Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

By Violet Lim, CEO and Co-Founder at Lunch Actually Group. A version of this article originally appeared on Violet’s LinkedIn blog. Violet is a member of EO Singapore. The transition from one year to another seems like a perfect time to say thank you to these 10 women entrepreneurs whom I have had the pleasure of meeting and learning from. These are women who have fought against all odds, made a mark in the business world and crafted their own brands of leadership.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

When I moved back to the Bay Area in early 2011, the technology and startup sector didn’t feel as big or expansive as it does today. In that time, Twitter was just getting its sea legs, the Quora private beta was one of the hottest tickets in town, and TechCrunch was the de facto powerhouse in tech/startup media attention. During this time, when we didn’t really understand the stakes of what technology would hold for us all, it was relatively easy to know the investments made by the top VC funds

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Deskmag

JANUARY 13, 2019

Ever wondered what happens to all those student surveys, research papers and reports, PhD theses and books on the coworking sector? The Coworking Library runs a free and searchable interdisciplinary open online database gathering abstracts and other information about all the coworking research that has ever been published.

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FundersClub

JANUARY 15, 2019

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Coinbase announced its $300M Series E, led by Tiger Global, at a pre-money of $8B. Coinbase is a category-leading blockchain company. We invested at Seed, Series A, Series D, and Series E.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

By Manny Padda, the founder of New Avenue Capital and an EO Vancouver member. He was also the winner of the EO’s 2016 Global Citizen of the Year. A version of this article appeared in Fast Company. I’ve interviewed over 5,000 people from more than 35 countries in my career as an executive headhunter and investor. I’ve sought out CEOs, presidents, board directors and more for companies big and small, ranging from small startups to corporations with valuations in excess of US$10 billion, o

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2019

In 2015, I wrote about the trade-off facing vertical SaaS companies. Vertical SaaS companies focus their efforts on a particular group of customers. Procore targets construction with their software and Veeva targets pharmaceuticals with their CRM. This concentration limits the market size, but improves product market fit. Both of those businesses are now worth more than $3B.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2019

Here’s a question that should strike close to home. Professional investors like to quote this mantra to anyone who will listen. “Fail fast,” they say. But what if you believe so strongly in your budding enterprise that this seems to be the most ill-advised directive you’ve ever heard? So here are some rules that might make it clearer for you and for those who so easily quote the mantra.

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Entrepreneur - Entrepreneurs Category

JANUARY 14, 2019

How Jacob Dockery stitched together a successful t-shirt company.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2019

EO Ottawa member Huiping Zhang is the president and founder of Wintranslation , a translation company formed in 1998. Huiping launched the company as a one-woman operation and has grown it into an award-winning organization that provides translation and project management services for the technology sector and has unique offerings in Canada’s Indigenous languages.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2019

Here’s a question that should strike close to home. Professional investors like to quote this mantra to anyone who will listen. “Fail fast,” they say. But what if you believe so strongly in your budding enterprise that this seems to be the most ill-advised directive you’ve ever heard? So here are some rules that might make it clearer for you and for those who so easily quote the mantra.

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