16 November 2017 | Gender, Ideas, Next Generation
This is a homemade Plinko machine…complete with hand-crafted prizes. To play, you simply fork over 50 cents to my 11-year-old son and he hands you a Dixie cup with three tokens. (If you ask nicely, he might throw in an extra token.) I’m not showing you this picture to...
15 November 2017 | Founders
Insights from a Woman Who Attended TechCrunch Disrupt Nowadays, sexism towards women, especially in tech, has become quite a hot topic. Female engineers and leaders have started speaking on the issue, to protect their rights, sustainability, efficiency and...
14 November 2017 | Founders
I know this firsthand. A tutor can be transformational to a student’s life. I learned this firsthand when I was 8. Every time I was asked to read out loud in front of that class, I grew anxious and my stomach turned to knots. I remember this feeling as if it was...
9 November 2017 | Ideas, Menu-Homepage, Motivation
How I Became Unapologetically Authentic In 1980, I was a little girl growing up in India, a nation struggling with poverty. No Barbie dolls or fancy toys or TV shows. And definitely no Disneyland. I didn’t grow up with access to media or exposure to successful role...
8 November 2017 | Founders, Motivation
(This article originally appeared on Fairygodboss and is republished here with permission.) CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, THE AVERAGE ADVENTURE TRAVELER IS A 47-YEAR-OLD WOMAN. In fact, The Travel Industry Association of America reports that 20- to 70-year-old women...
8 November 2017 | Gender, Media & Culture
This article originally appeared on November 2 in the Chicago Tribune and is republished here with permission. A man named Steve emails me every now and then to take issue with something I’ve written. He checked in a few weeks ago after I wrote about the #MeToo...
7 November 2017 | Gender, Ideas, Media & Culture, Workplace
It’s been a few years—almost four, to be exact—since a four-letter word opened my eyes and sparked something of a movement. When I first wrote about the word I never foresaw that my article, first shared as a Woman 2.0 blog post, would receive millions of views,...
6 November 2017 | Founders, Funding, Menu-Editors-Pick
Raising seed capital is always tough for entrepreneurs. Especially in the shifting sands of the funding landscape. I get it, both as a founder and investor. Before my VC days, I was the founder of an edtech startup that raised seed funding. While our customers...
2 November 2017 | Founders, Interview
Nina Luu’s new company, Shippabo, is filling what she sees as a big, unclaimed, gaping vacuum in one of the largest industries there is: shipping. And wherever there’s room for improvement, there’s room for two other things, too: new tech and new...
1 November 2017 | Career, Motivation
This article first appeared on Fairygodboss and is republished here with their permission. Watching “Scandal” has always been an exciting event in my house. About 30% of the time, I’m audibly cheering on leading lady Olivia Pope, and the other percent of the...
