By Dr. Jane LeClair (Dean, School of Business & Technology, Excelsior College) It shouldn’t come as a surprise that women are underrepresented in the technology fields. The numbers are stark: today women earn less than 20% of engineering degrees in the United States. For those women who do enter the tech industries, an incredible 56% [...]
Author Archives: Angie
Negotiating The Glass Maze: Professional Organizations Helping Women Advance In Technology
January 18, 2012 – 5:00 am
For Women Starting Tech Companies, Brilliance Is Mandatory
January 17, 2012 – 9:30 am
By Carla Rover (Writer, The Advertising Technology Review) There are two sides to the post-feminist world for women creating startups technology companies. Here’s the good part: most investors, at least publicly, acknowledge the need for a more diverse field of leadership in the startup community. Here’s the bad part: women may have to do a [...]
Partner Event: Vator Splash (February 2 in San Francisco)
January 17, 2012 – 9:00 am
Vator Splash will be held in San Francisco on February 2, 2012 gathering leading entrepreneurs, innovators, venture capitalists and angel investors across technology to inspire and energize the audience about entrepreneurship and innovation – bringing together high-caliber speakers who talk about how to build and scale great successful companies, how their industries are changing and [...]
Woman Entrepreneur: Lynn Perkins, Founding CEO Of UrbanSitter
January 17, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal) Sometimes you wonder why someone didn’t turn the idea of UrbanSitter into a business a long time ago. Technology has given entrepreneurs a platform to take ideas that might have been around for a while the ability to actually build them. So what is the idea? [...]
Miss Representation Screening (January 24 in San Francisco) Benefits StartOut’s Lesbian Entrepreneurship Mentoring Program
January 17, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Leanne Pittsford (Founder & CEO, StartSomewhere & Board Member, StartOut) If you’re in the Bay Area, I hope you’ll join me January 24, 2012 at 6pm for a screening of Miss Representation benefiting StartOut’s Lesbian Entrepreneurship Mentoring Program. Did you know: Women comprise over half the U.S. population, hold 51% of U.S. wealth and [...]
Buyosphere CEO Tara Hunt Shares Lessons In Seed Funding
January 17, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Jen Consalvo (Co-Founder & COO, Tech Cocktail) Editor’s mote: This article is courtesy of Tech Cocktail, which offers tech startup events, news and resources across the country. Buyosphere CEO Tara Hunt will be pitching live on February 14, 2012 at Women 2.0 PITCH Conference – get your ticket now! After launching last year, Buyosphere, [...]
Former TechCrunch Writer Sarah Lacy Raises $2.5M For PandoDaily, Talks About An Exploding Diaper
January 16, 2012 – 5:11 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) One of the most recognizable women’s names in the Silicon Valley and former TechCrunch writer, Sarah Lacy has raised $2.5M in funding from individuals including Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hseih (Zappos), Zach Nelson (NetSuite), Andrew Anker, Chris Dixon (FounderCollective), Saul Klein (IndexVentures), Josh Kopelman (First Round [...]
Silicon Alley And Silicon Valley (Interactive Infographic)
January 16, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Harrison Kratz (Community Manager, MBA@UNC) For decades, Silicon Valley has been synonymous with innovation. It is difficult to dispute this claim given that it’s the home to technology and Internet giants such as Apple, Google, and Facebook. While it hasn’t lost its staying power, other hotspots for entrepreneurship and technology have emerged over the [...]
With Programs Like Codecademy, Women Are No Longer Accidentally Excluded From Learning Technology
January 16, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Blake Landau (Blogger, Artemis) “We’re hoping to make everyone literate about the basics of programming while creating a generation of new and talented programmers” Zach Sims, co-Founder of Codecademy told me in an email. Codecademy’s mission is to democratize coding in 2012. The startup has partnered with Girl Develop It, Code Year and was [...]
Partner Event: DEMO Asia 2012 Currently Auditioning Startups
January 16, 2012 – 9:00 am
The inaugural DEMO Asia, the launchpad for emerging technology and trends in Asia Pacific, is scheduled to take place in Singapore February 29 – March 2, 2012. DEMO Asia is the latest addition to the DEMO family of conferences and is expected be an iconic event for emerging technologies and trends in Asia. At DEMO [...]
Launching Minted Magazine In SF – Premiere Issue Launch Party
January 16, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Shirley Lau (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Minted Magazine) From building the design of a magazine from scratch to creating and coding a website with absolutely zero knowledge of how to do so, I’ve learned more about magazine publishing through research and networking than I did while actually working at a publication. In only four months, [...]
Want To Launch Your Mobile Business In A Weekend? (NYC)
January 16, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Anna Curran (Founder, CookbookCreate) Startup Weekend is hosting the first ever Startup Weekend Mobile in New York City on January 20-22, 2012. In just 54 hours, we’ll go from pitches on Friday night to demos of mobile businesses on Sunday afternoon. Our mentors and judges have been carefully selected and include leading mobile experts [...]
