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What To Do When Your Trusted Employees Defect To The Competition

YoungUpstarts

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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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

For example, it’s almost become routine for me (and I’m sure you can think of high profile CEO’s who do this often and on social media) to make big, lofty promises that are meaningful to the success of the business and to my team as individuals. I know that by saying something aloud, in public, I will do anything to avoid failure.

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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. Yes, you like hip-hop, “urban” clothing and “ ratchet television”, but all that sinks you deeper into stereotypes. Is that wrong? Does it hurt ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs? Is it human?

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

35:24) Andrew on what comes after social distancing. (39:27) And then, when COVID happened, we felt an obligation to see if our technology had any application there and went with it once we saw there was promise. And our core technology focuses on disabling sperm cells from getting close to the egg, and ultimately fertilize an egg.