webstartwomen: Start-ups benefit from gender diversity Not the most shocking finding we’ve seen, but still, it’s nice to see the data. Research shows that women tend to make start-up dollars stretch farther and women-led start-ups are more successful at transitioning from early to growth phase. The article offers a few suggestions for getting more women on your team: Adopt a diversity-minded hiring strategy. Assign women to senior positions from the onset/ASAP. Cultivate a company culture that values diversity. Be open about atmosphere in your organization.

webstartwomen:

Start-ups benefit from gender diversity

Not the most shocking finding we’ve seen, but still, it’s nice to see the data. Research shows that women tend to make start-up dollars stretch farther and women-led start-ups are more successful at transitioning from early to growth phase. The article offers a few suggestions for getting more women on your team:

  • Adopt a diversity-minded hiring strategy.
  • Assign women to senior positions from the onset/ASAP.
  • Cultivate a company culture that values diversity.
  • Be open about atmosphere in your organization.

Rami Alkarmi ... Pirate of Digital Arabia: [TechCrunch]Accel And SV Angel Back Endorse With $4.25 Million To Close The Loop Between Shoppers And Brands

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Brands and businesses can track their reputations online and connect with consumers through social media. But what about in the real world? One of the biggest prizes in Startupland will go to whoever can figure out how to connect real-world shopping to brands and businesses. Steve…

BRYCE DOT VC: A Thought on The Next Steve Jobs

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MG has the canonical post on Apple’s first earnings report of the post Steve Jobs era. Read it and follow the links he includes. Cliff Notes version- the results were staggering.

As it turns out, these earnings were reported on the same day the State of the Union address was delivered. Steve’s…

Attend if you are able.  innonate: Emergency NY Tech Meetup next Wednesday during your lunch-break. We will gather outside the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, both of whom need to come out against PIPA and SOPA. Please join (heck, it will be fun to see you) and pass on.

Attend if you are able. 

innonate:

Emergency NY Tech Meetup next Wednesday during your lunch-break. We will gather outside the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, both of whom need to come out against PIPA and SOPA.

Please join (heck, it will be fun to see you) and pass on.

smarterplanet: IBM Brains Turn 12 Atoms Into World’s Smallest Storage Bit | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com IBM researchers have found a way to put a single bit of data on a 12-atom surface, creating the world’s smallest magnetic storage device. It’s a breakthrough that’s not likely to make its way into hard drives or memory sticks for decades, but it gives us a hint at how much road lies ahead for magnetic storage devices. Before now, physicists really didn’t know how small they could take magnetic storage before the laws of quantum mechanics would take over, making it impossible to reliably store data. String together 8 atoms, for example, and you simply can’t get a stable magnetic state, says Andreas Heinrich, the IBM researcher behind the discovery. “The system will just spontaneously hop from one of those states to another state in a timescale that is too fast for us to claim anything like a data storage [demonstration]. It might be switching 1,000 times per second.”

smarterplanet:

IBM Brains Turn 12 Atoms Into World’s Smallest Storage Bit | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

IBM researchers have found a way to put a single bit of data on a 12-atom surface, creating the world’s smallest magnetic storage device.

It’s a breakthrough that’s not likely to make its way into hard drives or memory sticks for decades, but it gives us a hint at how much road lies ahead for magnetic storage devices.

Before now, physicists really didn’t know how small they could take magnetic storage before the laws of quantum mechanics would take over, making it impossible to reliably store data. String together 8 atoms, for example, and you simply can’t get a stable magnetic state, says Andreas Heinrich, the IBM researcher behind the discovery. “The system will just spontaneously hop from one of those states to another state in a timescale that is too fast for us to claim anything like a data storage [demonstration]. It might be switching 1,000 times per second.”

weandthecolor: Typographic Artwork by Ryan Hamrick. More typography inspiration. posted by W.A.T.C.Facebook // Twitter // Google+ // Pinterest

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Typographic Artwork

by Ryan Hamrick.

More typography inspiration.

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New York City gets a Software Engineering High School

This fall New York City will open The Academy for Software Engineering, the city’s first public high school that will actually train kids to develop software. The project has been a long time dream ofMike Zamansky, the highly-regarded CS teacher at New York’s elite Stuyvesant public high school. It was jump started when Fred Wilson, a VC at Union Square Ventures, promised to get the tech community to help with knowledge, advice, and money.

innovationroom:

Steve Jobs, Ted Hoff, Lew Wolff, Scott Cook, John Gage and John Warnock on Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurship ecosystem in an excerpt from 1998 PBS Documentary, Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance

As soon as your product is valued as a free service, people will never want to pay for it. In the world of startups there’s no invisible hand.
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Great article posted by James Altucher. Love how open and honest he is about his failures.

Great question to ask entrepreneurs. “What have you failed at already in this business and how have you learned from it?” If they can’t answer you, they aren’t ready and it wouldn’t be a good idea to invest. 

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