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Re: Women In Tech

sarahwelch — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:25:57 -0000

If you're interested in helping young girls coming up in the ranks, check out Expanding Your Horizons http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org/. It's a series of conferences nationwide encouraging junior high girls in math, science, and technology. It's amazing. I've been volunteering for 7 years, and it's one of the most rewarding things I've ever done.

Re: Women In Tech

GrantG — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:56:23 -0000

It all starts at school. How many women are going into engineering, comp sci, math, etc?

Thanks for raising the topic.

Re: Women In Tech

GeekMommy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:26 -0000

Every single semester that I taught the intro to programming course there was at least ONE guy who felt the need to say "oh great, we're being taught by a chick?" the first day.

Startups are one thing - but sexism is very much alive and well in the tech industry. It takes a special kind of strong-willed woman to face it and succeed despite it.

I could introduce you to dozens of women in their 20s-40s who could share stories with you - but what's the point?

I'll go ahead and remind you now tho that Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper were "at the barn dance" well before most men... it's not that the women are only just now peeking in.

Re: Women In Tech

jenbonnett — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:49:52 -0000

Working on it. StartupChicks (http://www.startupchicks.net) is helping the situation in Atlanta. We had at least twice as many women at last week's Startup Weekend, as the previous year.

Re: The Black Eye of Crowdsourcing

Joel Gratz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:43:54 -0000

Andrew - I'm confused. In the sentence "For Crowdsourcing to live, Spec Work must not be associated.", can you give an example? I am just not on the same page as you are when you reference Crowdsourcing and Spec Work... Many thanks for helping this meteorologist understand your world!

Re: The Black Eye of Crowdsourcing

Joel Gratz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:43:44 -0000

Re: Women In Tech

lauraglu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:27:10 -0000

A somewhat related and interesting read: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/hewlett/20...

It behooves start-up founders to consider the value-add women can bring to an organization.

Re: Women In Tech

andrewhyde — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:12 -0000

Best comment ever.

Re: Women In Tech

phluke — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:22:47 -0000

I think we need Hollywood to make a movie and have Kristen Stewart as a web designer and Robert Pattinson as a web developer. That might help with the situation... (the Facebook movie coming up won't do much good, I fear)

Re: Women In Tech

naomimimi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:21 -0000

great analogy. i am 110% in concurrence. :)

Re: Women In Tech

calvinlotz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:18:52 -0000

I'll second the Amber Case vote for sure. Actually, i should throw in Kit Seeborg too, for obvious reasons.

Re: The Posting Economy

andrewhyde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:15:28 -0000

Good call!

Andrew Hyde
TechStars / Startup Weekend
Sent from my mobile, sorry for the typos

Re: The Posting Economy

Dan Moore — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:06:31 -0000

Thought this post, about 'real time reviews' would be topical regarding the posting economy. http://trendwatching.com/briefing/#realtime

Re: Extensions of The Posting Economy

andrewhyde — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:25:53 -0000

I wonder if it only works if the data is free, open, and not posted
for reward (yelp doesn't work if people post for free food).

Andrew Hyde
TechStars / Startup Weekend
Sent from my mobile, sorry for the typos

Re: Extensions of The Posting Economy

umphrey1012 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:13:45 -0000

Maybe that's where the tech needs to be? We already know people post
status messages a lot. So have some middleman that says, I see your
posting a status update that says, "Awesome atmosphere" and you're
located within a certain coffee shop, so I am going to update some
page for that coffee shop with that info.

I think this all boils down to the fractionation of valuable
information across the internet. And you hit the nail on the head,
it's all out there, we just need to find it.

Re: Extensions of The Posting Economy

andrewhyde — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:09:32 -0000

Whoops, thought I did one long, long ago.

Also, plan on making fun of Liz M :)

Re: Extensions of The Posting Economy

andrewhyde — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:08:46 -0000

Funny how much we have changed our basic theory over the past few years
(user signup and onboarding -> facebook connect).

