Starting a business in Frugal Times – Suzanne Noble of Frugl – Startup Empirestartupempire.co.uk
Congrats to Ada’s Lister Suzanne Noble whose startup Frugl has been featured in Startup Empire today!
Congrats to Ada’s Lister Suzanne Noble whose startup Frugl has been featured in Startup Empire today!
For those of you who didn’t make it through the rain or couldn’t join on Thursday evening, here is a recording of Ada’s List Parenthood and the Merge event at ustwo featuring Jemima Kiss (Tech Editor at the Guardian) Jill Green (Exec Producer in Film and TV) Kati Price (Head of Digital at the V&A) and Mel Exon (MD of BBH London). The recording doesn’t capture Nicki’s moderating or the questions, too well, so start the scrubber at 2:30 as the intro is lost!
Well worth a read #choosepossibility
Lovely to see Ada’s Lister Marija Butkovic’s startup Kisha in Wired magazine, if you haven’t caught it yet!
Congrats Ada’s Lister Ieva on the launch of your startup Fashion Bloc!
Congrats Ada’s Lister @meelimariarro on risearts making it into Forbes!
Congrats to Ada’s Lister Emma Liles and the team of teachers at CAS Include who created this wikibook to help spread computer science education in schools, in a cost-effective and easy way.
One day left to apply!
It was only a few years ago that I met Kathryn Minshew, Alexandra Cavoulacos, and Melissa McCreery through Y Combinator. They were three women who set out to make a career site for other young women like them with rich, photo-intensive profiles of employers featuring interviews with their teams.
Today that site, The Muse, sees more than 3 million active users per month and Minshew says the company feels poised to compete against destinations like Glassdoor, Monster.com, and LinkedIn for their youngest users. So they’ve raised $10 million in Series A funding from Aspect Ventures, the firm that Accel’s lone female general partner Theresia Gouw left to create with Jennifer Fonstad, DBL Partners and QED.
”—Techcrunch: The Muse raises $10m from Aspect Ventures to scale a careers site for millennialsWashington Post: Sexism in science: Peer editor tells female researchers their study needs a male author
FFS!
Last month, Robbins and Seka pitched their idea to Benioff — to analyze pay at the firm by gender and then raise women’s pay if they are paid less than men in similar positions.
“I don’t know if we have a problem,” Seka told me. “But I decided, let’s hold ourselves to task and take a look.”
Benioff went for it, telling the Huffington Post that his job is to make sure men and women are treated 100 percent equally and “when I’m done there will be no gap.” Seka and Robbins are currently hiring an outside firm to do the pay analysis.
”—Tech firms address the third rail – gender-pay inequity in the Seattle Times