Startups talk a lot about mission, but how do you practically measure whether you’re doing what you’re saying — and not just mission washing to help with hiring and marketing. For our Startup Life newsletter, we spoke to edtech platform Perlego’s design director, Kim Lomba, about how to measure whether your company is mission aligned:
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