Female Founders to Watch: Future Stars from Thiel’s 20 Under 20
Every year PayPal founder Peter Thiel pays 20 young people $100,000 to drop out of school and start companies. Here are the young women he’s handing checks to this year. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) The Thiel Foundation, started by PayPal...
PITCH 2012 Speaker Danielle Fong, Chief Scientist And Co-Founder Of LightSail Energy, Raises $37.3 Million Series D Venture Funding
PITCH 2012 speaker Danielle Fong announced raising Series D from investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today, news broke that 25-year old chief scientist and LightSail co-founder...
Why Aren't There More Female Entrepreneurs
By Mark Suster (General Partner, GRP Partners) I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs. On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. Somehow it seems kind of strange for a man to answer this question that...