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8 Organizational Cultures Boost Output And Cut Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. 58 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2021, up 5 million since 2014. Measuring results in itself is not new. In the U.S., Freelancers now make up 36% of U.S.

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

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After all, Glossier’s founder and CEO Emily Weiss is very, very far from the first entrepreneur to profit off of our desire to look good. 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.

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