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8 Strategies For Business Professionals To Stay Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor and advocate for entrepreneurs, I find myself almost always talking and writing about change. Work-life balance is not about equity, but about escape. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Networking relationships still drive most promotions, jobs, and new clients.

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8 Business Work Principles That Cannot Be Compromised

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor and advocate for entrepreneurs, I find myself almost always talking and writing about change. Work-life balance is not about equity, but about escape. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Networking relationships still drive most promotions, jobs, and new clients.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

The startup has already secured a seed investment from Maveron and CRV, TechCrunch has learned, and will receive another $150,000 in exchange for 7% equity upon entering YC next year. Podfund , for example, writes checks sized between $25,000 to $50,000 to emerging podcasters. million Series A led by Puma Private Equity, a U.K.-focused

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Some Things Haven’t Changed In The Business Workplace

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business advisor and advocate for entrepreneurs, I find myself almost always talking and writing about change. Work-life balance is not about equity, but about escape. If you are committed to devices, work is always at the top of the screen. Networking relationships still drive most promotions, jobs, and new clients.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2 I have a slightly different take on why I find it valuable.

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Biotech Roundup: ASCO, BIO, Drug Setbacks, Incubators & More

Xconomy

The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy. Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, just like her fellow black turtleneck wearer Steve Jobs, will get the big screen treatment.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

Tech Zulu Event

OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen. I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”.

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