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Building Model View Culture by The Editor on January 20th, 2016
We cover picking a price point, promoting your sponsorships, developing ethical guidelines, and how sponsors help us make MVC.
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Building Model View Culture by The Editor on January 20th, 2016
How we think about and use crowdfunding at MVC, and what social justice/feminist/community platforms can learn from us.
Pile of silver coins.
Building Model View Culture by The Editor on January 19th, 2016
Building sustainable funding that supports your mission and goals, allows you to grow, and develops community connection.
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Issue 28 by The Editor & Aniyia Williams on October 14th, 2015
We spoke to Aniyia about the wearable tech market, raising seed funding, building your founding team and where Tinsel is going.
A lightbulb, slowly burning out in the dark, a hand reaching out to touch it.
Issue 25 by Anonymous Author on August 11th, 2015
Despite our mythologies of open source as a flat, accessible, democratic model for software development, the way we lead our open source groups consistently proves otherwise.
The stages of a butterfly from chrysalis to newly hatched.
Issue 23 by Betsy Haibel on June 30th, 2015
New programming language communities are “graded” on how cutting-edge they are: our pattern-matching capabilities associate white men with the cutting edge, especially if they’re talking about monads.
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Funding by Shanley Kane & Amelia Greenhall on April 7th, 2014
(Based on a true story.)
The Flammarion Engraving, via Wikipedia.
Funding by Rachel Chalmers on April 4th, 2014
You are more than three times as likely to crash your startup as you are to ring the NASDAQ opening bell.
A group of five young men, posing awkwardly in front of a small backyard swimming pool. All are wearing collared shirts. One man wears a professor style blazer, with elbow patches, another has a Patagonia fleece vest.
Mythology by Shanley Kane on March 17th, 2014
They work together in concert, and in practice, function to exclude and marginalize minorities in tech.
The Dating Ring startup's crowdtilt page for 'Cross-Country Love: Help Fly NYC Women to SF' attempting to fundraise $50k. The promo video below shows a woman smiling with her hands in a praying gesture.
Mythology by Kate Losse on March 17th, 2014
All of the efforts to get more women into tech will fail as long as the culture assumes that their labor is less valuable.