most entrepreneurs, I have no shortage of ideas. It’s frustrating when I see entrepreneurs jump on the same old business bandwagon with no real positioning as to how their company is different from the rest. How will this affect our team and culture? .

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

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I even prefer to fund entrepreneurs who have experience some level of set-backs in their careers or startups because I think it brings a humility to decision-making that I find healthy. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. And it changed the culture. It was nobody’s fault.

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When good things happen to good people: SinglePlatform acquired by Constant Contact

This is going to be BIG.

When I asked him to come share his sales and company culture expertise at GA, he was on it--right in the middle of acquisition negotiations. You don't just get the entrepreneur--you get the team he puts in a position to succeed. He's also the kind of guy that volunteers at a summer camp for kids who have lost parents.

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From ideation to accolades in 10 months: An EO Accelerator’s successful pivot

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Annie Cheng is active in the Seattle chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ‘s Accelerator programme, which empowers entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow their businesses. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

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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. Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. It was an “enterprise 2.0” And don’t just trust me.

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Elevate Your Events: 7 Insider Secrets from Industry Pros  

Entrepreneurs' Organization

.” — Denise Vitola, VP of Brand Integration at Bayer, Episode 66 Stay open for the next great idea “My advice to all entrepreneurs out there: You cannot live in your little bubble; you need to be out there experiencing things. For more insights and inspiration from today’s leading entrepreneurs, check out EO on Inc.