Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Written for EO by Vikram Ahuja. Ahuja is a serial entrepreneur, co-founder at X10 and founder of Byond Travel. He is also a member of EO Bangalore. At the 2019 Web Summit , Ahuja joined a delegation of 16 EO members from 11 countries to lead workshops and speed mentoring sessions. As a Web Summit speaker, he presented on the rise of the “2nd City Office.” Read on for his perspective on the problem of finding talent. .

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Venture Well

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Creating a business model that allows you to transition to scale is particularly difficult in a low-resource environment. Here's how D-Tree succeeded. The post innovating for low-resource settings: learnings from the d-tree international experience appeared first on VentureWell.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

By Elise Kemp. Corruption is a concept that may be familiar to many, especially in Latin America. There are often campaigns for anti-corruption reforms in government, businesses publicly fighting against corrupt competitors, and protests blocking roads to advocate for anti-corruption. Source: transparency.org, Perceptions of corruption survey. It is a common sentiment: Corruption hurts people, and no one wants a corrupt government or a corrupt organization.

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500

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Guest Post: Rishika Jhamb is the Marketing Lead at Alluva. Under no circumstances should any of the below content be construed as legal, tax or investment advice from 500 Startups or any of its affiliates. Alluva at 500 Startups: What it was really like being a part of Batch 25 In March of 2019, Alluva was accepted into Batch 25 of 500 Startups. As part of the founding team at Alluva, my thoughts ranged from excitement at the incredible learning opportunity to worry about how challenging 500’s b

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Back in March 2009, USV hosted an event called Hacking Education. It was the beginning of our effort to invest in the transformation of the education sector. A few weeks ago, USV held its annual meeting, roughly 15 years after we closed our first fund. And our partner Rebecca gave a presentation on our eduction portfolio, which is now one of the strongest parts of our entire portfolio.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

By Elise Kemp. This November, the United Nations honors the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This day recognizes and celebrates the declaration passed by the U.N. General Assembly in 1993. Violence against women is defined as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in pub

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Venture Well

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Bonolo Mathekga of drizzle developed a device that can be used in low-resourced regions to diagnose tuberculosis in individuals. The post reducing the spread of tuberculosis: q&a with bonolo mathekga of e-team, drizzle appeared first on VentureWell.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Our portfolio company Duolingo was the subject of a funny skit on SNL a few weeks ago.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Picture this: your business is expanding and it’s time to hire your first round of employees. Congrats, that’s quite a milestone! All you need to do now is . fill out the right business forms, . draft role descriptions, . create a job application, . find great candidates, . review resumes, have them fill out all the necessary paperwork, and . make sure you have a strong company culture for them to enter into. .

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UBI Global

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Welcome back after an amazing, action-packed World Incubation Summit 2019! This article is a recap of the WIS19 events that includes the top Tweets, inside stories, and descriptions of the superstar speakers that joined us during the summit. Even if you weren’t with us in Doha for the WIS19, you will appreciate this interesting overview […].

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The Startup Blog Market Brief

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Swing Education has raised $23 million in venture capital funding to-date. The ed-tech company's co-founder shares the secrets of his pitch. The post 5 Elements of a Pitch Deck That Will Lead Your Company to New VC Investment appeared first on Market Brief.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When I was a young associate in a VC firm in my mid 20s, one of the partners told me I should get an annual physical every year and if I did it in the fall, I should get a flu shot while I was having my physical. I have done that every year since and this afternoon I will spend an hour with my doctor getting poked and prodded and a needle in my upper arm with whatever mixture of flu vaccine they are giving out this year.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In the summer of 2018, Qi Lu joined Y Combinator to help create YC China, a localized version of our U.S. program. As we worked to establish YC China, we had a change in leadership. With this, our strategy changed back to our tried and true approach of supporting local and international startups from our headquarters in Silicon Valley. As a result, we decided that now is not the right time to run a new, country-specific version of Y Combinator.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

There’s no denying that excellent customer service can be the key to customer retention. Across the globe, 96% of consumers say customer service is an important factor in their choice of brand loyalty. However, so many companies are doing it wrong. Either they don’t have the time or money to invest in proper customer service, or they don’t realize how much of an impact it can have. .

