Women Like Me Opportunity – Toronto Startup Weekend 2

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The first Toronto Startup Weekend, September 14-16, brings all the basics of business innovation together for an intense 52 hours to create and launch a web based company.

Weekend Innovation = information+inspiration+informal exchange+ investors

If you have a web business idea and if the group of 100 highly skilled and experienced IT professionals votes to work on your concept you could be in business by Monday morning.

Everyone participating has shares in the new venture. There is no cost to participate; you pay for some of your meals (and accommodations if you are not from the Toronto area).

The first Startup Weekend “sold out” in 3 days. There are a few places open on the waiting list for Weekend 2 that will benefit from “lessons learned” in Weekend 1.

Please visit Toronto Startup Weekend for details.

A journalist is flying in from Dallas to cover the adventure. I wish she would be meeting more women presenting their ideas. The web, particularly the social networking, suits women’s entrepreneurial skills. Hope to see you and hear your ideas at Weekend 2.

Housework – The Real Dirt

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I vowed to be consistent with the blog, to let readers follow the theme of Time Can’t Be Managed step by thinking step.

But I haven’t had the time. Have you stopped laughing? May I continue? The project that consumed my life will be featured in 2 weeks. The last blog entry discussed time attitudes that can be managed, now lets look at activities.

The work that brings time, attitude and activity together in a daily stress mess is housework. Please click here and read Housework: The Real Dirt.

Time for Innovation

People think innovation is a Eureka moment experienced only by a great genius or the work of the sanity- challenged scientist in the isolated castle. In reality innovation is the entrepreneurial skill of an individual who can take trends and technology already available and use them in a new profitable way. Henry Ford did not invent the machines needed to produce cars. He did not invent the car. He did invent the assembly line that used raw materials, labor and machines efficiently to produce mass production cars that many people could afFord.

A recent study found that great innovators think differently. With a minimum of information they can use it to reach a unique conclusion- sort of a new math 1 +1= 3. The study also found that non innovators could not make the leap no matter how much relevant information they had.

Innovation in this economy is the key to success and survival: fortunately it is a skill that most of us can develop.

It is a skill that flourishes when information is shared through a supportive network, with inspiration from innovative achievers and through introspection – time to let the your mind quilt the pieces of information and inspiration into your first or next success pattern. Our minds are brilliant but we do not allow them the time to ponder, evaluate and make the innovative leap.

The Women Like Me site will provide up to the minute information on new technologies, success skills and emerging trends.

Women Like Me, The Women’s Business & Networking Directory will give you a varied support network .

The blog will profile Innovative Women Achievers and comment on the economic and social trends behind their work.

You must provide the Time.