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EO Members Reflect on Coaching GSEA Global Finalists for ‘Start It Up’ Season 3

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It allowed me to connect with and guide aspiring entrepreneurs from my region and interact with fellow mentors and students from around the globe, enriching my perspective and enhancing my mentorship skills.” — Ayush Bansal, EO Gurgaon “Being a GSEA coach takes the EO experience to a whole new level.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

Both Sides of the Table

Here’s how I break down the four quadrants (and I’ve put my definitions in here – not Covey’s). I founded a mentorship group called Launchpad LA. So I decided to create a mentorship organization where first time entrepreneurs could spend time with senior execs, seasoned entrepreneurs and VCs.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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What you want, however, is to increase the chance that such a founder winds up in your locale—that not only is it routine to find such a person, but there’s also a path for well meaning, aspirational folks just starting out their career to grow into that founder through learning, experience and mentorship.

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Why You Don’t Want to Miss the MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

They also want to make an impact on an EO member or Accelerator company not only with money but through mentorship, stewardship, strategy, connections, and resources to help accelerate the company’s vision. You’ll be surrounded by very knowledgeable EO member investors, and you’ll definitely learn from them.

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Founders must learn how to build and maintain circles of trust with investors

TechCrunch

Many VCs tout their mentorship and hands-on approach to founders, especially those who run early-stage startups. If anything, it’s quite the opposite — this new dynamic is forcing founders to be extremely selective about exactly who is sitting around their mentorship table. Share on Twitter. Having founded about.me

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

Both Sides of the Table

A few years ago I started a mentorship organization in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA now run by the uber talented Sam Teller. Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness (Tiger Moms & the true definition of success). Everybody lets their hair down (and certainly doesn’t wash it). And it’s very Haimish. Launchpad LA.

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