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Tech Companies Are Hiring Staff… Then Rescinding the Offers

Tech.Co

The Wall Street Journal reports that Twitter, for instance, has refused to take on new staff it previously offered jobs to. “My Mass Layoffs Taking Place. Rising inflation has deterred customers from purchasing products online and shares in Etsy, Shopify, Wayfair, and Poshmark all plummeted last month.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

It makes it easier to persuade others to join you, it alerts other angels & VCs that you’re a company to be on their radar screen, it helps potential customers know that you may be worth doing business with and it builds you up to announce other milestones down the line. That used to be the standard. They seldom scoop fundings.

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Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

Both Sides of the Table

He had 2 weeks’ cash left in the bank and was facing massive layoffs or potentially bankruptcy. But it got me thinking about how often entrepreneurs overplay their PR so I thought I’d try to offer some advice and how to play PR with VCs (or more broadly with customers or business development partners).

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Culture Counts in Every Business, Large or Small

Startup Professionals Musings

Perhaps a simpler way to think about culture is to think of it in terms of how an organization makes choices, how it develops its values, its ethics, how it trains, recognizes and rewards its associates, its spirit, and not to be overlooked, how it treats its customers - both internal and external. Employee turnover is extraordinary low.