Where The Girls Aren’t

8 May 2017 | Gender

First, I must apologize for the subtitle of this article. Women are not girls.But I’m a film fan and the reference is simply a play on words about this 1960 movie. We’ve come a long way, baby (another 1960’s pop culture reference — to one of the most obnoxious...
Three Ways Startups Can Get Ahead on Diversity

Three Ways Startups Can Get Ahead on Diversity

4 May 2017 | Recruiting, Workplace

Telle Whitney, CEO & President of the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology, talks to the startup crowd about how they can start early on creating an inclusive work environment. Part of the 2017 Collision Conference held in New Orleans.You can create the...
Have You Paired Your Passion with Experience Yet?

Have You Paired Your Passion with Experience Yet?

3 May 2017 | Career

Denise Bevers shares her hard-won tips on how to be successful in business. It still makes my heart pound a little to say this, but I co-founded a company that combines my experience in pharmaceuticals with my passion for animals and raised more than $120 million...
Career Advice from the UK’s Most Influential Women

Career Advice from the UK’s Most Influential Women

2 May 2017 | Career, Leadership

I asked some of the UK’s most influential CEOs and business professionals for their most valued pieces of career advice. The three participants in this post are amongst the most influential women in the UK.  Baroness Sue Campbell CBE, Head of Women’s Football at...
What Women Who Code Is Really About

What Women Who Code Is Really About

26 April 2017 | Founders, Leadership

We talked with Women Who Code founder and CEO Alaina Percival about the past, present, and future of women in tech. You launched WWCode in 2011. What was the need then, and how has the women-in-tech ecosystem changed since?Women Who Code started as a meet-up...
Fearless Girl vs Charging Bull: Seriously, the guy has a point

Fearless Girl vs Charging Bull: Seriously, the guy has a point

20 April 2017 | Gender

Greg Fallis talks about his love/hate relationship with the Fearless Girl, and why Charging Bull artist Arturo Di Modico’s request to have it removed may not be so out of line. This piece originally appeared on Greg’s blog.I got metaphorically spanked a...
Venture Capital and Europe: Things Are About To Pop Off

Venture Capital and Europe: Things Are About To Pop Off

19 April 2017 | Funding

Ellie Cachette, General Partner at Cachette Capital, purports that Europe’s VC ecosystem was never at the bottom, it was just busy building the next ladder. Europe Shows Up (2007–2010)In 2007, I distinctly remember sitting in a converted American dinner in...