Published on: April 16, 2013 – 9:00 am
Philosophical discussions of the choices of CEO moms are fascinating, but how do executive women in the trenches actually make it work day to day? One founder offers her advice.
By Kakul Srivastava (CEO & Co-founder, TomFoolery)
Though the debates raging about leaning in or installing a nursery in your office have been fascinating to read, they miss the point of helping women (and all parents) figure how to really make it work. Thriving children, ambitious career, happy spouse, and sanity is it really possible to have it all?
As a startup CEO without enormous cash flow, an amazing (but also hard-working) husband, and two adorable (but young) kids, I’ve been juggling this conundrum for some time. My answer yes, absolutely. Read More »
Published on: April 11, 2013 – 8:00 am
Wish you had an extra hour (or two) to squeeze everything into your day? Then this founder’s list of extremely practical tips is for you.
By Pamela Hawley (Founder & CEO, UniverrsalGiving)
My heart goes out to all women who are trying to “lean in” and do it all. Being great leaders, moms, wives, business professionals and givers to our communities is a beautiful life, and a lot. As a CEO, I need to stay balanced, rested and calm for myself, my team, and my parents, nephews and niece.
If am not calm and rested, then I impact everyone around me. Read More »
Published on: April 4, 2013 – 11:00 am
Female execs in finance fear they haven’t done enough to make their industry more friendly to women, reports the New York Times. Could the same be said of tech?
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
It’s wonderful when women reach the top of traditionally male-dominated industries, but do they have a responsibility to make the climb easier for the women coming up after them?
That’s the question posed in a recent New York Times DealBook piece Read More »
Published on: April 2, 2013 – 6:00 am
Who says kids and startups don’t mix? For this founder, her family not only inspired the idea behind her startup, but was also instrumental in getting it up and running.
By Rehana Shrestha (Founder & CEO, Nurturize)
I bootstrapped and launched Nurturize while being a full-time working mother of two young kids. I have founded and owned other businesses in the past, but I realized that starting a business while taking care of kids would be quite challenging to say the least. However, I am a firm believer that nothing is impossible, and it turns out my family wasn’t simply a challenge; it was also instrumental to getting my startup off the ground. Read More »
Published on: April 1, 2013 – 7:00 am
High-powered jobs in tech meant Jaleh Bisharat couldn’t spend as much time with her daughter as she would have liked. Now that her daughter is grown, Bisharat asks her for her impressions of a childhood with a busy working mother.
By Jaleh Bisharat (VP of Marketing, oDesk)
At 17, I boarded a plane in Tehran, to do something few Iranian girls did. Instead of getting married at that age like my mother, I braved a 6,000-mile journey for a Harvard education, and ultimately a career.
That career has been fulfilling, but I’ve asked myself that familiar guilty question: what effect has this had on my daughter?
I’m starting to find out. Read More »
Published on: March 29, 2013 – 11:00 am
“I saw a family raising money for their baby’s heart transplant. They needed $300,000 and they were trying to do it a quarter at a time. I remember thinking: If they could do it over the Internet, it would be so much more successful.” – Desiree Vargas Wrigley, GiveForward co-founder.
By Carly Keyes (Staff Writer, Silicon Rust Belt)
A chance meeting started Desiree Vargas Wrigley on the road to entrepreneurship.
Born in Costa Rica, Wrigley moved to Kansas at age three. After graduating from Yale with a B.A. in Latin American Studies, she got a job at a restaurant. That might not sound like a promising start to becoming a successful entrepreneur, but one day she waited on a guy who works at the Kauffman Foundation Read More »
Published on: March 28, 2013 – 7:00 am
Mauria Finley learned the value of recruiting moms from stints as an executive at eBay and PayPal. Now she’s putting that insight to use at her new startup Citrus Lane – and it’s paying off big time.
By Mauria Finley (CEO & founder, Citrus Lane)
In recent weeks, two news stories from prominent business leaders have captured widespread attention: Marissa Mayer’s decision to eliminate certain flexible work policies at Yahoo! and the publication of Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean In. Both topics have ignited debate about working mothers, specifically what they need to do to succeed and how corporate policy can help or hinder their career growth.
At Citrus Lane, we have a very simple perspective: We are succeeding because we’re hiring moms, not despite hiring moms. Read More »
Published on: March 25, 2013 – 10:00 am
The truth is, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because you have to decide what you want, not “them,” not “the racists,” not “the sexists.”
By Carla Rover (Editor, The Advertising Technology Review)
Do you remember how stubborn you were as a child? Probably every night, if you were like me, you had another completely original idea why you didn’t need to go to bed just yet. You raised the same – but slightly different – brilliant idea every evening, completely unaffected by the fact that you rarely, if ever, won.
You can’t win in American business, as an entrepreneur or an executive, unless you maintain that same child-like unwillingness to fail. Read More »
Published on: March 22, 2013 – 9:00 am
Gili Golander had three kids under eight and another job in Israel when she got into DreamIt Ventures in New York. How did she make it all work?
By Gili Golander (Co-founder & Style Director, Bazaart)
It was exactly one year ago that three young men came to my house for coffee and a chat. We did not know each over before that — a mutual friend set us up. I just had my third child six months before. I had left my well paid, nice, safe job at the user experience department of an international company, and I was working on making a career change that I’ve been dreaming about for ages, from software to fashion. Little did I know that our lives would soon be so intertwined Read More »
Published on: March 20, 2013 – 11:00 am
Entrepreneur and single mom Angela Min was pondering the idea of “leaning in” long before Sheryl Sandberg’s book came out. Here’s what the phrase means to her.
By Angela Min (Co-Founder, Storybox)
I’m co-founder of a site called Storybox and also a single mom to a six-year-old girl. “Leaning in” is a constant theme of my life. On the surface, it’s an issue of time and money. Who’ll watch my daughter after school and how much will that cost? But what’s the cost of missing an important meeting? It’s nearly impossible to separate “work” from “life”. A decision on one thing ripples out to affect everything else. Read More »
