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Sugarbook CEO Darren Chan on Economic Relief and Expansion Plan

30May

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Sugarbook CEO Darren Chan on Economic Relief and Expansion Plan

The Basics of Sugar Farming: Sugar Daddies, Sugar Mamas, & Sugar Babies What is a Sugar Daddy? The prerequisites to becoming a successful sugar daddy have a solid bank balance and a heart to pamper his sugar baby. Other addon characteristics include chivalry, respect, and care. What is a Sugar Baby? A real sugar baby is a young man or woman with a flair for enjoying the finer things in life. They can be students, single moms or dad, or early-career men/woman, but goal-oriented & yet submissive, making it drama-free & yet enjoyable. What is a Sugar Relationship? A sugar relationship is an arrangement between the sugar daddy and the sugar baby, mostly consenting adults, who mutually thrive on each other not limited to companionship, mentorship, financial and emot...

Nykia Wardlaw Draws on Black Entrepreneurship, Caregiving, & Racism

26Apr

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Nykia Wardlaw Draws on Black Entrepreneurship, Caregiving, & Racism

In the 1700s, South Carolina became a slave society, with slavery central to its economy. African slaves were made to cultivate labor-intensive rice. Here's a proud descendant of black ancestry from that past of pain and hurt, Coach Nykia Wardlaw, who frees small business owners to leverage digital technology and reap profit! In this feature, the Editor-in-Chief of StartuptoEnterprise, Linda Ashok, talks to the Founder of Chosen One Agency LLC, Nykia Wardlaw, walking us through slavery in South Carolina; to helping her first client pay off $14000 in debt and more! Read this interaction between two women entrepreneurs in the world that still hesitates to fund women-led enterprises. LA: What is your take on the small business industry in the digital marketing sector? What do you thin...

Women-in-AI (WAI), Taiwan Ambassador, Linien Yen on Life & Career

5Mar

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Women-in-AI (WAI), Taiwan Ambassador, Linien Yen on Life & Career

In this feature, the Editor-in-Chief of StartuptoEnterprise, Linda Ashok, talks to Women-in-AI Taiwan Ambassador Linien Yen on career, cancer, and the sweetest bribe she would accept anytime. Share with us your experiences as a career woman, the organization you worked for, your responsibilities, clients you served! I worked as an English secretary in Ogilvy, one of the biggest advertising companies, when I returned from Australia, where I studied for my master's degree. After one year of working in Ogilvy, I found out that being an account executive was much more fun. So, I requested my boss, who was also the company's managing director, to change to the accounting department. As an account, I needed to take the brief from the client and brainstorm with the creative team to come o...

CTO Swathi Young on Leadership, Biases, & the Bribe She won’t Refuse

12Nov

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CTO Swathi Young on Leadership, Biases, & the Bribe She won’t Refuse

In this feature, the Editor-in-Chief of StartuptoEnterprise, Linda Ashok, talks to Indian-American Chief Technology Officer at Integrity Management Services, Swathi Young, on workplace biases, the bribe she would never refuse, and industry leadership through professional and community commitment. Swathi Young on her Leadership Role at Integrity Management Services, Inc. About Integrity Management Services, Inc.: (IntegrityM) brings more than fifteen years of proven corporate experience providing healthcare solutions for the US federal government. Our services include audits, data analytics, investigations, medical record reviews, and outreach & education activities to help the Department of Health & Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid detect fraud, waste,...

Dr. Deepika Vuppalanchi on Emotions in Medical Science & Leadership

1Nov

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Dr. Deepika Vuppalanchi on Emotions in Medical Science & Leadership

In this feature, the Editor-in-Chief of StartuptoEnterprise, Linda Ashok (LA), talks to Indian-American Senior Medical Director at Precision Value & Health, Dr. Deepika Vuppalanchi (DV), on emotions in medical science and the visibility of women in scientific leadership. Dr. Vuppalanchi to talk on telehealth's role in reducing care gaps, emphasizing the impact of COVI19 in the healthcare sector at the Digital Innovation Virtual Conference scheduled for Nov 5, 2020. LA: As the Senior Director at Precision Value & Health, Deepika Vuppalanchi's everyday operational and leadership responsibilities? DV: At Precision Value & Health, I partner with brand marketing leads from major pharmaceutical companies and identify strategies for successfully launching their drugs and maint...

