30 August 2017 | Founders, Interview
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.Finding Roommates for BoomersWendi Burkhardt is the co-founder and CEO of Silvernest, a Denver-based...
29 August 2017 | Funding, Motivation
Angel investors are the people who make it their mission to help fund and foster growing startups through their own contributions. Angel investing is a common source of funds that startups use not only to keep the lights on, but also to branch out their network and...
24 August 2017 | Interview, Media & Culture, Next Generation
Access Denied!In July, a group of teenage girls from Afghanistan were denied three times—twice from gaining visas to enter the United States and once from representing their country in an international robotics competition.The robotics team from Afghanistan quickly...
24 August 2017 | Founders
Thankful for the Box “To truly innovate and think outside the box in your business, you have to understand the box. And to really understand the box, you have to have lived in the box for a while. ” I owe much of my current success as an entrepreneur to my...
21 August 2017 | Leadership
Blockchain is more than just a cryptocurrency trading platform. It’s considered the next huge wave in technology, and the backbone of countless industries and applications.What’s more, women continue to be on the rise in the blockchain field. We’ve...
17 August 2017 | Career, Founders
How I Traded the Stage for Y Combinator If you asked me 10 years ago where I thought my career would take me, I would have answered with one word: “Broadway.” As far as I was concerned, I was on my way to becoming a leading stage actress, dazzling crowds each night...
15 August 2017 | Career, Sponsored
A Pioneering Bootcamp Closes Its DoorsThe staff and instructors at Dev Bootcamp were deeply saddened last month upon announcing that the school, founded five years ago as one of the first immersive coding schools in the world, was winding down. They will graduate...
8 August 2017 | Gender, Workplace
If we in this community agree, in theory, that underrepresentation is caused by an uneven playing field, what do we do about those who are not aware of or willing to accept this, and are therefore not open to solving it?Don’t worry, I’m not actually apathetic to the...
8 August 2017 | Gender, Motivation, Workplace
A counter-manifestoA few days ago, a Google Engineer released a hailstorm of outdated and twisted psychological and biological myths to mask his personal prejudice against women, and less overtly, against minorities as well.I want to suggest a...
