On this show we often discuss how difficult it can be to break into the technology industry for anyone who isn’t a white male. The same inequalities can also be applied to the tech employee’s paycheck. According to Recode.net and Hired—a job site that helps place people [Read More]
As the number of smart home products increase, solutions to everyday problems are decreased. Many home devices are too pricey, too complicated to install, or work only a fraction of the time. Enter Twist Home, whose best-selling smart home product is one that works without any smart [Read More]
It’s said we make about 35,000 decisions on a typical day—what to wear, when to wake up, what to eat— but studies show all of these choices can lead to “decision fatigue,” which stems from the idea that each decision we make pulls from a single, limited [Read More]
Let’s say your best friend has to choose a label that sounds most like you. Which one would they pick? A. Dreamer or B. Doer? It’s questions like these that the founders of Pixies Did It ask their clients to create a personal, tailored system of organization according [Read More]
Andrea Miller comes from a background in finance and tech, having graduated from Tulane University with a BS in mechanical engineering and receiving her Master’s from Columbia Business School. From there Andrea worked at Goldman Sachs, ICF Consulting, and Enron’s international finance team [Read More]
In 2013, ForeignPolicy.com wrote an article about how to nab a top staff job in Obama’s White House. Its three tips included 1) be a rich donor, 2) Be a cabinet secretary’s protégé, or 3) work your butt off—Alyssa Mastromonaco opted for number 3. Alyssa’s new book [Read More]
In 1973, struggling waitress, Barbara Corcoran, received a $1,000 loan from an ex-boyfriend to open a real estate business selling apartments in Manhattan—and The Corcoran Group was born. By the mid-1970s, Barbara was publishing The Corcoran Report featuring real estate data developments in [Read More]
In 10 days Philadelphia will open its arms to the annual Women in Tech Summit, a two-day conference which aims to inspire, educate and connect women in the tech industry. The event will be a combo of workshops, panel discussions, and networking, all culminating into [Read More]
Bob Bland is a New York City fashion designer and the CEO and founder of Manufacture New York—a social enterprise geared at rethinking the fashion ecosystem with new ways of promoting indie apparel companies and local textile production for the 21st century. And if [Read More]
Catherine Hoke is the founder and CEO of Defy Ventures, a United States-backed nonprofit that transforms the street hustle skills of the formerly incarcerated into legal entrepreneurship. During Defy’s first year, they recruited 1,000 business executives who invested 8,000+ hours to help Entrepreneurs in Training—or [Read More]
