Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A LOOK BACK I started my career as a programmer. If they are private we still have fig leaves that cover us because some rounds might raise debt vs. equity or might fund with terms like multiple liquidation preferences or full-ratchets or convertible notes with caps. What happened?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2021

On the other hand, entrepreneurs have a reputation for being one of the happiest and healthiest career paths around. Anxiety will be ratcheted up when team members see constantly changing or non-specific targets, or no guidance on how to achieve their goals. You will be the role model, and people will follow your lead.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2015

But even worse than the cost of recruiting someone new to fill the vacancy when a key employee leaves, there’s one big, looming worry that’s sure to ratchet your anxiety up to critical levels: “She knows everything!” Like it or not, employee mobility has just become a fact of life.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Such a team can also often do the work for you, which helps to ratchet-up your effectiveness. Thanks to Artur Meyster, Career Karma Inc. ! #20- In addition, the best antidote for a lack of motivation is building a very motivated team around you. A motivated team can help eliminate the all-to-natural desire to shirk. 14- Six tips.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

I would bet most of them can barely cut through the flow, and then they have to find the best deals and look over their shoulder for a larger VC who can pick off the deal, give the founder more money, and ratchet up the valuation in the process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

And that’s the idea of the portfolio career. And that's the idea of the portfolio career. And that one is unique amongst the eight in that it is very specifically geared towards the future of work that is itself in flux and kind of how we look at our professional identity in our overall career career development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized. It also helps ratchet down the pressure, since so many of the interruptions that plague the typical hacker are actually the same bugs recurring over and over. And its here that hackers fall down the most. December 9, 2008 2:18 PM Dan Khan said.

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