A formidable group of prominent women in tech is joining forces to tackle one of the biggest issues plaguing the industry right now: Diversity.
Ellen Pao, the former interim CEO of Reddit, has partnered with a group of seven women from businesses like Pinterest and Slack to launch Project Include.
The non-profit group, revealed on Tuesday, plans to provide recommendations and data to early and mid-stage startups in order to “accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry.”
The selfie has invaded virtually every aspect of popular culture. Social media, art galleries and mainstream news networks are completely and utterly littered with them. Yet very few of those images come even within striking distance of perfection.
Beijing-based startup Zero Zero Robotics is on a mission to change that with Hover Camera. This revolutionary quadcopter isn’t even on the market yet, and it’s already redefined the way consumers interact with drones.
Many startups begin without a human resources department. The company is small, and hiring someone to manage just a few employees isn’t the priority. But, as the company grows, things start to get complicated: The business needs HR.
And, oftentimes, that starts with “an HR department of one.”
That’s right. Growing businesses don’t need an enormous HR team; even just one person can get the job done. Eventually, when the organization gets big enough, a larger HR department will be a necessity. But until a full team becomes necessary, a one-person HR department can be an amazing force.
Here are three issues that even an HR department of one can help you solve:
Silphium sounds like one of the coolest contraceptive options from the annals of history. It’s basically a giant fennel plant, but this fennel was more popular in a liquid state as a form of contraception than, say, shaved in a salad — at least for the ancient Greeks and Romans who relied on it to prevent conception and end pregnancy. In fact, they liked it so much as an effective population control method that they used the rare plant into extinction.
But what about the contraceptives in history that weren’t so successful — or were sometimes successful in spite of themselves? Let’s begin. And please, don’t try any of these.
If you’re putting together a marketing plan for your business and you need market research, consider conducting a focus group. Focus groups can help a company learn valuable information about customer attitudes and their perceptions about the business and its products or services.
Once only utilized by large companies, focus groups are now used by an increasing number of small businesses. They can help you determine how to target specific demographic groups, and their needs and desires.
To get to Tesla’s Gigafactory, you drive east from Reno, Nevada, turn into a sprawling industrial center, and make a left on Electric Avenue. The high desert landscape dwarfs everything, even the vast white building with the red stripe along the top. As you reach the gate with the security guard, the breadth of Tesla’s ambitions becomes clear. Even the name itself suggests more to come: Gigafactory 1.
The lobby décor is classic Tesla: large windows, high ceilings, gleaming white floors, black leather chairs. One of the Powerwall home batteries made at the factory hangs like a piece of modern art. Guests receive hard hats, reflective vests, and safety glasses along with the complimentary bottled water and coffee.
AS FAR AS made-up holidays go, “World Password Day” doesn’t quite have the same cachet as, say, Father’s Day, or even National Pancake Day (March 8th). Still, it’s as good an excuse as any to fix your bad passwords. Or better yet, to finally realize that the password you thought was good still needs some work.
By now you know the basics of password security. Don’t write them down, get a password manager, use two-factor authentication whenever possible, and don’t use anything that’s easily guessable. (Looking at you, “111111” crowd).
The twittering of birds can fill any spring or summer day with music: All you have to do is open your window to hear crows “caw,” killdears call “kill-deah! kill-deah!” and chickadees sing “chickadee-dee-dee.”
But come back an hour later, and you’ll still hear them singing the same song, repeatedly. That’s because they’re hard at work. These avian singers tend to be male, and are crooning their hearts out to guard their territory and attract a mate, said Gail Buhl, education program manager at the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota.
On the territorial front, the melody says, “This is my area and I’m letting everyone else, especially every other male in the area, know that this is my space,” Buhl told Live Science.
The US government has unveiled new federal rules that include a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes to people aged under 18.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will also require manufacturers to submit products to the agency for review.
Cigars, pipe tobacco and hookah tobacco are also subject to the new rules.
On Wednesday, California introduced new anti-smoking legislation that also regulates e-cigarettes.
Last month, I was in Houston to attend the inaugural Circular Summit, an invitation-only event for high growth women entrepreneurs with attractive and scalable business models.
Hosted by Circular Board CEO Carolyn Rodz and Dell Entrepreneur-in-Residence Elizabeth Gore, Circular Summit brought together accomplished female founders and investors to collaborate on how to accelerate the growth of women-led businesses.
What struck me the most about the women I met was that they were all inspired by a higher purpose. This higher purpose was the catalyst that led them to create their socially-driven startups.
