An Interview with Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook’s first female engineer
If Ruchi Sanghvi has anyone to thank for her meteoric rise from Facebook’s first female engineer to the vice president of operations at Dropbox, it’s her father. And then, maybe, James Brown. “My father was an engineer and entrepreneur and I just wanted to follow in his footsteps,” she recalls. “But he always said I...
Is Your Website Smartphone-Friendly?
Nearly 75 percent of smartphone shoppers make a purchase as a result of using their mobile devices, according to a recent study from Google. Yet a whopping 82 percent of local business websites are not optimized for mobile phones. That’s a huge mistake, according to Kevin Zicherman, president of Brick&Mobile, a Toronto-based start-up that builds...
Top 6 Best-Dressed Execs
As the old aphorism goes, “Clothes do not make the man.” But a finely tailored Armani suit can turn a humdrum exec into a red carpet-worthy fashion plate. Of course, we’d like to believe that our products speak for themselves. But human nature (or is it GQ magazine?) dictates that a status quo-defying hemline, meticulously...
Are Music Startups Destined to Hit a Bum Note?
For every scrappy startup that sets the music world on fire, there are dozens of fledgling music services that go down in flames. Just ask Dalton Caldwell, founder of Imeem, an advertising-supported streaming music service that was purchased by MySpace for $1 million last year, only to be shut down a month later. At a...
