Day: March 6, 2023

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Meet co-founder Christine Anderson He tweeted. The health and retirement benefits firm she and co-founder Andrew Ambrosino started six years ago is closing Monday. Anderson and Ambrosino created Catch and explained it in a Twitter thread and on the organization’s website: “With the crazy idea that our interests shouldn’t be tied to traditional recruitment and the W2 form. “We had the audacity to believe that the trillion-dollar ecosystem built by our corporations, governments, and financial institutions over the past 75 years could collapse in its infancy,” Anderson wrote. “Today? We…

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong and counterintuitive advice for the venture capital industry: Don’t sit on your founders’ board. Speaking on stage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, Khosla talked about capital city culture. “I’m not a big fan of management; “I think if you’re engaged with a founder as a team member, you have more influence than sitting on a board and voting,” he said. “Other VCs accuse us of being too active and too involved — but the side of…

They have cannabis starters To navigate some tricky waters: They can’t get federal funding or work with traditional banks, and they have to find customers in a fragmented market while complying with local laws. But at least on the announcement front, a new Twitter update could indicate a smooth ride ahead. Twitter has updated its advertising rules — including those selling products containing THC and CBD, in addition to related accessories — to advertise on the platform under strict guidelines in states where those products are legal. Twitter is the…

Stephanie Palomino Contributor Stephanie Palomino is Chief Product Officer and General Manager at ROOM3D, an immersive and immersive virtual meeting platform. It lends itself to remote work. People have some freedom in how they do their work, so it’s not surprising that an asynchronous work style is one of the side effects of not working from a centralized location. But it is not always good for workers. In this arrangement, people often stop working more, and the meeting culture takes over, because people cannot see their colleagues in the office,…