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Why self-care is important for entrepreneurs

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Meeting your goals as an entrepreneur often requires long days and long nights, navigating stressful decisions and finances, and dealing with rejection and redirection. Negative attitudes to coworkers or family. Negative attitudes to coworkers or family. By Jewelle Saunders. Avoiding burnout helps productivity.

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Edition #6: Jessica Knapp

GCUC

Community of Cultivators is a new blog series to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. When I’m at home in New Zealand, or when I’m with my Coworking People (and that could be anywhere in the world!!). A ticket to any coworking conference. Check out what she had to say below. Name: Jessica Knapp.

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How VC Fundraising Favors White Men

This is going to be BIG.

Last week, on Martin Luther King Day, I decided that instead of saying something in my weekly newsletter , I would do the opposite--I would listen. I asked, "What is your experience of being be black in tech today and what can allies do to improve it?" I will not, however, tolerate hate in anyone's direction. Ducks head.] Ok, let's dive in.

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Software Engineer Turned Youtuber – Jarvis Johnson

Y Combinator

00:00 – Jarvis’ intro. 00:30 – Where his videos first got traction. 1:10 – Being part of the software industry while critiquing it. 3:45 – How he got into programming. 6:10 – Moving to California. 7:30 – Interning at Google then Yelp. 9:00 – Interviewing multiple times at the same company. Google Play.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.