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www.meangeme.com 11y ago

Take Your Shirt Off: Why There Are Less Women Than Men on Meerkat

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www.meangeme.com 12y ago

Why You Should Hire Me

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www.meangeme.com 12y ago

Rando App

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info.crunchbase.com 12y ago

Top 25 Schools in Churning out Entrepreneurs

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www.meangeme.com 12y ago

The Psychology of Goal Achievement

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www.meangeme.com 12y ago

Meeting Michelle: A Story About Unplugging

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 13y ago

Use re:me and stop forgetting about important text messages

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 13y ago

Startup Girl Survival Guide

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 13y ago

Lessons in Prepping for a Y Combinator Interview

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 13y ago

University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

How To Show Your Customers A Little Extra Love

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

FounderFuel Roadshow The VeloCity Garage

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

Canadian startups to watch out for

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

From Maide To Pair: Where Are They Now?

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

How To Deal With Startup Life

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

Startup Speed Dating: VeloCity Style

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

Maluuba: Where are they now?

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

So You're A Startup: How To Write A Survey

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

10 Traits Entrepreneurs Share With Superheroes

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

MappedIn: Where are they now?

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

So You're A Startup: How To Get Customers

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

The Startup Race: The VeloCity Venture Fund Edition

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

From Exquisine to Crouton Labs: Where are they now?

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

So You're A Startup: How To Incorporate

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

From Bookkite to Polychart: Where are they now?

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

So You're A Startup: How To Get Social

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

Startup & school? UWaterloo's entrepreneurs show us it can be done

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

So You're A Startup: How To Create & Maintain An Advisory Board

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

#uwDemoDay = a success

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velocity.uwaterloo.ca 14y ago

SR&ED This.

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"Almost one in three women aged 30 to 34 and a quarter of late-30s women do not have a partner, according to the 2006 census statistics. And this is a growing problem."

Why? Because birthrates are declining? Or because people "need to" have a partner?

A lot of this conversation seems to be focussed on an individual's productivity - you might think you are more productive remotely or actually may be more productive remotely, but what about the rest of the team? Looking at the bigger picture - you're getting tons of work done, but are you communicating well with your team/ is your team productive overall? And if you are more concerned with your individual well-being than you are with your team's well-being, it's worth noting that psychologically, one of the main factors of simply liking someone is proximity. Obviously you shouldn't be promoted because your boss likes you more, and obviously if you're the most value adding team member remotely you should get credit for that, but it's impossible to eliminate personal biases that stem from bonds created at the office.

There are obviously arguments for both sides but I know (from working with a remote supervisor for 6 months) that communicating in person is easier than communicating remotely.