Tech Word of The Day

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#TechTuesday with #ThatTechGirl #WordoftheDay is #Algorithm
When said engineer wants you to stop asking questions. Used in a sentence “It’s a proprietary algorithm” #urbandictionary means “Stop asking me for my secret sauce can’t you see I’m trying to raise money and look super smart”!

When you hear this term, stop asking 😆😂:)☺😆
#ThatTechGirl is #LibertyMadison #Oprah of #SiliconValley
#StartupLife for the #Millennial
#Founder #womenintech #femalefounder #siliconalley #SiliconBeach #SiliconValleylife #themost #bosslife #nochill #engineering #computerscience
http://www.twitter.com/libertymadison

Do you regret your first email address?

Nothing says regret like the #email address you made as a kid. #startuplife What was your 1st email address? I’ll go first! My very first email was kidlib@hotmail.com then talk2liberty@hotmail.com then #gmail saved me and upgraded my life! Now your turn!! TAG A FRIEND! #ThatTechGirl is #LibertyMadison #Oprah of #SiliconValley

#devlife #nerdshit #emaillist #Millennial #techblogger #millennialblogger #millennials #entrepreneurlife #randomness #reallife

Uber, Lyft, or DWI?

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@uber @lyft or @dwi Yep! DWI.
Uber decided to splurge price people for new years. Be sure to check your statement asap. You may miss rent!
One passenger noted he may take his chances next year and invest in a #dwi! Of course drinking and driving is a no go but I feel the sentiment!
If uber drove me from #nyc to #La I think I could get a better deal than almost 3k! Fyi this was a local ride! #ouch!! #lyft #uber #rideshare #racket
Who do you use? I know #logangreen so I only use #lyft
Hey @waltd336 go launch a gofundme!

#ThatTechGirl is #LibertyMadison #Oprah of #SiliconValley

Liberty on TWiT.tv Millennial Edition with Leo Laporte! Episode #LoveThySelfie 541

#ThatTechGirl : A co-host on the first ever This Week in Tech: Millennial Edition!
In case you missed it!
I made my TWIT.TV debut!
I had the honor and privilege to talk tech with the original The Tech Guy, Leo Laporte!
Sitting along side Silicon Valleys finest, Alex Wilhelm of Tech Crunch and Lauren Hockenson from Nextweb. We talked professional drone selfies, hashtags, 50 cent (fiddy cent as Leo likes to call him), self driving cars, brogrammers with hoover boards, and some good ole patent infringement. Seriously, we need to decide once and for all who actually owns a circle?!

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Alex Wilhelm, Lauren Hockenson, and I made up the First ever This Week in Tech: Millennial Edition!wpid-img_20151221_004719.jpg
And yes I live Tweeted, Snapped, and Selfied my way through a live TV and podcast broadcast. What can I say, it’s in my blood. Correction it IS my blood!
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In the event you have been living in a hyper loop tube and never heard of the show, This Week in Tech is the most popular show on TWIT and recent named top twenty of tech podcast! That is a huge accomplishment! I am thrilled and honored that Leo Laporte personally offered me a seat at the Millennial Table!

Watch the “Great Hashtag Debate of 2015”
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It turned into a heated GOP vs Dem debate. I am pro HASHTAG!
If you have your own hashtag I want to know about it! TWEET ME your hashtag ? Tweet me your hashtag!

ALSO BE SURE TO WATCH some behind the scenes footage of how I was almost trapped in Petaluma due to my Silicon Valleyness aka my bright idea to drive my electric car in the rain while low on battery power!! It is a nail biter!
WATCH HERE
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The #LoveThySelfie Millennial episode of TWIT can be found here.
WATCH HERE!
LISTEN HERE!
Short on time? Watch a clip!
WATCH THE GREAT HASHTAG DEBATE

Book Liberty Madison #ThatTechGirl to speak at your next event, conference, Tv show, or school.

Dubbed “Oprah of Silicon Valley” by Tim Draper, she speaks on and engages millennials in tech, entrepreneurship, startups and innovation. She is a MOTIVATIONAL TECH SPEAKER who focus on the importance of learning hard technical skills to change the world! She believes coding and technology in general can change your life and change your destiny!

BIG THANK YOU TO THE TWIT COMMUNITY!!!wpid-screenshot_2015-12-22-14-04-58-1.png

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Ladies of Millennial week!

