Radio Recap: Venture Capital by the Experts
Jay-Z, Madonna, Kobe Bryant and Ellen DeGeneres are just a few big names who’ve made waves in venture capitalism. Nowadays it’s not uncommon to see Olympic athletes setting up incubation funds, baseball legends investing in video conferencing services, rappers funding seed-stage tech, and heavyweight champions backing recruitment startups. While some go it alone as angel [Read More]
Radio Recap: LGBT Business Enterprises
Happy Pride Month! New York City’s 50thannual Pride March celebrated the LGBTQ+ community with over 40,000 marchers and 100 floats, all celebrating this year’s theme, Defiantly Different. The NYC Pride co-chair said the theme was showcasing the power in all the defiantly different LBGT community members. Standing defiantly different in solidarity, we’re showcasing LBGT businesses [Read More]
Radio Recap: Black Women Talk Tech
Black women are the leading sector of business starters in the US yet of all the venture capital distributed, 10% of funds go to non-white male founders with only .2% going to black female founders. This is $36,000 compared to the average $1.2 million awarded to leading recipients. This past March, Black Women Talk Tech [Read More]
Radio Recap: #MeToo & the Workplace
From standup comedy to tech to Hollywood, and just about every industry in-between, have all been affected by #MeToo—and with the outstanding number of those who’ve experienced sexual harassment it’s no wonder why. In February, Stop Street Harassment released results from its national survey revealing 81% of women and 43% of men have experienced some [Read More]
Radio Recap: ADHD & Entrepreneurship
What do Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, actress Whoopi Goldberg, and brokerage founder Charles Schwab all have in common? They’re all successful entrepreneurs living with adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. According to the American Journal of Psychiatry, more than 4 percent of the adult population has ADHD and to some of [Read More]
Radio Recap: The Rise of Long Form Content
In an era when attention spans are shorter than ever, long-form content is making a comeback. Whether it’s in the theater, on the sofa, or at a desk, creators are asking audiences to stay in their seats…for several hours. Take the Broadway hit, “Angels in America” a 7-hour-and-30 minute performance broken up into two evenings. [Read More]
Radio Recap: Brain Hacking
From classical music to transcranial direct-current stimulation to the Mediterranean diet to nootropics, the days of only using 10% of our brain are over. Reporter David Adam claimed to have boosted his IQ using electrical brain stimulation. His goal was to supercharge his brain for a Mensa exam the following week, and it worked—he’s now [Read More]
Radio Recap: Building Entrepreneurs
Innovator and inventor, Thomas Edison, once said, “Vision without execution is hallucination,” and my guests today can attest to the importance of vision in starting successful entrepreneurial careers. Long before Sachin Dev Duggal became the Chief Wizard at Engineer.ai (Chief Wizard is his official title—how cool is that?),Sachin was an advocate of the environment, having [Read More]