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 [...]
Posts Tagged "Work/Life Balance"
What Leaning In Means to Me
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 [...]
Anne-Marie Slaughter Inspires Audience At WIE Symposium In NY
September 25, 2012 – 6:00 am
Slaughter commended having ambition and drive, but cautioned women to be realistic about the fact that children take time to raise and that the preferences women have as they grow older will change over time. By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest) The WIE Symposium in New York featured a range of high-profile speakers including Prof. [...]
Work/Life Balance: You, Me And My BlackBerry Makes Three
September 23, 2012 – 9:19 am
We need to commend women who feel personally and professionally satisfied by their choices. By Leah Eichler (Founder, Femme-O-Nomics) Early in the summer, I received an opportunity to move to San Francisco for three months. Thinking that it would be a great professional move, I spent a week working out an elaborate scheme, where the [...]
Marissa Mayer: Burnout Is A Myth
September 19, 2012 – 6:00 am
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer has declared that burnout is a myth and offered advice on how bosses can put this wisdom into practice. By Jessica Stillman (Writer, Inc.) Ambitious business owners face a delicate balancing act. You want your team (and yourself) to work as hard as possible, but you want to avoid the serious [...]
6 Ways To Manage Family, Kids And Startup
June 7, 2012 – 5:00 am
My simplest answer to the recurring question “How can you manage both family and startup?” is that those two are manageable. They even support each other in many ways, but I don’t have time for anything else. By Elina Arponen (Co-Founder & CEO, Tribe Studios) I feel somewhat of a self-learned expert on the area [...]
What Facebook’s IPO Means For Women
February 8, 2012 – 9:30 am
By Penelope Trunk (Co-Founder, Brazen Careerist) I’m afraid that what the Facebook IPO means for women is nothing. Sandberg is not a role model. She’s an aberration. You can’t have small kids and a startup if you want to see their kids. I wrote about this on TechCrunch and I got skewered for being bad [...]
When Babies Become Taboo (Work/Life Balance)
October 28, 2011 – 6:30 am
By Melissa Fudor (Program Manager, Women in Wireless) I have babies on the brain. As a woman in my mid-twenties, starting a family has always been something that will eventually happen in the far and distant future. I have the timeline figured out: finish college, travel, start a great flexible career, meet someone, fall in [...]
