By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, we learned the numbers behind Facebook’s impending IPO – and that COO Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook’s highest paid employee, earning $30.8M last year. The all-male board of Facebook makes you wonder why a company serving a user base of at least 50% half women has [...]
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AT&T Interactive Participating At Women 2.0 Founder Friday SF
February 3, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Roger Park (Blog Editor, AT&T Interactive Blog) This week, AT&T Interactive will be a participant and sponsor of Women 2.0’s Founder Friday at the Bluxome Winery in San Francisco. In 2011, we were a sponsor of Women 2.0’s San Francisco session of Founder Labs, which was a great experience. And it’s that entrepreneurial spirit [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Chief Product Officers
February 3, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Do you remember when serial tech entrepreneur Caterina Fake graced the cover of Newsweek magazine for founding Flickr? Women are often identified as consumers of market goods, but seldom recognized for their ability to create products – from consumer goods like Giddy Snacks in Whole Foods stores [...]
Get That First Order – And Get It Right!
February 3, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Amrita Rao (Founder & CEO, TreasureYourArt) So you’ve done everything your entrepreneurship professor at business school taught you to do. You’ve done your numbers, run your models, spent months getting that perfect website up and running, emailed everyone you know (and many you don’t), and in your excitement, you’ve even printed Business Cards with [...]
Good Tools Have Verb-Based Interfaces
February 2, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Gina Trapani (Creator, ThinkUp & Todo.txt Apps) I’ve switched to an iPhone as my primary mobile device because I’m dogfooding my new iOS app. Coming off of three straight years of Android, one of the toughest parts of the transition was losing the applications drawer. My new iPhone had so many screens of icons, [...]
Invention And She’s Geeky 2012
February 2, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Anna Billstrom (Developer, Momentus Media) I really want to find this picture of my great-grandfather standing in front of his car, that has a license plate with a big circle cut out of the center. He’s showing off his invention. A way of keeping your car from being stolen. You take the center of [...]
How To Build Prototypes Without Technical Chops
February 2, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Andrea Lo (Founder, Piggybackr) The purpose of a prototype is to cut down on the time spent building out a product so you can focus on figuring out what people want. Having a prototype from day one gives you authentic user feedback – because you are able to immediately gauge how users react to your product. Surveys [...]
“Sit With Me” Campaign Taking Place February 14 (Photoshoot)
February 2, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Above: Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook with the red chair. Below: Wild Frog Studio co-founder Rodica Ceslor in the red chair. Facebook had a red chair at their Silicon Valley headquarters and invited people to stop by during lunch in the cafeteria. Over 80 Facebook employees had their [...]
Black Founders Is For White People
February 2, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) So if it isn’t obvious, I want to clarify that the title of this post is just a catch-title. But I also want to clarify that the organization Black Founders is not just for black people. In fact, the organization is created for all. This statement does not take [...]
Why I Admire High-Growth, High-Tech Entrepreneurs, As A Former Non-Profit Person
February 2, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Heather McGough (Founder, Urbanity Events) For years, I was so caught up in my non-profit bubble that I didn’t realize I was managing and growing a “cool startup” in San Francisco. What I learned is that I thrive in this atmosphere and crave what Silicon Valley startups are made of: ass-kicking. I morphed from [...]
20 Angel Investors-In-Training To Invest In Your Business Soon
February 1, 2012 – 3:24 pm
By Simone Brummelhuis (Founder, TheNextWomen) A new group of angel investors are entering the world of informal investments. The Pipeline Fellowship – which trains women philanthropists to become angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice – has just announced its 2012 NYC Pipeline Fellowship class: Fradel Barber Fradel is the Visionary Entrepreneur and Director of [...]
Plain Numbers Of Women In Tech: A Look At Venture Capital Today
February 1, 2012 – 9:30 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A post by Whitney Hess is making the rounds in New York’s circle of women entrepreneurs in technology titled “The plain numbers about women in tech – The VCs”. She takes an empirical look at the gender ratio of venture capital firms focusing on early-stage funding, that [...]
Kindara Founder Shares 5 Pearls Of Wisdom (Lessons Learned)
February 1, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Kati Bicknell (Co-Founder, Kindara) I’m the co-founder of Kindara. Our mission is to provide women with a full solution (hardware, software, support and education) that makes the Symptothermal Method of fertility management easier than ever before. We graduated from the New York Spring 2011 Founder Institute at the top of our class, and recently [...]
