LISA BESSERMAN FOUNDER, STARTUP BUENOS AIRES

Lisa Besserman and I first met during a “Start Up Weekend.” The event took place where I had co-working space (the Digital Arts Experience) in White Plains, New York. I spoke at that event. This was just weeks before I launched the first ever Westchester Digital Summit. I was immediately impressed by Lisa. She had launched Startup Buenos Aires. Only a few weeks after meeting her, I wrote to see if she would join the Silverback team during Catalyst Week.

My CMO John and I connected with Amanda Slavin of Catalyst Creativ. Amanda invited us to co-host Catalyst Week in Las Vegas. It was a cool four day event in Vegas in association The Downtown Project.

Female Tech and Entrepreneur Experts Wanted: How to Get Yourself on Stage and in the Press

By Olivia Cooke21 October, 2015Blog-english, Blog-espanol

Not one for women’s only events, Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR and Marketing, Mass Innovation Nights, and Innovation Women, is a fixture in the Boston start-up scene. One technology event after another, she kept encountering what she calls DAMP: dreaded all male panel. “I heard all the tales of woe from conference organizers, making excuses such as ‘I had women but they cancelled,'” says Carlton. And when there were women on stage, it was always the same few. Sick and tired of the excuses, she set out to solve the problem. She started Innovation Women, an online speakers bureau for event managers to find technical and entrepreneurial women for their events.

Carlton has found her entrepreneurial calling by helping the underdog. This set her up nicely to help technical and entrepreneurial women get on more stages and help event coordinators connect with a wider variety of experts by focusing on the underserved populations, the underdogs, in both the demand and supply sides of event speakers.

Demand for Qualified Speakers

When it comes to event planning, the underdogs Carlton serves are those who are booking for grassroots events and event managers looking for speakers new to audiences of big venue and on-site events. “There is a speaker’s paradise happening right now,” says Carlton. With 1.5 million events through Eventbrite last year, 92,000 business and professional associations, and 550,000 meet-ups every month, not to mention the 50,000 Tedx talks from around the world over the past six years, there is no shortage of opportunities for experts to earn their speaker stripes.

How Startup Tech Companies can follow the likes of Google in implementing Philanthropic Strategies

By Olivia Cooke08 October, 2015Blog-english, Blog-espanol

Author: Jose Vasquez

http://www.buildbrandblast.com/why-philanthropic-strategies-benefit-startup-tech-companies/#sthash.ybylu2mz.oFSqLCVY.dpbs

Why Philanthropic Strategies Benefit Startup Tech Companies

Your company’s reputation is a highly important factor in how quickly and efficiently you’ll be able to expand.

Many major tech companies, like Google and Amazon, have diversified corporate social responsibility efforts to donate time and money to charitable endeavors and give back to society. As a result, nonprofit organizations and charities enjoy millions of dollars of benefits, helping to shape the world into an environment that supports stability and encourages more people to give back to society. Corporate responsibility also improves their reputation, driving more business and more interested employees to their core operations.

Exploding startup valuations are changing how Wall Street banks work with tech companies

By Olivia Cooke07 October, 2015Blog-english, Blog-espanol

Exploding startup valuations are changing how Wall Street banks work with tech companies

Author:Portia Crowe http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-adapting-to-keep-up-with-tech-2015-8 APRemember Facebook’s IPO in 2012? Times are changing.

Technology companies are evolving at an incredible rate — and Wall Street investment banks are having to adapt to keep up with them.

Consumer-technology companies can acquire 100 million users — an important milestone — more quickly than ever before. Enterprise companies are getting hold of exciting new technology at earlier stages in their development as well.

“Technology companies are gaining scale and value much more rapidly and at earlier stages in their lifetimes, so to speak, than ever before,” Dan Dees, Goldman Sachs’ global head of tech, media, and telecom banking, told Business Insider.

A great article surrounding the topic of women in tech and how they are perceived

By Olivia Cooke02 October, 2015Blog-english, Blog-espanol

Facebook exec: Let’s talk about my brain, not babies

Margaret Gould Stewart, Facebook12:59 p.m. EDT September 25, 2015

(Photo: Jesse Lirola Photography)

Spoiler alert: my uterus doesn’t have much to say on the matter of technology and how it can improve people’s lives, though my brain has quite a bit to offer.

The same is true for all the other women who have leadership roles in the tech industry. So why is it that when women get up on stage at tech conferences, the conversation so often turns to child-rearing, pregnancy, and “work/life balance?”

A few months ago, I attended Fortune Brainstorm, a tech conference in Aspen with an impressive lineup of speakers, including my former colleague Susan Wojcicki, who currently serves as CEO of YouTube. Susan has one of the most celebrated careers in tech, and I was excited to hear her talk about her vision for YouTube, a product I worked on for a number of years and still care deeply about. She also happened to lead Google’s advertising business for years. This woman is a pro. So I was expecting some exciting insights into how she thinks about the industry, how YouTube’s monetization efforts will evolve, etc.

Entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty? What do you think?

By Olivia Cooke01 October, 2015Blog-english, Blog-espanol

Entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty

Author: Andrew Blyth

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/entrepreneurship-as-a-solution-to-poverty-20150925-gjvac4.html

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull clearly recognises that entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic development. Photo: Nic Moir

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has proudly declared he will lead a government for the 21st century, a government ready to engage with the future; a government with firm values of free enterprise, of individual initiative, and of freedom.

At the core of this emboldened approach is the role of entrepreneurship and innovation to drive a successful, agile economy in a rapidly changing environment. An emphasis on new thinking for complex problems presents a unique opportunity for government, universities, not-for profit and private sectors to not only better understand the potential of market-based methods to resolve entrenched social problems; but to also examine the potential of entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty, particularly in our region.