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Many Startups Stumble on International Cultures

Startup Professionals Musings

I counseled the department manager against hiring since she would be subject to personal challenges in selling to our partners in Latin countries. Unfortunately my prediction turned out to be true, she felt harassed by one or more of our business partners and left the group shortly thereafter. HR rules are local.

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

Now he is on the leading edge of infectious disease research at the University of California, San Diego, and has been a leader in the civic response to the pandemic. Robert Schooley : I'm Robert Turner Schooley, professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego. His answer; pretty much all of them. so we know who has it.