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

TechCrunch LA

Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an internal email obtained by Modern Retail. Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8

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will.i.am Launches His Own Wearable Smartband, The i.amPULS

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rolled out the new device at an industry conference for Salesforce.com, Dreamforce 2014. said the new device will also offer up a "intelligent personal assistant"--courtesy Nuance COmmunications--which will dictate text and emails, play music, post to social media, and more.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. billion email accounts. billion by 2014. 62% of adult US Internet users check or send email on a daily basis. Calls are changing but not dying.

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8 Organizational Cultures Boost Output And Cut Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. 58 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2021, up 5 million since 2014.

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Steve Beauregard

Tech.Co

For two plus decades, Steve has been a pillar of the LA startup community leading innovations in Internet, mobile, social media, app development, eCommerce, and now, digital currency technologies. In the early 90’s, Steve helped DIRECTV launch the first commercial satellite TV service in the US and Latin American.

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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. It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad. Please stop using the word Girlboss thank you.

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8 Work Trends Driven By New Ventures And Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

An increasing number of startups are adopting a BYOD policy, realizing that individuals have their own preferences in the way they access data, collect emails or ‘chat’ to colleagues. Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. 57 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2019, up 4 million since 2014.