Celebrating women’s history month with a women’s entrepreneur forum. By Ayori Z. Selassie (Co-Founder & Director, Pitch Mixer) How many times have you attended an entrepreneur focused event and felt drained afterwards? If you live in the East Bay...
UC Berkeley breeds high-tech, high-growth entrepreneurs, investors and innovators. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) While Stanford University sits squarely in the heart of the Silicon Valley with venture capital firms lining Sand Hill Road...
By Jennifer Toney (Founder & CEO, WeMakeItSafer) When Cass asked if I would be willing to write a post for FailCon, I was honored and pleased to oblige. WeMakeItSafer was part of the very first FailCon demo pit. Back then, we weren’t much more than an idea. I...
By Jennifer Toney (Founder & CEO, WeMakeItSafer) Thousands of products, accounting for hundreds-of-millions of individual items, are recalled each year for safety defects; yet, historically, only about 20% are ever returned or fixed. Most people simply do not...
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-In-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Pemo Theodore interviewed Jennifer Toney, co-founder and CEO of WeMakeItSafer. When asked about being a “mompreneur”, “balancing it all” and gender bias, Jennifer said:...