emcarey

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by emcarey 12y ago
really awesome startup in oakland is doing something similar and they are AMAZING. check out http://josephine.com/
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by emcarey 12y ago
so true-insurance seems the biggest barrier to making this successful
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by emcarey 12y ago
i think in general, given this landscape, it's just safer to publish without 'naming names' as a way to also protect the company. The last thing all the investors would want would be for the company to get a bad name for lea
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by emcarey 12y ago
I'm an adult woman with adhd and it's definitely been an advantage as an entrepreneur. When I hyper focus on our company, brilliant things happen because I can think out of the box and my passion and obsession for our product has
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by emcarey 12y ago
Talk to your users! Before we started building our product, we spoke to hundreds of people in our target audience. We asked them their needs, their problems, and most importantly - what they wanted. We could zero in our solution to their
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Inside Rent the Runway's Secret Dry Cleaning Empire(fastcompany.com)
1 points by emcarey 12y ago|0 comments
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by emcarey 12y ago
always speak up, never keep your mouth shut, there are laws in place to protect against retaliation for speaking up. One of the unspoken factors in a compensation plan is that women tend to work for less (ie they typically don't negoti
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by emcarey 12y ago
LEAN IN- sheryl sandberg. It is not just a book for women- it's a great book for everyone to learn about creating a more advanced work force, building confidence, and learning when to question authority. It's so motivational, es
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by emcarey 12y ago
I think this was an incredible move by zuckerberg and he should be applauded. I studied mandarin in grad school and then spent some time in China studying female chinese consumer behavior. Though my study participants were excited to prac
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by emcarey 12y ago
if someone is calling you a homophobic slur you shouldn't absolutely report them to hr - no matter what gender they are.
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by emcarey 12y ago
Hey so I've had this problem multiple times at work-the answer is to talk to HR about it. Don't talk to him, let HR know it's a problem and then it's up to them to make changes. If this conversation and his demeaning a
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by emcarey 12y ago
for your wife, check out http://www.mothercoders.org/ - great organization for software engineers that are mothers. I'm sure they will have resources for both of you and it's a wonderful community of developer pa
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by emcarey 12y ago
fun trick. buy your friends name in a new gTLD like frankjones.hiphop /build fun website on said domain/buy google adwords for friends name and direct to site. tell friend to google their name. great for birthday pranks.
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by emcarey 12y ago
I think this is a great sign- there have been so many stories of teenagers committing suicide from public ridicule on the Internet, FB is really helping their users by creating a safer and nicer place to exist online without fear of cyber b
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by emcarey 12y ago
EXACTLY! more benefits for family planning are a great thing for everyone!
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by emcarey 12y ago
Do you like eating salad for lunch? which was a leading question because after I said yes the person interviewing me said, oh good because we are more salad type people here.
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by emcarey 12y ago
sorry you have faced so much discrimination as a white man. I hope one day that changes.
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GoldieBlox Goes Digital with New iOS App(techcrunch.com)
2 points by emcarey 12y ago|0 comments
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by emcarey 12y ago
Hi, I love your website- the logo is amazing!! who designed it?
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by emcarey 12y ago
>> https://prism.com/
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by emcarey 12y ago
accept it and move on. Most of my friends have over 100k worth of debt from undergrad so it seems pretty normal to me. I'm sure your familiar with a lot of things that are different for most people.
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What It's Like to Be a Woman Online(youtube.com)
2 points by emcarey 12y ago|0 comments
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by emcarey 12y ago
no- check out the muse's yc app https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-muses-successful-applicat...
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by emcarey 12y ago
Fascinating dive into the data-really appreciate the sentiment analysis of comments made about women and diversity.
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by emcarey 12y ago
mail chimp also....MOVABLE INK. really cool company that can do real time animations and videos in emails. https://movableink.com/
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by emcarey 12y ago
within many anonymous forum networks there are sub groups specifically catered to the mens rights activists crowd and other groups of male internet comrades who do terrible things like threaten emma watson with releasing nude photos of her
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by emcarey 12y ago
To be clear- I AM NOT saying that reddit or 4chan supports these communities. I love reddit. I just think it's time we stop saying well it's the "internet" so trolls will be trolls and women just have to 'deal&#x2
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by emcarey 12y ago
What role do anonymous forums play in the macro problem of the lack of female leadership? A big one. We, as a community of innovators, need to stop these online communities of 'hackers against women' from existing because their th
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The sexual threats against Emma Watson are an attack on every woman(vox.com)
16 points by emcarey 12y ago|17 comments
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by emcarey 12y ago
Yes, you want to prove to your users that you understand the problem and that you are the solution. You can be the solution without the product by helping them best use the traditional system you are trying to disrupt. Grab a good communi

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