Ready, set, go: here’s how to make your next pitch count. By Elvina Beck (Founder, PodShare.co) For anyone who LOVES to pitch, on or off stage, you know it’s an identification game. Your job is to identify with complete strangers on a subject you are passionate...
Making the move from techie to founder can be a tricky business, so learn from these five tips. By Anindita Banik (Founder & CEO, Appnovation) After spending more than 10 years in multiple technology roles in some of the largest tech companies, I was bitten by the...
If our San Francisco City Meetup speaker had listened to all the advice she’d heard, she wouldn’t be running a successful startup today. By Evgeniya (Jen) Usmanova (Founder & COO, CareLuLu) Any advice you get should be taken with a grain of salt (including mine!)...
Get inspired and head straight for the top. By Elena Foukes Lucas (Co-founder & CEO, UtilityAPI) One year ago, I was the lowest-level analyst at a Fortune 200 company. Now, I’m a co-founder and CEO. Two catalysts began my year-long path to entrepreneurship:...
Countless tweaks and revisions improved the flow of the story and finally, after weeks of agonizing over every word, our pitch came together. By Andrea Johnson (Co-Founder & CEO, ThisLife) “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it...