Stopped by STARTUPHOUSE OAKLAND

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I decided to head over to StartupHouseOAKLAND for some motivation, co working, and lunch! I loved that I ran into one of my favorite startups, @GETAROUND, a Silicon Valley based peer to peer car sharing startup.
You can apply to live at StartupHouse OAKLAND if you are working on an innovate product, or here for a code camp, or creating a positive movement. It is a place for innovators!
It is a great way to meet and connect with creative entrepreneurs!

Have you heard of StartupHouseOakland? You actually live with other innovators and attend really cool labs!
It is a pre accelerator for innovators in OAKLAND!
Learn more and APPLY

Are a millennial in tech?
Do you have an idea for a startup?
LET’S STAY CONNECTED
@LibertyMadison is #ThatTechGirl
Oprah of Silicon Valley says Tim Draper

Top 10 TECH companies of 2016

Best place to work in 2016 (1)

So you are probably like the 5 billion people thinking you need to jump start a career in tech next year?
You have heard the stories that make software engineer look like yesterdays Puff Daddy. Just making it rain with all the cash that is thrown at them. Well you are absolutely right. You too should be choosing a career in technology. It only makes sense everything is digital and with 5 Billion more people slated to get online, its a lot of work that needs to be done here on the inter-webs. More cats to see and eBooks to be sold!
But lets assume you want to work in tech but are unsure of the company you should sell your soul to , well boy do I have a list for you!

TOP TEN TECH COMPANIES OF 2016

  • Airbnb (#1, 4.6 rating)
  • Guidewire (#3, 4.5 rating)
  • Hubspot (#4, 4.4 rating)
  • Facebook (#5, 4.4 rating)
  • LinkedIn (#6, 4.4 rating)
  • Google (#8, 4.3 rating)
  • Zillow (#10, 4.3 rating)
  • World Wide Technology (#12, 4.3 rating)
  • Mindbody (#14, 4.2 rating)
  • Expedia (#16, 4.1 rating)

    For a full list here

    #ThatTechGirl is @LibertyMaidson
    The #Oprah of #SiliconValley

    And I want you!!! To choose #TECHNOLOGY!

    Do you millennial who has an idea for a startup?
    Tweet me! @libertymadison

  • Liberty Madison #ThatTechGirl on Living your best life

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    Hi! I’m @LibertyMadison #ThatTechGirl. My passion for #Entrepreneurship extends far beyond my excitement for #technology. I encourage you to be an #entrepreneur first and foremost, you need not be a #techie. But #technology and #entrepreneurship go hand and hand. You can create a solution to a major problem using innovative #technology.
    And THAT #technical solution breeds #entrepreneurship.
    I want to invite you to learn to code, learn analytics, become an engineer, choose a #cs degree, go to a #devbootcamp, build an app that will change your life!

    I believe we all possess an idea that can change the world.

    Let’s change it!

    #ThatTechGirl is @LibertyMaidson
    The #Oprah of #SiliconValley

    And I want you!!! To choose #TECHNOLOGY!

    A #LibertyLesson- Follow your heart it leads to your dreams.

    Do you have an idea for a startup?
    Tweet me! @libertymadison

    I am on a Panel called “The Future of Journalism in a Wikipedia World”

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    I had the opportunity to sit in on a panel entitled
    “The Future of Journalism in a Wikipedia World”
    hosted by Pete Forsyth in conjunction with Hacks and Hackers Hacks and Hackers in San Francisco. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to sit on a panel with such dynamic leaders in reporting and journalism in Silicon Valley.

    Andrew Lih, Associate Professor of Journalism, American University; author, The Wikipedia Revolution

    Dan Cook, news reporter and editor (BusinessWeek, Knight-Ridder, American Lawyer Media, Newhouse); Associate, Wiki Strategies

    Liberty Madison, founder at Digital PlayGround, StartupHouseOakland, Python Ear Code; an idea hacker & adviser, various tech startups.

    Pete Forsyth, Wikipedia editor since 2006; founder, Wiki Strategies

    We focused on a number of issues surrounding Wikipedia and how much we should rely on it to spread content as well as how much we reply on it to provide us with valid verified information. I was not brought in for my expertise on wiki edits, I personally do not edit wiki, I was the millennial voice on Wikipedia. As you can see in the video below millennials believe Wikipedia like Southerners believe the bible. There is no other truth. Many of us in look at Wiki as the Encyclopedia online instead of a crowd sourced content. Our entire lives we have had information at our fingertips. We you are 8, 12,or 15 and you have access to the internet you use Wiki on a daily basis. You have grown up on it. It is not perceived as a transition, it is a staple.

