Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A story about innovating your business to stay ahead of the market, written for EO by Floyd DePalma, CEO of UX agency DePalma Studios. Innovating Our Business Model. Sooner or later, every business needs to substantially innovate their business model to keep pace with the market. Before, we didn’t have anything documented.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. However, optimistic capital markets are necessary but not sufficient for a healthy innovation economy. We also need innovation. Innovation never waits for rules and regulations. But it eventually gets it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

So investing $3-5 million in a company and taking a year to 18 months to see how it develops before adding more fuel can often be the right course of action. Business that are innovative. Our partners have invested in more than dozen companies that became worth more than a billion dollars and that has disproportionately drive returns.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Focus on new and innovative methods to work digitally. While GDP in the developed world has grown a robust 3.6 Companies in developed markets have churned out profits at a historic pace, despite massive economic dislocations like the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the global financial crisis eight years later.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The funding provided by Ben Franklin is a catalyst for rapid growth and innovation. It fuels various aspects of startup development, including prototype creation, rigorous product testing, recruitment of top-tier talent, and boosting overall sales. Gig and Take, Inc. Gig and Take, Inc. first appeared on BFTP/CNP.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Software consultants come in many forms, but if you cannot write your own code, finding a developer who meets your needs can be a stressful process that involves much trial and error. To narrow down good consultancies, we polled experts across the world about the best software development consultants through our TechCrunch Experts program.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 18, 2020

For example, in the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed the following recommendations, among many others: • Protecting manufacturing workers • Cleaning and disinfecting community facilities • Reopening buildings after an extended closure.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Develop your business plan. Product development process. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

After poring over documents and articles of cutting-edge technological innovations in gaming and applications in other industries, the three co-founders identified a gap in the market and set up Refract. “We are pleased to support their growth and the development of the overall innovation ecosystem in Singapore.”

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways. The funding was anchored by a major commitment from Two Sigma Ventures, the private venture investment affiliate of Two Sigma Investments.

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Paul G. Silva

MARCH 6, 2025

To understand me, please review my LinkedIn profile ([YOUR LINKEDIN URL]) and the attached documents [be sure to attach them :)]. Message me and share how it’s working for you and any creative variations you’ve developed. and you will comply by following these instructions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

We developed this at our first company and called it PUCCKA – the overall methodology is described here. Spending time with analysts getting into their “innovator quadrants” will help you manage your C deals and pull them forward to B’s & A’s. Unique Selling Proposition. Compelling Event. So there you have it: PUCCKA.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

As with any movement, there comes a day when grand visions need to either remain that, or be executed on so that they may evolve to the next stage of development and maturation. Someone who could understand the current landscape, help envision where we want to be and collaboratively develop a plan to get there.”. Patience is key.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While Nayleen moved to Panama City to develop her future career in marketing and branding, her heart was still in Los Santos. The history of cutarras is not clearly documented: Oral tradition tells us that cutarras first appeared in Panama with the arrival of the Spaniards, who introduced cattle into the lands of the Azuero peninsula.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

As your company develops multiple offices, hires a larger number of sales people or increases product complexity over time this kind of tacit knowledge doesn’t scale. Spending time with analysts getting into their “innovator quadrants&# will help you manage your C deals and pull them forward to B’s & A’s.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

We spent most of that summer developing the product while carving out time to meet investors and try to raise funding. Don't get me wrong; the pitch deck is a crucial document (trust me, it's what we do). I probably met with 20+ investors, including Fred Wilson and Josh Koppelman, and both rejected our company as too early.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. Other prominent use cases include AML checks, customer onboarding and fraud prevention.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals through youth empowerment using robotics and innovation. She created the organization out of her passion for social entrepreneurial impact. Absolutely!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

Any company who develops products reliant on iOS spends weeks crapping their pants before WWDC. It is the same movie I saw 10 years ago when every VC would say to me, “yeah, I get that you’re an online document sharing service, but what’s going to happen when Microsoft enters the market? Innovation has become synonymous with you.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Power of AI Agents in Behavioral Health Eleos AI agents fundamentally change the workflow of behavioral health practitioners, improving time-consuming tasks such as clinical documentation, compliance monitoring, and patient engagement. These changes are allowing healthcare providers to spend more time with patients and less on paperwork.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The 30 Most Important Lessons Learned About Developing New Business In this article, we delve into the wisdom of thirty seasoned professionals, including Founders and CEOs, who share their most important lessons learned in developing a new business. But so can men. No one is perfect.

