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November 22, 2024

How to manage care responsibilities as a founder  

James Townsend, cofounder and CEO of Mobilise, gives his tips for founders on how to balance caring responsibilities with running a startup.

This article first appeared in Sifted’s Startup Life newsletter, sign up here.

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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