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

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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. The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e

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Equity Investment Platform Preparation Best Practices

Startup Professionals Musings

But they can otherwise save you much time and effort, and are also safer and more productive than the old-fashioned approach of broadcast emailing or cold-calling every investor you can find in online directories, or responding to the risky spam offers you get for funding on social media.

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

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Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. Glossier founder Emily Weiss speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018 Image Credits: TechCrunch. Please stop using the word Girlboss thank you. It’s not a compliment.

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Interpersonal Skills Are Still Key to Team Engagement

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, while social media exchanges are now quick and simple, they miss all the body language and emotion that many believe constitute more than fifty percent of human relations and communication. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/19/2018. Isolation leads to a lack of relationship or connection with others.

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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

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Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. We worked on it from May 2018 up until December, and built the first machine on December 13th, and built our first five machines to test with providers for a pilot project.

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7 Strategies To Avoid the Curse of Business-As-Usual

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I still find businesses asking you to print, sign, and return documents by mail in lieu of digital signatures or email. Make sure your channels are open and responsive, through social media, websites, and easy access to executives. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/25/2018.

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10 Business Constants Flourish In This Age Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Today there are many more ways to make contact, including email, social media, and web site queries, yet a common complaint I still hear is that no one ever responds. Marty Zwilling First published on CayenneConsulting on 11/19/2018. No one wants to hear that you are too busy for them.