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5 Tips for Aspiring Female Venture Capitalists

Success

Women make up around 11% of investing partners at VC firms in the United States, with approximately 13% of VC funds allocated to startups with a woman on the founding team, according to the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard Kennedy School. Kimmel has faced her fair share of criticism on her ascent to founding Worklife.

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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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Appropriately, the phrase “Stay woke” reappeared in 2014 as Black death started to fill our Twitter timelines and Black citizens took to the streets in Ferguson, Missouri. It’s one thing to read a definition of racism in a book, and quite another to know if you currently work in an environment that is racist. Racism is just about race.

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How Company Passion Projects Can Add to the Bottom Line

Success

In the early 2000s, Google encouraged an 80/20 policy, which gave employees the bandwidth to ideate, develop and innovate projects during 20% of their work schedule. Similarly, Slack, the social platform X (formerly known as Twitter) and Buffer all started as side projects. What is a passion project and why is it important?

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Free Webinar: Using Twitter to Grow Your Business

Small Business Labs

Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. I will be moderating the session and I'm excited to hear about Twitter from these outstanding social media experts. Authors The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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The workplace circus continues to entertain, but back in the real world…

Workplace Insight

The Great Workplace Circus headlines its 322nd show of the year with everybody’s favourite distraction, Elon Musk, being driven into the ring by his own shoddily built clown car, declaring he needs everybody at Twitter to be ‘ extremely hardcore ’ before sacking a few people from his space programme, then setting fire to the tent himself.

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The Workforce is on the Move…and so is Compensation

Bonnie Low Kramen

Make no mistake – a workplace revolution is happening right now and these types of conversations, decisions, and new policies are being formulated right now. WORK FROM ANYWHERE IN ANY TIME ZONE + IN-OFFICE WORK = HYBRID = NEW POLICIES. So…when they choose to move, what happens to their compensation?

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How Simple Policies Can Change Your Business

blogs.sitepoint.com

While this makes sense, it doesn’t mean you should ignore behind-the-scenes business administration tasks, such as setting policies. Policies that outline how you run various elements of your business, and why you do it that way, set boundaries and create a foundation for the business. When will you answer calls and return calls?