25 September 2017 | Founders, Interview, Videos
We sat down with the makers of Sheleader, Mary Betsy and Myles Pratt, to get the scoop on this fun, informative series of video profiles of women who have founded companies or nonprofits. We’ve watched a few episodes of Sheleader and loved it. How do you describe your...
22 September 2017 | Funding, Interview
Earlier this month, hardware executives Jennifer Gill Roberts of Grit Labs and Kelly Coyne of Pitch merged their respective firms and announced that they would raise $30M to invest and shepherd groundbreaking AI and robotics companies through the often...
21 September 2017 | Motivation, Workplace
“Like going to the dentist.” That is the metaphor some women used to describe negotiating in a survey conducted by Linda Babcock, co-author of Women Don’t Ask. By contrast, men used metaphors like “winning a ballgame” to describe negotiation. If you fail to negotiate,...
20 September 2017 | Career
San Francisco Bay Area!Sure, there are a ton of tech companies around you… but how many of them do you think genuinely focus on building diverse tech teams? Unfortunately, fewer than we’d like to report (don’t worry, we’re working on that part...
20 September 2017 | Europe, Founders, Interview, Menu-Homepage, Regional
Christiana Zoupa is the co-founder and COO of Oceanus Foundation, a company that aims to provide a new currency and new economy for the shipping industry. You’ve said that you have been working with computers since you were four. Can you explain? How? I still...
12 September 2017 | Career, Founders, Interview, Videos
Are you watching Sheleader yet? You’d better be. Episode 4, below, featuresDebra Cleaver, founder of Vote.org, who suddenly found herself without a job: “I could call myself unemployed or an entrepreneur. Entrepreneur sounds much better.” Isn’t...
8 September 2017 | Founders
We’ve partnered with 500 Startups to bring you a series of interesting and innovative and bad-ass women founders changing the face of tech as we know it. Kristina Jones, Co-Founder of Court Buddy, writes about her experience pitching her new company to...
7 September 2017 | Gender, Workplace
Meet the women leading the push for diversity and inclusion in tech.This article was originally published in the Sept./Oct. 2017 issue of Modern Luxury Silicon Valley magazine. In the wake of the March 27, 2015, verdict, no one would have blamed Ellen Pao...
1 September 2017 | Interview, Regional, US
We recently interviewed transgender advocate Madelena Mak, the award-winning UX designer and founder of MiniMap, a map interface that predicts where you’ll want to go. This year, Madelena was the New York City conductor of StartupBus North America 2017. Startup...
30 August 2017 | Career, Motivation
Whenever I tell people I’m an introvert, they don’t believe me. I regularly speak to large audiences and pitch my startup to investors who don’t exactly look like me, a young Filipina woman. I’ve coached hundreds of other people on how to be confident when...
