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#53-Working Mothers Are Rocking in Seed-Stage Startups

In the brilliant words of Thomas Hardy, “The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.” Approximately, there are 386,567 women employees with children in seed-stage startups in the US. We have reviewed statistics from reliable sources and articles from reputed news outlets to estimate the number of women employees with children in seed-stage startups in the US. From what we have read, the number of women with children working in seed-stage startups in the US is on the rise. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is an eminent organization which collates data on the state of entrepreneurship in the US and analyzes the data from multiple angles to arrive at interesting conclusions. The foundation works in close coordination with government organizations in its research endeavors. According to the information available from 2016 The Kauffman Index Startup Activity N...

#52-Do Your MBA Smartly

We should never forget what Martin Luther King, Jr. said about the goal of true education, "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." True education is not confined inside the walls of an institution, and in fact, it never was. We are going through a time when the media of education is going through massive transformation. Reputed universities and educational institutions all over the world are launching Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on a plethora of subjects. There are some who are skeptic about the MOOCs but they are heavily outnumbered by people who actively admire MOOCs.  MIT OpenCourseWare , one of largest MOOC-providers, mentions on its site, "MIT OpenCourseWare receives over 2 million visits each month [...] 80% of visitors rate OCW's impact as extremely positive or positive." MOOC News & Reviews reports, "The evolution o...