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jacket when you actually don t, but other times the lies can result in something big and harmful to your company. many of us have faced someone across the negotiating table who we re not totally sure is telling the truth. if that s the case, what do you do? how do you strike a deal effectively if you don t trust the person on the other side. i sat down with harvard business school professor leslie john who gave me some ideas. is it easy to spot a liar? no, it is not easy to spot a liar. there s all these tales that i wrote about, if they blink a lot, if they look down. there s lots of other reasons why people may look i a way, maybe they re shy, maybe they lack confidence. we want to believe we can detect lies. the bottom line is we just can t. so going into a negotiation and trusting your gut or your own abilities
Vancouver FinTech startup Blossom Social has secured more than $2.1 million CAD in seed funding to fuel the growth of its investing social network in the US.