Leadership Hacks to Take Your Business to the Next Level

By Brian Scudamore, an EO Vancouver member and founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? It would have been easy to spend my life as a Rubbish Boy. At 19, I started a junk-removal business called The Rubbish Boys to pay my university tuition. In only a few years, we had 11 employees and were pulling in half a million

November 23, 2015

How My Daughter and My Employees Gave Me Something to Fight For

My daughter and I have a tradition. Every week, we go out for sushi and visit the nearby bookstore. It might not sound like much, but being able to consistently share something that we both enjoy means the world to us. As the founder and CEO of a business, work keeps me very busy, so

November 23, 2015

TotalE Family – Recorded Reflections from a CEO

How does family influence your TotalE experience? Theresa Fette, CEO of Provident Trust Group and EO Las Vegas member, discusses the unexpected role family plays in her career: If you would like to submit a video to the Octane blog, email us! totalE from EO Network on Vimeo.

November 22, 2015

Five Rules on Transitioning From Business Birth to Rapid Growth

This article was written by JP Werlin, EO Seattle member and CEO and Co-Founder of PipelineDeals “Value.” Any business needs to constantly create it; the question becomes for whom and how. I sought to create value for my customers and employees first, before catering to shareholders and investors. My company, PipelineDeals, bootstrapped its first nine years

November 21, 2015

TotalE Experiences On Radiowaves

EO members Jeff Crilley and Joel Patterson recently held a short interview on The Jeff Crilley Show, a radio program in Dallas, where they both discussed the roles of business, family and community in their entrepreneurial journeys. Joel, in particular, discusses how "phantom equity" has influenced his employees, clients and the way he does

November 20, 2015

How to Speed Up Your Home or Office Wi-Fi

Joseph Steinberg, EO New York member, shares 11 tips on how you can speed up your Wi-Fi connection at your home or office! "I am often asked by people how they can improve the speed and range of their home and office Wi-Fi connections. So, here are 11 tips." Click here to view the full

November 20, 2015