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 [Read More]
“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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
