Ever wished for a meal app that puts your health first? Pocket Food lets you plan your meals for an entire month and track your calorie intake, all at an incredibly affordable price.
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In Today's Email:
- There’s Good, But This Is Better
- Charted: The largest company in every sector of the S&P 500
- AI Tool Of The Week 🤖: Albut is the best HR Chatbot for HR queries
- Opportunity Of The Week 💡: Scouts in this “Starters” program are allocated $200К each to find, invest in, and nurture European startups with growth potential
❓🔍 Mystery Link
What if expanding to new markets didn't require setting up a whole new entity? This company makes market entry easy for startups eyeing global expansion.
THE BIG IDEA
There’s Good, But This Is Better
I know you already have a thousand and one things to think about. You’re juggling meetings, strategy sessions and endless emails. To succeed, you need to be at your best.
Now Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, a British multinational VC, is known for his active lifestyle and commitment to health, which he credits to his ability to manage his many ventures effectively. As he puts it:
"I am a great believer that if you want to be successful, you need to take care of your body and mind."- Richard Branson
It is why I introduced the ‘challenge of the week’ section, and I believe everyone who seeks a healthier lifestyle should discover Pocket Food.
Most platforms I know offer great meals, but forget we are also seeking a way to manage our health effectively. Whereas Pocket Food:
- Allows you to track your calorie intake
- Offers a personalized nutrition AI model, making it suitable for your dietary preferences and health goals
- Relieves you of the stress that comes with thinking about what to eat everyday
- Has an excellent customer service
Did I mention this comes at a lower cost compared to a regular meal app?
"Taking care of myself is not a luxury but a necessity to be effective in my role." - Sheryl Sandberg, Former COO of Facebook.
Life is Hectic, but your meals shouldn’t be. After all, a healthier you means a more effective leader.
Challenge Of The Week 🎯
Team building is about making friends and being genuinely open with each other.
To encourage this at your company, ask everyone to share three experiences that have made them who they are.
Introducing Our New EOR Service 🚀
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This is why Workshift is for you:
→ You are worried about maintaining strict data privacy and security standards across different regions
→ It’s a struggle to enter new markets coupled with the burden of setting up local entities
→ You are concerned about the rising costs of managing payroll and legal entities in multiple countries
→ Not to mention the legal and compliance challenges of hiring international talent
Learn From The Best ✍️
After Fred DeLuca graduated from high school, he looked for a means to pay for his college tuition.
He turned to a family friend, Dr. Peter Buck, who suggested he start a sandwich shop. He lent him $1000 and Fred opened ‘Pete’s Submarines’.
Soon after, he opened another store and changed the name to Subway. He graduated from the University of Bridgeport and then focused solely on Subway.
In 2023, Subway was sold for $9.6b.
Credit: Ambition Chronicles
120: Burned Out Tech CEO → Warehouse Associate
After a high-flying 20+ year career in tech, Philip Su burned out. He found solace in an unexpected place: a retail Amazon job.
“During my many years as a software engineer and manager, I struggled with stress-induced insomnia. At its worst, It’d take me anywhere between three to six hours to fall asleep after first going to bed.
In fact, this type of worry-induced insomnia was a key part of what led to me to step down from my CEO role leading the nonprofit I founded in Seattle.”
HR Insights Featuring Helen Gloss
It’s not you, it’s me
Where a company is relocating, closing a premises or exiting markets, it’s essential that any sense of blame is removed – it’s not tied to personal performance rather a bigger, more challenging picture. Again, this will support your employees’ ability to adapt to the situation and their longer-term mental – and professional – wellbeing.
For colleagues who aren’t immediately affected, cultivating trust will be key. Now’s the time to engage your teams in your new business strategy. By bringing them…
Meme Of The Week 😂
Credit: Mycodeless
Where You Should Be 🌍
The Year of the Consumer
Stitch, a South African payments infrastructure company, will host its third annual Scale Summit on October 3rd in Johannesburg.
The event will focus on understanding and engaging South African consumers through payment innovation. It will also reveal how consumers think, what influences them, and how they decide on spending.
Your Target Audience Are Our Friends 🎯
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Recommended Read 📚
Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist; Venture deals can be tricky, but this book shows you how to handle complex venture capital deals.
Roundtable 🔄
Investing News & Opportunities 💰
- Egypt’s Cartona raises $8.1M even as investors pull back from B2B e-commerce in Africa
- Nike’s stock is down 30% this year
- Charted: The largest company in every sector of the S&P 500
There’s More To Being A Leader🎖️
- This is what a great employee experience should feel like
- A leader for any situation: 8 tips for leading across generations
- How tech billionaires, including Peter Thiel, were key to J.D. Vance's rapid rise
- A new study revealed key obstacles to creativity in the workplace
- AI Tool of the Week 🤖: Albut is the best HR Chatbot for HR queries
Opportunities For You? 💡
- Scouts in this “Starters” program are allocated $200К each to find, invest in, and nurture European startups with growth potential
- Get up to $5M in funding when you apply to PearX24, an accelerator for early-stage companies
- 2024 UNESCO-IEEE Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Early-Career Engineers in Africa
Pro Tip To Take You Through The Week🌟
What’s Happening? 🤷♂️
While you were away at work, these 5 things happened:
- Jumia hired ex-PalmPay manager, Anthony Mbagwu, to head its Nigerian fintech subsidiary
- Concerns arose when Kamala Harris’s staff cited a toxic workplace
- A Toyo I.T firm offered up to 2 mil. yen incentive for new hires amidst a tight job market
- Meta agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas for collecting facial data without permission
- Delta hired a powerful lawyer David Boies’ firm to seek compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft for its outage
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Written by Onekpe Regina
Edited by Oluwaseye Adesina
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