By Adrian Granzella Larssen (Writer, The Daily Muse) When Shaherose Charania came to Silicon Valley from Canada a decade ago, she was shocked to find that the start-up scene was overwhelmingly male. So, she turned her awe into action, and co-founded Women 2.0, a network and media company for female entrepreneurs. Fast forward to today: [...]
Posts Tagged "Shaherose Charania"
Move The Needle: Women 2.0 PITCH
February 15, 2012 – 4:00 am
By Blake Landau (Director of Marketing, Linqia) The fact is there is nothing more romantic than spending Valentines Day at the Computer History Museum with over a thousand women at Women 2.0’s fifth annual PITCH conference. There is a demand for mentoring, support and communities where women can support each other. We all know this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why Women Have A Hard Time Raising Money For Startups
January 10, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Jolie O’Dell (Writer, VentureBeat) Every now and then, we hear from a female startup founder who says she’s having a hard time raising money. She can’t quite figure out if it’s her idea or her slide deck or — and no one wants to think this — if it’s simply the fact that she’s [...]
3 Tips for Entrepreneurial Women Starting High-Growth Companies
December 6, 2011 – 3:12 pm
By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) Always wanted to be your own boss? Want to be part of the solution and create jobs to boost our economy? Entrepreneurs are America’s greatest asset. Only by thinking and big with your idea can you build a mammoth company that will create hundreds of much-needed jobs. [...]
The Hatchery Co-Working Space Welcomes Women 2.0 To SOMA
November 18, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Rahul Prakash (Partner, The Hatchery) I met Shaherose back in 2006 and knew she was onto something big when she told me she was a co-founder of an organization called Women 2.0. The valley was brimming with energy as we were in the midst of the web 2.0 surge and Shaherose, or Shai as [...]
Women 2.0 Receives Corporate Sponsorship from Kauffman Foundation to Fuel Growth of Female-Led Innovation
October 19, 2011 – 1:10 pm
Sponsorship will support blog network, educational resources, programs and events to launch successful, scalable, innovative ventures for female entrepreneurs Media Contact: Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 today announced that the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the world’s largest organizations devoted to entrepreneurship, has provided corporate sponsorship to support Women 2.0 [...]
Women 2.0 Celebrates 5 Years of Growth and Inspiration
October 19, 2011 – 12:59 pm
By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) I moved to Silicon Valley in 2005 and almost always was the only woman in the room at business, technology or entrepreneurship networking events. Then one day, I met a guy named Noah Kagan who introduced me to a few awesome women he knew. He said, “I [...]
Indonesian Female Founders: We Are Here
September 12, 2011 – 6:30 am
By Aulia Halimatussadiah (Co-Founder & CTO, NulisBuku) If you asked where are all the female founders in Indonesia, well, they’re not far. They’re already around, but they’re yet to start a startup. The potential is there. Indonesia is a country of 250 million people and 30 million of them are already connected to the Internet. [...]
Fostering More Female Tech Entrepreneurs
August 25, 2011 – 6:30 am
By Ellen Lee (Contributing Writer, Intuit Blog) When it comes to women working in Silicon Valley technology businesses -— particularly women at the helm — the numbers remain painfully small. Less than 5 percent of tech startups are founded by female entrepreneurs, estimates Shaherose Charania, co-founder and CEO of Women 2.0, an organization that helps [...]
Bringing the Women 2.0 Revolution to SXSW 2012 – Please Vote!
August 16, 2011 – 6:35 am
By Veronika Sonsev (Founder & CEO, InSparq) The tech industry has traditionally been a boys’ club — women have been under represented as developers, founders and c-level executives. However, thanks to traditional and social media, a network of loosely associated groups (Women 2.0, Change the Ratio, RailsBridge, Girls in Tech, Women in Wireless, etc.) and [...]
85 Broads, Women 2.0 Announce #itswomen Campaign Launch
August 5, 2011 – 6:15 am
By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) Today, 85 Broads launched a global media campaign called It’s Women to encourage companies, VC’s, super angels, and high net worth investors to dramatically increase their investment in startups founded by women entrepreneurs. On October 19, 2004, 85 Broads staged a one-day “Buycott” as a symbolic gesture [...]
