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Accelerator Spotlight: I Have This Friend

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They can’t afford to spend 10% of their $100,000 salary on Interior Design Services alone, but they would certainly be willing and able to spend a few hundred dollars. The show has so many layers to it: politics, money, engineering, relationships, rivalries… It’s so fun now to follow all the F1 racing season live- I’m invested.

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Seed-Stage Startups: Beware the “Stickiness Squeeze”

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Startup salaries — especially on the engineering side — are at near record highs. In other words, while lots of things floated up with increasing frothiness they are going to be harder to drive down quickly the same way valuations and invested capital has collapsed in the last three months.