Author: Liberty Madison

#ThatTechGirl is @LibertyMadison The #Oprah of #SiliconValley Founder, Advisor, Growth
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A #LibertyLesson – State your mission and attract those who support it

A #LibertyLesson LibertyLesson Liberty Madison

When you build a brand you have to commit to your mission statement, vision, and purpose.
Every company, non profit, organization, person is driven by a mission. A common falsehood is “its business it not personal” or “we are a corporation we do not take a side”

Know who you are and attract people who support it.
You will loose people but you will gain a tribe.
For example, I will not venture into a contract with a company that kills/ tortures dogs (animals). I would not go into a sponsor deal with Maybeline or L’oreal.

I would opt to promote a brand who aligns with my goal and theme. I would do one with WETNWILD or Smashbox. The point is you can find a company that shares your vision and mission. You do not have to sell you soul.
Technology has given you the opportunity create the life you want!
State your mission and find those to compliment it.

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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

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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

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    A #LibertyLesson – Moving Forward

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    A #LibertyLesson on #MotivationMonday about #movingforward. When one door closes another door opens. It doesn’t matter if you closed the door or if you opened it. It’s called Life. The very nature of life is to move forward, grow, expand, populate,and explore. Moving forward offers just that.
    You do not have the option to grow old, you only have the option to grow wise. Do not move forward for the sake of movement but move forward for the sake of growth. Change for the sake of change falls flat,but change for the chance at life is transcendent.
    A new year, a new focus, a new you.
    Every moment you are a new you,you are moving forward with or without you,so catch up and get in the game!!
    #ThatTechGirl is #LibertyMadison The #Oprah of #SiliconValley
    #StartupLife for the #Millennial

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    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

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    The Holocaust never happened

    When I was a little kid I admit I did not believe in the holocaust. I was a stone cold Holocaust denier. My mind could not process that “good people” would sit around and let someone kill a generation of people and not do anything about it. It was too recent and too current. I told myself that if it was 300 or 500 years ago maybe it could be true but in this day and age no way. It seemed insane. It had to be a myth. There was no reason strong enough that would make me believe the holocaust was a real thing. There was no way people would KNOW that millions upon millions of people are losing their lives and just watch and not do anything. I don’t know perhaps they were convincing themselves that its not their territory, area, or business. Then I learn about Planned Parenthood and realized the holocaust was and is very real.

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    A #LibertyLesson – Go forth and be Fantastic

    You can be whatever you want literally. If you feel you want to be a man you can legally become one, if you want to be a woman you can make people call you that. That’s changing biology and the law of nature. So why not change your level of happiness, change your economic class and tax bracket. You can seriously do whatever makes you happy and people have to accept it, this is the time to walk in your truth!
    I support anything that is going to allow you to live a clean and healthy lifestyle. As long as you are not hurting, harming, oppressing, or exerting power, violence or force on another in the name of “rights or religion” I support you!
    Feel free to go and be happy! Change your job, relationship, location. Life is too short to be “ok”. Go forth and be FANTASTIC!LibertyLesson Liberty Madison

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    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.

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    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

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    Go Alphabet the full story…

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    Why I am a #googler
    Google is restructuring in order to provide us with more #innovation
    Welcome #Alphabet
    Everyone go Alphabet the full story!

    #ThatTechGirl #startuplife #techlife #technerd #newlife #SiliconValley