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Backstage Capital Is Funding Startups by Underestimated Entrepreneurs

Success

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. When she started Backstage, Arlan went all in on this idea.

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A Day in the Life of AI Consultant Juliette Powell

Success

She’s been traveling since then, including a stop in her hometown to moderate a Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms cross-disciplinary panel featuring AI “grandfather” and Mila founder Yoshua Bengio. Her teaching, learning and work all interplay. In September, KPI launched an AI advisory.

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3 Tips for Solopreneurs to Stay Ahead in a Constantly Changing World

Success

It’s the stuff legends are made of—the young and passionate dreamer turning his back on the cushy and safe but also stuffy and boring desk job to carve his own path , to follow the road less traveled, to chase the muse that had grown in his heart since he was a young boy. The old way of doing things won’t fix new problems.

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Ep 207: Deedee Benyi on Understanding the Business and Supporting Multiple Executives

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

LEADERSHIP QUOTE If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. Deedee joined The Hartford in 2004 and has spent most of her tenure supporting claims leaders until her move to support the Chief Data Science Officer in 2019. Each review helps me stay motivated to keep the show going!

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Corporations Starting to Embrace Digital Nomads

Small Business Labs

The key quote describes what she did when she finished her year as a digital nomad: A point of culmination of this experiment is when I had the opportunity to pitch my experience to the CHRO of GE and so I have presented my learnings about this aspect of the future of HR, painting an image of digital nomads and flexible work at GE.

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A bit of alien thinking on coffee and some other BS

Workplace Insight

Many travel into work at the same time each day and sit with roughly the same people and do roughly the same things. These biases can catch us out, as Naomi Wolf discovered when she was corrected on one of the main premises of her new book in a live radio interview last week. They work in adequate or possibly nice offices.

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Ep 224: Janice Parker on Remote Work and Supporting a Founder

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Maya Angelou CONNECT WITH JANICE Janice on LinkedIn ABOUT JANICE Janice Parker joined global cryptocurrency company, Luno, in 2019 as Executive Assistant to the Co-founder and CEO, Marcus Swanepoel, who is now the Executive Chairman. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Or maybe you’d like to sponsor an episode or two?

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