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. Read More »
Join Mediabistro, SocialTimes, and AllFacebook on January 27 at Socialize: Monetizing Social Media (Toronto) and learn how all the social media pieces fit together to create a unified and profitable business strategy.
You’ll have the chance to connect with over 30 of today’s most influential social media leaders including Fazila Nurani (Founder, PrivaTech Consulting), Susie Parker (Owner, SPARKER Strategy Group), Judi Samuels (Manager of Corporate Communications, Maritz Canada Inc.), Michelle Stinson Ross Read More »
By Cily Keizer (Co-Director, BiD Network Foundation)
Editor’s note: Learn more about the Women in Business Challenge and how you can participate here. The deadline for applications and the access to the coaching program is December 30, 2011. Completed business plans will be accepted until April 15, 2012.
Reports find that women’s lives around the world have improved significantly but gaps between men and women remain in many areas, especially business ownership.
BiD Network created the Women in Business Read More »
By Blake Landau (Blogger, What’s Your Story)
Editor’s note: Apply to the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition for early-stage startups with at least 1 female on the founding team. Deadline to apply is November 30, 2011.
When I was a kid, I was your average millennial — by which I mean I was on a tight schedule of brownies, soccer practices, Hebrew school, mall outings and birthday parties.
In the context of AYSO soccer games, I was scary for someone only three and half feet tall. Read More »
By Elaine Tsai (Organizer, Hack Nights for Beginners)
Women Who Code (WWCode) held our first lightning talks event on Tuesday, October 25. The event was filled with excitement, involvement, and proof that there are plenty of women interested in programming, hacking, and all things related to changing the gender gap in the tech industry.
With an amazing turnout rate of over 70 women, the ladies had plenty of time to meet new friends, reconnect over past programming projects and discuss new ideas. Sasha Laundy, founder of Women Who Code, kicked off the event by announcing Read More »
By Tania Yuki (Founder, Wimlink)
Are there three things you’d like to accomplish in your career or business that for some reason or other you haven’t been able to accomplish? What do you think stops you from achieving these things? Not enough time, not enough support, information, opportunity, something else?
That something else may just be a gentle but persistent unwillingness to put yourself out there and pull the trigger. There are many reasons belying this, mostly along the lines of fear of failure and lack of trust. After all, what if you got it wrong? Read More »
By Sepideh Nasiri (Corporate Sponsorships & Events Director, Women 2.0)
Women 2.0 is hosting four Founder Friday networking mixers for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, December 2, 2011 in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York City, Barcelona and Madrid.
Founder Friday Los Angeles will be co-hosted by Jenny Yee (Director of Product Operations, BetterWorks) Read More »By Rebecca Lipon (Director, Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition 2012)
Competitors for PITCH 2012 have two more weeks to submit their applications! If you’ve been considering applying, read this:
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By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0)
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2011 starts today, November 14-20. GEW is an initiative of the Kauffman Foundation. There are no requirements to participate, geographic or otherwise.
“For one week each November, students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and government officials come together… to spread the power of entrepreneurship,” said Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. “It’s during this time that we celebrate the innovators who bring ideas to life, drive economic growth, and expand human welfare.” Read More »
By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder & Front-End Developer, Balance Media)
Last Friday, Kate and I had the pleasure of attending the first in a series of Founder Friday networking events hosted by Women 2.0. Held at Google HQ, the evening began with a short program of speeches.
Shaherose Charania of Women 2.0 spoke Read More »
By Christina Vuleta (Founder, 40:20)
Every woman deserves to have her own advisory panel. As part of 40:20 Vision’s mission to start conversations and facilitate mentoring between generations, we offer live mentoring events between older and younger entrepreneurs.
The idea is that we can have more than 20:20 vision if we share our knowledge in a mentor-like, collaborative setting.
7X7 is not a networking event or cocktail party. Rather, it’s a group of 7 experienced and 7 aspiring / new female Read More »
By Melissa Withers (Communications & Outreach, Betaspring)
Betaspring is a Providence, RI-based startup accelerator. We are now accepting applications for our spring 2012 program. Deadline to apply is November 22, 2011 with the 12-week program kicking off in Providence on February 6, 2012. Apply for your spot here.
Betaspring, a charter member of the TechStars affiliate network, provides mentorship, seed funding, office space, and immersion into an intense startup community of focused entrepreneurs. Betaspring, in three sessions, has launched 28 ventures, many of which have raised significant follow-on investment. Read More »
By Maris McEdward (Community Manager, Startup Weekend)
Entrepreneurs are always asking “what’s next?” — What’s the next step? What’s the one connection I can’t afford not to make? What tweak can I make to make my product stronger/better/faster?
But an equally important question is “what can I do to prepare?”
At Startup Weekend, we encourage entrepreneurs to come to us with fresh idea and a willingness to meet and work with potential co-founders. But that doesn’t mean Startup Weekend attendees can’t prepare before the event Read More »
By Murat Aktihanoglu (Managing Director, ER Accelerator)
ER Accelerator is accepting applications for its January 2012 program. Application deadline is November 20, 2011 — apply here.
