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December 10, 2024

How to do an end of year review

Here's how to reflect on the year just gone, using the learnings you made along the way to create fresh goals for 2025

An end of year review is an important time for startups to sit down, put pen to paper and take stock of things that went well, and didn’t go so well, the previous year.

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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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