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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Christie Pitts, Backstage Capital’s general partner, talks about the early days of the Los Angeles-based company and how she got involved: Working in the music industry, Hamilton learned about startups and networked with investors and entrepreneurs. She’s one of the founders Backstage Capital has enthusiastically invested in.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” The 2019 “ State of Women-Owned Businesses Report ” from American Express finds women-owned businesses “now represent 42% of all businesses—nearly 13 million—employing 9.4 trillion.”

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. 24 million Americans consider abandoning their careers for self-employment, according to FreshBooks’s 2019 Self-Employment in America Report. It’s growing.

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These 8 cities around the world are putting their focus on biking and walking — not cars

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According to C40 , a global network of cities committed to addressing climate change, it starts with prioritizing “the movement of people rather than cars.”. TransMilenio — an impressive network of rapid-transit bus routes — opened in 2000. Montréal, Canada’s active transportation network.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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asks Suleika Jaouad, who had to face her own mortality in 2011. years in 2019. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. The average number of daily business emails sent and received per person just keeps growing — from 50 in 2005 to 92 in 2011 to more than 120 by 2019.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry saw COVID-19 as an opportunity to form Righteous Uplifting Nourishing International, a global nonprofit organization whose message is to change lives one soul at a time. She started in real estate in 2011 with no SOI, no experience and $6 to her name. Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry.

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