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Chaya Milchtein Empowers Women by Educating Them About Cars

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I was aging out of foster care—it was 2013, and I was pretty desperate to find a job,” she explains. And that’s how her career in the automotive industry began—as a service adviser for Sears Auto Center. When Chaya Milchtein was about to turn 18 years old, she created a GoFundMe fundraiser for herself. “I

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What can assistants expect in 2013

Practically Perfect PA

Well 2012 is over and done with and we are now already two days into 2013. I think it will be another interesting year for assistants with lots of changes and further challenges for our industry. In honour of it now being 2013 I´ve got 13 things I think we can expect to see in the year ahead. Role diversification. Social Media.

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Commercial Interiors UK appoints new managing director

Workplace Insight

Commercial Interiors UK (CIUK), the Trade Association for the UK’s Commercial Interiors Sector has appointed Sean Holt as its new Managing Director. Post the pandemic and prior to joining CIUK Sean was Managing Director of the British Furniture Manufacturers Association.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2013

Small Business Labs

Our overall economic outlook for 2013 is for continued moderate growth with U.S. 2013 will see rapid increases in the number of small businesses using powerful yet inexpensive cloud-based data and analytical tools.    We borrowed this trend from the 2013 Future Workforce Trends from our friends at MBO Partners.

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The State of the VC Industry - Fewer Firms, More Funding

Small Business Labs

TrueBridge Capital Partners recently released a report on the State of the Venture Capital Industry.  Key quote from the report: 200 funds invested in five or more deals in 2014, 4% fewer than in 2013 and 83% fewer than in 2001. The large funds are able to do this because they are garnering a larger share of industry assets.

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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Arlan Hamilton, founder and managing partner, says, “ We invest in the very best founders who identify as women, people of color or LGBT in the United States. I personally identify as all three.”

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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

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survey of over 600 employees from 20 industries found that, “on average, employees have 17.7 meetings (totaling 18 hours) per week,” numbers which increase as “management level and number of direct reports increases.” Additionally, non-management employees reported that only 11.9 A 2022 Otter.ai The same Otter.ai Just say no.

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