November 2010
9 posts
October 2010
9 posts
The Bikini Test
Today Fred posted about nothing. The best post about nothing I’ve read in a long time.
Titled “Editing Myself”, it’s about writing a post and then deciding not to publish it. I have a lot of unpublished posts.
I’ve been wrestling with this one myself. I’ve always been a “heart on my sleeve” kind of person and often that’s served me well but sometimes it doesn’t.
I’ve also been wrestling...
The Ratio: It's Complex!
Rachel Sklar hosted a great event last night at Hunch, for her movement, Change The Ratio, where she interviewed venture capitalist Fred Wilson on the evolving situation around women in startup tech.
Alyson Shontell, who writes for Business Insider, did a writeup today outlining 7 explanations for the tech gender gap. I liked most of her points, I didn’t love the title “Let’s...
Kinoautomat
I heard about it my whole life, but never actually saw it.
The film was called “Člověk a jeho dům”, or in English, “One Man and his House”. To visitors of the Czechoslovak Pavilion at Expo ‘67 in Montreal in 1967, it was, simply, Kinoautomat. (The poster above is from a 40th anniversary showing in Prague in 2007)
Kinoautomat was an example of “Czech New...
WatchWhat Entrepreneurship Means
A few days ago I was introduced to Alicia Morga.
Alicia is a brilliant businesswoman and entrepreneur. But it’s her personal story that stopped me in my tracks.
Take a few minutes to watch. You’ll be glad you did.
She says:
“Entrepreneurship is not just about building a business. It’s about embracing and building your life. It’s about making...
The New Family Farm
A long time ago, each of my grandfathers was an entrepreneur.
One was an orphan. He put himself through medical school in Budapest, and then served as a surgeon with the Red Cross in Palestine, performing thousands of surgeries, saving lots of lives. And he made a little money and saved a lot of it. After the war, he used it to establish his own medical clinic. Eventually, Grandpa...
Penelope, Puh-leez
I’ve been really really busy getting our beta soft-launched. So I’ve been really really behind on getting blog posts published.
But I couldn’t let this one lie: “Women Don’t Want To Run Startups Because They’d Rather Have Children”.
OK, that’s not exactly true. I tried to ignore it and pretend it didn’t exist…because it made me feel...
This Century Goes to the Women
The following article was written by Muhtar Kent, Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, and appeared in The Huffington Post.
It is adapted by a speech he delivered to the Yale World Fund on October 1, 2010. I reblog it in its entirety because it provides a compelling macroeconomic case for women’s business. It’s not about handouts and social service. It’s...
