December 2010
32 posts
Matt Langer: Where the ladies at? →
langer:
For a brief moment there from about 5pm on Sunday until 10am Monday morning it looked like our entire week would be consumed by chatter about Doree’s tech startup cover story—then Gizmodo disassembled an iPhone and the internet found something else to freak out about (a windfall for me, frankly, because the fewer people who read Zach Klein’s quote about how “the skill set required to...
"'The Kids Are All Right' faces a big obstacle in... →
How your Oscar sausage is made - with sausage!
More from Anne Thompson:
The Town and David O. Russell’s The Fighter. One movie that is not likely to be inside their wheelhouse: Lisa Cholodenko’s audience and critics’ hit, The Kids Are All Right. For those who think that the Academy proved itself not sexist by voting for Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker last year, not so fast. Bigelow was...
Resolutions Worth Making →
birchbox:
No more being lazy about SPF. I’ve been lectured by dermatologists, facialists, and skincare gurus for years and still I laze by with the modicum of sunscreen in my daily tinted moisturizer. No more. It’s SPF 30 everyday or bust.
A good, healthy New Year’s resolution from Birchbox. I’m lazy about SPF too and this is a good reminder. I just bought Oil of Olay with 15 SPF,...
WatchSheryl Sandberg’s TEDWomen talk. It’s excellent and inspiring, of course - I am far behind in posting it - but it is also very saddening. Two anecdotes stuck out: (1) The time she went to a tony private equity firm and they couldn’t direct her to the ladies room, because they didn’t know where it was, because they had not hosted any ladies to so direct; (2) Her account of...
Win Colleges →
nycswimmer:
Earlier this week we sat down with David Tisch to talk about our application to TechStars (we felt lucky to get an interview —there were 600 applicants)
One thing he said that we found interesting: colleges are the most overlooked resource for software startups—especially ones that rely on…
My smarty-pants MBA-turned-startup-striver Jocelyn Leavitt is on Tumblr! Booyah. She...
Equality Myth: In Which We Get a Girl Crush on... →
equalitymyth:
Newsweek’s Dan Lyons interviews Mayer for our end-of-year Interview issue (also check Jess Bennett’s excellent Dan Savage/Jane Lynch piece), and gets right to the good stuff:
Why are so few women working in the technology industry?
Well, it’s something that I care a lot about changing … I guess I was very lucky. I was always good at math and science, and I never realized...
"Female blogger: bloggers who write from a... →
maura:
You don’t say.
(HT: J)
Ha, I love how 50% of the population counts as “different.” And yet.
Mark Birch. Strong Opinions.: NY Tech Meetup... →
Mark Birch, one of the candidates for the New York Tech Meetup board, wrote the post below about the fact that of a slate of 16 candidates, none were female.
I knew this, of course. The call for the NYTM board membership went out a while ago and was tweeted, Facebooked, emailed and passed around accordingly, both in the NYTM community and in our various CTR threads.
Here’s the thing:...
Watchnakisnakis:
It’s the female trend and it’s the sustainability trend that are going to create some of the most interesting investment opportunities in the years to come. The whole thing about the female trend is not about women being better than men. It is actually about women being different from men—bringing different values and different ways to the table. So what do you get? You get...
Amanda Rose: Tweet-sized #TEDWomen Takeaways →
amandalindsayrose:
In Washington this week, TED held its first conference purely focused around women. Now perhaps like you, I was very curious what a TED Women event would look like, feel like and more importantly what messages it would it give us to share with the world to make a difference? I am still…
Great resource for those of us who couldn’t actually go!
TEDWomen Recap, Part 1: Why It's a Cult →
birchbox:
It’s official: TED is a drug. TEDWomen is barely over — I’m sure the exceedingly gracious International Trade Center staff is still dismantling the eco-modern Urban Zen-designed stage and taking down the Skype sessions that were broadcasting TEDx events throughout the event. But I’m…
How Birchbox Just Turned Me Into A Beauty Slave →
Turns out this whole supporting women-run startups thing is making me a bit of a junkie. I wore my Of A Kind scarf last night to keep warm as I perused dresses on Rent the Runway and then, in a moment of hunger-driven folly, Foodzie, because whywouldn’t it be smart to look at maple-honey-caramel-spread at 1 am? Trust me I wish I were in a place to need Amy Butte’s services at TILE...
“You got your job off a blog post?”
– Christina Cacioppo - Analyst at Union Square Ventures - We Are NY Tech (via fred-wilson)
Wowowow.
birchbox: TEDWomen (Or: Why I'm a Groupie) →
birchbox:
I was introduced to TED late. The conference, which stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, began in 1990 as a way of bringing together visionaries from across disciplines. Since the beginning, the conference has been known for showcasing the inspirational, the surprising, and the generally mind-blowing. But since TED was by invitation-only (and still is), only a certain...
Things That Scare Lauren Leto: Keeping Romance... →
thingsthatscarelaurenleto:
A couple of days ago an article came out in the NYTimes headined Keeping Romance Alive in the Age of Female Empowerment. A selected quote, “‘Men don’t want successful women, men want to be admired,’ she said. ‘It’s important to them that the woman is full of energy at night and not playing with…
Read this rant. I did, and now I don’t need to read the...
Six of NYC's Most Interesting Women in Tech →
fimoculous:
Take-down on Change The Ratio coming in… 5… 4… 3…
Not sure you read Change The Ratio, Rex - this is great and I’m glad you flagged it, because I missed it. Oh, wait, you mean, WHY ONLY SIX?!?!?!?!?! WHERE’S MY PITCHFORK??!?!?!??!
