Mentor A Teenage Girl At Technovation And Give Back!

Mentor A Teenage Girl At Technovation And Give Back!

When you were a teenager, did you have a female mentor or role model who showed you that girls can grow up to be programmers, entrepreneurs, and leaders? By Dara Olmsted (Director of Development, Iridescent) Help the next generation of girls learn to code and start...

To Close the Gender Gap, Focus on Assignments

Mentors and mentees should heed the sacrosanct 70-20-10 rule. By Herminia Ibarra (Contributor, Harvard Business Review) A new McKinsey study reports statistically what we already knew from personal experience: that mid-career and senior women tend to be found...
Five Lessons Learned From Raising Series A For My Startup

Five Lessons Learned From Raising Series A For My Startup

By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne) It’s been an amazing journey to get AboutOne where it is today. Through the process of developing an award winning app and raising an over-subscribed Series A with lead investors Golden Seeds, I’ve navigated quite a few...
Mentors Are Like Mushrooms: Avoid The Toxic Ones!

Mentors Are Like Mushrooms: Avoid The Toxic Ones!

By Franck Nouyrigat (Co-Founder & CTO, Startup Weekend) In the last couple of years, I have seen more and more incubators growing and more and more “mentors” helping them. My concern is in regard to the drop of quality I see in mentoring — not to mention...