4 Reasons Why We Need All-Women Hackathons

4 Reasons Why We Need All-Women Hackathons

Organizers of an all-women hackathon respond to critics who call such events discriminatory or are skeptical of their value. By Tina Egolf (Co-founder & CEO, wellcome:familie.unternehmen) and Diana Kondel (Product Owner, XING) A few weeks ago, the second Berlin...

Bringing up Baby – and a Startup!

I tried to get some programming done while Oskar was sleeping and scheduled times with my husband so I would have a couple of hours for SpeedSpiration every now and then. It worked pretty well. By Diana Kondel (Co-founder, SpeedSpiration) When I was pregnant last...

Women: Start Companies At Startup Weekend Hamburg

Is it possible to have 50% female attendees at Startup Weekend Hamburg this June 8-10, 2012? By Lara Obst (Organizer, Startup Weekend Hamburg) Imagine rockstars, creatives, computer nerds… all together in one room – cheering, clapping and shouting. Then...