Don’t formally ask people to be your mentors. Adopt mentors informally and don’t tell them. By Sophia Perl (Product Manager, eBay) It’s been awhile since I’ve been out and about in the Valley. Last Saturday, I attended Santa Clara University’s Women in Business...
By Sophia Perl (Founder, PicPredict) The mobile gaming space is really exciting right now. Anyone notice that AT&T is offering the iPhone 3GS for $0 now? The user base (e.g., TAM) is rapidly growing and there are no dominant players in the space. Major game...
By Sophia Perl (Producer, PicPredict) People underestimate the power of networking within your workplace and out and about. At the workplace, people like to work for/with others who they respect and like (note: I used both respect and like, like alone is not enough)....
By Sophia Perl (Producer, PicPredict) I have a friend who’s writing a book on online film distribution. Every once in awhile we chat about startup topics. As a thank you to me for giving her awesome advice, she sent me a surprise book in the mail, ”Business Model...
By Sophia Perl (Producer, PicPredict) When I saw the title of the Meetup talk “High Performance Mobile” and that it was in the south bay, I was sold in an instant. Who doesn’t want to know how to make their mobile web apps go faster? The SF Web Performance Meetup talk...