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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Unfortunately, app development came at the expense of schoolwork, resulting in a sharp decline in one developer’s grades as the pair headed into the college application season. since 2000.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. Those who make the decisions and control the purse strings at legacy higher education institutions. Most of the attendees from post-secondary institutions were professors or deans of schools of education. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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The “Four P’s” of Marketing a Law Firm Online

Strategy Driven

In the course of my years partnering with web developer and SEO specialist Sagapixel, I’ve learned a lot about how to market my firm. Frank at Sagapixel told me about a conversation he had with Eric Diaz, a prominent real estate attorney in Philadelphia. They don’t teach you this in law school! Can You Create a Niche?

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, I understand all too keenly the complexities of determining a fair valuation for companies that are too early in their development to fit existing measurement standards and can't meet the criteria for standard bank or SBA funding. will not be legalized until 2013). Education is critical.

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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue. In the hospitality sector, for example, they invest upfront into luxury real estate and equipment, but rarely into training programs.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. You’ll never find any interesting deals there.” ” Sure, I would respond.