4 Secrets To Building (Or Rebuilding) A Great Team
February 1, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Julia Hu (Founder & CEO, LARK) You are always building, and rebuilding a great team. It is never in stasis – even when you are not hiring you are tweaking roles to better fit people within your company, or partnering with strategic partners, or letting people go. At the end of the day, your [...]
How Changes In The Patent Office May Affect Your Business
February 1, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Manali V. Dighe (Intellectual Property Attorney, Borton Petrini) Patents are integral for innovation. On the one hand, patents promote disclosure of new and useful inventions. On the other hand, as a “payment” for disclosure, the patent owner gets the exclusive right to make, use, sell, or offer to sell the invention. Patent law will [...]
Founder Friday Mixers (February 3 in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, NYC, Madrid & Barcelona)
February 1, 2012 – 1:00 am
By Sepideh Nasiri (Corporate Sponsorships & Events Director, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 is hosting six global Founder Friday networking mixers for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, February 3, 2012 in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York City, Madrid and Barcelona.
5 Principles For Attracting The Right (Leadership) Attention
January 31, 2012 – 1:30 pm
By Tania Yuki (Founder, wimlink) How are you doing as a leader? Whether you manage hundreds of people or you want to get promoted to a leadership role, merely being terrific at your job will not cut it. Yes, even if you’re terrific. Too many options compete for everyone’s attention, and they continue to expand [...]
Why The Global Economy Needs Businesses To Invest In Women
January 31, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Melanne Verveer & Kim Azzarelli (Contributors, The Daily Beast) Businesses are starting to understand what development experts have long known: investing in women pays dividends. Women are more likely than men to put their income back into their communities, driving illiteracy and mortality rates down and GDP up. Now a corporate revolution is at [...]
Startup Funding: Angel, VCs, And What Fits For Your Venture
January 31, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Steph Palmeri (Senior Associate, SoftTech VC) The team at Women 2.0 is compiling a book – “101 Questions About Launching Your Company”. “101 questions,” you say? “Yes, and answers!” from female investors, founders, and CEOs about starting a new venture. Here’s an early peek. By no means exhaustive, I hope this piece will provide [...]
A Former Web Engineer, CEO Amanda Steinberg Talks DailyWorth
January 31, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Amanda Steinberg (Founder & CEO, DailyWorth) Editor’s note: DailyWorth CEO Amanda Steinberg is co-hosting Founder Friday New York on February 3, 2012. FREE RSVP for the event here. I’ve always been interested in creating businesses, inspired by my single mother, who always stressed the importance of financial self-sufficiency. I launched my first e-commerce website [...]
Bootstrapping Startup Founders: We Have Something For You
January 31, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Bootstrapping your startup? Unemployed or underemployed? Still a student? We understand life has its ups and down. Women 2.0 is working to keep the PITCH 2012 Conference & Competition affordable to all. You can apply for a deeply discounted ticket for PITCH – we will grant discounts [...]
ShopRepublic Founder Found Entrepreneurship In Opportunities
January 30, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Angels Sastre (Founder, ShopRepublic) Editor’s note: ShopRepublic founder Angels Sastre is co-hosting Founder Friday Barcelona on February 3, 2012. Join the wait list here. For some reason, I have always been quite restless – I am not really a stay-at-home person. It must be my catalan-phoenician genes that always make me want to explore [...]
Sh*t Startup People Say (And Sh*T VentureBeat Gets Pitched)
January 30, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) From the editorial staff at VentureBeat – “because people send us stuff like this all day” – Jolie O’Dell and the team at VentureBeat bring you the video of “Sh*t startup people say”. Here are our top 10 lines from the video: 1.) “The leading company in [...]
5 Tools For Getting Started As A Micropreneur
January 30, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) “A micropreneur is an entrepreneur willing to accept the risk of starting and managing the type of business that remains small, lets them do the kind of work they want to do, and offers them a balanced lifestyle.” – InvestorDictionary.com Or you could substitute this definition with a more [...]
Women Entrepreneurs In New York City Find Investment, Network (Ellie Cachette And Deborah Jackson Interviewed On ABC TV)
January 30, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) From New York City, ConsumerBell Founder & CEO Ellie Cachette along with JumpThru Founder & CEO Deborah Jackson talk with Diana Williams of ABC 7 about women entrepreneurs, finding funding and the ecosystem for women entrepreneurs. When asked about venture-funded startups, Deborah Jackson said: “The statistics will [...]
