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How to Protect Your Mental Health When Starting a Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

As we turn the calendar to May, Mental Health Awareness is top of mind with Mental Health Awareness Month and the upcoming May 13-19 Mental Health Awareness Week. Open conversations about mental health and seeking professional support when needed are essential steps to address these challenges.

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How Employers Can Support Workplace Mental Health

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Our mental health clearly affects all aspects of our daily life—including the way we do business and conduct ourselves in the workplace. Unfortunately, mental health is not a topic people typically discuss openly. Others may not even be aware that they are experiencing mental health problems. Contributed by Bethany Seton.

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Veteran digital health pros found virtual eating disorder care startup

TechCrunch

For Amanda D’Ambra and Joan Zhang, the idea of starting and co-founding an eating disorder care startup was personal: Both struggled with an eating disorder, along with other mental health issues, and received treatment — a treatment they hope more people will be able to access. Senate is reviewing potential privacy rights violations.

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Incredible Health passes unicorn valuation as it bags $80M Series B

TechCrunch

” Incredible Health is dubbing 2021 a “milestone” year in performance, with the startup clocking up a more than 500% increase in revenue. Commenting on its Series B in a statement, Jamison Hill , partner at Base10 Partners, added: “Incredible Health is an exciting addition to the Advancement Initiative portfolio.

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Supporting and empowering children with autism in Nicaragua

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

In 1992, the United Nations proclaimed December 3 to be the International Day of Disabled Persons to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities and to raise awareness of the situations they face in political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of life. The public health system in Nicaragua is unfit to deal with autism.

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Capital crunch shines a light on the importance of founders’ mental health, investors say

TechCrunch

In 2019, a report showed that 72% of surveyed entrepreneurs self-reported mental health issues, according to Forbes. As this TechCrunch article points out, what drives the mental health epidemic among entrepreneurs is their propensity to accept risk. and global funds: chasing projections and trying to fit into inflated valuations.

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Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

NZ Entrepreneur

Having spent close on a decade working in and reporting on our small but burgeoning startup ecosystem, and a decade before that “building my chops” in other various entrepreneurial endeavours, I am familiar with the toll that entrepreneurship can exact on founder mental health.

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