Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending is back! I’m now the permanent host for TWiVC (until such time as they kick me off). Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf. The episode isn’t yet live but it should be in the morning (probably when you’re reading this) – you can find it here. Really!).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 10, 2021

Becoming a successful entrepreneur is all about working on and developing an entrepreneurial attitude by making certain shifts in the way that you think. Taking action is a key component of an entrepreneurial mindset. Taking action is a key component of an entrepreneurial mindset. For starters, productive entrepreneurs avoid overscheduling.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In EO, I get continuous exposure and access to the right information or right person at the right time.” The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) propels the world forward by empowering entrepreneurs with the community, tools, and support they need to unlock their full potential as they grow their businesses. And that access adds up to success.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. What areas are going to change? Reader beware.).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 20, 2020

A “fireside chinwag”: Walton suggests informal get togethers where staff connect on a personal level. The global coronavirus pandemic has forced a widespread shift to remote work. The impact on our families and careers has been significant. For all these reason and many more, we’re stressed! Many of us are burned out and disengaged.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2023

Peer-reviewed studies find clear associations between longer commuting times and lower job satisfaction, increased stress, and poorer mental health. Hybrid employees don’t hate the office — they hate commuting to it , surveys show, since commuting can take over an hour per day and cost several thousand dollars per year.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

All were backed based on the sole criteria that they had the potential to make my limited partners a lot of money. The diversity is the direct result of our mission—to build the most accessible venture capital fund in NY. I don’t require warm intros. I will back a wide variety of types of companies—everything from The Wing to Imagen.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 11, 2022

Emma Allen is active in the Charlotte, NC chapter of EO Accelerator , which empowers first-stage entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to catapult their business to the next level. EO staff member Cydney Melton asked Emma about her experience. In 2013, Allen went into business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

The truth is that each firm is different and there isn’t one standard but over the years I’ve talked with enough of my peers to get sense of how many firms work. For anything that would be considered a normal investment for the partnership most firms try to make sure every partner has seen the deal and has a chance to weigh in.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

I am not a lawyer nor can you use my advice for the basis for your application but I’d rather provide more public information to help you have the right conversations so please take this posting for what it is (and accept that I may have typos or inaccuracies, which I will amend if pointed out). Am I eligible for the PPP Loan?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I had to laugh a bit reading it. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

VCs constantly share cross fund information and are therefore always getting dialed into what is going on in the industry. Entrepreneurs need to share more information with each other. [if you're not old enough to get the reference between this image and the title you can click on the image for a prompter].

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Even before Covid, peer-reviewed research demonstrated that remote work improved productivity. Do bosses trust employees to be productive when working remotely? A recent Microsoft study found that 49 percent of managers of hybrid workers “struggle to trust employees to do their best work.” Not at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We use this try to draw some context that informs our funding decisions. For this year’s analysis we turned to our peers to gather their points-of-view on the state of the market. Every year at Upfront we try to analyze the venture markets. We try to look at the sources of capital, the valuations, exits and trends.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2021

Because of a phenomenon called “cognitive fluency,” meaning how easily we process information. The more effort it takes to process information, the more uncomfortable we feel about it and the more we dislike and distrust it. Reading the second sentence did not inspire such a strong reaction. The lazy brain. Our brains are lazy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” ” And even the venerable Fred Wilson weighed in with how people “ leading vs. following ” in funding rounds play different roles and have different skills. So there you have it.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

In that prior post, I had offered Y Combinator as a positive example, but I didn’t break down exactly why. This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Step 1: Find the best founders An uncomfortable truth about this work is that not all founders are created equal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

EO offered a multitude of informative events to help its members navigate the uncertainty of the situation. EO offered a multitude of informative events to help its members navigate the uncertainty of the situation. These ups and downs impact us deeply because we are so close to and personally invested in our businesses. Leaning In.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 9, 2021

People who grew up in marginalized groups are probably familiar with the difference, since they likely had to work much harder to receive the same level of education as many of their peers or to find networking opportunities that came more easily to others. So it is understandable if, at first, you think they mean the same thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

