As a product leader, your job is to represent a product from its inception, launch and throughout its growth stages. Your job entails you to lead teams, create cohesive business strategies and understand the technical mechanics of building a digital product. It’s a career that requires its cross-functional leaders to hold a nuance of both [...]
Net neutrality is anything but neutral. In October 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), led by chairman Ajit Pai, voted to repeal the Open Internet Order that was reinstated in 2015. The legislation has spawned public debate and divided the opinions of everyone from Internet companies and cable conglomerates to innovators and freedom of speech [...]
Blockchain is an essential part of today’s digital world. During the 2008 recession, the sharing economy emerged with investors enthusiastically supporting companies like Uber and Airbnb. Today, these companies are considered unicorns, spearheading the way in their respective industries and revolutionizing the way people use and experience everyday services. In 2009, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey [...]
The below is a transcript of the Wonder Women podcast, which can be found on YouTube here. Content has been edited for clarity. See part four here. Aparna Pujar: I think with respect to the funder aspect of it, I feel that my challenges are really no different than say a male founder has. It’s the entire [...]
The below is a transcript of the Wonder Women podcast, which can be found on YouTube here. Content has been edited for clarity. See part three here. Aparna Pujar I think it goes back to being a working mother. Parenting is one of the toughest jobs in the world. For working parents, there’s this constant demand [...]
The below is a transcript of the Wonder Women podcast, which can be found on YouTube here. Content has been edited for clarity. See part two here. -- Aparna Pujar A lot of it came from my own personal experience as a career working mother. We were always a nuclear family here and one of the things [...]
The below is a transcript of the Wonder Women podcast, which can be found on YouTube here. Content has been edited for clarity. See part one here. — Monica Antoki So what made you switch from corporate to your own startup? What was the driving factor behind that? Aparna Pujar I am a product manager by [...]
The below is a transcript of the Wonder Women podcast, which can be found on YouTube here. Content has been edited for clarity. --- Monica Antoki Hello everybody and welcome to our Wonder Women podcast, the main podcast for the businessmagazineforwomen.com. In our podcasts, just like in our magazine, we’re focused on promoting women’s voices [...]
For more than 60 years, malls have acted as the backdrop for communities throughout America. As de facto “town centers”, these downtown destinations brought people together for communal activities and entertainment purposes. But the digital era changed the way cities, businesses, and people operate on a global scale. In retail, e-commerce disrupted traditional modes of [...]
Emerging technologies, from artificially intelligent machine learning to big data analytics, are transforming the way people communicate and interact. Yet, in a world that is heavily influenced by social media, research finds that consumers face increased feelings of isolation, anxiety, and incidents of online bullying. Facebook even has its very own compassion department targeted at [...]