Could President Obama Have Avoided Umbrella-Gate By Asking A Female Marine To Hold His Umbrella?
Women Need To Stop Hugging At Work And Start Shaking Hands
Sitting Is Killing You, So Obviously You Need A Personal ‘Posture Guru’
Millennials Now Bringing Pets To Job Interviews, Because YOLO
Old People Are Like Vampires Who Want To Suck Your Career Blood
New Facebook Exec Is Only Working Four Days A Week
It was only on Monday that we found out that Kate Middleton and Prince William were expecting a child but it seems like it has been months considering the amount of press coverage that has been shoved down our throats. And now we are already starting to see businesses start to profit from this baby that is still in utero. More
Where do business ideas come from?
I’ve got hundreds of them, like a pair of ovaries full of tiny, dormant ideas, some of them awesome and some of them terrifyingly defective — and many, many more than anyone could ever bring to fruition. (This is a pretty good metaphor, except that you’re actually born with all the eggs you’re ever going to have, and I’m pretty sure I wasn’t born knowing that “Treelivery” would be the world’s best name for a Christmas-tree delivery business.) More
Today, we have two questions about underlying rules and structures that you have to figure out to keep from constantly banging your head into a wall.
I wrote in Bullish: Social Class in the Office about how my high school debate coach not only taught me to properly shake hands, but explained to me why it was important to cordially shake hands with your enemies (hint: so observers you hope to bring over to your side don’t think you’re an asshole before you even start talking!) More
If this isn’t a case of David and Goliath, I don’t know what is. Except instead of a giant Philestine warrior and the future King of Israel, it’s a wedding planner from Boston and the most powerful couple in show business and a baby named Blue Ivy. Beyonce and her husband Jay-Z have lost a legal battle to trademark the name of their famous daughter to a small wedding planner in Boston that goes by the same name. Beyonce and Jay-Z wanted to launch a line of baby products named after their daughter but it looks like they will just have to come up with another name (maybe “Baby by Beyonce”? Or “Blue”? Or just, this is what “Beyonce’s Baby Wears This And So Will Mine.” More
Last night Rock Center did a huge expose on Tory Burch or rather “What It Means To Be Tory Burch.” NBC’s Harry Smith talked with the fashion mogul about her company’s mega success in only eight short years but also why her clothes are so appealing to women. It is hard to believe that in less than a decade she has built a $2 billion company with a brand that is recognized around the world. It is especially amazing considering she started the business from her kitchen table and cold calling people. More
The ranking department over at Forbes has come up with another list. But instead of one that tells us exactly how much money Taylor Swift made this year, this one tells you where the best cities are for female entrepreneurs to start their companies, network and find the most support. They found these to be the top 10 best cities: More
There is nothing like waking up to a warm bowl of oatmeal on a crisp fall day. But did you ever think oatmeal could be a dessert or made up like a baked potato with bacon and cheese? Most people probably don’t give that much thought to oatmeal (though I am always trying to look for ways to add bacon and cheese to anything) but Samantha Stephens sure did. Samantha became obsessed with oatmeal and like many smart business people, she took her passion and made it into something: Oat Meals, the first all-oatmeal bar. Stephens has taken what used to be known as porridge and made it into delicious meals. Oatmeal cookies, oatmeal bread, oatmeal rizoto, oatmeal croque monsieur, etc.,Did you know you could do that with oatmeal? More
This past Monday, I was the keynote speaker at Dartmouth College’s Words of Wisdom event for first-year women.
This is a thing I do. I give speeches. I have spoken at other universities, performed standup comedy for the U.S. troops in the Middle East (for audiences of 800 armed men sitting at picnic tables in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert!), and even taught public speaking to convicts in a Vermont prison.
I have read the statistics that most people are more afraid of public speaking than of death, and I’ve always been a bit smug about it. Public speaking is no big deal! More
You’ve been offered the job at the startup or small company of your dream. You are eager to accept, except the employer just threw another ball in the game that you have to think about; owning a share of the company. Small entrepreneurial companies usually offer grants of common stock or positions in an employee stock option plan to employees and other key participants such as contractors, board members, advisers and major vendors. This kind of offering is very exciting but deciding whether to take equity in the company or not is a huge decision. We decided to talk to some experts about this in case you are ever faced with this kind of opportunity. More
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Getting earned coverage from bloggers can be much more complex than getting traditional media coverage. Why? Editors and producers in the traditional media world receive a salary and can focus on creating great content and if your brand fits into that great content? You win! However, a blogger is the editorial, advertising, marketing AND PR department. If a blogger chooses to write about your product they might be throwing away the opportunity to work with a similar brand in a paid capacity down the road. In order for a blogger to succeed they must be choosy about the brands they write about and how they write about those brands. More
A friend of mine was recently pretty upset about losing money.
Julie bought her own apartment a few years ago, and is now moving to a new city. Since it’s a bad time to sell, she decided to rent the place out. Since she’ll be in a new city, she contracted with a management company to find a tenant. The management company wanted renovations. She hired a contractor.
Then, things started going wrong.
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Today, someone told me to “pipe down,” which I am now adding to my list of uncomfortably loaded phrases (i.e., “shrill”) unconducive to further discourse.
Who among us has not been massively disrespected? Who among us has been forced, Harry Potter-style, to dwell under the stairs? More
As of 2012, it is estimated that there are more than 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the United States, generating nearly $1.3 trillion in revenue and employing nearly 7.7 million people, according to the second annual State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, commissioned by American Express OPEN. That is a lot of girl power. The growth in the number (up 54%), employment (up 9%) and revenues (up 58%) of women-owned firms over the past 15 years exceeds the growth rates of all but the largest, publicly-traded firms. That is a lot of information so luckily American Express OPEN made a beautiful infographic to show the state of female entrepreneurs in the U.S. (and summarize the 55-page report for us.) More
You finally did it. You are starting your own business. You have some money saved for this but soon you find you have put every penny into starting your company. It’s so bad you have even considered selling your kidneys on the black market. We talked to some people who said they went broke starting their own businesses. More
