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A Bath For Your Business Brain

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I have found that podcasts that I listen to while running or exercising tend to affect and stick with me much more effectively than those that I listen to while working at a computer. By Courtney Powell (Founder & CEO, PublikDemand)

A good friend once told me that running is like a “bath for your business brain”. It’s absolutely true.

My co-founders and I took up running as a team about four months ago as a way to relieve stress, keep focused and counterbalance our startup diet.

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Crowdsourced Children’s Apparel Startup One Jackson, Founded By CEO Anne Raimondi, Acquired By TaskRabbit

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Children's clothing startup to shut down as team joins TaskRabbit. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Former SurveyMonkey VP of Marketing Anne Raimondi launched One Jackson earlier this year to disrupt the $1.5 billion kids clothing market by enabling independent designers to produce lines of clothes through design challenges and consumer voting contests.

The early-stage children's clothing startup had raised a $2 million in seed capital. These investors include four high-profile women investors who also happen to be moms - Aileen Lee (Kleiner Perkins

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PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition: ActivityHero, CitizenMade, NewlyWish Nab Awards At PITCH Conference

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Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, the 10 finalists presented live to a panel of investors serving as judges for the PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition. These finalists were selected from over 260 applications for PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition. Over 30 investors as judges evaluated the applications and selected these 10 finalists to present live during Global Entrepreneurship Week for prizes.

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Women In Engineering: Why A Co-Ed Dev Team Is Good For Business

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The problem isn’t that women are unable to complete the requirements associated with these jobs — the problem is that women simply aren’t making the decision to. By Maria Renhui Zhang (Founder & CEO, Alike)

It’s undeniable — there are simply fewer women than men in the various fields of engineering. In the software/technology industry particularly, there exists between a 5:1 and 10:1 ratio of men to women. This disparity is made worse by the fact that female engineers have double the chance of men to leave

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