How 500 Startups is investing in female founders and challenging women to write checks.  By Jess Erickson (Director of Marketing, 500 Startups) What kind of person comes to mind when you hear “startup founder?” How about “partner at VC”? Or...
Young future entrepreneurs pitch their mobile app ideas designed to solve problems in their communities at Technovation World Pitch. By Technovation  (Powered by Iridescent) Technovation is the mobile app entrepreneurship competition for young women ages 10 to 23. The...
Women 2.0 PITCH competition judge Christine Tsai recently announced that 500 Women will invest $1M in 10 companies with women founders this year. By Betsy Mikel (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) We already know female entrepreneurs generally receive a pitiful amount...
A growing high tech startup industry trend has little to do with tech, and a lot to do with togetherness. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) There was a time in Silicon Valley when VCs did not like the idea of funding couples. Nonetheless, Cisco...
Victoria Ransom has crossed all those supposedly insurmountable obstacles: starting up, bootstrapping to validation, raising venture capital to scale, building a solid revenue stream, and finally, achieving a successful exit. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By...