In a recent interview about women entrepreneurship, Linda Alepin, Founding Director of Global Women’s Leadership Network and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University, pointed to women leaders’ ability to take risks and to transform their roles from doers to enablers as the keys to growing their businesses beyond the $500,000 threshold. By Nancy Lin [...]
Posts Tagged "Steve Jobs"
Searching for Innovation
March 25, 2013 – 7:00 am
In a 2011 study, researchers found that innovative executives spend 50% more time on discovery activities than their counterparts. Discovery activities include associating, questioning, observing, experimenting and networking. By Nancy Lin (Founder & Host, Business Reinvention) As pace of technology advancement picks up, innovation continues to be one of the most urgent issues for businesses [...]
Entrepreneurs Wanted… Everywhere But America?
June 25, 2012 – 6:00 am
Rather than encouraging and welcoming entrepreneurs, America is turning them away in droves. By Cari E. Guittard (Contributor, Periscope Post) Steve Jobs, the late Apple CEO and the kind of entrepreneur America should be encouraging. Here in the United States for the past several years, supporting entrepreneurship has been touted as a high priority by [...]
Do You Cry Like Steve Jobs?
March 21, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women’s Capital Connection) The news about the latest iPad and Apple’s dividend payout these past few days has gotten me thinking again about the genius of Steve Jobs. When I read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson last fall, I was struck by three aspects of his life that seemed to me [...]
Friday Roundup: For The Love Or The Money?
February 10, 2012 – 11:57 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, we learned that social networking site Pinterest reached record-breaking pageviews in an ungodly amount of time. Almost simultaneously, we heard that Pinterest has been generating revenue – a feat achieved by few early-stage startups. Alicia Navarro‘s venture-funded startup Skimlinks powers the monetization of Pinterest’s pins [...]
Misrepresented, Misunderstood, Miraculous Women Entrepreneurs
December 11, 2011 – 11:26 am
By Sarah Granger (Contributor, San Francisco Chronicle) It’s no secret that San Francisco and Silicon Valley’s tech demographics skew heavily on the side of men. Rather than continue quietly observing this cultural inequity, over the past few years, more voices have brought attention to the issue. Through increased publicity, thanks to speeches by leaders like [...]
How Steve Jobs Inspired Me (Permission to Dream)
October 21, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Elizabeth Boylan (Art Director, VectorBloom Technologies) Apple was founded 35 years ago, the same month I was born. I went a round-about route from studying chemistry, business and then fine art, to happening upon Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech when I was a new mother 3 years ago. I watched it on my MacBook Pro. [...]
Do We Need to Add Narcissism, Arrogance to Job Descriptions?
October 15, 2011 – 7:30 am
By Christina Vuleta (Founder, 40:20) There has been a lot of ink lately on “Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?” from an article in the Wall Street Journal to a myriad of other articles and blog posts. It’s part of a larger discussion on why there aren’t more women starting high-growth companies and in [...]
Women, Arrogance and The Next Steve Jobs
October 11, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Swathy Prithivi (Head of Corporate Development, Sonim Technologies) In “Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?” in the Wall Street Journal, Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and venture capitalist extraordinaire, lists two key characteristics of “would-be revolutionaries” — unbridled confidence and arrogance. A recent tweet by Silicon Valley scholar Vivek Wadhwa says: “More than 50% of [...]
Connecting the Dots: Steve Jobs
October 6, 2011 – 6:40 pm
By Jean Hsu (Android Developer, Pulse) The Pulse office was jolted suddenly this afternoon as coworkers announced the news coming in from Twitter. Was it a rumor? A few minutes later, TechCrunch and other sources posted confirmations, but many of us were still in disbelief. Where would we all have been in a world without [...]
