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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch LA

The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times. This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest.

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Musk Ends Remote Work At Twitter, Demands 40 Plus Hours At Office

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In more continuing turmoil at Twitter, new owner Elon Musk is reportedly ending the ability to work remotely at the social media company, and is demanding employees put in "at least" 40 hours in person at the office each week. The report--from Bloomberg--said that the new rules kick in immediately.

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10 Strategies For Success Long-Term As Well As Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. Get outside the company regularly to get feedback on future customer needs, emerging technologies, and the views of influencers and experts in the field. Explore partners and M&A to solidify your strategy.

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6 Keys To Growing Your Career Through The Gig Economy

Startup Professionals Musings

Then look ahead to assess the likelihood that your job could be eliminated with new technology, artificial intelligence, or robots. Every employee or entrepreneur needs to build a competitive reputation on the Internet, through a website, blog, LinkedIn profile, and social media. Market your business expertise.

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Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

Both Sides of the Table

He had 2 weeks’ cash left in the bank and was facing massive layoffs or potentially bankruptcy. Most notably you need to understand Earned Media and how blogging, public speaking and social media play an important role in the new PR landscape. Press doesn’t mean anything other than free advertising.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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