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By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
This week we have good news from female-founded Coursera and Women 2.0 Influencer Dinner sponsor Sprig. Plus, there are how to’s on intriguing topics like keeping it simple in the midst of startup craziness and quadrupling the number of female CS majors. Read on for our Friday round up of the posts and articles that got up talking at Women 2.0 HQ this week.
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How one college went from 10% female computer-science majors to 40%.
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Big news at female-founded Coursera: they’ve brought on a new CEO and he’s a former President of Yale.
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Spanx inventor Sara Blakely shares her top five startup tips.
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Maxine Bédat and Soraya Darabi, cofounders of Zady, explain how they keep their focus (and don’t let email rule their day).
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Women 2.0 conference speaker Kay Koplovitz responds to the NY Times Magazine story on ageism in tech: When young dudes dominate, it’s not only their dads that lose out. Young women do too.
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Awesome (and incredibly tasty) influencer dinner sponsor Sprig just raised $10 million in series A funding. Congrats!
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Matt Hancock, executive director of the Chicago Tech Academy High School, to women entering the tech world: forget all the “Dos and Don’ts.” That’s just baggage. Leap in and show up as you are.
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Craig Newmark celebrates six women who are really disrupting the startup world with social change.
What got you talking this week?
Jessica Stillman (@entrylevelrebel) is an editor at Women 2.0 and a freelance writer with interests in unconventional career paths, generational differences, and the future of work. She writes a daily column for Inc.com, contributes regularly to Forbes and has blogged for CBS MoneyWatch, GigaOM and Brazen Careerist, among others.
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