What does it mean for the purchasing process to be aligned? Well think of it this way – you have your sales process. You know exactly when you want to sell to this customer and presumably it’s this quarter! And with scarce resources it’s your job to decide which door this lead must go through – sales or marketing.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 30, 2011

When you pattern match, you can think quicker and more strategically versus when you need to process every single new piece of information from scratch, and writing helps build stories and structure into an otherwise chaotic world. Be a leader among peers, helping others succeed. Get a mentor. Write about it. Continuous improvement.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future. ” Your peer group is envious of your finally doing what they’ve always wanted to do but found it too hard to give up the golden paycheck and predictable future.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

Whether you're at a Plug and Play, Dogpatch, General Assembly or just hanging out in the lobby of an Ace Hotel, you're never that far from a peer group of startups in any big city. It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. Don't want to learn code? That's right--Indiana.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

When the partner hears all of the input he or she goes away to do more research, gather more information and get ready to face the doubters. Then they need to take all the input they received, mix it up, apply a framework for how the information affects your decision and decide. conviction > consensus. The same is true at startups.

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Gust

JUNE 1, 2014

Let’s look at what causes friction, and how to prevent it, resulting in productive feedback: Make your feedback “information”, not a judgment or evaluation. Getting feedback in front of your peers, or when you are rushing to meet a deadline, is embarrassing and prone to friction. Both of these modes are wrong, and non-productive.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The startup, based out of Cambridge, England, says it is building tooling that focuses on “autonomous agents, network infrastructure, and decentralised machine learning” that help enable communication and actions between AI applications, the idea being to make the work produced by them more actionable. and Europe). Using Fetch.ai

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peer-to-peer startup incubation transportation 98

Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With a curious mind, the leader will seek knowledge and understanding from a variety of sources including subordinates, peers, experts, and trusted advisors. Jackie Jenkins-Scott has more than three decades of experience in executive leadership positions in public health, higher education and corporate and non-profit governance.

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leadership peer-to-peer advice board 292

Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 28, 2016

As someone who’s dedicated her career to helping small-scale entrepreneurs grow their businesses, I’ve heard many skeptics say a business accelerator program is just a cover for startups looking to increase capital. On a personal level, giving entrepreneurs the support and resources to realize their potential is immensely valuable on many levels.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 13, 2020

One of my favorite jokes goes something like this: Whenever a new position opens up, and I have to sort through a stack of resumes, the first thing I do is take half of them at random and throw them away. I don’t want unlucky people working in this department. As with many good jokes, it’s funny because it has a nugget of truth to it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

With this media format, we can inform European customers about products in every part of the city without any carbon exhaustion. As a global network of successful entrepreneurs , EO is proud of its members’ commitment to doing business for good. He recently shared some of the changes and inventions his team has initiated. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Put simply — computers handle computation, storage and databases store & retrieve results and networks handle the movement of this information to different locations but in order for humans to “interact” with this digital world we need an entry point to “input” (i) information and a mechanism to interpret this information or “output” (o).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

Since Arrested Development is back I thought I’d resurrect Gob Bluth’s answer when he was told he needed a “business model” – he quickly figured out that he was missing one so he asked Starla, the Bluth company secretary, if she would be his business model. My take on his argument is this: 1. ” True.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. This will fail.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Interacting with coworkers and industry peers through social gatherings, mentorship programs, or online communities can also help you develop relationships that will benefit you professionally and personally. So, how can we minimize the impact of technology to promote more interpersonal connections?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2020

GS1 US, an information standards organization that helps brands identify their products for commerce, recently surveyed more than 500 entrepreneurs to identify best practices to achieve sustained success. Prioritizing accurate product information to support these channels is also critical to long-term growth.

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peer-to-peer mix-use consulting sustainability 174

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 22, 2020

A VC’s default is “no”, so without enough information to be convincing, it’s going to wind up being a pass. One of the most difficult conversations I have with founders is when they haven’t quite given me enough of a story for me to make a proper evaluation. You need to pick that sweet spot in the middle to talk about.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

What inspired you to invest in peer-to-peer marketplaces? Technology makes it easy to organize information and liquefy marketplaces. I’m always looking for new ways to innovate. With the success of Airbnb and Uber, I saw an opportunity to use my investments as a tool to make a return while moving society forward.”.

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