    Wiki has improved its standards on who can edit and when an edit is allows which helps the platform remain unbiased.
    The goal is to keep the neutral neutral and just report without insult to a living person. Lets not kill off a guy, change history, or become a cyber bully. What is written on Wikipedia is perceived as factual and perception is everything. Be careful out there!

    Do you edit Wikipedia? Do you post your own content to expand your audience?
    I would love to know!
    Tweet me!
    @libertymadison

    See the outline below:

    Wikipedia has many impacts on journalism, and offers lessons and opportunities to those in the profession. In this session — hosted at Nomiku (who will serve mouth-watering appetizers and cocktails, see below) and co-sponsored by Wiki Strategies — we will explore questions like:

    • Are journalism values present in Wikipedia’s policies and practices?

    • Do amateurs and dabblers act like journalists in their Wikipedia work? Should they?

    • Does Wikipedia threaten business models in journalism, or offer new business opportunities?

    This participatory panel discussion will explore these questions and more.
    Thank you Pete for moderating and producing this event!

    To watch the full chat:

    Thank you to the Y Combinator-backed Nomiku for hosting the event. Nomiku is the first home sous vide immersion circulator and has brought high-tech manufacturing back to the bay area. Their team is made of fine dining experts, engineers, and a plasma physicist.

    A #LibertyLesson: Just DO IT

    A ‪#‎LibertyLesson‬
    When I see people pass on opportunities, it makes me think of the amazing opportunities I have missed.
    Then I realize we are all at different stages of “Being Ready” for the next level.
    It all comes down to one thing and one thing only, you would think it would be skill, money, or time? It is none of those things it is about belief and confidence. If you do not think you can do it or are worth it, smart enough, fit enough, then you won’t. do it.
    Everything starts as a thought, the physical action is a be product of your beliefs. You earn 5k a year because that’s what you think you can earn. You earn 50k because you think you can earn 50k and that’s what you are accustomed to doing.
    You earn 500k because you know you can earn 500k a year, you earn 5,000,000 a year because zeros don’t effing scare you!
    STOP BEING EFFING SCARED and just DO IT!
    JUST DO IT!
    A #LibertyLesson

    How to Take a Shower

    A shower is one of the most relaxing forms of cleansing and rejuvenation on the planet. It clears energy, clears your mind, and allows you to be totally present. It is your alone time, your think tank,or as I like to call it, my non think tank.

    You are alone with yourself. It is you, water, and the present moment. Embrace it.

    Many inventors and famous entrepreneurs have come up with multimillion dollar ideas while in the shower. I like to call this a Power Shower. Yes I know you have never heard the term before,I get that. But think of it like this, you could be the next Power Shower Entrepreneur! I coined the phrase “Power Shower” to start you in the right direction.

    There is an entire study dedicated to the science of why our best ideas come in the shower. Science often tries to catch up and explain realities of life and they are on the right track this time. It is odd for science to explain something that isn’t scientific but I think that they are trying. The experience of the present moment far exceeds our limited scientific explanation. But I’m glad they are attempting to engage and expand your thoughts.

    Whether you are Jack Canfield or the guy who sold his million dollar idea to a toy company. You too can have a spark of genius while showering.

    Make sure you do at least 3 of the 3 things listed and you could be next POWER SHOWER entrepreneur!

    1. Take a shower
    2. Shower alone
    3. Relax

    It is now up to you to ACT on your million dollar idea! Millions of people have ideas few act on them. Don’t be that guys who says “Man I can’t believe he made 100 million, I thought of that 5 years ago”.
    Learn how to make your startup a reality?
    Go from Idea to Income with Liberty Madison.
    I show you how to go from Idea to Income in a few steps!
    Join my online webinar or contact me for one on one advising / coaching!
    or simply Tweet me and let me know if you thought of me in the shower!!

    #ThatTechGirl is
    LibertyMadison

    The #Oprah of #SiliconValley

    Liberty Madison Power Shower

    Thank you for taking a step towards the lifestyle you truly love!