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9 Ways to Stop Hurting and Start Helping Women in Tech | Brianna Wu | BoS USA 2014

The things that push women out of the industry are not Mad Men moments. More often than not, they’re actions by well intentioned people that do not understand the consequences of their actions. Brianna Wu, a software engineer for Giant Spacekat, breaks the problem down in a straightforward manner with concrete action items to take.

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“We don’t have a women in technology problem at Business of Software Conference”

Brianna Wu, 9 Ways We Can Stop Hurting and Start Helping Women in Tech

I was very surprised to overhear this comment from a woman at BoS in September. Nothing could be further from the truth. If this is an environment where women feel that, then I can’t imagine how tough it is on other places. We can take some pride I hope in creating a community where people feel safe, introverts become extroverts for a few days. It is not perfect.

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Families at Business of Software Conference USA

We are great believers in encouraging the next generation of software entrepreneurs!

Sadly for her, my daughter, Violet has just started ‘big school’ so won’t be joining us this year. She had a brilliant time last year

If you are thinking of bringing your children here are some things that you might like to know:

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What kind of AdWords user are you?

The doyenne of Adwords wranglers, Dave Collins, has put together a nice little cheat sheet for anyone who is trying to use Adwords more effectively. If you use Adwords, here are Dave’s thoughts on how to get more from your adwords budget.

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A startup by any other name… Very limited half price tickets for Business of Software Conference from Balsamiq & Twilio

What is a startup? Our recent conversations with BoS Alumni reminded us just how difficult it is to pin down a definition of, ‘startup’. We think Paul Graham is self interested in describing a startup as a potential billion $ business and it means far too much to other people. We also have a very special deal courtesy of Twilio and Balsamiq for a few lucky startups to attend Business of Software Conference for half price…

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The perfect storm

Ever wondered what it is like to live without the Internet for a few days? I just did a week with no phone and no Internet in the middle of France. We went camping en famille.

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Your minimum viable recruiting process

John Knox, Austin’s finest, wearer of Google Glass and generous supporter of BoS student grants, recently sent us this short essay on recruiting which made us laugh so much we had to share

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Where are they now? BoS speaker alumni….

Inspired by the line up of founders speaking at BoS this year, we’ve dug back through previous talks to find out what some of our more prominent speaker alumni thought was important five, six, seven years ago.

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The Patio11 trilogy

Back at BoS2010 a young, rather nervous looking engineer in a green tee launched into his Lightning Talk. He’d rather shamelessly stolen his opening line.

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