Bethany Crystal
How Broad is Your Access?
"I have a lot of tourists that speak Spanish, and I'd like to be able to communicate with them better but don't know the language."...
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I write about community, the future of work, and leadership. Below are some of my favorite pieces I've researched recently. You can also subscribe to my blog.
A three-party series on why fractional work is the foundation for the next era of knowledge workers -- and how to decouple the 9-5 job.
As a web3 founder, what do you need to know about integrating community into your project? A profile of 12 crypto-native networks.
So you landed a final job interview. How to make sure you don't blow your big moment with bad questions.
With so many venture firms implementing strategies to build out their portfolio communities, the only question is - does it work?
Bethany Crystal
- Apr 7, 2019
- 1 min
Women in Leadership Across the Bay Area and Beyond
Women in Leadership Across the Bay Area and Beyond:Lucy (Keoni) Baird Customer Success Operations & Programs, Censia Meg Bear SVP,...
Bethany Crystal
- Mar 11, 2019
- 4 min
Take back the night: Are we retreating away from tech to smaller social circles?
A seven-person "Death Over Dinner" discussion group (complete with pre-requisite reading assignments and a discussion list) A cell-phone...
Bethany Crystal
- Mar 7, 2019
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Bethany Crystal
- Feb 21, 2019
- 3 min
Unlocking "talent fluidity" in the tech ecosystem
Former colleagues in high places There's a nice feeling of "greatness by association" you get when you hear about a prior colleague doing...
Bethany Crystal
- Feb 20, 2019
- 4 min
Transfer learning (and transferring your learnings)
Transfer Learning: A Primer In essence, transfer learning is when you collect and analyze enough data to build a machine learning model...
Bethany Crystal
- Jan 23, 2019
- 1 min
Running our first Diversity & Inclusion survey
"But with diversity, where do the numbers and metrics come from? Is 50/50 always the 'right' ratio, and why? Shouldn’t the final goal...
Bethany Crystal
- Jan 21, 2019
- 5 min
Coffee Chat: How did you get a job at a VC firm?
How did you get a job at a VC firm? The short answer is that I wasn't looking for one. In the four years leading up to starting out at...
Bethany Crystal
- Jan 18, 2019
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Bethany Crystal
- Jan 17, 2019
- 5 min
We're not burnouts; we're just dopamine addicts
I’m a couple of weeks behind on reading and processing this article on “The Burnout Generation,” a long article that offers up an...
Bethany Crystal
- Jan 14, 2019
- 4 min
Measuring the impact of a VC platform strategy
Cory Bolotosky of True Search (and formerly of Underscore VC) does a nice summary of a few of the biggest impact ways he sees platform...
Bethany Crystal
- Jan 7, 2019
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Bethany Crystal
- Jan 3, 2019
- 3 min
How can you measure the importance of "soft skills"?
Digital Divisions Earlier this fall, my husband and I took ourselves out for a "date night" in New York City and wound up at a Japanese...
Bethany Crystal
- Dec 20, 2018
- 4 min
The fear of getting back into writing
There’s been a bit of a movement to get back into writing lately. Between the responses from Anil Dash’s Tweet on how he’s been blogging...
Bethany Crystal
- Dec 11, 2018
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Bethany Crystal
- Dec 5, 2018
- 5 min
How to prepare for your first job (in tech)
Over the past couple of years, I’ve spent a lot of time meeting with students who are considering how to approach their careers. Now that...
Bethany Crystal
- Nov 30, 2018
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Bethany Crystal
- Nov 29, 2018
- 8 min
The 5 Cardinal Rules of Moderating a Panel
A snapshot from a recent panel in which I was a participant, not a moderator So, you’ve been asked to moderate a panel discussion at an...
Bethany Crystal
- Nov 28, 2018
- 2 min
Getting people to take care of their dishes
In my role at USV, I visit dozens of tech companies, and one of the things I like to pay attention to is the office vibe and culture of...
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