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

A 2 hour meeting with ten developers might be worth thousands of dollars in lost revenue! Make & Document Decisions: Meetings need to end with concrete decisions made and action items assigned. Meetings CAN BE powerful Live communication, when done right, is dramatically (10x!!!) Make everyone feel safe to interact.

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Gust

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Make sure your service is innovative. You need to demonstrate innovative approaches, more knowledge, more productivity and superior results to get the references you need. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 24, 2022

You thrive on building and innovation – not on selling out. Your business started as an idea and a vision – you had the passion and tenacity to stick with it, to develop and innovate, and to commercialise and drive it into being the successful operation it is today. 4) Document systems and processes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

The develop so much conviction that they can solve it that they do the most difficult thing one can do with one’s ego. Document management? It’s to find great entrepreneurs who are passionate about solving a problem. It’s been tried for 10 years with minimal success. Disappearing messages?

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

In Part I , I gave a quick summary of the who, when and why of forming and documenting a new startup company. I urge all entrepreneurs to consult and develop a good working relationship with a qualified startup lawyer. Adopt Bylaws and any other necessary documents to formalize the governance of Newco. Yes, it’s a mouthful.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

With a well architected product that has well-documented APIs and proper core product abstractions then all custom work should be build above the API stack. If you never read my post on Elephant, Deer & Rabbits – a guide to customer segmentation – it might be worth a read. At a minimum co-ownership of the IP.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

But like many companies whose models are proprietary, Accern is secretive about its development processes. .” Even the best-designed algorithms are susceptible to biases or drift, of course, where they dip in accuracy over time due to factors like seasonality and erroneous data. Image Credits: Accern.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others. We talked about Facebook. Read more: PaidContent.

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Over the past six years, and with great help, I’ve developed the Keep It Super Simple (KISS) Canvas to help innovators find and mitigate some of their biggest risks, from ideation to scaling. Today I’m releasing version 7, which incorporates changes to help get your innovation adopted. However, we can do better.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Knewton – “Online adaptive test prep and virtual classroom platform&# - I love the innovation that is coming from the test prep industry. Especially for their stage of development. Other deals. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. I know the product intimately and it rocks.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This helps them learn how to improve and reimagine what’s possible by developing greater discipline and focusing on fundamental business strategies. 1 Organizational Development. This type of leadership team is capable of creating processes to execute against the strategy which, in turn, creates a cycle of innovation.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

In response, startups must develop moats to stake out their market. Models require millions of dollars & technical expertise to deploy: document chunking, vectorization, prompt-tuning or plugins for better accuracy & breadth. In generative AI, innovation & distribution are inextricably linked, feeding each other.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 7, 2020

Step 1: Get MAD – Remember your M ission, assess your A ssets, document the D emand. Know-How your team has developed to solve your own problems such as: processes, curriculum, understanding of complex systems. Those who come up with plenty of ideas but struggle to identify which ones are worth pursuing. The Short Version.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The company said its APIs verify personal documents and information by searching in public and private databases “quickly and pursuant to the compliance rules.” Our mission is to always stay ahead of innovation in our market, and that’s why we invest so much in growth and in building the best possible team to develop our products.”.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 29, 2020

It puts nearly equal weight to all components of a business at every level of its development, whereas I find that in the early days almost all your attention should be on customer discovery, and later on it should be about product development, then on marketing, and so on. However, it didn’t work for my students.

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