By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, LightSail Energy) Editor’s note: LightSail Energy’s Danielle Fong will be speaking on February 14 at Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Get your ticket here! I’ve lived a lifetime this year. It sometimes feels as if so much is [...]
Author Archives: Angie
Libraries As Tech Incubators?
January 23, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) A few weeks ago, I stumbled across an article in the Huffington Post, titled “Art Incubators: How Libraries Offer More Than Books.” The article highlights a project called Library as Incubator that focuses on using libraries as a community resource which support and allow collaboration with artists. The Library [...]
4 Things Stylematic Learned From Hollywood And Tech
January 23, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Karen Song (Developer, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) Last weekend, I attended a Hosting Bootcamp in Los Angeles that kicked me into gear. I had originally signed up for Lean Startup Machine weekend, but due to room constraints, the venue was not able to accomodate my team and I decided to jet down to [...]
Female Entrepreneurs Find Funding Community In NYC
January 23, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Rich Schapiro (Reporter, New York Daily News) When Ellie Cachette started pitching her tech startuup to West Coast investors two years ago, she expected to raise big bucks. Instead, all she got from the roughly 25 all-male investors she met with were dismissive looks and patronizing advice. “I wouldn’t even finish my sentence, and [...]
Weight Watchers For SMBs: Setting And Meeting Financial Goals
January 22, 2012 – 7:29 pm
By Rip Empson (Writer, TechCrunch) Startups and small businesses are the engine of job creation. In the U.S., companies less than five years old created 44 million jobs over the last three decades and, over that time, accounted for all net new jobs created in the U.S. — just ask the White House. Of course, [...]
Call For Applications: Astia Global Entrepreneur Program 2012
January 22, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Sharon Vosmek (CEO, Astia) We are delighted to announce our 2012 Call for Applications for the Astia Global Entrepreneur Program. Astia maintains an unparalleled success rate for the companies it serves and your outreach and referrals play a critical role in propelling women–led innovation. Please pass along the following information to women–led high–growth startups [...]
Baby Steps Into Open Source
January 22, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Liz Marley (Senior Software Test Pilot, The Omni Group) “You should get involved in Open Source. It’ll help you network, and practice your skills, and bolster your resumé. And we need more women in Open Source.” To which I think “Hmm… that sounds complicated, and I don’t know where to start and I’m busy [...]
Love With Food Launches Monthly Subscription Service
January 21, 2012 – 1:40 pm
By Leena Rao (Reporter, TechCrunch) The subscription commerce market is heating up with Birch Box, Kiwi Crate, and others all offering various takes on the monthly box model. Today, 500 Startups company Love With Food is launching its subscription model, which offers a monthly box to users with tasty, gourmet samples of food. Here’s how [...]
WeFestival Blog Post From The Young Man Behind The Camera
January 21, 2012 – 12:38 pm
By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal) I love this post because it was sent to me from a young man who was behind the camera, not an attendee and not a woman. It is a great read…and I thank Dekunle for sending this to me: I’m a 22 year-old male and the [...]
Retreat For Entrepreneurial Women In March At Monterey Bay
January 21, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Oscia Wilson (Founder & CEO, Boiled Architecture) Five months ago, I became an entrepreneur. After pulling the trigger on my dream, I wanted to learn from and bond with other women who had made their own leaps of faith. Strangely enough, I had a hard time finding a conference or retreat in California that [...]
Tweet To Win A Ticket To Join Women 2.0 At The Crunchies!
January 20, 2012 – 5:23 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) WIN A FREE TICKET to the Crunchies Awards. Join us this year for the Crunchies, awarded on January 31 in San Francisco. Here’s how to win a free ticket to “the Oscars for the Internet”: Step 1: Follow us on Twitter at @women2 Step 2: Tweet this [...]
Friday Roundup: SOPA, WEFestival, CES & Social Entrepreneurs
January 20, 2012 – 12:08 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, we watched SOPA protests literally black out the Internet while the #wefestival tweets allowed a glimpse into a powerhouese event in New York. Meanwhile in San Francisco, the Health Innovation Summit demonstrated that a gender-balanced tech conference speaker rosters can be done – without women [...]
Female Founders To Watch (Health Innovation Summit 2012)
January 20, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Rock Health hosted the 2012 Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco this week, showcasing a remarkably gender-balanced set of interdisciplinary innovators in the burgeoning health/tech space. As keynote speaker Mitch Kapor stated, “It is possible to go up the learning curve yourself without the basics of the [...]
