In a respectable, and necessary, effort to flatten the curve, many of us have relocated our laptops, sun lamps, favorite mugs, and plant friends to our dining room tables, children’s bedrooms, and nightstands. Depending on your environment, and those with whom you cohabitate, your new work space may be a refreshing change of pace, or […]
Perspectives
MedPage Today ft. TIPS: ‘Five Ways to Cope When Masks Run Low’
New CDC guidance offers options on reuse, decontamination — and no, don’t use home ovens or tanning beds. Read more here: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85799
A Purpose-First Approach to Growing your Brand
How a Relentless Focus on Problem-Solving Drives Better Outcomes and Fuels Success Let’s take a quick trip back to the good ol’ days of 2013 as I share a cautionary tale with a moral that rings true for any startup, regardless of your industry. In 2013 the DOW closed at a record high of 15,548, […]
‘3 Pandemic Communications Cues from Your Kitchen Table’
“Our worlds both narrow and deepen in crisis. The professional static of your pre-pandemic life clears and those that matter most come into focus. And that’s where your focus should stay, for now.” Read more from s2s Public Relations and Communications Founder, Eric Schudiske, here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-pandemic-comms-cues-from-your-personal-life-eric-schudiske/
GeekWire: ‘Geek of the Week: Jordan Zager uses plant science to make cannabis more environmentally efficient’
“As an environmentally conscious cannabis enthusiast and scientist, I quickly made it my goal to reduce the environmental footprint that cannabis production has on our surroundings in anyway I can,” he said. Read more here: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/jordan-zager-phd/
Seattle Business Magazine: ‘SeaChange Fund’s Susan Preston Has Earned a Global Reputation as a Leader in the Investment World’
Preston says more women who have achieved success must work to ‘intentionally carve out opportunities for other women’. Read more here: http://seattlebusinessmag.com/daring-women/seachange-fund%E2%80%99s-susan-preston-has-earned-global-reputation-leader-investment-world
3 Ways to Talk Tech with a Human Touch
Our DNA is demanding. Our need to forge community and emotional connections is hardwired into each of us. Even in the world of startups and investment, more than profit-and-loss statements and zeros and ones, it’s often our emotions first, before logic, that drive decisions from hiring and firing to funding and future business plans. In […]
How to democratize visual storytelling
Optimizing the use of a tool you’re already using – your phone – to capture moments and stories for social media/blogs/newsletters/etc. Your phone, a device you know all too well. In fact, recent research reveals that the average person spends just over three hours per day on their mobile device. Your phone serves as a […]
3 Tips to Build Your Profile: Be Social, Generous, and Human
As you consider how to grow your company and increase investment, is CEO/founder profile building part of your overall strategy? A well-known, authentic and consistent personal brand will build credibility and trust with investors and partners, create a competitive edge, and create lasting value that will continue to yield dividends for your future endeavors. Here […]
6 Tips to Demonstrate Traction for Startups
As a scientist keen to communicate the value of my research I quickly learned the benefits of publishing and presenting, but it wasn’t until I bridged the academic and startup arenas that I realized private industry has its own evidence of success – traction. Most scientists are familiar with the idea that in academia peer-reviewed […]