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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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cascades explains Greg’s observations on what it takes for innovation of all kinds (political movements, cultural change, startups, re-orgs, etc.) Here are the key takeaways that I believe relate to startup / intrepreneurial innovators. 5 Reasons People Will Oppose You We innovators already believe. It doesn’t.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

From using voice analysis to identify behavioral health issues to streamlining physician documentation of patient interactions, startups have incorporated voice technology to improve the value and efficiency of care. Physicians spend hours each week documenting their patient interactions in the EHR.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

He realized his responsibility wasn’t “keep developing the product” but “build a successful business ready for investment.” ” This shift changed everything.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. You have seed rounds but you now have “pre-seed rounds.” We live in a hostile world and it’s now a tech-enabled hostile world.

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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. The company has the requisite experience and expertise in the sports medicine market to provide and support the electronic documentation that athletic trainers and their school need to be compliant with other medical providers. Gig and Take, Inc.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

million to fund product innovation and accelerate its growth in the markets that need board management tools the most. With the new investments, Middlesworth said they will now be able to fund more product innovations and accelerate their growth in markets that are in need of board management tools. Username or Email Address.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Earlier this week, I backed a photobook project on Kickstarter to document many of the artists who live there. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Oct 10, 2020 Innovation Upends Extrapolation: Urbanization. That project was funded and is over now. If you are reading this in email you can go here and watch the video.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Focus on new and innovative methods to work digitally. We realised that by thinking “agile” we were able to introduce it to almost every aspect of our business—whether it’s client communication, document control, data storage, more focused sales or better productivity from employees. Covid has been no different.

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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 :)]. At any time, if I think you are not playing the role of an advisory board member, I will say BOARD RULES! and you will comply by following these instructions.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2021

But we’ll get out of this pandemic because of people like the student entrepreneurs featured in this film: Innovators with big ideas who aren’t afraid to take risks. We’re grateful to GSEA for providing this wonderful platform and letting us document it.”. Foster: “That the future is bright.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

NASA has issued a new request for proposals from partners that would be able to help it supplement its own storytelling in new and innovative ways, including potentially through use of robotic camera systems, high-resolution and 360-degree video capture, immersive VR content and more.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

But the qualitative change lies elsewhere: in finding documents that I’ve forgotten about altogether, finding documents that I didn’t know I was looking for. This is why sites like Github are so important to innovation. What makes the system truly powerful is the way that it fosters private serendipity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company? ” Mark – doesn’t the acquiring company mostly care about the super innovative founders? So I thought I would. Chief Vesting Officers)?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Business that are innovative. Neither achieved the kind of growth rates associated with Silicon Valley but both grew significantly faster than traditional industries and both were innovative. I think we should encourage an entire generation to think about building startups. But my definition of the word is much broader.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?”. Product development process. Funding process.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

If Uber continues to grow and innovate this will be a storm in a teacup. Both companies are hugely innovative. They want us to store our documents. So the only thing that can be driving this all is that Uber has become un-liked for a period of time amongst the press. Facebook was there once. So was Microsoft.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2022

Looking for an innovative way to breathe new life into your existing content? You can even turn customer support documents (product use instructions, FAQ pages) into video slideshows. This method also works if you find that people are downloading your text documents but then failing to convert. . Video is the way of the future.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Given that convertible debt financing has become the de facto standard for small (<$1MM), early stage deals in recent years, I thought I would write a primer on the elements of a term sheet and definitive documents for entrepreneurs looking at the earliest stage financing rounds. Let’s take it from the top: Why convertible notes?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

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. What is the next major innovation. They risk little but of course knew better all along.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I am inspired by the constant innovation in our industry by First Round Capital like the Dorm Room Fund , their expansion to Philadelphia (I hope they also have a secret plot to replace Andy Reid while there), the exchange fund and other initiative. I don’t want to be on autopilot. I know, I’m weird.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. it’s won by how you innovate and by how you execute. Competition isn’t won or lost by your marketing decks?—?it’s

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

So one of the smartest things we did at Salesforce.com was run “city tours” which were basically our existing customers standing up and talking about how they were using our products plus our product management teams talking about future innovation / development. So there you have it: PUCCKA.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 18, 2020

This document should identify potential sources of coronavirus infection (both inside and outside the workplace), assess workers’ risk factors, follow government recommendations and clearly lay out steps for limiting the risk of exposure.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

Don't get me wrong; the pitch deck is a crucial document (trust me, it's what we do). In November 2012 Caya was selected as one of 40-Under-40 Costa Rican innovators, and he was a featured speaker on the 2013 TEDx PuraVida Conference. It was deemed by Techcrunch and CNN as 'The Next Angry Birds' and was downloaded over 300,000 times.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Through a blend of agile methodologies, data-driven decision-making, and a desire to continually improve, our organization has unlocked unbounded potential, fostering growth, innovation, and a company we love to work both in and on. As a result, it opens up opportunities for growth, innovation, adaptability, and a strong culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

The one thing I learned as a consultant (I worked at Accenture for 9 years in my 20’s) and working with bankers doing M&A transactions is that no matter how hard we worked there was always a lawyer who got handed the documents at 2am and had to turn them around by 8am in the morning. So I give them the benefit of the doubt.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 11, 2020

We decided to leverage the assets that we had at our disposal, take a break from trying to sell to people and create a document of all the things we really wanted the people around us to see. This document was written during the first week of the 21-day lockdown in South Africa. The result was the Finding North (Again) report.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

So one of the smartest things we did at Salesforce.com was run “city tours&# which were basically our existing customers standing up and talking about how they were using our products plus our product management teams talking about future innovation / development. I sometimes find it funny since 73.6%

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a environment that is constantly innovating, the best ones realize that they have to out-execute the next firm with a higher quality product if they're going to stay in business. Some VC partners might be a little far removed from it these days, but there was a time when they were going around with a plan and a Powerpoint just like you.

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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. Continuing my medical analogy from Part I, the documents are like powerful prescription medications and your lawyer plays the role of the physician. Appoint Newco’s initial Board of Directors. Yes, it’s a mouthful.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

“Accern’s enterprise focus is to accelerate innovation by providing organizations with … models that enable them to more efficiently transform their unstructured data into real business intelligence — while cutting down on time and costs,” Aroomoogan said. ” Accern has raised $20 million in capital to date.

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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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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 11, 2019

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. Santé Cutarras became the first brand to innovate the national shoes of her country. The Cutarras of Panama ).

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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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