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In The World Of Tech, Women Can Have It All

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This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Michal Tsur (Co-Founder & President, Kaltura) & Leah Belsky (VP of Strategy, Kaltura)

The blossoming tech startup generation, and the new wave of professional women seeking success in the workplace and at home don’t always cross paths. Tech industries suffer from a noticeable lack of strong female leadership at the top, while powerful women have mostly flocked to traditional industries. Although the concept of “having it all” might itself be elusive, it’s time that women who value both a rich home life and a fulfilling career explore the tech startup world.

In July/August 2012 the Atlantic Monthly featured an article that soon became the publication’s most popular piece

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Why Would I Sell My Company, Anyway?

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The mistake business owners make when selling a company is not laying the groundwork soon enough. By Tanya Marvin-Horowitz (NY Managing Director, Allegiance Capital)

I make a living representing people who want to sell their company. Whenever I mention that to a group of entrepreneurs, there’s always one person who gives a horrified gasp: “My company is who I am! How could I ever think about selling it?”

I get that. The idea of selling your company can seem as ridiculous as selling your child. But one day your child is going to grow up and go to college. That might mean selling all of the business, selling part of it, or passing it down to family members. I can guarantee that one day you won’t be running the show, and it’s in the best

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Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” More Aspirational Than Inspirational

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I’d love to read about Sandberg’s career moves at 29. By Meghan Casserly (Writer, Forbes)

On Thursday, AllThingsDigital announced that Sheryl Sandberg’s first book, titled Lean In will be released by Knopf for publish in 2013. The title, described by Kara Swisher as a full of research and data and anecdotes of the experience of being one of the most talked-about women in tech, is meant to encourage and engage women in the workforce through the Facebook COO’s own story.

But Lean In is no memoir — that wouldn’t do from the woman who challenges women to work harder-better-faster-stronger no matter the cost — although we’d sure curl up with a cup of tea and read it.

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Female Founders To Watch: Women Entrepreneurs Moonlighting As Angel Investors

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This week, we celebrate women entrepreneurs who are building startups and investing in startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We at Women 2.0 love when women entrepreneurs exit startups and invest in other startups.

We especially love when women entrepreneurs who exit fund other women entrepreneurs, given that 15% of angel investors are women - and these women often have access and connections with women entrepreneurs (who lack traditional networks for investment).

Here are 5 women entrepreneurs to watch building their own companies - and helping to fund other early-stage ventures:

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The Importance Of Developing “The Pitch” – And Why It Matters

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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 well enough." - Albert Einstein

This great quote perfectly sums up a critical challenge for entrepreneurs. At some point early in the process of developing our “big idea", we inevitably need to explain it to other people: friends, family, potential team members or advisors.  That explanation is the pre-curser, the early ancestor, of what will later become our "pitch".

Pitch sometimes seems like a bad word, like a 5-letter version of a 4-letter word.  It can suggest disposability and insincerity,

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Hacker School: Day 90

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90 days later, we go back out into the real world, egos in check, building code of consequence, and destroying stereotypes. By Martha Kelly Girdler (Alumnus, Hacker School)

I’m sitting in a cafe in Brooklyn, exhausted, disoriented, and happy. I’m thinking to myself, “Holy (enter your own choice expletive here). I did it, I finished Hacker School.”

I look back at my post recapping the first day and it’s clear the rules of Hacker School permeate our lives, and it feels completely natural. Several Hacker Schoolers have told me how strange the outside world feels now.

During my time at Hacker School, I’ve built my own CSS preprocessor in JavaScript and a static site generator in Python.

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Starting Up, Finding A Forcing Function And Building A Story

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Multiple times, we discovered the value of real, external deadlines, despite the added stress and workload they bring.

By Michelle Norgan (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Kismet)

A year and a half ago I founded Kismet, a social discovery app that connects you to your existing friends in the real world by simplifying getting together face to face. In that year and a half, our product went from virtually unknown to one of the most frequently cited examples in the very hot ambient social networking/social discovery space.

