Radio Recap: The Comedy Biz
Tina Fey once said, “If you want to make an audience laugh, dress a man like an old lady and push him down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push a real old lady down the stairs.” Strangely, evolutionary psychiatrist Dr. Gil Greengross agrees. In his blog, Humor Sapiens—hosted on [Read More]
Radio Recap: Event Marketing 2.0
Over a century ago people promoted fairs, balls, and marriages with a good, old fashioned paper invite. Yet, once again, analog has been replaced with digital—which means if you don’t have an email address or a Facebook account you could miss out on your own family reunion. According to theUS Bureau of Labor Statistics, there [Read More]
Radio Recap: The Entertainment Gap
Earlier this year, Academy Award Best Actress-winner, Frances McDormand, said two words that shook up Hollywood: “Inclusion Rider.” To further highlight Hollywood’s inequality problem, two studies from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism came out this year, both re-confirming the fact that Tinseltown is still predominantly “pale and male.” But the problem [Read More]
Radio Recap: Science Fair—The Documentary
“Seven million compete but only one will win.” That’s the premise of Cristina Constantini and Darren Foster’s award-winning documentary, Science Fair. Science Fair follows nine children around the world on their journey to Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair—otherwise known as ISEF. Each May, more than 1500 students from roughly 70 countries and territories compete at [Read More]
Radio Recap: Digital Knowledge Management
Once upon a time a business website was the centerpiece of a consumer’s digital experience. Now 73% of traffic is happening offpersonal websites. Search engines, maps, directories, voice, and chat interfaces have created a new channel where customers can engage with brands and it’s just as important to manage these services as it is your own [Read More]
Radio Recap: Partnering Up
William Procter and James Gamble, Henry Wells and William Fargo, Ben and Jerry, Penn and Teller — these are just a few successful business partnerships— and they’re all men. But partnerships provide an underutilized and effective tool for female-run startups because, for one, women understand the need for flexibility, especially considering that 66% of family [Read More]
Radio Recap: Self-Made Women
Paul Slipper's Self-Made Woman installation What does it mean to be “self-made”? Forbes magazine has been receiving all sorts of opinions on the matter after featuring Kylie Jenner as the youngest “self-made billionaire” on its cover. Everyone from her sister, Kim Kardashian, to Webster’s Dictionary has chimed in with their thoughts on what [Read More]
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]