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Totally get your definition of bootstrapping. But it is also in common usage in a much looser sense -- at least i hear it used that way quite a lot! Good luck Marilyn!

Agreed, but once a company is already making lots of money I tend to drop the "bootstrapping" adjective to refer to their present state of operation. :) There are a few women in th…

There are way more women running tech startups that have VC funding than there are with bootstrapping. Really? I'm not so sure. Perhaps it is just hard to hear about the women that…

Perhaps you should fix the typo in the who is this for section: "You are the technology guy responsible for the product, whether your title is Lead Developer, CTO, or VP Engineerin…

There is a Quora thread for tracking who was there: http://qr.ae/EC7

Agreed. In fact I wonder what discipline it is not true in at the moment.

Depending on the school grad students are not necessarily cheaper to a professor than Postdocs due to the overhead/fees paid for students versus that paid for postdocs. Also the cu…

Still a ways off getting there with humanoids! The small size league is one of the most fun to watch. It moves very fast, the robots work properly in their teams, and they even chi…

There are private equity groups that acquire companies with profits of this size. But I don't know the industry well enough to suggest names. I would try and get some names from an…

Currently if a woman wants to wear jeans in a new brand or style, you are right, it is a good idea for her to try them on before buying them. Depending on the woman, she may or may…

Thankfully for (male) software engineers, not all women enjoy Harlequinn romance novels. :)

The long hours issue is not unique to startups. I've seen happy couples where one partner works long hours and the other does not, and when both work long hours. But obviously it d…

If your plan is for the company behind the platform to buy you, you need to consider carefully the kind of cash they have for acquisitions and how often they do talent acquisitions…