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Why I am going naked
Hiatus over. All this palaver about why women should keep their clothes on made me come out of my blogging retirement. Here are my 10 reasons for doing the Nude London Tech Calendar.
This is probably the best I will ever look. I have been denying myself carbs for almost a [...]
Ning vs Meetup
Building a casual riders social network on Ning – FAIL. Creating a horse riding weekend meet-up on Meetup – WIN. Silicon Stilettos on Meetup – 300 passive members, on Ning – 113, but it’s a vibrant community. Do I grudge paying Meet-up £50 every six months? I don’t. Small price to pay to ‘eliminate the barriers [...]
When women ruled the world
This whole Ada Lovelace Day gave me a bit of a headache. You’d think to write about one woman in technology that you admire is a doddle. But I am not easily impressed. I hold many of my fellow tech ladies in awe: Amanda for organsing the global Twestival; Sarah for taking her GirlGeekDinners to [...]
Bring back Das Mutterrecht!
I’m all for Kant’s categorical imperative , but this is taking the biscuit.
First-time author Megan Basham who produced ‘how to kill your financial independence for women’ is doing PR-rounds in the UK.
Amazon calls it: ‘a guide offering an alternative for women who do not want to join the corporate rat race explains how women can [...]
Why does it always have to be about money?
It’s not that I want move to Israel to join a kibbutz, but why does it always to have to be about money?
I’m not talking about start-ups wanting to monetise their ideas – this is business and everyone needs to eat. But I’m infuriated with so called ‘women networks’ that promote ridiculously priced [...]
Wish I had Sarah Lacy’s balls
I love Kathy Sierra, but there’s a new hero in town.
A friend prevented me today from publishing what I thought was a clever (and funny) post, written in response to someone who achieved the unachievable – made me angry. Sarah Lacy is a kind of person who would’ve turned to my friend and said: [...]
One down, more to come
It’s been almost a week since more than 80 Silicon Stilettos met for the very first time at LVPO in Soho. It was loud, it was dark/awfully bright depending on whether the camera lights were on or off, but the free bar lasted all night (thank you Winston & Strawn/Bootlaw) and I bumped into a [...]
And then there were 120
It’s been a month since I spent a whole Sunday putting the Silicon Stilettos logo together and some words for the meet-up page. I thought: cool, we’ll get 20-30 members, will meet in a pub and exchange war stories. I was wrong.
We are at 120 members, including honorary ones (sponsors and those who are involved [...]
Silicon, stilettos, sponsors
This could’ve gone terribly wrong: a massive fuck-up and huge disappointment.
But thanks to Danvers and Barry of Winston & Strawn (whom you want on your side when you get some VC monies), I won’t have to auction any invitations to the first Silicon Stilettos meet-up on eBay. Check out their Bootlaw meet-up. With 56 Stilettos [...]
Ladies’ night, take 2, launching Silicon Stilettos
Time flies in a start-up. I started writing this blog just before taking off for America, for almost a month. When I got back, there were enough Huddle things to occupy me day and night. My ladies’ tech night ended up on a backburner. Five months later, I finally caught my breath and it’s back [...]
