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Fisker Announces New Sub-$40,000 SUV

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Los Angeles-based electric car startup Fisker announced a brand new vehicle today, a sub-$40,000 SUV, promising that it will start shipping to customers in the second half of 2021. That company, Fisker Automotive, went through $1.4 billion in investor and government money before going bankrupt.

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8 Organizational Cultures Boost Output And Cut Costs

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The new era of highly connected and interactive technology is changing not only how business employees interact with customers, but also how they interact with each other, and with their company. I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. In the U.S.,

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low. .

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