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

By Scott Meacham. When Younghwa “Henry” Shin, Ph.D., a co-founder and CEO of Excitant Therapeutics entered graduate school at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), his interest was neuroscience. Then, during a year of rotation structured to give students a taste of different projects and specialties, he was assigned to Dr. Jian-Xing (Jay) Ma’s lab in physiology that was doing eye research.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

DUBOIS, PA – In the past eight years more than 200 teams have graduated from Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerato r Startup Boot Camps. These teams turned their ideas, many of which were based on Penn State technology, into successful tech startups. Partnering with Penn State Dubois and the North Central PA Launchbox, Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerator @Dubois, is inviting local entrepreneurs, grad-students, professors, and university researchers to participate in the next 10-Week Business Startup Boot Camp.

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Forward Cities

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Password Protected. To view this protected post, enter the password below: Password: Submit. The post Protected: Solution Stories: The Bold Experiment of the Community Entrepreneurship Accelerator appeared first on Forward Cities.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

“Why books, Jodi?” . “Why not books, Ramon?”. There is money to be made in books! Jodi Rosenbaum, Founder and Executive Director of More Than Words , says they are selling them to the tune of $3.7 million a year. She says every book that they receive is in the hands of young people that they’re giving jobs to. Books are not going obsolete. “While there might be lots of ways to access great literature moving forward, we definitely know to be true that there is still money in books.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Should you hire an investment banker? And if so, who? The good news: even if you are a small company and can’t afford a banker, you can synthetically and cheaply replicate a banker. That’s part of the value proposition of an institutional VC; I have been the (unpaid) investment banker for many of my portfolio companies. . Here’s how to replicate a banker, even if you don’t have any relationships with potential investors: Hire a consultant to make your deck persuasive, thorough, and attractive,

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Often, we joke together as managers of companies or of people that our goal is “world domination” or “to crush the competition.” But no matter how stated, the primary goal of an enterprise is to make money. The three measures of progress. How do you measure progress toward such an undefined goal? We measure it by profit or revenue in dollars. But that is a number in a vacuum without at least two other measures: return on investment (ROI) and percentage of net profit to revenue.

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Forward Cities

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Password Protected. To view this protected post, enter the password below: Password: Submit. The post Protected: Building Change: The Bold Experiment of the Community Entrepreneurship Accelerator appeared first on Forward Cities.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Seth Godin has one of the biggest email newsletters in the world. However, Seth Godin doesn’t have much of a social media presence. What social networking activity he does has seemed to be mostly automated, reposting directly from his blog, and there wasn’t much custom content for social media platforms. Until one day, there was. And how we met Taylor. .

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As I like to say, Israel has a knack for turning “curses” into blessings, as Forbes mentions: “From challenging initial conditions–wilderness and desert, surrounded by hostile neighbors–Israelis have succeeded in developing a diversified and flourishing tech sector that is hardwired for entrepreneurial innovation.” Read up on Startup Nation’s Next Act: Becoming The World’s Open Innovation Valley as well as why Israel is set to become a 2020s tech powerhouse.

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The Seraf Compass

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

So if we can all agree that the team is the critical factor in company success, what else do we need to look at? We believe that market opportunity and product have a similar weighting in our company evaluation scale. For this article, I will give the nod to market opportunity and focus my questions to Christopher on what investors need to know when they evaluate a market.

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EntreWorks Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In today’s tight labor markets, communities around the US are starved for talent. Some places are so starved that they’ve created incentive programs to attract talented workers. Some years ago, several places in Kansas opted for free land as a potential talent magnet. Today’s incentives tend to be cash-based, either as direct payments or some form of alternative support such as student loan forgiveness in certain high-demand fields.

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