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Giving Tuesday: How BoardEffect Is Giving Back to Nonprofits

Board Effect

The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most taxing years of our lifetimes. BoardEffect was founded in 2007 by a team of web developers that served nonprofits and educational institutions. This year, Giving Tuesday falls on December 1, 2020. You must apply by December 15, 2020, to receive the grant.

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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

2020 may have been a bad year for especially due to COVID-19 pandemic while to others, it was a great year. In the last few days of 2020, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and businesses what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- All in all, 2020 was a great year at Hill Law Firm. Thanks to Justin A.

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Pandemic Impact on the Gig Economy – Survey Reveals Key Insights 

The Startup Magazine

2020 was the year in which a global pandemic unleashed seismic shifts across all layers of society, most notably in the realm of employment. Contingent labor began seeing a decrease in hiring in February 2020. Full-time employee (FTE) hiring (measured by the unemployment rate) began to decrease a month later in March 2020.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Appirio is one such company that jumped on this trend way back in 2007 and has now built a significant company in that space. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Sequoia has financed them. Photo by thesaint.

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

March 30, 2020. Around 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis contributed to a recession that lasted through 2009. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Now, in 2020 our bodies are being attacked. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything.

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The Great Resignation is Accelerating: Here’s What You Should Do

Board Effect

Anthony Klotz, a professor at Texas A&M University, coined the term the Great Resignation, and it was so apropos that it caught on rapidly and globally. . The Great Recession hit in December of 2007 and ended two years later. There was an extremely short recession from February to April 2020, the shortest one ever.

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8 Ways To Leverage The “I Like To Watch” Ubertrend

ReadWriteStart

It’s a nod to the global popularity of YouTube, which announced this March that it reached 1 billion monthly users who watch some 6 billion hours of video each month. All these phenomena are part of an ubertrend I call Voyeurgasm – and it’s changing our lives and maybe even your future. The History Of Voyeurgasm.

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