Category: Diversity
Not all entrepreneurs are 30-year-old guys
Barbara Sprenger Contributor Barbara Sprenger does double duty as CEO of The Satellite Centers, a network of flexible workspaces, and Satellite DeskWorks, cloud-based software to manage co-work spaces, executive suites and corporate flexible space. All co-working isn’t WeWork . And not all entrepreneurs are 30-year-old guys. I know this well,…
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All Raise CEO Pam Kostka on how the world isn’t ending
‘What we know for certain is that the next great companies are born from these correction cycles’ Natasha Mascarenhas @nmasc_ / 7 hours This isn’t the first economic downturn All Raise CEO Pam Kostka has been through. “I was here during the dot-com bust and rush, and here during the…
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Sponsors could be key to solving tech’s lack of gender diversity
Rebecca Henderson Contributor Rebecca Henderson is the CEO of Global Businesses and executive board member at Randstad. Women pioneered the field of computer technology. Yet, in 2020, the sector is still dominated by men. Though the industry has made efforts toward achieving diversity and inclusion, progress has been slow, with only 26%…
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Inside the effort to turn startups into zebras, not unicorns
The priorities of venture capitalists don’t always align with those of startup founders and their workers. That’s why we’ve started to see more conversation and activity around cooperatives and the idea of Exiting to Community, spearheaded by Nathan Schneider, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.…
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The rise of the winged pink unicorn
Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an angel investor and bestselling author of nine books that have been published in more than a dozen countries. An early employee at Twitter, she was called “The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter” by Wired and holds an MBA and other degrees…
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Black haircare startup Naza Beauty just raised $1 million from Alexis Ohanian’s Initialized Capital
As we all saw in Oscar-winning short film Hair Love, black hair is beautiful, but it’s also notoriously difficult to manage. One of the first hair memories Naza founder and CEO Natanya Montgomery has is of her mom brushing her hair into three afro puffs on the top of her…
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