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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

ReadWriteStart

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Fully remote distributed companies used to be a rarity. Zoom, Slack, Trello, Jira, and Microsoft teams – are all suddenly household names. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. After a quick google it became clear that this was the name for our new agency. 2- A name that came to my mind. 1- Suggested by a friend.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Innovation is Becoming More Broadly Distributed. Name brand firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, and NEA had 4+ partners on the list. Perhaps similar to the rise of successful China focused investors, we’ll see a similar wave of Midas list investors that have focused specifically on Africa or some other emerging economy.

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5 Reasons That Successful Non-Profits Are A Challenge

Startup Professionals Musings

A common complaint from many non-profits is that both government and private funders would rather spend their dollars on ‘sexy’ causes such as children’s charities, cancer, and heart disease, rather than long-term causes like global warming and erasing hunger in Africa. distributed cash aid from $137.9 distributed cash aid from $63.9

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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5 Reality Checks On Running A Charitable Organization

Startup Professionals Musings

A common complaint from many non-profits is that both government and private funders would rather spend their dollars on ‘sexy’ causes such as children’s charities, cancer, and heart disease, rather than long-term causes like global warming and erasing hunger in Africa. distributed cash aid from $137.9 distributed cash aid from $63.9

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I had come across a guy from the US named Michael Rhattigan who had transfered from the Chicago office to a place called Sophia Antipolis in the south of France (mid way between Nice & Cannes). He introduced me to a senior guy from the “network solutions&# practice, a Dutchman named Valentijn Bonger.

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