Multiple times, we discovered the value of real, external deadlines, despite the added stress and workload they bring.

Here are a few strategies that helped us make that transition.

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After A Year Of Learning, I’m Officially A Software Engineer!!!!

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I also found that I now can’t wait to wake up in the morning just so I can keep coding and making stuff. By Natasha Murashev (Software Engineer, Hipmunk)

Learning to code is one the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I can’t believe I actually stuck to it and didn’t quit. To be honest, I actually did quit a few times, for a few days or weeks in a row at a time, but I then came back to it and kept going.

It’s been almost a year since I first decided to learn to code, and what a year! Over the past year, I’ve completed the Stanford CS106A Java course for free online, learned Ruby via rubylearning.org and through fun side projects, started learning Rails via Michael Hartl’s Ruby on Rails tutorial, and completed Dev Bootcamp, which

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How To Brainstorm A Conference Talk Proposal

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It is not important that you haven’t spoke at PyCon or another conference before. But do prove that why you should now. Taken from Brainstorming: Writing a PyCon Proposal. By Lynn Root (Founder, PyLadies San Francisco)

While this post is for PyCon, the US-based conference for Python developers, users, educators, and everyone with an interest in Python, this advice can apply to any language-centric conferences, even the topic suggestions themselves.

"Hey you! Ever thought about submitting a proposal?" "What? oh no, no no no." "Why not?" "What would I talk about? I have nothing to say!"

So how about this:

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Moms Working Full Time The Norm, Not The Exception

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Don’t be fooled by Atlantic headlines or even perhaps your social circle. The question is not if but how. By Laura Yecies (CEO, SugarSync)

Since a picture’s worth a thousand words, this blog post can be short.

Take a look at the below chart from the US Department of Health and Human Services website.

Many, many American women to the tune of tens of millions are today working full-time while caring for their children under 18. This number has increased nearly 50% in the last 40 years.

The attention drawn by the Anne-Marie Slaughter piece and others are distracting people from this reality.

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31 Practical Tips For Future 500 Startups Founders

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Learn the ins & outs of moving to Mountain View - make the most of your time in the 500 Startups program. By Courtney Powell (Founder & CEO, PublikDemand)

The start of the new 500 Startups cohort is approaching quickly.

Prior to the start of our batch, I found myself scrambling to learn the ins and outs of moving to Mountain View and finding ways to make the most of our time in the program.

Big thanks to all of the 500 family that made us feel at home!

My cofounders and I decided to keep a list of tips for future 500 founders in hopes of making your soon to be busy lives a bit easier.

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Women In Healthcare Technology: “We Need A Healthcare Revolution!”

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The commonality between these four female CEOs of health tech companies is easy - play a role in the revolution of the healthcare technology industry. By Radostina Stoycheva (Business Development, SweetWater Health)

The healthcare system is broken and we all know it. So what are we doing about it? Or more specifically, what are women doing about?

Most recently, Rock Health has been rounding up women in health with their “xx in health” week. The statistics speak for themselves - women make up 73% of medical and health services managers, but only 14% of healthcare VC partners and 4% of healthcare CEOs.

We spoke with four women in charge of health technology companies. We raised some questions

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To Start Up Or To SU-Up?

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Our upcoming Kickstarter campaign will provide us with the promotional push and funding needed to take our social enterprise to the next level. By Melissa McCoy (Partner & Vice President of Engineering, TOHL)

After graduating in May, I had two choices: I could head down to Chile and join my three partners in developing TOHL, our water social enterprise, or I could travel to Silicon Valley to participate in Singularity University’s 10-week Graduate Studies summer program.

Both were attractive choices, but choosing either could mean giving up the opportunity of a lifetime.

My TOHL partners, Ben Cohen, Travis Horsley, and Apoorv Sinha, and I had been working for over a year on developing TOHL’s technology: a low-cost water pipeline installation method that has the potential to connect the nearly 1 billion people without clean water

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