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Women
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03.04.08It’s Like Prom Week. For Geeks.This morning, all fresh and recovered from last night's TechStars Open House party, I woke up to an email letting me know about the Daily Camera coverage of our efforts to reach out to women for TechStars. The word is getting out. With 27 days left until the deadline (and 12:01, April 1st, according to a 2007 TechStar, is one minute too late), this is good news. You have a little less than a month to get your app in. What are you waiting for? In about thirty minutes I'm heading to a Silicon Flatirons event. ...
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02.28.08Perfecting Your Pitch: Working it for the WomenThis Monday we had our third Boulder Women Engaging Tech meetup at The Cup. This week we all came armed with our copies of Getting Things Done. We're doing productivity work together as a team (Goldie covered GTD further on her blog). After thirty minutes or so of talking about contexts and how to delegate, we moved on to discuss a bit about tech evangelism - zealous advocacy of the tech cause. In other words, how to spread the word about your product or service. Technology evangelism is a hot topic around Boulder these days. We ...
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02.18.08My Sex Life, Your MoneyLet’s say you’re a woman of a certain age and you’re seeking funding for you startup from a Venture Capital firm. You don a skirt, heels and mascara and knock at the VC’s door. Somewhere during the conversation he "slips in" a question about your marital or reproductive status. The investor asks about what happens when you decide to have kids. If the question of reproduction seems an inappropriate one for a VC meeting, you might be right. One person I interviewed for this piece said, "On a pure legal level, it isn't appropriate. However, ...
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01.22.08My Love Affair with TechStars: Applications Now OpenIt started innocently enough. Last summer, the cloud of mystery that shrouded the Boulder tech community prior to the arrival of the TechStars intoxicated us. We knew a group of talented tech types was slated to descend on the area at any moment but when we asked for details we were told it was Top Secret. The only way you were getting into that secret society was if you knew a gatekeeper. I desperately wanted to know a gatekeeper. I met the TechStars one by one as summer progressed. I remember meeting Josh Fraser of Eventvue ...
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12.17.07Interview with Caroline Donahue - Get Inspired to Start!Caroline Donahue and I met on a breezy (read: so sticky our clothes clung to us like peels to bananas) evening in Chicago. We were both attending BlogHer and clicked instantly. I knew I loved Caroline because she has the passion, the wisdom and the guts that I admire in people. She writes about becoming an entrepreneur, gives awesome advice/inspiration for budding creative careerists and owns Remabulous Creative Career Design. She lives in sunny LA. Lucky girl! Our conversations are always uplifting and educational as this one in which we discuss entrepreneurship, money and doing what ...
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12.12.07Women in Tech are the Hairy Armpits of the 21st CenturyWalking around town yesterday, talking with a friend and fellow girl-geek, the subject of armpit hair came up. "It's like abortion," my friend says, "people are either violently for or against." We are both decidedly "for" it. I was a late bloomer, which is just a friendly way of saying 'socially inept,' all through school. My peers seemed to "understand" boys before me. They flirted voraciously on our long bus trips with the chorus or band to Florida or Virginia. Endless games of Suck and Blow went down in the back of the bus. Nobody ...
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