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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

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Non-competes are contracts between employers and employees that prohibit employees from leaving to join competing companies, often for a specific period of time. Non-solicits are the same, but prohibit former employees from recruiting others they may have worked with at a given company to join them at a new company.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. North Dakota. South Carolina. South Dakota. North Dakota. South Carolina.