Nice for the Washington Post to recognize our half billion milestone.
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Good ole Google!
Now to start
Launched yesterday!
The neos are on page 6. Says OMEGA PI and everything. Super cool.
So important to highlight the positive. Great list! Are they missing any?
My first speaking engagement. It was a good talk. Packed house and great questions from the group. It was like speaking to my students. It helped that it was webinar-style so less pressure with no fear of actual eye contact. Most importantly, I had a good time.
This was a fabulous surprise yesterday! Another HUUUGE milestone :)
To think I may help knock down some more doors in this industry… Who would have thunk it?
Featured Startup: Tech Hub Nigeria
Not really a startup but an inncubator of technology startups based in Nigeria (discovered on ICTWorks)
Net neutrality was so 2000. This new decade will demand cloud neutrality. Here are some good reasons why:
Cloud computing will allow developing nations to access software once reserved for affluent countries. Small businesses will save money on capital expenditures by using services such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud to store and compute their data instead of purchasing servers.
— PCWorld Business Center
But because human nature is destructive, we will need good policy in place to keep the cloud AND the Internet free, open, and accessible to all.
Great lessons in this article. If your business is online, you should read this. Here’s a 1 gem:
In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. I can’t think of an instance where a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered. Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at your company starts to drop, you enter a death spiral from which there is no recovery.
…In theory you could beat the death spiral by buying good programmers instead of hiring them. You can get programmers who would never have come to you as employees by buying their startups. But so far the only companies smart enough to do this are companies smart enough not to need to.
This. Is. HUGE! Such a tremendous honor as this signifies that the quality of this article is truly excellent. Now to keep it up.
brit:
I am really psyched about TEDWomen, coming this December to DC in a two-day conference to focus on women from around the globe and their issues, innovations, insights, the whole shebang. Considering we’re talking about 50% of the population from around the globe - statistically slightly more, even - it’s sort of amazing and mouth-dropping that focusing on women is called “an emerging story,” but hey - TED calls it like it is, not like it should be. From the website:
Over the last several years, our ideas about women have changed. Investing in women and girls was once seen as a radical notion; today, its value is clear. A new lens reveals women as powerful change agents: In developing nations, women and girls hold the vital link to economic growth, public health, political stability. In the West, generations of educated women are forging new directions in the sciences, arts, business and beyond.
To track this emerging story, the first-ever TEDWomen will explore in depth: Who are the women who leading change? What ideas are they championing? How are they shaping the future? TEDWomen will also reveal how women and men, in concert with one another, orchestrate different but complementary approaches to ideas worth spreading.
The cross-disciplinary, cross-generational program will focus on how women think and work, communicate and collaborate, learn and lead—what this means and why it matters to all of us. Speakers from around the globe—from anthropologists to artists, scientists to soldiers, bankers to builders, farmers to futurists—will share their ideas in the world-renowned TED format, creating a program that surprises and inspires.
I’m already surprised and inspired. And excited. Will the dudes come? They should. Not only will it be a sweet pickup joint (ladies in the house holla!) but there is major money to be made off understanding the needs of 50% of the population - oh and also tapping into their brainpower. See you there, Fred Wilson!
This is so so SO true. Probably why I love currency trading over stock trading.
