How Being a Foster Parent Made Me a Better CEO

How Being a Foster Parent Made Me a Better CEO

Kasey Edwards shares how being a foster parent made her a better startup CEO. Truth be told it all started with an epic breakup. Like so many in my peer group, I’d been in a relationship for my entire 20s that was fated to end by 30. There was an engagement, a modest...
Succeeding in Tech While it Changes Around You

Succeeding in Tech While it Changes Around You

Sarita D. Rao shares tips on how to succeed in the constantly changing technology workforce.Not interested in science or math? Hone in on your business skills. If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s the fact that things are going to change. It can be hard to know...
Why You Should Live Your Life Like a Startup

Why You Should Live Your Life Like a Startup

Anna Akbari, PhD, author of Startup Your Life takes the startup concepts of Hustle, Pivot and Failure and applies them to everyday life.Hustle. Pivot. Failure. These are words we hear a lot of in the startup world, but most of the time they refer specifically to...
Why Women Entrepreneurs Still Struggle to Find Funding

Why Women Entrepreneurs Still Struggle to Find Funding

Tiffany Rowe shares alternative approaches to funding your company. Every year, about 50 million new startups are born ― about 137,000 per day. However, in the same day, roughly 120,000 startups die, and many of those are due to insufficient funds. Money is the...
6 Platforms That Make Entrepreneurship Easier Than Ever

6 Platforms That Make Entrepreneurship Easier Than Ever

Anyone can have an idea, but turning an idea into a functioning business? That’s the key to success. If you’re launching a startup, you’ll face inevitable obstacles: time, money, and energy, to name three. However, as daunting as starting a business may be, we’ve come...
The Secret to Building an Outstanding Team

The Secret to Building an Outstanding Team

Women 2.0 Interviews Yahoo Senior Director of Strategy & Operations: Stacey Monn-Vudrag.What are some of the key things you focus on when building a great team? First, design the right foundation for your organizational structure. I’m very much of the mindset...
The Myth of the Good Idea

The Myth of the Good Idea

Good ideas don’t sell themselves.  Janet Holmgren shares her strategies for becoming a more effective communicator and developing your executive presence.There are many myths about leadership, including that savvy ideas or smart work equate to success. The truth...
Changing the Way We Experience Video

Changing the Way We Experience Video

Women 2.0 Interviews Susan Danziger, Founder of Ziggeo, the Cloud-Based Embeddable Video Recorder / Player.W2: What inspired you to start Ziggeo? A few years ago, we were building a recruitment platform that let candidates record videos for employers to...