I often travel for business and my husband always picks me up from the airport when I return. Even though we talk on the phone each day while I’m out of town, we rarely get into heavy conversations. Our car ride home, however, is when we fully debrief and catch up on...
My father, a first-generation Italian-American loved to preach about how “it’s not about what you know but, who you know.” Given that my dad dropped out of high school to help with the family business and later went on to join the police academy, his affection for...
On today’s show we welcome Lakshmi Balachandra, a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College and an International Diana Institute Research Fellow at Babson’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership. Topics include: Lakshmi’s early days as an associate VC...
I can’t help but laugh every time I see this clip from the 1987 movie Broadcast News. As a teenager, I was obsessed with this film. Aside from my desire to be Holly Hunter’s character, Jane Craig—the fearless, confident yet vulnerable,...
It’s likely that over the past few weeks you’ve caught a glimpse of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes. Whether you’ve seen the giant billboards for the HBO documentary The Inventor, or you’ve read one of the countless articles about her...
I am a female co-founder of a technology startup. This means that I’m somewhat of a unicorn. It’s not news that women are severely underrepresented in founder or tech roles in startups. Yet, there’s not a lot of data reporting on this topic. When I...
