15 February 2018 | Asia, Gender, Regional, Workplace
“Why don’t you contact us again after you delivered your baby?” That was my eighth phone call with recruiters, and every one of them had ended that same way. My frustration and helplessness were palpable. My eyes could barely blink away my tears. On May 3, 2016, my...
14 February 2018 | Gender, Interview
Recently Nearshore Americas published an article examining the issue of gender in the nearshore services market, and found that there continue to be problems. One of the most concerning findings of the article was the prevalence of stereotypes about women working in...
13 February 2018 | Allies, Founders
I’ve been a bystander to the discrimination going on against women in tech. No more. My wife and I are equal partners in our business together (well, equal partners in everything really). The bottom line is our company wouldn’t be here without equal parts her and me....
8 February 2018 | Founders, Interview, Menu-Homepage
As a college junior at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, Jolijt Tamanaha achieved a feat that many don’t achieve in a lifetime: she founded, grew, and sold a company. Farmplicity, a farm-to-restaurant marketplace for the greater Saint Louis area, was...
8 February 2018 | Media & Culture, Menu-Homepage
Founder and filmmaker Becky Lane wants VR to be layered and meaningful — not just manipulative. You can find 360 cameras the size of a credit card—basically just two fisheye lenses back to back—but VR (virtual reality) cameras are a whole other ball of wax. The GoPro...
8 February 2018 | Allies, Sponsored
I’ve worked with many women who have inspired me over the years. Each of them has deeply influenced me at different stages of my career. Grace Hopper was a pioneer of the computer industry. In 1949, she was part of the team that designed UNIVAC I, the first...
7 February 2018 | Interview, Menu-Homepage, Sponsored, Workplace
The first tech security hire at Upside, Eileen Sullivan, is now growing her team. If only she could find more people who, like her, are deeply curious and fundamentally in love with business. Here she talks to us about the rare combination of personality traits and...
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7 February 2018 | Book Review, Gender, Leadership
I had the pleasure of reading Dr. Patti Fletcher’s new book Disrupters: Success Strategies From Women Who Break the Mold. Fletcher sets out to give readers a new way of thinking about a business world that she sees as being stacked against women (and,...
2 February 2018 | Founders
Organizational Structure to the Rescue Women founders face the uncomfortable reality of sometimes not being viewed as experts or experienced, no matter their credentials or career background. This is even more poignant for female founders in STEM. Fortunately, we have...
1 February 2018 | Funding, Ideas, Menu-Homepage
In 2015, I bootstrapped and launched an enterprise software startup. It felt like a dream, how everything was falling into place. Within 12 months, I had a product for a $21 billion addressable market, a successful deployment at a Fortune 100 customer, a Proof of...
