Starting and growing a successful business is challenging for most people and it takes a special type of person to be willing to put themselves and their idea out in the world with no guarantee of success. Currently and throughout history, the majority of...
Scientists—starting with Isaac Newton—have long acknowledged standing on the shoulders of giants. But the names of those giants have tended to fade quickly when they belonged to women and people of color. That is starting to change with a new generation of...
After welcoming the new year and settling back in my office in a fairly pleasant Argentine summer, I was starting to believe that the iconic salmon-pink-colored pages of the Financial Times could, at some point, turn green. The year 2020 was off to a great beginning...
It all started with the idea of using food as a method to gather research. Between October 2019 and February 2020, we had the opportunity to curate Good w/ Food, a series of community dinners as a way to conduct research and better understand the needs of creative...
Women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. Yet less than five percent of small business lending – only about $1 in $23 – goes to women. CNote, an Oakland-based fintech firm, is looking to fix this disparity with the Wisdom Fund, a new...