Networking, Travel, Growth: A Year of Entrepreneurship
July 18, 2011 – 7:32 pm
By Virgilia Singh (Co-Founder & Advisor, GenJuice) It’s amazing how our lives can change by one move, one trip, one introduction, one experience, one passion, one love, one event, one goal, one year. Here is my timeline of events: January 2010 — An overly-eager 22 year old, I just graduated from business school and aimlessly [...]
Bloomberg TV’s Julie Hyman Talks to Women 2.0 CEO Shaherose Charania About Women Entrepreneurs
July 6, 2011 – 6:10 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Julie Hyman of Bloomberg TV laid out the numbers: women make up 56% of visitors of social networking sites and blogs, 25% of tech sector jobs are held by women, 8% of tech firms are started by women. Shaherose Charania (CEO & Co-Founder of Women 2.0) reminds [...]
Cracking The Glass Ceiling: Female Leaders Alexa Andrzejewski, Shaherose Charania and Julia Hu Making Strides at Start-Ups
July 5, 2011 – 8:42 am
By Emily Glazer (Writer, Wall Street Journal) Women represent just over 15% of angel investors, and only 5% to 7% of partners at high-tech VC investor firms in the U.S., according to a recent study by Illuminate Ventures, an early-stage venture firm. In an attempt to close the gap, a number of mentoring and investing [...]
Aspiring Mobile Startup Founders Wanted for Founder Labs San Francisco: Apply by June 24
June 9, 2011 – 9:04 am
By Shaherose Charania (Founder & CEO, Women 2.0 and Founder Labs) Looking to start a new mobile venture? Looking for a co-founder? Want to validate an idea? Join Founder Labs in San Francisco: Apply by June 24. Founder Labs is a pre-incubator for new mobile ideas. Founder Labs is a 5 week pre-incubator focused on [...]
Founder Labs Brings Its Silicon Valley Flair for Fostering Startups to Manhattan
May 17, 2011 – 10:36 am
By João-Pierre S. Ruth (Contributing Writer, Xconomy) Picking the right team can make all the difference when launching a new venture. Starting on May 21, a group of some 16 designers, engineers, and marketing professionals will gather to form teams aimed at creating startups. Founder Labs, a five week “pre-incubator” program targeting concepts for the [...]
Women 2.0 GROWING, Expanding, Seeking Exec Members and Guest Bloggers!
May 17, 2011 – 9:42 am
By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 is growing! We are growing beyond supporting founders in Silicon Valley and are entering new global markets. We’ve begun the process with local meet ups like Founder Friday and the soft launch of our blogging network. We believe the mission of Women 2.0 is critical [...]
Partner event: APPNATION 2011 for Mobile Developers
April 27, 2011 – 7:56 am
APPNATION (April 27 – 28 in San Francisco) is an ambitious and bold thought leadership conference and exposition focusing exclusively on the consumer applications revolution and global app economy. Featuring speakers and exhibitors including Digital Chocolate, Marvel Entertainment, Jumptap, Nielsen Mobile, RIM, Intel, Outfit7, Sequoia Capital, WIP, Fox Broadcasting, Greystripe, Norwest Venture Partners, and Wall [...]
Facebook Town Hall and Startup America with Jessica Herrin, Lynn Jurich, Raissa Nebie and Adriana Neagu
April 19, 2011 – 1:53 pm
By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) Entrepreneurship panels will follow President Obama’s Town Hall livestreamed from Facebook on Wednesday, April 20. The panels on “Women in Technology” and “Startups in America” feature women entrepreneurs like Jesssica Herrin (Founder & CEO, Stella & Dot), Lynn Jurich (Co-Founder & President, SunRun), Adriana Neagu (Co-Founder & [...]
How Women 2.0 Launched My Entrepreneurial Career
March 15, 2011 – 1:28 pm
By Arielle Patrice Scott (Founder, GenJuice) I remember it like a high school favorite song. I was 18 years old and I knew everything. I had already started my first company, failed and was ready to do it again to make Zuckerberg’s success look like peanuts. I knew nothing about tech, but I knew that’s [...]
