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Why Small Community Lenders Have Your Back

Up and Running

But don’t fret—community lenders are helping small businesses. Meet the community lenders. Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are one type of community lender. They are usually nonprofit organizations committed to the mission of making capital accessible to the communities they serve.

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

Advisory Board members are often paid in a balance of equity (stock options) and cash (“cash” is the industry term for money wired to your bank account). I didn’t want to have to sell back into the intelligence community, because I didn’t want to leverage my contacts so tactically, but plenty of people do it (and we need good people to do it.

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Five Categories with Corona Tailwinds

View from Seed

Restaurants are closing, stocks are tanking, and travel has come to a halt. Union Square Hospitality Group, one of the largest restaurant groups in New York City with brands like Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Cafe, is laying off more than 2,000 workers (about 80% of their total staff). At-home fitness options will surge.

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Stock Trading – What You Ought To Know To Get Going

YoungUpstarts

Finding out how to start stock trading doesn’t need to be challenging or daunting. You can discover ways to make investments in the stock exchange with some information about how trading markets work, the sorts of stocks and shares you can find, and the most effective ways to use. What are Stocks?

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. At the time he was not only running GM but was a major Wall Street speculator (even on GM stock) and was big in the New York social scene. There’s the Alfred P.

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Retail Reimagined: 9 Trends for the Future of Physical Retail

ConversionXL

Small retailers are the bedrock of our communities, and consumers will still choose to shop retail when the experience is worth it. Local delivery has also been a saving grace for a lot of retailers with close ties to their community. A community connection, and as Troy Burch puts it, a much needed reminder of their WHY.

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What Do Diversity Hiring and Work From Home Jobs Have in Common?

Transformify

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. Over the last decade, a new trend emerged as tech talent was scarce where it was needed the most.

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