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Beyond the Spark Conference Wrap-Up

May 12, 2008 – 1:33 am

Stanford, California - May 10, 2008 - Entrepreneurs and VCs gathered on the grassy lawn of the Stanford Golf Course for the 2008 Women 2.0 and Stanford Women in Business Conference Beyond the Spark: Entrepreneurship Redefined. The conference included panel discussions, an interactive lunch with Silicon Valley movers and shakers, and an afternoon session with […]

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January 31, 2008 – 11:54 pm

We’ve been busy planning Pitch 2008, and Angie Chang (one of our co-founders) launched the first Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner last night (January 31) at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA. There was much food, drink, and schwag to be had — and plenty of girl geeks with their invited guests.
Over 600 people […]

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Intrapreneurship event wrap-up

November 27, 2007 – 2:43 am

Thanks to our esteemed speakers Nina and Cynthia, and our moderator Indu, we learned that intrapreneurship is about lobbying, pitching your efforts, getting allies, leveraging resources, exuding empathy, etc.
Practicing intrapreneurship within your organization is a way to gain credibility and a track record - all the tools are at your fingertips, from colleagues to […]

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Winners Declared for Napkin Business Challenge

April 27, 2007 – 1:41 am

The Women 2.0 Pitch Night was a smashing success! Over 150 people came to CNET to support women entrepreneurs who pitched their businesses to venture capitalists and successful women executives. The finalists fielded tough questions from the judges and in the end, only two teams received grand prizes of $1500 each, pitch coaching from Guidewire […]

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