By Kai Freeman (Co-Founder, House of Mikko) Editor’s note: House of Mikko co-founder Kai Freeman is co-hosting Founder Friday New York on February 3, 2012. FREE RSVP for the event here. Some days I can hardly believe that this is my life. I am doing what I love. I think back to the days that [...]
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Starting Up In Barcelona: Muuby, Internet Trends And… Instagram
January 29, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Marta Alonso (Founder, Muuby) Editor’s note: Muuby founder Marta Alonso is co-hosting Founder Friday Barcelona on February 3, 2012. Join the wait list here. I left college three yaers ago to find my first job as a journalist, and soon began to work as a web consultant at EsadeCreapolis. I remember perfectly every day [...]
Career Mom: The Benefits To Kids
January 29, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Laura Yecies (CEO, SugarSync) A key part of parenting is being a role model for your children. I believe that one of the reasons I have been comfortable with my decision to work full-time while my children are growing up is that that is what I saw my mother do. I never felt like [...]
And The Oscar Goes To… A Man (Gender Bias at the Top)
January 29, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) The Academy Award nominees came out on Tuesday, and to no one’s surprise, this was not a good year for women in Hollywood. As they have been for the Oscars’ 83-year history, the (non-gendered) prestige categories — Best Picture and Best Director — [...]
Friday Roundup: Women Entrepreneurs Make News This Week
January 27, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Vivek Wadhwa on Inc.com featured and pictured Shaherose Charania in a story titled “The Face of Success: Women And Venture Capital”. Meanwhile, Women 2.0 PITCH Conference speaker Danielle Fong (pictured, right) is touted in Forbes magazine as a “24-year old wunderkind” and venture capitalist Vinod [...]
Tech Never Looked So Good! Tweet For A Free Ticket
January 27, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Danika Patrick (Innovation Lead, AT&T, Foundry) Join us for a unique night of powerful women and a bunch of laughs! Join us on Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 7pm @ Microsoft in Mountain View for a PanelProv event. Learn from a diverse panel of women in a range of roles from strategy at Fortune [...]
NY Tech Day Is April 19 – A Science Fair For… Startups!
January 27, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Erica Virtue (Marketing Coordinator, NY Tech Day) Calling all women entrepreneurs! NY Tech Day, a revolutionary one-day expo created specifically for New York City-based tech startups, is confirmed for Thursday, April 19, 2012 in the Flatiron District. In line with the openness of the NY tech community, Tech Day is free to attend. Launching [...]
6 Takeaways From Discussion With Women 2.0, Astia, 85 Broads
January 26, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Sukrutha Raman Bhadouria (Organizer, Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners) Earlier this week, I attended a panel discussion about women entrepreneurs at Microsoft’s office. Representatives from Women 2.0, Astia, 85 Broads, Women in Public Policy (WIPP) and National Association for Women Business Owners (NAWBO) talked about best practices and practical advice for women entrepreneurs at [...]
Women In Tech: Start Speaking At Conferences
January 26, 2012 – 12:30 pm
By Chiu-Ki Chan (Android Developer, Monkey Write) My resolution this year is to be a public speaker. One of the difficulties in breaking into the speaking circuits is to be aware of conferences six months in advance to meet the call for participation deadlines, so whenever I hear about one, I share it with others. [...]
Mac Vs. PC: Does One Say “Tech Founder” More Than the Other?
January 26, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Caroline Green (Director of Business Development, IvanExpert) If you’re creating a tech startup, how do you decide whether to get a Mac or a Windows PC? Which one will broadcast to potential investors, partners, employees, and customers that you’re the real thing? Here’s our cheat sheet to the Mac-PC divide for startup tech firms. [...]
Do You Know America’s Next Great Teen Entrepreneur?
January 26, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Janine Popick (Co-Founder & CEO, VerticalResponse) If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably read lots of stories about entrepreneurial teens doing amazing things, from developing a hot new app to spearheading socially or environmentally mindful projects. Here at my company, VerticalResponse, we’ve met or heard about many of these incredible teens through our work [...]
What’s New For PITCH? Speed Mentoring! Demo Tables! Exhibits!
January 26, 2012 – 9:30 am
For the past few months, we’ve been working on creating the most impactful full-day innovation conference for Women 2.0 members and their friends — to educate and inspire builders, thinkers and doers. Here are 6 reasons you should join us on Valentine’s Day for Women 2.0 PITCH Conference: Learn from the best product innovation leaders [...]
