5 Tips To Make Your Inbox More Manageable

Face a never-ending mountain of emails every morning? Here are some tools to help declutter and prioritize your inbox.  By Stephanie Kaplan (Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Her Campus) If you’re like me (or me a month ago), your inbox seems to be like a cancer...

I Left Google and Lived to Happily Tell About It

Nope, leaving Google didn’t mean social suicide and career stagnation. Quite the opposite, reports this founder. By Anastasia Leng (Co-founder, Makeably) When I started telling people that I’d resigned from Google, the first question they asked was never about...

How to Hire More Women into Tech: Fish In More Pools

A tech company executive talks about his effort to bring more female grads into the company, and the young women explain why they chose careers in tech. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Micro Focus, an international software company with more than 1,200...

Announcing Our Third PITCH Finalist: Admitted.ly

Congrats to Jess Brondo and Emily Cole, co-founders of Admitted.ly, the latest finalist to be announced for our upcoming PITCH Competition. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) With applications to our PITCH Competition closed,(*We have reopened PITCH applications...

What Are You Expert at… and Still Learning?

Feel like you’re fakin’ it? A simple language change could help you play bigger. By Lauren Bacon (Author, The Boss of You) As I’ve been working with impostor syndrome – both within myself and with my coaching clients – I’ve found that an essential...

Don’t Deny: The Golden Rule of Improvisation and Founders

How (and why) founders should make like an improv comic and learn to say yes a whole lot more. By Melinda Byerley (Founder & CEO, Vendorsi) In comedy improvisation “Don’t Deny” means you must accept any offer by your partner. For example, watch this bit from...

Look for Advisors Who Can Teach, Not Tell

Your startup’s advisors should guide you through challenges, not solve them for you, says this investor.  By Hunter Walk (Partner, Homebrew) Earlier this week, a newly funded founder and I were discussing advisory board strategies. Specifically the value of...