Leslie Forman

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Speed Advice Clinic for Female Founders

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This was a fun day, meeting female founders and hearing what you're up to, like

and what you're up against, for instance

  • product/market fit
  • VC or no C
  • marketing technology in human terms
  • CRM
  • how to be a better boss to yourself
  • finding the next platform for your market

Some notable quotes:

"Give people tools to reach their own goals."

"I want to bridge the gap between science and art."

"Charge. With a new venture, there's no precedence for getting it free. Make money as soon as you can. Everything costs."

"Roadmaps are a symptom of distrust."

"Survey your existing customers to get a description of your product in human terms other customers will recognize. Outsource the writing of case studies in an authentic voice."

"By 2020 50% of the population will identify as freelancers."

"Get champions for your community, beach heads that bring in others."

Thanks for coming out, and here's to your next steps!

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Tending Relationships In The Technological Age: Multiminding

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My worlds colliding -- no, integrating! -- at Estee Solomon Gray's Mmindding Symposium on what she calls agile attention management. It's a movement toward our reality as relational beings, supported by the technologies of today. We can do this. We want to do this. We are doing this. The talks were by academics who study things like proxemics and chronemics. The audience was filled with people who are carving out lives and work in just this post-industrial age reality. We're returning to our natural rhythms.

Pictured and not pictured, friends and colleagues and acquaintances from GlobalNiche, future of work thinkers, expat entrepreneurs, TEDxBayArea, Wisdom 2.o conference, Exceptional Women in Publishing, Bryn Mawr College alumnae, Women's Startup Lab.

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Held at Rodan-Fields HQ, pictured: Leslie Forman, Pamela Day, Karen Jaw-Madson, Tanya Monsef Bunger, Maria Judice, Monika Ashman, Shirley Rivera. Also seen at this afternoon of theory and practice of "multi minding", relational thinking and acting for a qualitative life: journalist Liza Dowd, Kevin Marks, creativity expert Austin Hill Shaw, Bonita Banducci, Minda Aguhob of Peak Foqus, salonista Betsy Burroughs.

 

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