Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, has emerged as a tremendous inspiration to female executives and working mothers everywhere. As a woman in the tech startup space, I admire her greatly. I don’t agree with everything she says, but I love that she says it – as she sees it. She is a no bullshit kinda …
Category Archive: Startups
Sep
08
Biz2Beach 2011
I recently had the honor of participating in the inaugural Biz2Beach event held by Callfire, a kickass Silicon Beach cloud telephony company. The event was dubbed as an “unconference”, and it made for a terrific experience. In lieu of having a speaker or panel of speakers talk at an audience, discussion leaders sat at round …
Sep
05
Oops…I Did It Again
OOPS….I did it again. I promised myself, and you, that I would begin blogging in a semi-regular fashion. I started this blog the week I started Docstoc – then InterWebs silence for over a year. Then, I got back on the blogwagon right about the time we started BetterWorks. And it happened again. Building a …
Dec
14
BetterWorks, My New Adventure
Last Tuesday I started a new gig at yet another early-stage company. The company is called BetterWorks, and we are located on 3rd Street Promenade (very close to where I live – this is always ideal when living the “startup” life). I did not, of course, take on this new adventure solely due to …
Nov
29
What Exactly I Do?
When people ask me what I do, I often say I help build very early stage Internet/technology companies. This often leads to the follow-up question – “What exacly does that mean?” On the flip side, I meet countless Business Undergrads, and even MBAs, who tell me they want to work in startups, but seem to have very …
Nov
28
Puppies and Startups
Three months ago I entered into what is one of the biggest adventures I have ever undertaken. I rescued a puppy. I had been toying with idea of getting a dog for about 5 years (yes, 5 years). Two things held me back: my startup life and New York City. But I now live in …
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