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October 13, 2015

Business Growth from the Ground Up

Running a successful business brings with it plenty of challenges, especially if your company revolves around a single product or service. For Angela Santiago, an EO Edmonton member and CEO of The Little Potato Company, maximizing passion, staying productive and setting boundaries goes a long way toward generating business growth from the ground up. What

October 13, 2015

#WOMENtrepreneurs: The Mother of All Disruptions

By Silka Gonzalez, an EO South Florida member and CEO of Enterprise Risk Management, Inc. I have a secret to share: I find the concept of disruption, disruptive ideas and trying to be the disruptor (and not the disrupted) extremely fascinating. For as long as I can remember, I’ve thought of “disruption” as a bad

October 12, 2015

EO at the Forbes Under 30 Summit: Top Lessons Learned

By Jacqueline Gellner, Marketing Manager at Entrepreneurs' Organization EO staffer provides her insight and top lessons learned after representing EO at Forbes Under 30 Summit earlier this week, with a special focus on #WOMENtrepreneurs... Earlier this week, nearly 2,000 of the world's best and brightest twenty-somethings convened in Philadelphia for Forbes' second annual Under 30 Summit,

October 9, 2015

Fight On

By Yogi Naraine, special to Octane Blog It’s 7 a.m., Saturday morning. My alarm goes off, waking me from another restless sleep. That means I need to hustle to make sure I’m working by 8:30 a.m., 9 a.m. at the latest. I’ve had this routine now for three years straight. I work six days a

October 8, 2015

Balancing the Babies

By Jen Sterling, an EO DC member and Chief Red Head at Red Thinking LLC Female business owners have challenges that men don’t have. This isn’t a sexist, feminist rant. It’s just simple biology. Women have babies— beautiful, new beings that demand and deserve all that you can give. Some women also have other “babies”