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Seattle investor, founder and startup advisor Dan Kihanya joins Gillian and Anne to talk about his new podcast “Foundersunfound.com” with which he expects to create greater awareness of underrepresented founders. “We will focus on storytelling. Under-represented founders have super powers,” he says. They deal with all the craziness that normal founders deal with and then on top of that, these founders face additional hurdles of disadvantage and bias. Dan and co-founder Deborah Drake believe that bringing out the stories will reveal the strength and resilience to form good business cases for support. Who are they, why they are solving their problems in the way they do? Dan’s father was Kenyan and his mother from rural Maine of Scottish and Irish ancestry. His parents taught him to work hard for what he wanted, and he believes being of mixed race heritage served him as an advantage. The podcast is live, with two new interviews with African American founders.

Canada's federal privacy watchdog plans to take Facebook to court following an investigation that found the social media giant broke a number of privacy laws and failed to take responsibility for protecting Canadians' personal information. The electric scooter company Lime’s ongoing trial period in Brisbane, Australia isn’t going so great, according to Gizmodo — at least eight scooters have been pulled from the streets because hackers replaced the usual audio messages with sexually explicit comments. Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the nofollow link attribute has been and still is working fairly well. He added hasn't "seen many cases of sites causing themselves significant issues, or of pages not getting credit in quite some time."

There’s no doubt that blockchain boosts the level of transparency and security marketers need to do their job better and boost customer trust in the process. And it’s clear that Bitcoin is a disruptive technology that marketers need to get to grips with how to avoid losing ground to competitors in years to come. The opportunities are massive, and so are the problems marketers face when they seek to distill reams of news into knowledge they can use to know, for example, where their ad spend really pays. This is just one use case our host Peggy Anne Salz discusses with Peter Rujgev, a multi-faceted and multi-talented crypto authority who freely shares his insights via CoinPM News, a one-stop destination for industry developments and news. Peter provides a crash course in crypto, sharing his pick of top trends and destinations you need to know to stay ahead of the curve. A native of Bulgaria, Peter also talks about his other interest and ventures, which include the startup Currant and his work with Exergy, a sustainable engineering company based in the U.K.

Web developers often think of SEO as a linear exercise of trying to be the top ranked website on a search result for a particular keyword; however, with search personalization and a variety of search result layouts the notion of "what is the top rank?" can mean vastly different things.

In this episode of PressThis, we interview the super-smart Dave Davies of Beanstalk IM as he unpacks the different ways search engines (particularly Google) rank and display information in search results. You'll learn tips on what you should be doing to make sure your best content is large and in charge in a variety of search result layouts.

If you still think of search results as a top 10 list, then your information is dated and you need to listen to this episode of PressThis now!

An award-winning performance expert reveals the secret behind many top athletes and executives: creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down. There's only one person in the way of you untapping your capabilities: You. There's also one person who can move you out of the way so you can perform at your peak. That person is already inside you. You just need to unlock them. This other part of you is your Heroic Self and you unlock it with an Alter Ego. After twenty-one years of working with elite athletes, performers and leaders, Todd Herman is revealing how you can use you're alter ego to achieve the seemingly impossible. It all clicked for Todd when he met Bo Jackson. When Herman met Bo Jackson, the professional athlete told him, "Bo Jackson never played a down of football in his entire life." Bo explained that when he was young, he'd get into trouble because chaos caused by his anger issues. Then, he saw Friday the 13th and became fascinated by the cold, calculating nature of Jason Vorhees. In that moment, he resolved to stop being Bo Jackson, and start being Jason the moment he stepped on the field. 

In this transformative guide, Herman teaches you how to create and control an Alter Ego like Bo--and the thousands of other athletes, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and entertainers who have used this simple tool to change their lives. Herman also shares his own story: he knew that inside was a confident, self-assured, intelligent person who could help others get better results in their lives. When he started using superman's classic trick--putting on a pair of glasses--he learned to trigger the specific traits he needed to achieve his goals. The Alter Ego Effect is not about creating a false mask--it's about finding the hero already inside you. It's a proven way of overcoming the self-doubt, negativity, and insecurity that hold you back and empowering you to ultimately become your best self.

Blaming a “very fluid” technology industry, Emtek –who BlackBerry licensed its BBM consumer business to in 2016 –has announced that is ending  BBM service, effective at the end of next month. Google is adding a new section to search results which are dedicated to AMP Stories. AMP Stories was announced over a year ago and now they’re rolling out in a big way. AMP Stories are exactly what they sound like – Instagram-like stories that are built on the AMP framework. In addition to having a dedicated block in search results, AMP Stories can be linked to just like any other web page. That’s the key difference between AMP Stories and other types of stories. A recent exchange on Twitter between Rand Fishkin and Google’s Danny Sullivan highlighted the tension between Google and the SEO community regarding links.  This time it was over the idea of links to sources that are quoted by websites like news organizations.

App developers aren’t just expected to master all the business and technology challenges in a multichannel, multidevice and multimedia world to take their idea to the next level. They have to take on the responsibility of creating apps that bring partners, platforms and people together in a smooth and seamless environment that drives revenues and delights users. It requires a practical approach to mobile app development and a vision to plot a transformation path for your business. We get both in the interview with Jordan Gurrieri, Co-Founder & COO of Blue Label Labs where he leads all of the strategy, design, product management and operational processes required to deliver highly polished apps on-time and within budget. He answers tough questions and provides straightforward answers to questions including what you need to know when developing an app, how you can stand out in the app market and why it pays to follow the Design Sprint process to focus your efforts and accelerate innovation.

Today on Purse Strings we are joined by Sophia Sunwoo of Ascent-Strategy. Sophia is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Social Entrepreneurship, a Forbes 30U30 All-Star Alumni, an ELLE Magazine Impact2 Awards Pitch finalist, and a Fred Alger Finance Award winner. Through Ascent Strategy, Sophia has helped large nonprofits open offices in new countries, increased sales by 50% within 3 months of diagnosing a client’s blocks, raised millions in funding, and has helped launch countless startups in the social impact, product, and tech industries. Sophia built her first company when she was 19 years old and sold it before her 23rd birthday. Before her exit, she helped grow the business to 250 major retailers worldwide, and designed a brand that would attract celebrity clientele, as well national coverage in press outlets such as People Magazine. In 2011, Sophia co-founded Water Collective, a non-profit founded to fix and prevent broken water projects in the developing world by building community ecosystems of water maintenance care. Since 2012, the organization has secured clean water for over 76,000 people in West Africa and has been recognized by Forbes, DevEx, African Business Review, and ELLE Magazine. Sophia holds a BBA in Business and Design Strategy from Parsons School of Design and the New School, and her Masters in International Economic Policy at Columbia University.

In this episode of PressThis we explore news from around the WordPress ecosystem for the month of April 2019 as part of our ongoing series "Word Around the Campfire".

2019 has been a huge year in WordPress and we cover some of the biggest news stories like important updates to WordPress itself, a naughty plugin in the ecosystem doing really creepy things, and key partnerships in WordPress which could have a direct impact on the sites you manage.

If you're too busy to keep up with all the happenings in the WordPress community, listen to this episode of PressThis!

Google surprised the SEO community with serious issues with it’s index when it seemingly de-indexed up to 4% of its total index arbitrarily. The hosts discuss this along with it’s supposed correction, issues with Google Search Console still showing, along with the new Discover Report. Next up, Matt Cutts makes a great suggestion, Ross and John touch base on a couple of key basics on redirects and link reports, and they answer three excellent questions from the new SEO 101 Facebook Group.