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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

This is going to be BIG.

Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out. Don’t get me wrong--the mental and emotional well-being of startup employees is a serious issue. Two reasons: One, they had no other real choice. The second reason?

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Public Policy Quarterly: October 2023

Angel Capital Association

Back to top The History of the ACA's Public Policy Efforts The Angel Capital Association was a nascent organization in 2009-2010 when Congress developed the bipartisan Dodd-Frank Act in response to the fallout of the great recession. This letter emphasized how important patents are to startup companies.