Data Scientist & Olympic Weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah on Representation

24Oct

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Data Scientist & Olympic Weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah on Representation

In this feature, the Editor-in-Chief of StartuptoEnterprise, Linda Ashok (LA), talks to Pakistani-American Data Scientist and Olympic Weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah (KA) to present her talk on machine learning in the healthcare sector at the Digital Innovation Virtual Conference scheduled for Nov 5, 2020. LA: It is a minority to be i) a Pakistani in America, ii) a woman in data science, and iii) an Olympic weightlifter. How do you bring all these identities together to overtake the majority? KA: Being a minority doesn't affect me personally but professionally when I don't see many minorities equally represented in a group of people flock at conferences, or say, at the daily workplace. LA: Kulsoom, I hear you. Would it be okay for you to share any experience you had as a Pakistani-Amer...

9 Women Leaders at Digital Innovation Virtual Conference 2020

10Oct

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9 Women Leaders at Digital Innovation Virtual Conference 2020

The technology space is largely male-dominated, even today. Women and the nonbinary are most certainly freer than before to call shots and make decisions that move global businesses & influencing economies. But, modern-day conferences, seminars, and now online digital events lack gender diversity when it comes to representation. We don’t get to hear about many women leaders until they break the roof of the Whitehouse’s or the glass hall of the Swedish Nobel Committee or ages after we’ve lost them. Enter the Digital Innovation Virtual Conference 2020. You have 9 women leaders from global technology companies ready to meet on Nov 5, 2020, during the digital innovation virtual conference organized by InnovationDigi. Yes, a large part of the decision making is in control of the Sponsors. I...

How Vasuki Subbarao Makes Alexa & Amazon Business Work

6Oct

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How Vasuki Subbarao Makes Alexa & Amazon Business Work

In this feature, the Editor-in-Chief of StartuptoEnterprise, Linda Ashok (LA), talks to Customer Insights Principal at Amazon, Vasuki Subbarao (VS). We aim to feature incredible backstage leaders who make our interaction with futuristic technologies an enriching experience today. LA: Vasuki, as the Customer Insights Principal at Amazon, could you share with us about your work, industry experience, and your leadership? VS: My current role and work to date spans the entire gamut of analytics, inclusive of business strategy, data engineering, business intelligence, data sciences/ML, and business analysis I have a very diverse experience spanning diverse industries (Enterprise Software & Services, Management Consulting & Satellite Communications, and Aerospace) and skillsets (Analytics...

BITM’s Naresh Gupta Viral Take on Indian Ed-Tech Startup, BYJU’s

30Sep

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BITM’s Naresh Gupta Viral Take on Indian Ed-Tech Startup, BYJU’s

On September 26, 2020, Naresh Gupta, co-founder of Bang in the Middle, made a post on his LinkedIn profile that garnered a massive response from the LinkedIn community. By being a professional with over three decades of experience in market research, advertising, and marketing across multiple geographies, the post conveyed an impending concern with the Indian ed-tech startup scenario. Byju's as a brand confounds me. they have raised a staggering USD 1bn to fund what can be called as 'tuition'. No, they aren't setting up schools, they aren't getting more students into school, they aren't improving school infra. they are making parent spend more money on education by playing on their fear of bad marks and schools not being good in teaching. We are twisted as a nation. We dont want to impro...

Ai Weiwei Goes Pink & Middle Finger Over Julian Assange’s Extradition

29Sep

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China, People

Ai Weiwei Goes Pink & Middle Finger Over Julian Assange’s Extradition

On Monday, contemporary Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei staged a silent protest outside a London court demanding the release of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, facing extradition to the United States. Julian Paul Assange from Australia is an editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. Assange became a household name in surveillance whistleblowing in 2010 after releasing 500,000 secret files detailing military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, which compounded him a misfortune of 18 charges as per US's federal law. US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning facilitated the provision. Ai Weiwei, who has been in exile in Berlin, Germany, left China in 2015 to flee from Beijing's wrath. In solidarity with Assange, Ai says that the US's prosecution of Assange is...