8 August 2017 | Leadership
3 Keys to a Successful Transition for Your TeamChange is hard. Maintaining the status quo can seem so much easier than pushing an entire system into the turmoil that change can entail. When it comes to running a successful startup or small business, however, embracing...
4 August 2017 | Funding, Gender, Workplace
This post isn’t about sexism and harassment in the venture capital and technology industries, it’s about what funds can do to build diverse portfolios and cultivate inclusive communities to invest in the next generation of companies. It was originally posted in The...
3 August 2017 | Gender, Workplace
Summer is supposed to be a relaxing season of brunches, BBQs, and beach getaways. But the past several weeks in Silicon Valley have been anything but chill. In bombshell reports published by The Information and The New York Times in late June, dozens of women in tech...
2 August 2017 | Founders, Interview
Gathering data geeksVivian Zhang founded a data science meetup group in New York City in 2014, where she taught New Yorkers how to analyze the plentiful data available through public records of calls to 311, the city’s non-emergency helpline.“It’s like a pulse check...
1 August 2017 | Gender, Media & Culture
What we can do in order to make gender equality in the STEM industry a standard? I have an idea.Ridiculous disparityEver since the Nobel Prize’s establishment in 1901, only two women—Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963)—have won the prize in physics. And only...
24 July 2017 | Career, Gender
Fair Salaries: The Struggle Is Real For HR leaders, especially those who focus on talent acquisition, making fair and equitable salary decisions is a daily struggle, and one that can frustrate even the most experienced leaders. It is common practice to make...
24 July 2017 | Founders, Interview
When a startup proposes to create a whole new marketplace where none existed before, watch out. Duco founders Sidney Olinyk and Alicia Sloan are unorthodox women who have a lot in common: they both studied foreign policy. They both worked in Washington in pretty...
22 July 2017 | Founders, Funding, Interview
Echo Capital Group CEO Sabrina Naim talks about her family-run business, diving into VC from a unique perspective, and promoting philanthropy to millionaires and non-millionaires alike. Why venture capital? What led you to become involved in this...
21 July 2017 | Europe, Founders, Interview, Regional
Only five years ago, Kristel Kruustük founded Testlio, a company designed to improve and revolutionize the way software and app testing is performed. A year later, her team won AngelHack hackathon and her company was quick to expand. Now having reached over 40...
20 July 2017 | Gender, Media & Culture
You have serious career goals that involve a steep upward trajectory. You’ve obtained a good footing in your career, and there’s fire in your belly. So where do you go from here? How do you attain that top executive position you covet?When you’re ready for the next...
