A Rare Endorsement

by Farrah Bostic October 8, 2010 images

Yesterday, thinking I was about to go buy pencil skirts at J. Crew, I looked down 17th Street from 5th Avenue and was reminded of a shop I’d been in only once, and had bought nothing. It wasn’t that I didn’t like what was in the store, only that for some reason it seemed … [...]

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Big Digital Experiment

by Farrah Bostic October 7, 2010 strategy

I used to ‘do innovation’ at Hall & Partners in NYC. They decided to update their communications framework by examining how digital channels played out against it. The framework was built in 1991 by Mike Hall and I’ve always regarded it as flexible and workable and useful – because it does what a good model [...]

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Mo’ money, mo’ problems

by Farrah Bostic September 13, 2010 entrepreneurs

When we talk about women entrepreneurs (damn that modifier is getting tired), the metric seems to be about VC dollars and the list of speakers at tech events. What we are really talking about is recognition. You can argue that women don’t approach VCs, and you can argue about why that is and what the [...]

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#wherewereyou

by Farrah Bostic September 13, 2010 entrepreneurs

On Friday, I went to Startup Weekend at New Work City. Among 130 new friends, I pitched an idea. For the first time in 20 years, I felt terrified speaking in front of a roomful of strangers. Speaking and writing – these are my things. I’m smart, I get it, I’m good at the work [...]

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Metaphors

by Farrah Bostic September 7, 2010 images

Just a quick thought on the subject of how cultures/groups can be defined by common language – and that this common language, especially in the fairly democratic language landscape of English (a bastard, by all accounts), is often demarcated by shared metaphors. I am not a linguist. I am not a sociologist or anthropologist. I [...]

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