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Sheryl Sandberg: So we leaned in ... now what?

Sheryl's at it again... I appreciate her thoughtful follow-up on this crucial topic, well-deserving of a continued discussion.

Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 -- because she was going to talk, for the first time, about the lonely experience of being a woman in the top tiers of business. Millions of views (and a best-selling book) later, the Facebook COO talks with the woman who pushed her to give that first talk, Pat Mitchell. Sandberg opens up about the reaction to her idea, and explores the ways that women still struggle with success.

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Life After Kickstarter: 5 Costly Lessons From A Kickstarter-Backed Designer

For Jon Fawcett, Kickstarter success came with an unusual soundtrack: an air horn.The din started on May 7, 2012, the day Fawcett and his colleagues at Fuse Chicken, a four-person design outfit in Akron, Ohio, launched their first Kickstarter campaign. They were trying to raise funding for Une Bobine, a product of Fawcett’s design that stuffed an iPhone charging cable inside a metal gooseneck, allowing it to double as a flexible docking station and makeshift tripod.

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Once again, Andrew sums up the opportunities/challenges of international development perfectly, and most importantly, highlights solutions - a welcome foray into a long-time interest and budding career path for me. My motivation for pursuing supply chain, logistics, and operations is right here...

"Distribution of proven solutions equals Development. As a human society, we invented the solutions to eradicate extreme poverty decades ago. In practice though, these solutions have yet to be distributed to more than a billion people. For many of the world’s poor, the distribution of proven interventions would result directly in the achievement of human development."

- Andrew Youn, Founder/Director of One Acre Fund

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The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train passing under a car driving under an airplane.

- City of Boston / Hub Group Fun Facts

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Maintain, Disrupt Simultaneously...

“You basically have to build an organization that is always capable of acting like a startup when the time is right, but can run a large scale business simultaneously...

What happens to most organizations is that management gets further and further away from the actual activities/disruptions/changes going on in the marketplace (unlike their startup peers), and thus their ability to take key and necessary decisive action is impaired."

- Aaron Levie, Founder of Box, unofficial disciple of Steve Jobs

Article: The Fears and Realities of Our Chaotic Times (Fast Company) 

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Great site to check from time to time to see what NEU students are up to - always happy to support social enterprise and other student-led ventures!

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If millennials were in Congress right now they would pass bills on all of the big social issues on the first day and get on with business.

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My favorite video ever - not just inspiring, it provides some clear hard facts about why we have too few women leaders, and most importantly, how to change that. Great insight into how women can promote themselves (and future generations) as leaders and change the workplace environment for females.

Ready to sit at the table? Hoping all the women in my life will watch this... 

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Joe Kraus, investing partner at Google Ventures

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Thanks to Esther Chou and Dennis Shaughnessy for the amazing experiences we all had at Northeastern over the past few years - your support made a world of difference to each and every one of us. Best of luck to all the graduates!

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Can The iPad Revolutionize Rural Agriculture?

Read article here.

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A good perspective in light of Greg Smith's opinion piece on Goldman released today.

"You need a balance, which is why we have to get past this cartoonish “argument that the choice is either all government or all the market,” argues Rothkopf. The lesson of history, he adds, is that capitalism thrives best when you have this balance, and “when you lose the balance, you get in trouble.”

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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.

— African proverb

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Important for everyone who doesn't want their news to be skewed. "Filter bubbles" influence what information reaches us and therefore on what we perceive to be important - it's hard to express how much that matters.

On another note, only about 30% of the world population has access to the internet. Check out 03b, whose stated goal is to "connect the unconnected" by providing the internet to those in underserved markets, pretty cool eh?

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>> words to inspire whatever comes next

- via King Estate Winery (and in the case that words aren't enough, they also make some damn good wine)

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sweet home chicago