Tag: women’s leadership

The Different Life Trajectories of Women-Led Startups

January 18, 2015 0 Comments
The Different Life Trajectories of Women-Led Startups

The problem when you leave a gender equity lens out of entrepreneurship or business development isn’t that men don’t create good businesses; to echo Buffett, it’s that you create the conditions for essentially wasting half the world’s talent. You stop businesses from being the best they can be, you stop ideas that happen to come from women before they get off the ground.

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5 Books for Women Artists/Writers, or 5 Books That Changed Everything

August 29, 2011 0 Comments
5 Books for Women Artists/Writers, or 5 Books That Changed Everything

If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland At 17, although I knew I loved writing, I had a hard time getting words on paper. I remember struggling with one assignment in particular, visiting a professor one day to finally ask for help. She recommended this book to me, which was the most helpful thing she […]

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Lessons from Accidental Entrepreneurship

March 30, 2010 0 Comments
Lessons from Accidental Entrepreneurship

Originally published by Color Magazine I grew up disliking the word “business.” I felt distrustful of most businesses and was tired of the sell. I didn’t want to think about money because we didn’t have enough of it. Now, at 25, I call myself an accidental entrepreneur and spend my time thinking about how to […]

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