ER Accelerator is an early-stage investment fund and accelerator based in New York City. Ten selected startups for January 2012 get:
By Francine Gordon (Co-Organizer, TEDxBayArea TEDWomen)
Last year, TED held its first TEDWomen conference in Washington, DC. Recognizing the phenomenal community of women in the San Francisco Bay area, TEDxBayArea decided to organize its own day-long program dedicated to women.
About 175 people heard TED-type talks by more than 20 presenters including Jill Tarter (Center Director, SETI), Debra Bowen (Secretary of State, California), Tara VandDerveer (Coach, Stanford Women’s Basketball Team), Shaherose Charania (CEO & Co-Founder, Women 2.0), Read More »
By Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell)
There’s something happening in New York Tech Scene: The female community is finding and establishing itself among the ranks of the techies in the Big Apple.
For a lot of reasons New York is not Silicon Valley, where the culture has matured to the point that everyone seems to look and dress the same; engineers rock their T-shirts or hoodies while VCs strut their nice leather belts. Everyone has their part to play. The culture is so cemented that it can replicated in startup communities around the world. It’s as if Silicon Valley is almost a nouveau social class which can be spotted nearly anywhere by a seasoned veteran. Read More »
By Jocelyn Goldfein (Director of Engineering, Facebook)
Applications for Facebook graduate fellowships for academic year 2012-2013 is now open. The deadline for fellowship applications is December 16, 2011.
We’re also excited to announce that we’ll be doubling the number of awards we give out this year. These fellowships support exceptional Ph.D. students in a wide range of academic topics.
This year, we are also increasing focus in “systems” areas (Compilers, Databases, Distributed Computing, Fault Tolerance, and Networking). These areas represent Read More »
By Kelly Coupe (Program Manager, Intelligent Systems Laboratory)
Those of you starting new companies are executing upon insightful ideas, unique to solving a problem you’ve identified in the world. But what if you’ve found that it leaves a little something desired in order to take it to the next level? Something truly unique that will set your company apart?
Whether it’s building a completely new concept, or finding that you need to implement a never been done before novel technology, you may find that you need additional support to execute. For example, let’s say you have a great idea for an online Read More »
By Nelly Yusupova (CTO, Webgrrls International)
Are you marketing a product or service? Do you want to create a dynamic team within your company? Are you building a business, website, or a blog? Do you want to create better relationships with your customers?
If you said YES to to any of these questions, then you have to learn gamification on Wednesday, November 9 in New York.
Join NYC Webgrrls and one of the top thought leaders in Gamification, Gabe Zichermann (author of Game-Based Marketing and Gamification by Design), for an interactive Read More »
By Ainsley O’Connell (Director of Strategy & Partnerships, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship)
I arrived at Startup Weekend EDU in Washington, D.C. ready to dive in and work on someone else’s idea. I ran into my friend, who said he was planning to pitch a couple of ideas and encouraged me to go for it, even if I hadn’t prepared anything. After all, why not? Surely I’d been mulling over an idea that had some promise?
I realized that I did have something, I had been thinking for a while about the shortcomings of our existing tools for communicating student data to parents. Complex assessment data increasingly guides educators’ work, effectively cutting Read More »
By Anita Schillhorn van Veen (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0)
There’s a dizzying energy around startups in America these days —
New York City’s Silicon Alley, tech corridors in states throughout the country, and of course Silicon Valley are all abuzz with new ventures, young entrepreneurs, brilliant ideas for mobile applications, cloud services, and social media spin-offs.
When the blogs are abuzz with stories of nine-digit investments and IPOs, it’s easy to forget that there are millions of people throughout the world that subsist on next to nothing. Read More »
By Melissa Ablett (Marketing & Events Coordinator, BostInnovation)
Today at Microsoft’s second annual Women’s Leadership Forum there was no cheer-leading about “girl power,” rather just powerful women who are making a difference.
Organized by Microsoft, MITX, the Commonwealth Corporation, and others, the NERD Center was filled with women (and a few very lucky, seemingly lost men) eager to attend the long line-up of speakers, panels, one-on-ones, and networking.
Sara Spalding, Microsoft’s Cambridge Site Read More »
By Lindsay Harper (Founder, Swayable)
F.ounders Dublin was truly the most amazing networking experience I’ve ever had. Having an extensive background in experience marketing, this high praise to be sure. I’m still trying to fully process the entire experience a full 2 days after being home.
I was invited to attend F.ounders last spring, and am very honored to have been included in the 150 founders from around the world. Seattle was represented by myself and Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO.
The structure of this global event is brilliant — 3 tiers of founders; those that have built era0defining companies, those who’s companies Read More »
By A. Lauren Abele (COO, Pipeline Fellowship)
The Pipeline Fellowship trains women philanthropists to become angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice.
Currently, the Pipeline Fellowship offers its traditional programs in Boston (Dec. 2011 to May 2012) and New York City (Jan. 2012 to Jun. 2012).
For applicants based outside of Boston and New York City, the Pipeline Fellowship has created an executive program that will be held in New York City (Jan. 2012 to Jun. 2012). Read More »
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