Online Event
How to Build a Lasting Startup: 8 Principles of Business Longevity
Creating Sustainable and Scalable Ventures
Date
Jun 27, 2025
Time
12:00 pm - 01:00 pm
Address
Online Event
Do you have a startup, or a strong idea for a startup? On this live and interactive online event you can learn how to build a long lasting startup from a successful entrepreneur, professor and author: Neri Karra Sillaman. In this session, she analyzes the eight core principles contributing to business longevity and shares real life examples from her journey. Register now!
What You'll Learn:
- How to plan, commit and start your entrepreneurial journey
- What are the traits, principles of success
- How to create a lasting legacy
Featured Speaker:
- Neri Karra Sillaman - As an entrepreneur, author, and advisor, Neri's work focuses on the intersection of business longevity, resilience, and impact. Her new book, Pioneers: 8 Principles of Business Longevity from Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Wiley, 2025), explores the unique insights immigrant founders bring to building businesses that stand the test of time, offering a fresh lens on leadership and sustainability.
A former child refugee, she has built a global luxury leather goods brand, Neri Karra, which continues to partner with leading luxury brands - now in its 25th year. Neri is now dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and established leaders navigate today’s complex business environment with creativity and purpose.
In her role as an Adjunct Professor, and Entrepreneurship Expert at the University of Oxford, Neri guides students and executives in transforming their ventures, focusing on resilience, adaptability, and ethical growth.
Neri is driven by a deep curiosity about what makes businesses last, how cultural diversity fuels innovation, and how purpose-driven strategies lead to impactful, lasting results. Her goal is to inspire leaders to build not just successful businesses, but meaningful ones that contribute to a better world.
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The Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Since 2009, our structured accelerator programs have helped over 7,000 entrepreneurs raise over $1.75BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 100 countries, our mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.
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