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How to Run an Effective Networking Dinner

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Photo by Juliette F on Unsplash Networking is a critical part of relationship building and there is no event more valuable to building relationships than the proverbial “breaking of bread” with people. book a private room. it’s ok to drift back to general networking if need be. This is sub-optimal?—?book it’s your job.

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Opendoor alums raise $15M for Kindred, a home-swapping network

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Opendoor alums Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina teamed up in 2021 to start a company, Kindred , with the goal of giving people the choice of booking lodging through a unique home-swapping model. Kindred is building a members-only network to allow people to essentially exchange homes.

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Understanding the Power of Your Human Networks

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The critical skill is not just your immediate network but the network beyond that you can tap into if you’ve earned the right through nurturing your 1-degree relationships. Building Your Network. Either you have a well established network or you don’t. It always struck a chord with me. How did I get here?

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A New Network for Startup Community Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

There’s a new community network emerging to help entrepreneurial ecosystem builders connect, learn, and grow— Startup Communities: The community for entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. Members of the community can subscribe to a wide range of of topics to follow and contribute to, including: Complex Systems (a key theme in their new book).

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

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Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent. Contributor.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

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After selling two companies into large enterprises with lots of legacy software, Lawler witnessed firsthand how developers were struggling to understand the systems they were tasked with improving, and finding it difficult to deliver fast and secure code in complex microservices and cloud applications.

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

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That characterization mostly comes from Hopper’s ability to offer customers financial flexibility around their travel bookings. We allow you to come in and hold the price of a booking for between two hours and 14 days. “Price freeze is a good example. Now, with the U.S.

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