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A place for visioning, tinkering, and building around the topics of education reform, technology, and female entrepreneurship. I am Jen Shoop, an education reformer, technologist, and entrepreneur. Am Chief Innovation Officer at Moneythink, a start-up non-profit focused on financial literacy. Personally, I am a lifelong learner and loving wife, daughter, and sister. Email me: jshoop@moneythink.org. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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Musings on Entrepreneurship. | The Toolshed
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A place for visioning, tinkering, and building around the topics of education reform, technology, and female entrepreneurship. If I could distill my main learnings over the past nine months down to three things, it would be:. Ask for a lot of advice, but understand that someone’s opinion is just one data point. Want to be perceived or how I do. But what’s struck me most about this concerted effort to learn as much as I can from folks further along than I? Customer acquisition is king. June 2, 2016.
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A place for visioning, tinkering, and building around the topics of education reform, technology, and female entrepreneurship. Month: December, 2014. December 29, 2014. Good Managers Are Made, Not Born — And Other Discoveries. It feels like I’ve been out here for hours! At any rate, my taking stock. From this past week:. 1 Good managers are made, not born.*. 2 A managerial promotion should not necessarily be a reward for good performance. Related to the above, I read this fascinating post. That makes the...
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HCD vs. Mission. | The Toolshed
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A place for visioning, tinkering, and building around the topics of education reform, technology, and female entrepreneurship. HCD vs. Mission. It was all-around awesome. And yet. There was a cloying voice in my head that kept asking: “Shouldn’t we have the kids here? Shouldn’t we be re-starting the process we undertook when we brought IDEO.org in to help us? Is it OK to vision and build off of what we’ve already built without going back to the source? And yet. We. And yet. When we’re thinking ...Respond...
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A place for visioning, tinkering, and building around the topics of education reform, technology, and female entrepreneurship. Month: November, 2015. November 19, 2015. The Leaky Pipeline Issue. Well, the sharp Freada Kapor Klein. Said it best at a recent demo event. My thoughts on this complex issue evolve over time, but top of mind thoughts for today:. Runs a rad company called Mission Propelle. That empowers girls through yoga, literacy. And mentorship. Annie will change the world because she̵...
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The Technical Divide. | The Toolshed
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A place for visioning, tinkering, and building around the topics of education reform, technology, and female entrepreneurship. I read three interesting articles on women in technology this week: one by a male programmer. Frustrated by her position outside of the “technically entitled” caste because of her gender; and a final one. About steps companies can take to attract and retain women in their technology departments. Who are our role models? What do our educators tell us? What do our peers tell us?
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Evolution. | The Toolshed
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A place for visioning, tinkering, and building around the topics of education reform, technology, and female entrepreneurship. Manager. He’s a force.). But one of the most powerful pieces of advice he’s brought home came from one of. Managers, who said:. 8220;If you’re doing the same thing at the end of the year that you were doing at the beginning of the year, you’re not doing your job.”. For a non-profit trying to solve a big problem, evolution to the point of extinction. January 13, 2015. On The Techn...
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A place for visioning, tinkering, and building around the topics of education reform, technology, and female entrepreneurship. February 7, 2014. I recently read the following start-up advice: “Focus is your most scarce resource.” I promptly jotted it down on a post-it and affixed it to the front of my notebook (which accompanies me everywhere), and it’s been glaring at me ever since. I can’t recall where I read it, but am thinking it was either from Steve Blank. Someone is noticing us! 8221; Recognizing ...
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The Leaky Pipeline Issue. | The Toolshed
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A place for visioning, tinkering, and building around the topics of education reform, technology, and female entrepreneurship. The Leaky Pipeline Issue. Well, the sharp Freada Kapor Klein. Said it best at a recent demo event. 8212; it’s potential to retain and promote the best talent in a more fair and equitable way. But that’s a bloglet for another day. Suffice to say that I have a lot to say on the issue of gender bias in talent management.). Runs a rad company called Mission Propelle. And mentorship&#...