Re: Extensions of The Posting Economy

umphrey1012 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:06:57 -0000

For something like this to happen, I think there needs to be a different way in which we interact with our technology. While it is of course simple to pull out my phone, start up a Yelp app and then drop a quick review of the place, it is not simple enough. I am not going to do that intuitively whenever I sit down in a place.

Of course, that's probably what people first said about status updates :)

Re: Extensions of The Posting Economy

DaveM — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:06:17 -0000

I don't see a review of Trident by an Andrew?

Dave

Re: The Posting Economy

rogerball — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:26:53 -0000

Just saw your YouTube/Ignite talk. I believe you are on to something here. This is a powerful democratic tool to enable those that get shut out by powerful interests a chance to inform the rest of us. A way to "keep em honest". Make lack of responsibility amoung many of the powerful interests a liability to them.

Re: The Black Eye of Crowdsourcing

NJ Placentra — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:42:23 -0000

"For Crowdsourcing to live, Spec Work must not be associated. "

Yes. Perfect. I've been wrestling with what to think about crowdsourcing (especially V&S) for a while now, and you've just distilled it into 10 words. That was a huge help, so thanks.

Re: Victors and Spoils, Crowdsourcing Evolution, a Touch of Rage

nerfherder — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:59:31 -0000

Andrew, hello again :)

i just recently posted the following at V&S blog:

http://victorsandspoils.com/welcome-to-victors-...

Re: Average Customer Daily Income

human3rror — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:36:36 -0000

hmm. good things to think about.

Re: Average Customer Daily Income

Deano — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:54:52 -0000

This is such a timely post, because sometimes the ACDI is a factor when looking at services that provide multiple service levels... For example, I just checked out http://typekit.com today, basically a web service selling "font usage for your website for one low monthly/annual fee". The only problem is, the annual fee at the upper end is well past my ACDI! And at the lower, more acceptable end, the featureset SUCKS too much. So, even though this startup has accounted for multiple ACDI levels to a point, they stopped thinking of the non-financial incentives, and/or their service model only works under such a tight-focused market that I'm just never going to be a good fit, regardless.

So, I think an additional point to make is, while it's nice to have something like ACDI guiding pricing, it's equally important to realize that the pricing, whatever it is, needs to provide appropriate or even excessive value to the consumer (and I would suggest that this is more true for LOWER ACDIs, where the choice essentially boils down to pay for excellent things and make do without a lot, rather than pay a small increment for a so-so solution).

Anyway, cool stuff! Perhaps ACDI is also the "natural" point at which individuals who are beholden to other interests (the bank, parents, spouses, etc) don't need to consult with a higher power to make the buying decision. I definitely notice the difference in trying to buy something I really want if it's over $200... And if an annual service crests $99, I tend to take MUCH longer thinking about it, whereas I am a Flickr Pro user who barely uses his account, simply because $25 wasn't even an afterthought for what I could get in return.

Re: Victors and Spoils, Crowdsourcing Evolution, a Touch of Rage

Bob Knorpp — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:12:45 -0000

Your pyramid scheme comment really resonates with me. That's exactly the point we made on The BeanCast a couple week's back.

Crowdsourcing is a process of distributed work flow where more people contribute and you get a wider range of opinions so that work is presumably better. But when you add the money equation into what should be a share and share alike process, (an I help you, you help me model) the economics never work. Because for it truly to be crowdsourcing where everyone shares the wealth, the payout needs to be astronomical to make it worth anyone's time. The only alternative is to create...a pyramid scheme. Or worse yet, a thinly veiled RFP where everyone gives free work for the client to choose which execution they like best.

I love crowdsourcing as well. But it must be done in an egalitarian spirit where you help me with my art and I help you with your copy. Or where I freely share my thoughts, knowing you will do the same in return. As soon as this process is assigned a dollar figure, we turn crowdsourcing into something very different. It's something called "a scam."

Here's the show I referenced above: http://beancast.us/profiles/blogs/episode-seven...

Bob Knorpp
Host of The BeanCast
Posts Every Monday @ http://beancast.us