Startup Foundation update
Hi there, how's your weekend going?
Mine is pretty hectic, but I like it like that. Sometimes I encounter people that don't understand why we create Startup Curated on Saturdays, or would even do work on the weekends. But today there's another CoderDojo at our office, where we also regularly hold Startup Academy's over the weekends.
In the past weeks, we started to rethink Startup Deals, which will feature community curation soon and has a new deal from Fomo. And in the coming weeks, we start working on what we believe becomes the world's first casual startup conference, called Startup Salon.
With all of that, and much more undisclosed, happening, I think it must be clear that we don't keep work/life in balance, simply because they're the same thing to us, or at least, to me.
How is your work/life balance, in check or non-existent, and do you feel comfortable with it? Feel free to hit reply 📩
Have a great read/weekend!
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