Most of my life, I’ve always felt like I don’t quite fit in. Not at home, not with any of my families, not at school. I sometimes joke that I was hatched from an egg
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A new prenatal test that reveals birth abnormalities at a much earlier stage is sure to give pregnant women and their families a lot more to think about. Erica Hill reports
Read More »How I Navigated My First Hire
I'm hiring a college intern for the winter break. So I mapped out a plan to make it worthwhile for my start-up--and for her. I have some public relations needs for FamiliesGo! that I haven't been able to get to and I'm not ready to pay a professional PR firm
Read More »Go Big or Go Home?
The founder of FamiliesGo!, a travel website, weighs the options for her start-ups growth.
Read More »How Analytics Drive My Web Strategy
FamiliesGo! founder Eileen P. Gunn writes about the underlying web analytics that steer her business decisions. I kind of love Google Analytics
Read More »What If You Can’t Give Things Away?
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Read More »Why Women Don’t Get Venture Capital
My daughter fell on her nose at camp this summer. This, in a nutshell is why I’m reluctant to seek venture capital or to build my business, FamiliesGo!, in a way that necessitates it
Read More »Don’t Make the Same Mistakes with Google AdSense I Did
Every entrepreneur makes mistakes when starting out. Some are fixable, some don’t matter that much in the long run. Some really bug you and can’t be fixed and you just have to learn to live with them for a while
Read More »Study: Hispanics Link Business and Family
More than half start their businesses to have something tangible to pass to their children, versus a third of the general population.
Read More »One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Repeat
The founder of parent-travel website FamiliesGo! chronicles her start-up shuffle. Tuesday was an interesting day
Read More »Olga Romero On Keeping Students And Families Connected
Photograph by Matt Nager Creative marketers are launching new efforts to reach the Latin American community. Olga Romero manages multicultural communications for Southwest Airlines. Olga Romero Bilingual Communications Specialist, Southwest Airlines Dallas Romero, 36, manages multicultural communications for the airline.
Read More »How I promote my start-up
My first entrepreneurial venture was Your Career Is An Extreme Sport, a career-advice book I wrote in 2007. In addition to reporting and writing the book, I was pretty much solely responsible for promotion, marketing and sales. (The publisher handled distribution.) I did just about everything wrong that time around.
Read More »Female Australopiths Left Home Once Mature, Males Didn’t
By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Fossilized teeth of early human ancestors bear signs that females left their families when they came of age, whereas males stayed close to home. A chemical analysis of australopithecine fossils ranging between roughly 1.8 million and 2.2 million years old from two South African caves finds that teeth thought to belong to females are more likely to have incorporated minerals from a distant region during formation than those from males
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ReadyTalk provides everything from insurance to yoga classes to keep its employees physically and mentally fit. ReadyTalk believes its success is contingent upon happy, engaged, and caring workers.
Read More »Why I Became an Entrepreneur
The inaugural post of Eileen P. Gunn's new Inc.com blog, Start Me Up. Being an entrepreneur energizes me.
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