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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. Local politicians wanting to see local job creation rather than jobs at tech firms all migrating to San Francisco should be heartened.

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Tech That Can Make The Freelance Economy Sustainable

YoungUpstarts

They want platforms and services that automate hiring and retention while ensuring freelancers feel as supported as their full-time colleagues. Named to the Forbes’ “30 Under 30” and Debrett’s 500 lists, Johnston lives in San Francisco. Solutions like Alia are addressing real problems in the gig economy for freelancers.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it?

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., and I have a yard with a pool and a beautiful home for less than what I would pay for an equivalent-sized condo in San Francisco. Austin, TX.

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Why That $1 Million Doesn’t Always Mean Your Crowdfunding Campaign Was A Success

YoungUpstarts

We ultimately hired an agency since we decided the additional placements they would get would cover the cost of hiring them. In our case, some of the niche publications who reviewed us resulted in more tracked sales than big name tech publications like CNET.

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Out of the Crisis #15: Lenore Estrada on her SF New Deal, serving the hungry, and civic engagement

Startup Lessons Learned

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. Lenore Estrada : Hi, my name is Lenore Estrada.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., and I have a yard with a pool and a beautiful home for less than what I would pay for an equivalent-sized condo in San Francisco.