Women Founders Lead Startups Tackling Workplace Harassment Post-#MeToo
Female entrepreneurs responded to tech's #MeToo moment by building anti-harassment tools, and have raised above $100 million collectively.
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Female entrepreneurs responded to tech's #MeToo moment by building anti-harassment tools, and have raised above $100 million collectively.
With offices empty, companies can't assess employees in person. That's forcing them to reward people in a new way: based on results, not appearances.
When Vipul Patel lost half of his college credits while transferring from Florida Institute of Technology to Boston University, he began digging for answers. Patel soon stumbled upon equivalency tables, where universities track which courses from other institutions can be counted for credit during a transfer process. While seemingly innocuous, the tables gave him key […]
Managers need to take responsibility for thier own failings
SoftBank takes the brakes off Vision Fund with $22bn bet Chief Masayoshi Son's second Vision Fund has made 64 investments already so far this year The second Vision Fund has been involved in $21.9bn of deals this year Credit: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP Phil Libin wasn’t looking for investors. His video app, "mmhmm", had raised $31m (£23m) just a few months earlier, enough for the Silicon Valley company to operate for the next two years. But when SoftBank discovered that venture capital funds had started to offer the year-old company more cash, it refused to be left out. Within two days, Libin was r...