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Hard Decisions Require Empathy

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He enacted a program to proactively offer payment holidays to customers in obviously “hit” industries like travel & entertainment. If your company can help with job search, or resume writing or providing references or calling other companies to tell them you did redundancies?—?you you should do all that you can. you should do it.

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How Valence Aims to Provide Better Access and Funding for Black Founders & Executives

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Personally I believe that to fund more people of color you need to put check-writing authority in their hands the same way that if you want to see more women funded you need more women GPs. in this video from the 2020 Upfront Summit. link] So things were going well for Valence in 2020, amazingly even in a pandemic.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

She created and launched an overall brand and a swim collection , then came the book deal ( “This is Not a Fashion Story: Taking Chances, Breaking Rules, and Being a Boss in the Big City” is expected out May 2020). Podfund , for example, writes checks sized between $25,000 to $50,000 to emerging podcasters.

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