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4 Mar, 2014

Sarasota Ballet visit

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As part of the Cafe’s Cultural Arts Series, people with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners enjoy a back-stage tour of the Sarasota Ballet. Ballet representatives educate the group about the Sarasota Ballet’s accomplishments and plans. A docent shows the group where the costumes and sets are made, the dancers rehearse and other behind-the-scenes rooms. At noon the group participates in a PD in Motion class at the Sarasota Ballet’s Lemon Street studio. This innovative program was developed in collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Brooklyn, NY Dance for PD program in partnership with The Sarasota Ballet and the Sarasota Manatee Dance Alliance.

Parkinson Cafe @ The Sarasota Ballet slide show March 4 2014

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1 Mar, 2014

Female Founders Conference 2014

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Y Combinator holds its first ever Female Founders Conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. In her opening remarks, Livingston says that the sold-out gathering is “the most over-subscribed event” in their history.

I wouldn’t be surprised if in five years, we feel like 2014 was the tipping point for female founders.

She shares some basic advice that she likes to share with all start-up founders: the importance of having determination, empathy, living frugally at the start, and focus. She then goes on to spell out some key pieces of advice for female founders in particular: Having children and starting a business is hard — but possible; It’s OK to be the ‘quiet cofounder’; Learn how to code — and don’t be afraid to start up with a spouse or personal partner.

Don’t feel like there’s anything weird about starting a startup with your significant other. We have significant evidence it works.

Jessica Livingston at Female Founders Conference 2014

27 Feb, 2014

Media & Telecoms 2014 speech

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Highfield gives a speech at the Media & Telecoms 2014 conference, titled Reinventing Local Media.

I became convinced, reading enough articles by Mark Sweeney, that the official name of our company was “beleaguered Johnston Press”…There was a tsunami that hit the regional and local press industry. In just one year, 2007-2008, Johnston Press’ share price fell 99%. The dotcom crash that hit the local press industry happened eight years after the dotcom crash, but my God, it was every bit as severe, and every bit as rapid. That was the shift of the classified industry, particularly in motors and property, away from print and on  to Autotrader and Rightmove. Well that shift’s happened. That’s gone. The industry that we are now in, of providing local news and information to people in communities that really matter to them, is a pretty stable business. Since then we have had a four-fold increase in share price.