Kate BrodockThe founders of Girls Who Code and LearnVest, as well as an advisor to Twitter and Dropbox offer advice in this edition of our weekly reading guide.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
Where does the best advice come from? Not out of a book but from those who have been there before you, making mistakes that you can avoid and doing things the hard way so you can have it easier.
That’s why advice from successful female founders and tech industry execs in especially valuable, and why this week’s reading guide is so awesome. It’s jam-packed with advice from top female entrepreneurs. Plus, we threw in some fun posts about the accelerating drone industry, the forgotten history of Apple, and Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition for spice. Enjoy!
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Why Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani’s favorite productivity hack is the humble to-do list.
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Now that’s a resume! Management lessons from three failed startups, Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter and Square
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Want to make sure none of those pesky technical women mess up the brogrammer culture at your startup? Here are 8 tips to keep female talent away.
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The tech sector isn’t just driving up rents in San Francisco, it’s also doing something about homelessness. [May require tissues].
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Alexa von Tobel of Learnvest offers eight essential lessons for entrepreneurs.
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“At first, investors thought drones were not a market…. Then, around nine months ago, they realized they were one.”
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Work long hours? Building the right culture can help your team cope.
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What does Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Google’s of YouTube have in common?
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Congrats to female-founded CloudFlare on its recent acquisition of StopTheHacker.
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Megan Smith on the lost memory of the woman who helped found Apple.
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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