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What To Do When Your Trusted Employees Defect To The Competition

YoungUpstarts

But even worse than the cost of recruiting someone new to fill the vacancy when a key employee leaves, there’s one big, looming worry that’s sure to ratchet your anxiety up to critical levels: “She knows everything!” Like it or not, employee mobility has just become a fact of life.

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[Singapore] Shopify Partners SingTel To Grow Presence In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

The e-commerce space in Singapore has been ratcheted up by another notch as online shopping platform Shopify partners telecommunications provider SingTel to make available its services to businesses in the country. “(But) I’m confident our partnership with SingTel will boost the rate in Singapore,” he says.

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Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes

www.seriesseed.com

I completely understand not wanting to put in an onerous full ratchet but the fact that there is no weighted average ratchet seems a bit bizarre. So a number of our firm's clients have used the documents (including Blippy and Civic Solar both of whom have done some media around it). I read through the docs, well done.

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

For example, it’s almost become routine for me (and I’m sure you can think of high profile CEO’s who do this often and on social media) to make big, lofty promises that are meaningful to the success of the business and to my team as individuals. Such a team can also often do the work for you, which helps to ratchet-up your effectiveness.

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Startup Outlook from Silicon Valley Bank

Growthink Blog

Its very charter utterly excludes the notion of fostering development, opting instead for a one-way ratchet that can only lead to longer, more costly development cycles with no improvement in real safety for efficacy.” “Our Our outlook is solely dependent on the FDA. We are doing well in Europe, but the processes for the U.S.

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Introducing New Lean Startup Practitioners

Startup Lessons Learned

Each MVP is like a ratchet tooth or belay anchor that keeps the work from going backward, while enabling me to generate greater momentum for the next, more ambitious reach.” In brief, native advertising is a form of paid media where the ad experience follows the natural form and function of the user experience in which it is placed.

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Three Ways PR and SEO Can Be Best Friends

Duct Tape Marketing

The Social Media Alliance. Through the before-mentioned Google tweaks, PR and SEO have come to agree in another area and that is social media. For that reason if you want to rank well you’ve got to boost your social media profiles. After all the spending on social media advertising, last year increased by 33.5%

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