Women hire people than them, pay them more, and generally put the company first--all great traits of successful entrepreneurs. But very few companies actually make it to a liquidity event and there are a lot of rough spots and decisions between founding and then. Women have to do a better job of protecting themselves. Three basic steps can save you from walking away with nothing. READ»
I worked in VC for almost six years. I knew a lot about markets and industries from interviewing people, analyzing companies and doing research, but at that point I had never run a company before. As I've learned all too well, it's one thing to analyze companies and quite another to start and run one.READ»
To put it briefly, homophily means "love of the same". Not the same wine every night, but a tendency to surround yourself with others like you. This would just be an interesting footnote, if the concept wasn't so important to the workplace. I never quite grasped this very human tendency until I became a boss.READ»
Everyone from The Wall Street Journal to Justin.TV was there. It was Demo Day for SSE Labs, now called StartX, or Stanford Student Startup Accelerator. READ»
May is alive with the nervous energy and resume flurry of brave new grads who have foregone the investment banking and consulting routes. They are right to be anxious. The market is as competitive as ever and standing out has become a technological art. A new survey by eLance bears this out.READ»
One of the most insightful business books today comes from the unlikeliest of sources: Tiny Fey. Her book, "Bossypants," narrates and navigates the challenges of being a boss and being a woman.READ»
I recently attended my first meet-up of the Quantified Self Movement. Quantifiers are people who measure themselves in various ways--how long they sleep, how much they exercise and even how they feel. They use all manner of devices from Zeos and FitBits to homemade contraptions.READ»
Seth Preibatsch of Scvngr is getting a lot of attention at SXSW for his presentation, "The Game Layer on Top of the World". He demonstrated his ideas by applying them to our education system, calling it a poorly designed game. Is gaming, used by many to distract themselves from reality, going to help people create a new reality?READ»
A lot has changed since I raised money for my prior company in 2005. The VC partners are younger, the angels more plentiful. But the pitfalls entrepreneurs looking to raise money encounter have not gone away.READ»
It seems obvious that a social network can help you make a change, but it is less clear how. What better explains transformation is commitment and consistency. As flaky as we sometimes think we are, human beings at a reptilian level are capable of committing and once they do, are surprisingly consistent.READ»
Don't you sometimes just want someone to give it to you straight? The search for truth is often problematic and the search for good feedback can be just as vexing. There is as much an art to getting feedback as there is to giving it. READ»
A gal pal of mine forwarded "11 Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees" from 1943 that was reprinted in Savvy and Sage. The article is meant to give largely male supervisors direction on how to use women to their ...READ»
