I have found in my experience that it is far easier as a woman to bootstrap a company than pitch for funding because so few investors put money into women-led companies. You are also seeing very few women working in the VC sector, citing toxic working environments, essentially being a ...

Whenever I join a team, I typically meet everyone for one-on-one conversations. I'll ask them about their work, what they would really like to be doing and where their interests lie outside of work (some of the most boring people you know at work have the most interesting lives outside ...

Appraisals and performance management programs are time consuming and don't necessarily bring you any tangible results. We've tried simple forms with a list of attributes to measure, 360 appraisals, psychometric testing, the works. They can be extremely biased, even outright discriminatory. These meetings are emotionally charged and the listeners only ...

I am always interviewing people for various positions within Marketing departments. I am usually disappointed in the quality of candidates HR was coming in with. I warned my managers that I was going to ask for my 15 minutes back if they wasted my time with a stupid interview. If ...

I have been writing posts about business, leadership, marketing and startups for quite a few months now and would love it if you could forward it people who you think could best use this information to build their startups and learn more about building a sustainable business. You can use ...

When my co-founder and I started a web design company in Chicago in 2000, we had very little money, even though he wanted to go pitch every Silicon Valley investor on what he thought was the next big thing - local events. We even developed a really crappy pitch deck ...