The increased number of homes with two working parents is a positive development for many, but it also means it is critical for companies to find ways to support these working parents. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2017, “Among married-couple families with children, 96.9 percent had at least one employed parent, and […]
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The world of youth sports is an exciting one that is continuously changing and improving to stay up to date with the latest trends. Those who coach youth sports understand this firsthand. In order to be the best coach possible, coaches are encouraged to constantly learn and grow so that they can teach their players
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Twelve months are coming to an end. With a number of natural disasters occurring this year – which many scientists tie into climate change – it is rewarding to work for a company that is helping to create sustainable communities while saving energy and helping families with their daily transportation needs. Life in a startup
Last week GoKid was invited to attend the Palo Alto Sustainability and Climate Action Summit. Pat Burt, the mayor of Palo Alto, welcomed the 80+ attendees emphasizing that this was the most important environmental gathering in the city’s history and would help determine what type of city we will pass on to future generations. Gil Friend,
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Yesterday the GoKid team was invited to talk about our carpooling app in front of New Haven’s Parent Teacher Organizations (PTOs) representing 35 New Haven schools. We were invited by New Haven’s Transportation, Traffic, and Parking Department to speak about GoKid; while there, we had the pleasure of learning some interesting facts about New Haven and
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Monday night GoKid joined nine other women-led start-ups for a night of pitching at Women Who Tech’s Women Startup Challenge. Microsoft hosted at their Times Square location providing an enormous room that was packed with hundreds of people before the pitching began. The companies were extremely diverse and roughly fit into four categories: Women Startup
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Yesterday I attended a six-hour long conference on tech and entrepreneurship that was different from any I had been to before. Instead of the usual 90% male and 10% female ratio, the floor of the 2Xin Tech conference was filled with women. There were too many to count, but it looked like more than 200
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This week I had the honor of speaking at the “Move Together” National Shared Mobility Summit in Chicago hosted by the Shared-Use Mobility Center. The organization was launched one year ago to brainstorm ways that bike-share, car-share, ride-share, and other new mobility tools can become a major force for increasing transportation access, fighting congestion, and improving air quality.
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We are excited to announce that GoKid has been chosen as one of ten finalists in Women Who Tech’s 2015 Women Startup Challenge. We will be pitching alongside nine other female-founded tech companies on November 9, 2015, at 6 p.m. at the Microsoft New York Headquarters. Judges of the competition include Joanne Wilson, Kathryn Finney of
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A couple of weeks ago I attended a great MeetUp at NYU Stern. One of the founders of BlaBlaCar, Frédéric Mazzella, was there to talk about building a company with 20 million users and $110M in funding. Despite the success of this company internationally, I am guessing you have never heard of BlaBlaCar, a company based in Paris,
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