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Prosperity Candle Holiday Gifts That Give Back (Made By Women For Women)

Editor11 December 2011

Siiri Morley (Founding Partner, Prosperity Candle)

For many of us, the holidays begin to feel devoid of meaning and more like an endless to do list. Are the holidays really about finding the best deal or buying unwanted gifts that don’t inspire? The holiday season, at its best, should be about sharing, giving back and creating a deeper connection with loved ones. And for women like the ones reading this blog, it would be ideal to also be able to support and promote women as business leaders and change-makers.

With the new gift collection from Prosperity Candle, you can avoid the typical frenzy of holiday gift shopping and find

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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: Achieving Work-Family Balance

Editor10 December 2011

By Kamelia Angelova (Contributor, Business Insider) The norm among professionals has been that if you are doing well at work, you have no personal life.

But Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has found a simple rule that allows her to have a flourishing career and a happy family life. She and her husband (David Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey) have split their responsibilities at the home equally and have prioritized both of their careers, not just hers.

Watch the exclusive clip below where Sandberg talks

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Partner Event: Save 20% On The Health Innovation Summit (January 18-20, 2012 in San Francisco)

Editor9 December 2011

The Health Innovation Summit brings great digital health solutions to market on January 18-20, 2012 in San Francisco, CA. Learn from experts about needs, opportunities, and stakeholders in the healthcare system, open technical challenges, digital health business models, technology platforms, and how to design great user experiences. Speakers include Linda Avey (Co-Founder, 23andme), Aza Raskin (Co-Founder, Massive Health), Nick Ganju (Co-Founder, ZocDoc), Rowan Chapman (Partner, MDV) and more.

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Mentors Are Like Mushrooms: Avoid The Toxic Ones!

Editor9 December 2011

By Franck Nouyrigat (Co-Founder & CTO, Startup Weekend) In the last couple of years, I have seen more and more incubators growing and more and more “mentors” helping them. My concern is in regard to the drop of quality I see in mentoring -- not to mention that most of the entrepreneurs don’t know how to recognize a bad one…

If you want to go to the root of it, I recommend reading the blog posts of Steve Blank and David Cohen about mentors.

I agree with the semantic differences between a teacher, mentor and coach (here to simplify, I just call them mentors as most of the people falsely do).

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Pipeline Fellowship Opens Call for Applications for Spring 2012 Pitch Summit Series

Editor9 December 2011

By A. Lauren Abele (COO, Pipeline Fellowship) The Pipeline Fellowship, which trains women philanthropists to become angel investors, has opened a call for applications from women social entrepreneurs interested in presenting their businesses to its Boston and NYC Pipeline Fellows.

Women-led startups will present to investors who “get” their social mission, as well as their for-profit business structure, and will have the opportunity to secure an investment up to $50,000 by the Pipeline Fellows.

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Retrofit: Data-Driven Weight Loss With A FitBit And Withings Scale

Editor9 December 2011

By Brad Feld (Managing Director, Foundry Group) If you’re a regular reader, you know about my interest in the quantified self and exercise. You also know my struggle with losing that “last 20 pounds” which I’ve finally decided I am going to do once and for all. As part of this, I’m using a new program called Retrofit which was created by Jeff Hyman, a long time friend and entrepreneur, and some of the leading weight loss experts in the country.

Retrofit uses a Fitbit and a Withings scale to make tracking your sleep, activity and weighing yourself easy. Your data is shared with your personal weight loss team:

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Hiring And Interviewing Product Managers

Editor8 December 2011

By Cindy Alvarez (Senior Product Manager & User Experience, Yammer) The biggest risk in hiring product people is… THE UNKNOWN.

What if we hire this person and they aren’t able to execute?
What if they can’t negotiate with our engineers?
What if they can’t operate under conditions of uncertainty?
What if they worry over every little detail until they’ve totally missed the big picture?
What if they just say “yes” to everything so we lose our focus?
What if they blithely accept our broken processes and bad habits so that we keep making the same mistakes?

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Women 2.0 Startup Weekend Virgin to Addict In 54 Hours

Editor8 December 2011

By Jenn Viane Riese (Founder, Modern Humanity) I’m no techie. I’m the Executive Director of a non-profit and I own a consulting company. I thought Ruby on Rails was a strip club. Admit it, it’s a great name for one. I didn’t think I had any right to attend Startup Weekend but I did have an idea, my passion project. Seeing it fail before even getting the chance to try -- that was scarier than trying to find common ground in a room full of engineers.

Still I felt I’d be an alien, a fish out of water, a dork trying to fit in. Would everyone think my pitch was lame? Yes, I was convinced. I’d have to go home on Friday night because no one would want to help build my team and no one would find me valuable to theirs.

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Patterns Of Parties, And The SMS Messages That Preceed Them

Editor8 December 2011

By Larry Chiang (CEO, Duck9 & Stanford University EIR) Parties have patterns.

Like many women, I get invited to a lot of uber cool things last minute. Of course, I had to toil years in the basement suite, kiss parent company ass, write 300 blog posts at BusinessWeek, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, GigaOm, Xconomy and pen a NY Times bestseller to get half the invites all y'all get...

So when I get invited, I don't say no.

I don't say no because I had

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How To Get More Women in Tech: Don’t Call Yourself A Girl (Video)

Editor8 December 2011

By Meredith Lepore (Contributor, The Grindstone) “If you want to be respected in tech as a woman, don’t call yourself a girl. See if we start referring to all the women who work in tech as women, then we will have a lot more women when we get rid of the girls. And when I say women, I mean people who menstruate and pay taxes.” -- Caroline Drucker in her amazing presentation on How To Get More Women in Tech in Under A Minute at Ignite NYC.

Though the video is humorous at times, Caroline makes a profound point about semantics.