Risks and benefits of crowdsourcing- tips on protecting your idea
According to wikipedia, “Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.” (wikipedia) Even though the concept of crowdsourcing has been …
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Dallas Start-Up Weekend- Women in Business
You might not know it, but Dallas has some pretty incredible female entrepreneurs! Why is Dallas a great place for female entrepreneurs? Find out by joining be for StartUp Weekend, which is a global grassroots organization. This May 29-31, join me at Dallas Startup Weekend: Women’s …
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Dallas Blogger Collective’s Speed Chatt
Join me Thursday from 6:30-8:30pm @ ALTO 211 in Downtown Dallas for the Dallas Blogger Collective’s Speed Chatt event.
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Catherine Engelbert, First CEO of a major consulting company
Later this week when Catherine Engelbert officially takes her new position as CEO of Deloitte she will be making a little bit of business history as the first woman to ever be the CEO of a major accounting or consulting company. In her interview with CNBC’s …
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Infographic of Women in the Workplace
I found this great infographic showing how the percentage of women decreases as you go up the corporate ladder. This is interesting because it shows that the gender gap doesn’t exist suddenly at the top, but is gradually incrementally increased at every progressive level.
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Forbes 20 Richest Women
When reading Forbes magazine about the 20 richest women there are several things that immediately stuck out at me. First the articles itself stated: “Many of the women among the billionaires ranks inherited their wealth from either their husbands or their fathers. Just 29 of …
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Net Neutrality and the Open Internet Order
In case you missed it last week the FCC published the new Open Internet Order, which reclassifies broadband internet as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act. These new rules provide that Broadband providers cannot block content Broadband providers cannot prioritize any …
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Business not going well? What would a hot shot do?
Sometimes when our business isn’t doing well we need to take a fresh perspective. What would an objective outsider, a hot shot, want to change about my businesses? But more importantly we need to ask that question even if our business is doing well. Sometimes …
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$16 million dollar gender bias case against- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Have you been following the recent gender bias case in which Ellen Pao is suing Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for $16 million dollars? The case reflects growing tensions within the tech and venture capital industries where women are underrepresented at all levels. Is Ms. Pao, who …
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Dressing like a lawyer
A recent article in Inside Higher Ed titled, Brains Not Clothes, brings up an important point that applies to pretty much all professional women or those that live under public scrutiny. We see a congressman jogging and the comments are about how he keeps his routine …
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