When a startup proposes to create a whole new marketplace where none existed before, watch out.Duco founders Sidney Olinyk and Alicia Sloan are unorthodox women who have a lot in common: they both studied foreign policy. They both worked in Washington in pretty...
We sat down with Kaijen Hsiao, CTO at Mayfield Robotics. She and her colleagues (led by veteran startup CEO Mike Beebe) have been working for the past two years to develop a home robot. Why? What will it do? And where will this whole robot craze end up taking...
Women 2.0 got some time with Miki Racine Berardelli, former CMO of both Chico’s and Tory Burch and current CEO of KIDBOX, a fast growing children’s fashion box vendor. Here’s a peek into her real life and what she plans to achieve at work. Your...
Duolingo is a steadily growing, well-funded startup company with 80 employees in a colorful Pittsburgh office that features the obligatory ping pong tables, hammocks, and mod diner booths for employee collaboration. (Its office was recently named one of the city’s...
A cup of java…We recently sat down with Yasamin Miller at one of the best coffee shops in the country, tucked away in a leafy neighborhood in Ithaca, NY. To the hiss of espresso steam and the clatter of cups and saucers, we talked about the present and future of...