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5 Critical Steps to Solving Your Business Problems for Good

8 July, 2019

Written for EO by Todd Smart, an experienced entrepreneur, the co-founder at Traction^® Tools and an EO member since 1992.

Are you a small business entrepreneur whose leadership team lacks cohesion or focus? Or maybe you’re running a start-up that can’t reach your next revenue goal? Is your company’s leadership team constantly seeing the same issues popping up?

You’re not alone! But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are best practices you can put into place to solve your toughest business problems—and solve them for good.

Ready to quit solving and re-solving the problems in your company? Follow these five steps and you’ll see a lasting change that can help take your company to the next level of growth.

Categories: general

Tags: Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS) start-up Todd Smart Traction® Tools

Best Countries in Asia-Pacific for Startups

26 June, 2019

Have you ever wondered where you’d have the best chance at start-up success in the APAC region? Researchers at ValueChampion analyzed publically available economic data—including the cost of doing business, business environment and quality of labor force—in order to rank the top 12 countries for entrepreneurs. The original article appeared on ValueChampion’s blog here.

The top countries for startups in Asia-Pacific have strong economies, low costs of doing business, healthy business environments and well-educated people. We used publicly available data to score countries based on their rank across these categories.

Categories: general STARTUP

Tags: APAC Asia-Pacific start-up startup valuechampion

The Secret to Growing a Great Team Around You

12 December, 2018

Written for EO by Gareth Williams, founder of YellowDog.

When you launch a business on your own, you don’t need to worry about anyone’s performance apart from your own. As your business grows, you recruit talent to work with you. You make key hires and start building your team. But that’s just the beginning.

How do you assess how your new team members are performing without relying solely on KPIs? How can you develop the right personal development plans for your people? How can you be confident that when you’re delegating responsibility, it is to the right person? How can you be sure that they are ready to rise to the challenge?

Categories: LEADERSHIP

Tags: 9 Box Talent Grid delegation Gareth Williams hiring performance start-up team building YellowDog

5 Lessons I Learned as a Start-up Entrepreneur—That You Don’t Have To

28 September, 2018

Written for EO by Will Dugdale, CTO and co-founder at Zipcube.

The only fact you can reliably say about being a start-up entrepreneur is that you will be surprised, regularly, by things you have not—and could not—anticipate.

As a CTO of an e-commerce, I have discovered many things that would have been useful to know earlier in my journey. Some of these are technical—concerning code and architecture—but most of these lessons concern people who you work with, and rely on, every day.

Categories: STARTUP

Tags: lessons learned start-up start-up entrepeneur startup entrepreneur Will Dugdale Zipcube

In My Words: Aaron Lee on How EO Accelerator Altered His Journey

22 December, 2017

Aaron Lee is the CEO and founder of iluma Agency (formerly Illuminati Studios) and joined EO South Florida in 2011.

I joined EO Accelerator in 2009, when I owned a business and my business owned me. I had been bumping up against the growth ceiling for 10 years and needed to understand why I was in business.

In the summer of 2010, just after graduating into EO, I was standing on a cliff enjoying the amazing view in Positano, Italy, when it hit me. Until then, my business plan was best summed up as, “Don’t go out of business.”

Categories: Coaching Entrepreneurial Journey FINANCES Inspirational Lessons Learned

Tags: Aaron Lee EO Accelerator first-stage entrepreneur Illuminati Studios Iluma Agency start-up startup

10 Steps to Increase the Odds of a Successful Angel or Seed Fundraising Round

8 December, 2017

By Murray Indick and Kate Tyler

Starting a business is incredibly hard. You need a great idea—ideally one that is disruptive and will scale and that you care about passionately. You need to recruit an amazing team, and ideally, have co-founders you trust and respect. And for those not blessed with inherited wealth, you need money.

Many entrepreneurs confide that raising capital is their hardest task. They delay and delay any approach to the capital markets for as long as possible. We understand. Most investors reject the opportunity to invest and being told “no” hurts.

Categories: Coaching FINANCES general Networking

Tags: financing investor Kate Tyler Murray Indick start-up

Three Signs Your Start-Up will Catch the Eye of Venture Capitalists

20 January, 2016

Not every entrepreneur who builds a business from the ground up plans to “sell out” to venture capitalists and walk away. But once some of them see that long string of zeros at the bottom of a term sheet, they follow that route.

Categories: FINANCES general Guest contributors LEADERSHIP Legacy Sales

Tags: #eolooksforward Cameron Johnson market appeal maturity selling your business start-up venture capitalists

Three Bad Habits for Start-Ups to Break NOW

15 September, 2015

The following post was written by Suhail G. Algosaibi, EO Bahrain member:

In the last decade or so since I’ve started mentoring, I’ve met a very large range of start-up entrepreneurs, from the extremely impressive to the…well, less impressive. I want to share some of the common traits I’ve noticed in entrepreneurs that fail in their businesses, so that you can avoid these pitfalls. It’s worth pointing out that while good habits and behaviors are vitally important, a startup can do all the right things and still fail. Although we all take this risk, here are three habits to avoid when launching your start-up:

Categories: Best Practices FINANCES general Goal Setting Guest contributors Inspirational Lessons Learned Productivity

Tags: bad habits creativity discipline start-up Suhail Algosaibi

Keep Startup Pitches Simple, Stupid

17 September, 2012

By Javier Espinoza, recently featured on the Wall Street Journal

Entrepreneurs looking to impress potential investors should make sure they can explain their business to outsiders in a snappy and clear way.

That’s advice from Gonzalo Martin-Villa, the chief executive of Telefonica Digital’s start-up accelerator Wayra, who was speaking during the WSJ Tech Café in London.

His company helps entrepreneurs bring ideas to reality during the early stages of the project. It was launched one year ago and now funds 172 projects in 11 different countries in Latin America and Europe where Telefónica has offices. It grants $50,000, office space and mentors to help their business grow.

Here’s what he thinks makes a good pitch:

Categories: FINANCES general

Tags: start-up tips

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