I recalled a statement in the article that said, “The women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed.” Well, I didn’t don a cape, nor did my parents offer me a silver spoon, so I had one choice according to the writer’s theory. I had to start my own business. In April 2013, four months after giving birth to my son, I did just that....
Champions of the Shengha is a mobile game from BfB Labs that you play with your emotions. Designed as a digital card game, like Magic the Gathering or the original Pokémon, this mobile game allows you to collect characters, weapons, and spells in order to battle a global tournament of players on your smartphone. So how do you level up? By controlling your emotions. Equipped with a bluetooth ear-clip that measures players’ Heart Rate Variability, a psychophysiological marker of stress and anxiety, players are prompted to breath deep and calm down in order to get better gear and fight harder....
Coding bootcamps are the newest wave of programming education, offering students an intensive education in coding over several months. Many programs offer help landing a job afterward, or give you a refund if you don’t get hired in a certain amount of time. Tatiana Tylosky recently compiled a list of 16 coding bootcamp scholarships for women on the blog at Thinkful, an online technology education site. Here are some of the standouts:...
However, reaching influencer status today is certainly easier said than done. With so many channels in a seemingly crowded marketing sphere, how can newcomers to our space possibly hope to break through the noise and have their voices heard? The solution may very well be in the form of educational content. After all, those who have the chops to teach the masses obviously have the potential to grow their own audience and therefore draw the attention of fellow influencers....
Can they do whatever a spider can? Definitely not. But what they can do is provide you with capital, mentorship, and perhaps most importantly, a little structure to your budding business. A startup accelerator is designed to make life as an entrepreneur easier. Well, the good ones are anyway. If you need to evaluate your startup accelerator needs, the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project (SARP) has released their fifth annual rankings of startup accelerators around the country....
By understanding the role mobile can play within your enterprise, it will enable a quicker and far simpler implementation along with a smoother deployment process. We’ve rounded up four key elements to consider when you’re planning an enterprise mobility strategy. Determine the App User Developing the persona for your audience is a great place to start when planning out a mobile strategy. If more than one application is needed, a roadmap can developed to implement all the desired apps on an appropriate schedule....
The latest of these products from fitness tracking giant Fitbit is the Fitbit Blaze. It is the latest smartwatch product available on the market and it takes health tracking to a whole new level, with music, phone and texting capabilities built in. And if you’re planning on picking up a Fitbit Blaze, there’s some essential tips and tricks that you’re going to want to know so you can get the most out of your new tech....
Kate Catlin of Flock sat down with a group of women at Galvanize to ask them how might companies be more transparent about their culture and setting expectations for candidates. Here’s what they had to say: As hiring managers, our default perspective is the team’s point of view and how will a new person impact us more so than the candidate’s point of view which is: how will joining this team impact me?...
Not Keeping Records This applies to virtually every aspect of your business that will evolve over time, from your marketing strategy, to procedure for onboarding new hires, website analytics, pitches to investors, and financial statements. Especially in the early stages of a business, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and decide that you’ll get to it all later—but postponing record-keeping means that you stay perpetually behind your game. That’s because establishing a baseline set of metrics allows you to develop year-over-year comparisons that reveal what’s working and what needs to be improved....
For the majority of startups or small business owners, hiring a digital agency to generate a brand name probably isn’t in the budget and choosing a domain name is not an easy task. Fortunately, to help with the process, people are turning to domain name generators. These tools help business owners generate domain name choices by taking a keyword and using combinations of popular keywords and pairing them with available top level domains (TLDs) to generate a memorable domain name....
Robots may be good, but they’re not going to be in charge anytime soon. However, what isn’t hyperbole is the growing role of robots in the workforce. According to a March 2017 report on automation in the workplace by PricewaterhouseCoopers, as many as 30 percent of jobs in the UK, 38 percent of jobs in the US, 35 percent of jobs in Germany, and 21 percent of jobs in Japan are at risk of being replaced by machine-based automation by the early 2030s....
Recently, I met up with Cassie Wallender, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Invio Inc., a company on a mission to target and eliminate clinical trial inefficiencies that slow or block new medical innovations by lowering the cost of clinical trial data while increasing the quality. I met Cassie through the Red Scarf Project (#theRedScarfProject), a movement about women paying it forward to support other female entrepreneurs. When we met up, we traded notes on what it took for her team to win Seattle Angel Conference (SAC), a recurring Seattle angel-driven event where the investors create an LLC, engage in due diligence of the applying startup companies, and ultimately pool funds to invest in one of the presenting finalists....
If you haven’t thought about it before, 2013 research from Zendesk suggests you may be missing out. The survey of 1,046 individuals across the U.S. found bad customer service experiences are driven by: the inability of the first representative to troubleshoot the problem (72 percent), unpleasant representatives (67 percent), and slow issue resolution times (65 percent). What does this have to do with hiring? These findings make a clear case for hiring managers to put more emphasis on hiring high-quality, engaged customer service professionals....
An organization may offer the best perks and salaries, and hire the best employees on the earth, but they cannot bring out the best in them unless they invest their time and energies into building a positive work culture. Instigating a sense of freedom, admiration, inclusiveness and ownership into employees can do wonders for any organization. Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, proposed a Need Hierarchy Theory that states the psychological, physical, and social human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization....
Create Custom Social Media Buttons Adding links to your social media profiles is the simplest way of integrating social media into your website. Links to social media profiles allow users to quickly navigate to their favorite network as a means to find out more about your company, contact you, or share your content. Incorporating these buttons into your site shouldn’t just be a case of copying the standard Facebook, Twitter and YouTube logos and cramming them into an empty corner....
Today, filmmaking has espoused some of the most jaw-dropping technologies in viewable art. Here is a comprehensive guide on the top 6 tech innovations that have changed the film industry: 3D Technology It’s difficult to imagine any other configuration that has made a more relevent influence on the movie industry in such a short span of time than what 3D has done in recent years. After the far-fetched success of Avatar, studios were prompt to jump onto the new trend to release their own 3D films....
Check out the following six nutrition tips perfect for the busy entrepreneur. Make Eating Fresh Fruits And Vegetables Convenient According to the Harvard School of Public Health, eating a variety of fruits and vegetables each day is important for maintaining health and energy levels. They recommend keeping fruit on hand in a visible place so that you are more likely to choose it than junk food when you want a snack....
For those of you interested in finding an entry-level tech employee, the hiring process has the potential to feel like a shot in the dark. Recent graduates generally lack experience-packed resumes and often have a hard time articulating their interests and strengths. As the Class of 2013 makes their debut on the entry-level job market, it’s crucial to switch up your hiring methods to land a highly qualified match for your company....
Luckily, the industry continues to develop, and companies are coming out with software to boost your SEO efforts, at no initial cost. You can use these tools for enhancing your strategies until you garner enough revenue to move on to bigger and better tools. But the reality is, you’ll probably like some of these tools so much, you’ll stick with them instead of moving on to something more expensive. Without further ado, here’s a list of some of the most popular SEO tools in the industry....
The benefits of creating an organized workflow include: Keeping your team focusedManaging time and prioritize important tasks with your teamKeeping communication open for your entire team There are many tools available to help you create an organized and effective workflow. We created a list of our top free softwares to help your team be productive while staying on budget. Trello Trello is a great platform that enables an entire team to keep up with your colleagues’ to-do lists....
