Female Innovators at Work: Women on Top of Tech
Autor Danielle Newnhamen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 noi 2016
This book describes the experiences and successes of female innovators and entrepreneurs in the still largely male-dominated tech-world in twenty candid interviews. It highlights the varied life and career stories that lead these women to the top positions in the technology industry that they are in now.
Interviewees include CEOs, founders, and inventors from a wide spectrum of tech organizations across sectors as varied as mobile technology, e-commerce, online education, and video games. Interviewer Danielle Newnham, a mobile startup and e-commerce entrepreneur herself as well as an online community organizer, presents the insights, instructive anecdotes, and advice shared with her in the interviews, including stories about raising capital for one’s start-up, and about the obstacles these women encountered and how they overcame them.
This timely book will be of great interestto anyone working in tech or looking to get into the industry, and more in general: to everyone wanting to learn how they can contribute to leveling the field of occupational opportunity and to strengthening teams and companies through merit and diversity.
Interviewees include CEOs, founders, and inventors from a wide spectrum of tech organizations across sectors as varied as mobile technology, e-commerce, online education, and video games. Interviewer Danielle Newnham, a mobile startup and e-commerce entrepreneur herself as well as an online community organizer, presents the insights, instructive anecdotes, and advice shared with her in the interviews, including stories about raising capital for one’s start-up, and about the obstacles these women encountered and how they overcame them.
This timely book will be of great interestto anyone working in tech or looking to get into the industry, and more in general: to everyone wanting to learn how they can contribute to leveling the field of occupational opportunity and to strengthening teams and companies through merit and diversity.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781484223635
ISBN-10: 1484223632
Pagini: 204
Ilustrații: XVII, 216 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1st ed.
Editura: Apress
Colecția Apress
Locul publicării:Berkeley, CA, United States
ISBN-10: 1484223632
Pagini: 204
Ilustrații: XVII, 216 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1st ed.
Editura: Apress
Colecția Apress
Locul publicării:Berkeley, CA, United States
Cuprins
Chapter 1: Lynda Weinman: Cofounder, Lynda.com.- Chapter 2: Arlene Harris: Cofounder, Wrethink.- Chapter 3: Judith Klein: Systems Architect and Fellow, Leidos.- Chapter 4: Holly Liu: Cofounder, Kabam.- Chapter 5: Anisha Singh: Cofounder, mydala.- Chapter 6: Judith Owigar: Cofounder, JuaKali Workforce.- Chapter 7: Brenda Romero: Cofounder, Loot Drop.- Chapter 8: Carol Reiley: Cofounder, Drive.ai.- Chapter 9: Cathy Edwards: Cofounder and CTO, Chomp.- Chapter 10: Dame Stephanie Shirley: Founder, FI Group.- Chapter 11: Gwynne Shotwell: President and COO, SpaceX.- Chapter 12: Majora Carter: Cofounder and CEO, Startup Box.- Chapter 13: Elizabeth Feinler: Director of the Network Information Systems Center, SRI International .- Chapter 14: Yasmine Mustafa: Cofounder and CEO, ROAR for Good.- Chapter 15: Judy Estrin: Founder, JLabs LLC.- Chapter 16: Martha Lane Fox: Cofounder, Doteveryone.- Chapter 17: Manuela Veloso: Herbert A. Simon University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University.- Chapter18: Radia Perlman: Inventor, Spanning Tree Protocol.- Chapter 19: Sampriti Bhattacharyya: Founder, Hydroswarm.- Chapter 20: Ramona Pierson: Cofounder, Declara.-
Notă biografică
Danielle Newnham is the founder of The Junto Network, an online network for tech entrepreneurs, featuring interviews with inspirational tech founders and innovators. She is the cofounder of Tease and Totes, an online store for women and children. She was on the founding team of ubinow, a mobile apps agency in London. Newnham was named one of the Top 10 Tech Writers of 2015 by LinkedIn. She is the author of Mad Men of Mobile (CreateSpace, 2013), a collection of interviews with mobile pioneers and entrepreneurs.
Caracteristici
Features twenty personal and in-depth stories of successful women tech entrepreneurs Highlights the benefits of diversity in tech teams Describes some of the obstacles women can face in the tech industry, and how these women overcame them