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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

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Hamilton also noticed that since these underestimated founders were optimizing limited resources, backing them could lead to a sizable return on investment. In 2019, working with companies interested in using them, she began mass production of smart kiosks to roll out later the same year.

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More Companies Are Adopting Sensory-Friendly Practices—Here’s How Your Business Can Follow Suit 

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There can be large, crowded rooms full of cubicles and equipment, disturbing fluorescent lighting and bombardment with a wide variety of noises—coupled with less access to sensory-friendly resources and environments. Numbers vary, but research estimates that up to 16.5% of people have sensory processing challenges.

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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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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna. She has also delivered presentations during NYC Advertising Week, the 4A’s StratFest, YouTube Black FanFest and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, solidifying her as a thought leader within the industry.

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Ep 215: Kathleen Burns Kingsbury on Changing Your Money Mindset and Negotiating for What You Deserve

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Kathleen served as an adjunct faculty member at the McCallum Graduate School at Bentley University from 2009 to 2019 where she taught the Psychology of Financial Planning in the CFP program. Breaking Money Silence®: How to Shatter Money Taboos, Talk More Openly about Finances, and Live a Richer Life is Kathleen’s fifth book.

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Ep 142: Planning Events in a Post-Covid World with Lacretia Adamski and Meagan Strout

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Lacretia currently serves as a senior executive assistant at Salesforce, where she provides direct support to the President, Global Public Sector and leads an international administrative team of 15 that globally supports over 1,000 employees. In 2019, Lacretia also earned a WSET 2 certification in Wine & Spirits.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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When the NFL set out to counter charges of bias in its upper ranks, she adds, it prompted the creation of the Rooney Rule , requiring its franchises to interview minority candidates for an increasing variety of open roles. If you don’t put your resources into changing those, people will come and go, but the issues will remain.”

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