8 December 2017 | Ideas, Workplace
As a lawyer with over 30 years of experience dealing with allegations of sex harassment, let me say that, while the law matters, so does power. Unfortunately, many of the powerful men accused of harassment don’t understand the law, nor do they realize that...
5 December 2017 | Founders
Conception! Jenny Leung remembers the precise moment she came up with the idea for BellaNove.She was driving her car to a UCLA business school class after a full days’ work and listening to NPR on the radio. The story was about how much clothing Americans contribute...
30 November 2017 | Allies, Leadership, Menu-Homepage, Workplace
He decided to look at the facts. When Pete Gombert was building his third technology company in 2010, an article about pay inequality caught his eye — and sparked some important questions for the serial entrepreneur. “I’m an accountant by training and have always been...
29 November 2017 | Uncategorized
We had an inspiring conversation with Allyson Kapin, founder of Women Who Tech and the Women Startup Challenge, one of the largest pitch competitions to showcase and fund top early-stage women-led technology startups focused on leading areas such as Augmented Reality,...
27 November 2017 | Founders
Of all the North American companies that got VC funding in 2016, only 16.8% had at least one female founder. As veteran Silicon Valley investor Theresia Goew noted recently, the culture of VCs and tech is more sexist than it’s ever been. Even more concerning is that...
25 November 2017 | Australia, Gender, Menu-Homepage, Regional
The conversation around the treatment of women in Silicon Valley and female entrepreneurs in general has struck a chord over the last several months. In 2017, only 17 percent of American startups have female founders. However, in a country on the other side of the...
25 November 2017 | Founders, Interview
Two college students develop an app to help people take even more selfies, in the name of friends helping each other decide what to wear. Here, Kate Carrara, COO of Dress’d, talks about the development of the platform. One day in a dressing room…...
21 November 2017 | Gender, Workplace
It’s a new era. People who have been sexually harassed or assaulted are finally speaking out. The accumulation of our society’s predatory sexual behavior has finally reached a tipping point, such that those who’ve been targeted now feel their strength in...
21 November 2017 | Leadership, Menu-Homepage, Workplace
Thanking people actually fosters more behavior worthy of thanks. You are more likely to leave a large tip if your server writes a thank you note on your restaurant bill, according to a psychological science research article published in the Sage Journals. Gratitude,...
20 November 2017 | Workplace
We use the word “team” in business all the time. We schedule “team meetings.” We ask in interviews whether a potential employee will be a “team player” if she’s hired. But to me, it’s more than just empty business-speak. The sports analogy means something to me. It’s...
