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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea.

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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

After all, you’ve likely given your employees stock options which make them part-time business owners as well. His vision is to create a logistics company that curates trust from its employees to the shippers and carriers they partner with. And in times like this, give them more. We know that it’s tough out there.

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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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