4 Handy Tools For Working Remotely And Productively
January 26, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Sepideh Nasiri (Director of Sponsorships & Events, Women 2.0) It wasn’t that long ago that being an employee meant coming in to the office at 9am and having in-person meetings and presentations all day. Not everyone is fit for this kind of role, maybe because their team is not all in one location, they [...]
Cartier Seeks Exceptional Women Social Entrepreneurs
January 26, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Cecile Ney (Coordinator, Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards) Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards is a business plan competition for startups led by women, organized by Cartier in partnership with McKinsey and INSEAD business school. This social entrepreneurship competition aims at supporting creative, financially sustainable and responsible women-led startups in all countries and industries. We are currently [...]
10 Startup Entrepreneur Mistakes To Avoid
January 25, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Joyce Chuang (Marketing Coordinator, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP) For those who have started a company and have seen the challenges first hand, you have an idea of just how much energy and effort goes into creating and building a company. Not only do you have to worry about establishing it, but at some [...]
The Face of Success: Women and Venture Capital
January 25, 2012 – 10:31 am
By Vivek Wadhwa (Contributor, Inc) In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy. That was before I moved to the Valley and learned that this so-called meritocracy is highly imperfect, omitting women, blacks, and Hispanics. When I researched [...]
The $100,000 Chris Rock Story (Risk, Meet Reward)
January 25, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Ramit Sethi (Author, I Will Teach You To Be Rich) Telling a story about Chris Rock helped me earn over $100,000 in scholarship money to attend college. During senior year of high school, my parents — immigrants who raised four kids and didn’t have money to send us to college — encouraged us to [...]
4 Reasons You Should Attend Startup Weekend
January 25, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Awesome, Tekserve) Startup Weekends and Hackathons are held all over the world. Check out the Startup Weekend event list and signup for their mailing list. If you’re unsure about participating your first time around, contact the local organizers and offer to volunteer for the weekend. Here are 4 reasons why [...]
Saying No To Sexual Harassment At Startups
January 25, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Dyuman Bhatt (CEO, Red Seraphim) Just after college, I took my first job in retail sales as a part of a management training program. While there was a lot to learn, one issue that stood out was the inescapable daily reality of sexual harassment. The company did its best to train its managers and [...]
Lessons Learned Building VC Industry In Latin America, Caribbean
January 24, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Susana Garcia-Robles (Principal Investment Officer, MIF Early Stage Equity Group) Established in 1993 as part of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) was created to develop effective approaches to advance private sector development, improve the business environment and support micro and small enterprises in order to promote economic growth [...]
Women’s Advantage In Building Next Wave E-Commerce Startups
January 24, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Geri Stengel (President, Ventureneer) In the early days of online shopping, when most of the products sold were computers, software, music, and consumer electronics, men ruled e-commerce. That may be changing now that product choices have expanded to everything from cosmetics to shoes to toys. Just as women dominant shopping in the brick-and-mortar world [...]
Let’s Join The Manhattan Girls Club (Founding Tech Startups)
January 24, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Heddi Cundle (Founder & CEO, myTab) Earlier this month, I was in New York City. Now, I used to live in New York in the 90s when New York was still testing my inner strength by making me dodge flying bullets and knives in the not-so-pretty Meatpacking District. No one from Manhattan would venture [...]
The Changing Workplace: Women Entrepreneurs
January 23, 2012 – 5:30 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) San Francisco is teaming with women who have the technological know-how to solve daily problems. These innovative solutions apply to all fronts and industries, ranging from: Finding new dishes instead of restaurants (Foodspotting) Getting kid-friendly entertainment delivered to your door (Kiwi Crate) Leveraging the quantified self for [...]
Not Everyone Gets A Seed Round
January 23, 2012 – 3:48 pm
By Bryce Roberts (Co-Founder & Managing Director, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) As investor FOMO and entrepreneurial access to capital have increased, so too has the level of entitlement to that capital. Swap the trophy for a seed round, and that’s directionally where things are headed in startupland. Everyone gets a seed round. Everyone gets to be [...]
Show Some Love For Female Startup Founders
January 23, 2012 – 12:58 pm
By Betsy Aoki (Senior Program/Product Manager, Bing) I first met Lori Anne Wardi, a vice president at .CO, during a Geeks on a Plane tour of Asia last fall. While on the shuttle to and from various startup accelerators and meeting spots, we chatted about the wacky dot-com 90s and how things have changed (and [...]
