How not to run a Hackathon. [Updated with response from Salesforce.] By Alicia Liu (Senior Software Engineer, Lift Worldwide) A month ago, Salesforce announced that this year’s Dreamforce, their big splashy annual conference, was going to feature a hackathon with the...
By Alicia Liu (Co-Founder, RivalMetrics) This is a version of the lightning talk I gave at the Women Who Code Meet Up last month. It’s in the context of why startup founders should code, but can be applied to anyone on a small tech startup team. #1 – Understand...
By Alicia Liu (Product Manager/Mobile Developer, Select Start) You’re probably frustrated by Stop SOPA Day today, your work is going slow because Wikipedia is blacked out, and you can’t amuse yourself because Reddit is out too, and you’ve already signed Google’s...
By Alicia Liu (Product Manager/Mobile Developer, Select Start) Lego is at it again: trying to make Lego appeal to girls. The introduction of “Lego Friends” should be good news right? With evidence that Lego is a gateway to science and engineering, and that playing...
By Alicia Liu (Co-Founder, Benbria) An Inc. article was posted a few weeks ago provocatively titled “The Case Against the All-Male Start-up”, and the same story appeared in Business Insider under “TRUTH: Women-Led Startups Have Fewer Failures”. The article cites a...