2012 Grace Hopper Celebration Of Women In Computing (Call For Participation)
January 20, 2012 – 5:00 am
By BJ Wishinsky (Community Manager, Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology) The 12th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) has opened its Call for Participation. The annual conference, presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing. The Grace Hopper Celebration [...]
Startup Lessons Learned At The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show
January 20, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne) I spent the last week in Las Vegas, promoting the announcement of AboutOne’s latest release at the Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). We chose to attend CES for our announcement because it’s the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow and attracts the “who’s who” [...]
A Day With The CEO Of Kiva, Matt Flannery
January 19, 2012 – 1:27 pm
By Jennifer Turliuk (Founder, Founder2Founder) After about 4 months spent in the San Francisco Bay Area getting to know the entrepreneurial scene, it hit me. If you name almost any famous tech entrepreneur in the Valley, during my time here, I’ve either seen them speak and met them in person, had a meeting one-on-one with [...]
Meet Aileen Lee, Dave McClure, Joy Marcus & More Investors!
January 19, 2012 – 9:00 am
Watch as the Top Finalists of the 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition present LIVE – Ten teams with at least one female co-founder will take the stage on February 14 at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference and present their best pitch in front of a panel of investors for prizes.
Juggling A Full-Time Job And A Startup (Hint – It’s Not Easy)
January 19, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Brittany Haas (Co-Founder, Something Borrowed NY) I am miserable since I’m missing out on the #wefestival going on right now. I was accepted…and elated! What a wonderful opportunity to learn from my idols and meet with other aspiring entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, I’m heading off to Paris on Friday with my full-time company for market. We’ve [...]
Surround Yourself With Great People, No Matter What
January 19, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Sonia Kapadia (Founder & CEO, Taste Savant) While I’ve been working on my startup, I’ve received a lot of advice, some good, and some bad. One of the pieces of advice most people mention is to “move fast.” Time is of the essence and everyday that you haven’t launched is an opportunity for your [...]
The Best $750 I Ever Spent Bootstrapping My Startup: One Plane Ticket West
January 19, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Leah Busque (Founder, TaskRabbit) Editor’s note: Vote Leah Busque for TechCrunch’s Founder of the Year! It was Friday and it had been a long week. I was back in Boston after spending the last two weeks in Palo Alto, participating in the Facebook Fund program (fbFund). Over the past 12 weeks, in fact, I [...]
An iPhone Developer Learns Android: Some Thoughts On Code
January 18, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Anna Billstrom (Developer, Momentus Media) At first, doing a “Hello World” was quite easy. The hardest part was learning Eclipse (for Mac): Open Eclipse and don’t worry about opening a project, on the left hand side will be all of your “workspace” projects. Running (the play button) does an automatic build. Mouseover red squiggly [...]
As If You Needed Another Reason To Hate Big Media Today
January 18, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Alicia Liu (Product Manager/Mobile Developer, Select Start) You’re probably frustrated by Stop SOPA Day today, your work is going slow because Wikipedia is blacked out, and you can’t amuse yourself because Reddit is out too, and you’ve already signed Google’s petition, what’s left to do? You can read about another reason to despise the [...]
MIT Sloan Women In Management Conference (February 10)
January 18, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Clara Brenner & Julie Lein (Co-Chairs, MIT Sloan Women in Management Conference) We make up 3% of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Our startups secure only 9% of venture capital funding. And we still earn, on average, 76 cents for every dollar a man earns for the same job. Overwhelmingly, women are not [...]
Stop SOPA: The Tech Community Must Lobby On Our Own Behalf
January 18, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Nnena Ukuku (Co-Founder, Black Founders) I encourage everyone to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). However, we can not consider our “duty” done to society if SOPA does not pass — we must push on. The tech community must become more involved in politics past SOPA. Otherwise, the tech community will be fighting [...]
Ezebis Interview With Angel Investor Christina Brodbeck About Investing In Women-Led Companies
January 18, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Editor’s note: Christina Brodbeck will a judge on February 14, 2012 at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference – get your ticket now! Ezebis‘s Pemo Theodore interviewed Christina Brodbeck about angel investing and startups. The full interview is on Ezebis but we’ve extracted the parts about angel investing, [...]
