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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. Some people blame it on Justin Timberlake (playing Sean Parker) in the movie The Social Network , who famously said that one million wasn’t cool, one billion was.

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Best HR Software Providers: Standard-setters in performance tracking to 401(K) management

HR Digest

Workable’s ‘ Pay as you Go ’ tier allows hiring teams to enable online support, mobile applications, a careers page, interview scheduling and more. It offers a 15-day trial which allows hiring teams plenty of time to decide if the software works for the organization. There are two more tiers available ( Starter and Pro ) on the platform.

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Prompt, Precise Performance Reviews

Tony Mayo

If your coworkers aren’t accountable, you’ll be doing their work for the rest of your career. The day before meeting, your coworker brings you a list of five or six key objectives, detailing her progress on each. You might wonder, “If I manage like this, how will I ever get my own work done?” Consider the alternative.

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Why Subtle Bias Is So Often Worse than Blatant Discrimination

Harvard Business Review

To directly test the relative effects of subtle and overt discrimination, we gathered every study we could find that looked at relationships between discrimination and outcomes such as career success and satisfaction, stress, turnover, performance, and physical and mental health symptoms.

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Here's What the Internet Is Up To

Harvard Business Review

As she does every year, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has bestowed upon us over a hundred slides that analyze internet trends. But as an engineer with young kids points out, when he''s able to hang out with his friends whose wives stay at home, "I think they probably have progressed more in their careers than I have in some ways.

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The Throwback Sexism of Kleiner Perkins

Harvard Business Review

The high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit by Ellen Pao against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is being discussed as if it’s emblematic of gender bias in tech. Kleiner Perkins is not just about the kind of subtle stereotyping that’s common at many large tech companies. Kleiner Perkins ultimately fired Nazre.)