27 January 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
25 January 2017 | Career, Leadership, OOO
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...
24 January 2017 | 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...
23 January 2017 | Interview, Leadership, Motivation
Women 2.0 interviews Liana Guzman, SVP of Marketing and Growth at Blockchain.W2: Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the FinTech industry. Give us an overview for folks who are not yet familiar with Blockchain.Nearly every major industry has been turned on...
20 January 2017 | Founders
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...
19 January 2017 | Interview, Motivation, Recruiting
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...
19 January 2017 | Career, Leadership, Motivation
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...
18 January 2017 | Founders
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...
13 January 2017 | Uncategorized
Digital strategist, Laurie Wang breaks down the startup growth hacking essentials for the new year.Let’s face it, social media can be a huge time commitment. It is not an overnight process, and it takes daily consistent action to see results.For a startup, social...