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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works. brb walking out.

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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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Los Angeles-based business transactions and dealroom service CapLinked has rounded up some new investors today, saying that it has added additional investors in its Series A funding. cloud software management deal room data capital venture caplinked' The firm earlier had announced investments from. READ MORE>>.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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In 2019, for example, Google reported its attrition rates of Black and Latinx talent — which indicate the rate at which employees leave on an annual basis — were higher than the national average. Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area – GeekWire.

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Menlo Ventures Karl Mehta Launches CodeForIndia.Org To Empower Citizens In India

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CFI is looking to enlist Indian-origin tech professionals, some who are software engineers from Microsoft, Google, eBay, VISA and Facebook among others to join other volunteers and organizations to give back to their community. Another great achievement already is a garbage and pothole reporting application dubbed Spotter.in.

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CapLinked Announces New Investors, Signs Up New Clients & Builds New Features

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CapLinked’s new investors include Conversion Capital , Inflection Ventures,The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA). The new funding brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to over $3 million. million in the Series A round.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. Otherwise, good luck!

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Lean on Your Networks When Making Early Hires

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Pitching one or two of your smartest friends and getting them to join your startup (or at least champion it) is crucial in those early days when nobody talented wants to join a no-name fledgling company with little to no funding. These people might be reporters, authors, VCs, philanthropists or board members of Fortune 500 companies.