Girls In Tech

In addition to the excitement we have about this Thursday’s GIT – SC special guest, Sarah Lacy, we are also proud to help promote ‘An Evening with Tina Seelig‘ on April 29th at NextSpace in Santa Cruz.

NextSpace, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Geeks and Girls in Tech are proud to bring Prof. Tina Seelig, Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program and acclaimed author to NextSpace for a reading and signing of her latest book: WHAT I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS TWENTY: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World.

One crucial bit of career advice that Tina Seelig offers her students at Stanford University is this—never listen to career advice. This may seem odd, coming from the woman charged with teaching the best and the brightest to succeed in the business world. And yet this tip, together with the other insights she’s shared in her highly popular course at Stanford, has allowed Seelig’s students to become leading figures in the most innovative and successful business in the world, from Google to Intel to Adobe to Apple.

Now, in Seelig’s WHAT I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS TWENTY: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World (HarperOne; April 2009; Hardcover; $23.99; ISBN 9780061735196), we can all get inside access to one of the most sought after business school professors in the country. With provocative lessons gleaned from Seelig’s tenure in both the corporate and academic worlds, and with some untraditional advice inspired by leading business figures like Apple creator Steve Jobs (his Mac design was based on a calligraphy course he took as a college dropout) and JetBlue founder David Neeleman (it took being fired by Southwest to come up with his new airline), the book provides tangible skills and invaluable guidance that will allow readers to achieve unprecedented success in any field.

We hope to see you there! Please RSVP!