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Your Employees Kept You Going This Year. Thanksgiving 2020 Is The Perfect Time To Step Up Your Gratitude Game.

YoungUpstarts

Thanksgiving might look a little different for your employees this year. But leaders can make Turkey Day special by giving workers the heartfelt “thank-you” they deserve and need right now. For the better part of 2020, employees have kept businesses going strong. Here’s how: Take a pre-Turkey Day celebration break.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

Of course your friend’s company raised $50 million and offers it’s employees free kombucha and desk massages. And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. And as I like to say, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.”

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How Diversity Can Increase Innovation And Growth In Your Business

YoungUpstarts

With an almost 50 percent split between male (57%) and female (43%) employees, a diversity of ages of employees, with 30 percent identifying as Asian, 30 percent Hispanic/Latino, 13 percent Caucasian, and 27 percent Other, every aspect of our company’s make-up is diverse. Zeynep Ilgaz is nothing short of a serial entrepreneur.

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What is the Primary Reason For Startup Failure?

Startup Professionals Musings

My suggestion is to morph the current idea into one you love and enjoy, rather than quit and take an employee role you never wanted. “I If you can’t bootstrap the venture yourself, find a partner, friend, or family member rather than a professional investor to carry some financial weight. The people around me are all turkeys.”

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There Are Alternatives When Your Startup Falters

Startup Professionals Musings

My suggestion is to morph the current idea into one you love and enjoy, rather than quit and take an employee role you never wanted. “I If you can’t bootstrap the venture yourself, find a partner, friend, or family member rather than a professional investor to carry some financial weight. The people around me are all turkeys.”

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Your Startup Can’t Fail If You Don’t Quit

Startup Professionals Musings

My suggestion is to morph the current idea into one you love and enjoy, rather than quit and take an employee role you never wanted. “I If you can’t bootstrap the venture yourself, find a partner, friend, or family member rather than a professional investor to carry some financial weight. The people around me are all turkeys.”

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

My partner Rob also wondered if Facebook is the next Yahoo! , These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. or the next Google.

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