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The 5 Types of Employees You’ll Find on Your Startup Journey (and How to Manage Them)

Up and Running

Several years ago, when I was just starting out as an entrepreneur, a friend introduced me to a concept he called “Serengeti Management.” He was joking, of course—your employees aren’t a bunch of animals struggling for survival at a watering hole in Tanzania—but they sure will act like it sometimes. Herding Gazelles.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? Obviously, I release products at my job. In fact, you have to eliminate your preconceived opinions, and you need to listen to the data and incorporate that data in shaping products. His name is Tomas Pueyo.

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Development Through Self Empowerment

thebarefootvc

I have spent a lot of time thinking about aid to developing nations, especially after my summer working on a UNIDO (United Nations Development Organization) project in Tanzania training women entrepreneurs. The project I was working on taught women basic business skills, including microfinance management, marketing and production.

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