2012 CES Booth Babe Problem Highlights Women’s Perceived Role In Technology – Let’s Fix This
January 15, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In a much discussed BBC Video about CES 2012, a booth babe tells the reporter “I don’t know any women [interested in tech]. I don’t know any women that would choose the tech world over shopping or cooking or taking care of kids.” Wait, is this really [...]
Partner Event: O’Reilly Where Conference (April 2-4)
January 15, 2012 – 8:00 am
O’Reilly Where (April 2-4, 2012 in San Francisco, CA) is where the grassroots and leading-edge developers building location-aware technology intersect with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps, platforms, and hardware to gain a competitive edge. Where Conference presents leading trends rather than chasing them. Women 2.0 members save 15% with discount code “WHR12WOMEN” [...]
Founding VMware CEO Diane Greene Joins Google Board; VC Sarah Tavel Promoted Bessener Venture Partners Vice President
January 13, 2012 – 6:00 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Two pieces of sunny news for women in business and technology: As co-founder and CEO of VMware, Diane Greene led the company to an IPO the largest the tech industry has seen since Google’s. Recently, she was named to Google’s Board of Directors, bringing the number of [...]
Women Gamers: Will A Female Be The Lead Character In Grand Theft Auto V?
January 13, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Marie Wilda (Writer, PolicyMic) The video game industry has an annual revenue of over $25 billion. One largely anticipated game set to be released in 2012 is Grand Theft Auto V, and it assuredly will not disappoint. One reason game forums await the release of GTA V is to find out if the male [...]
Millennial Women Are Burning Out At Work By 30… And It’s Great For Business And Entrepreneurship
January 13, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Meghan Casserly (Writer, Forbes) A recent Kauffman poll shows that Gen-Y may be poised to be the most entrepreneurial bunch the world has seen. “54% of the nation’s Millennials either want to start a business or already have started one,” says Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. Paired with data on [...]
8 Tips For Great Employee Retention, Workplace Environment
January 13, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Elizabeth Kiehner (Co-Founder & Principal, Thornberg & Forester) As Thornberg & Forester approaches its five-year anniversary next month, I am reminded of our stellar employee retention rate. With a staff of sixteen at present, we’ve had only one person leave our team these past years when she moved closer to her parents after having [...]
2012 PITCH Startup Competition Finalists Announced
January 12, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The run-up to Women 2.0 PITCH Conference on February 14, 2012 is defined by Women 2.0′s fifth annual Startup Competition for early-stage tech startups. Watch the finalists of the 2012 Women 2.0 Startup Competition pitch live on February 14. Hear first-hand feedback from panels of real investors [...]
Seeking Female Founders Of Mobile Tech Startups
January 11, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Laura Sydell (Digital Culture Correspondent, National Public Radio) Bill Reichert, a partner in Garage Technology Ventures, says another reason is that a lot of the female entrepreneurs he sees don’t have the computer science background. “We tend to invest in companies that have very strong core technical teams, and … that population is disproportionately [...]
4 Ways To Get Serious With Extracurricular Learning On A Budget
January 11, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Awesome, Tekserve) “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer Read A New Book Every Month John Spence says that the average business person reads one business book every 5 years. [...]
Join The Startup America Master Challenge
January 11, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Mary Simonds (Blogger, Startup America Partnership) Are you a Startup America Master? Do you have enough startup influence to help us recruit 100,000 startups by March 31, 2012? Prove it. We ended last week with a bang and kicked off our first Master Challenge Throwdown: Brad Feld v. TechStars! As of this morning, Brad [...]
Increase In Patent Applications By Women Entrepreneurs
January 11, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The number of women obtaining patents grew at an accelerated rate in the past 35 years — and in numbers considerably higher than previously reported. Reported by the National Women’s Business Council who commissioned the study, the report demonstrates that the largest spike came in 2010 as [...]
Pass It Forward: Interview With Bad Girls Ventures Founder Candace Klein On Investing In Women Entrepreneurs
January 10, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Women 2.0 interviews Candace Klein, Founder & CEO of Bad Girls Ventures — a non-profit, micro-finance organization focused on educating and financing woman-owned startup companies. To date, Bad Girls Ventures has educated over 250 businesses, financed 26 women with $700k and created 154 jobs across Ohio. Here is her heartfelt story of starting up and [...]
Partner Events: Blazing Cloud Programming Classes
January 10, 2012 – 12:30 pm
Women 2.0 partnered with Blazing Cloud in San Francisco to invite you to learn to program this year! Save 10% with code “women2″: Learn to Program In Ruby Ruby for Programmers Intro To HTML/CSS CSS For Web Applications Rails For Beginners
