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Women 2.0 is excited to launch the Women 2.0 FoundersCard!If you are a founder of a tech startup, this one is for you. FoundersCard welcomes Women 2.0 founders.

The Women 2.0 FoundersCard is an exclusive offering to founders from Women 2.0 programs and initiatives: Founder Labs alumni, Founder Friday participants, PITCH applicants, attendees from past Women 2.0 events, and all founders recognized on the Female Founders' to Watch Lists. Apply for a Women 2.0 FoundersCard here.

The i/o startup accelerator is a 3 month program that helps you launch your product and build a company. We invest 25k into your company to get you up and running. We invite you work side by side with us in San Francisco for an intense 3 months where you will learn from the best. We roll up our sleeves as well as put on weekly events to inform you about what it takes to build a great company. The next program starts March 15 -- submission deadline of Feb 21. To apply simply go to http://www.ventures.io/apply and fill out the form with as much detail as you can.

This guest post is from Sally Grisedale. "Pivoting" describes what entrepreneurs do when they get stuck. It involves recognizing your business idea is failing and making a radical change. In week three, our team objective was to interview 20 concierge at four star hotels in the Bay Area and get four to test our prototype on a free trial basis. Through customer development interviews, we hoped to validate our business idea for “GuidePad”.

This guest post is from Sally Grisedale about Customer Development for the Lean Startup - Notes from Alexander Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Cindy Alvarez and Hiten Shah speaking to Women 2.0 Founder Labs participants on January 23, 2011 In week two of Women 2.0 Founder Labs, the stars of the startup business world kept appearing to shine on us. This week we heard from Alexander Osterwalder the author of “Business Model Creation”; Cindy Alvarez and Hiten Shah from KISS Metrics on marketing strategies for startups and Steve Blank author of Four Steps to the Epiphany, discussing what makes Silicon Valley scalable startups so different from traditional business models.

Vator Splash on February 3, 2011 in San Francisco will showcase 10 promising startups onstage. The founders of Pandora (possible IPO this year?) and ngmoco (sold to DeNA for $400M last fall) will be onstage giving keynotes on their lessons learned as entrepreneurs and how to build sustaining startups. Women 2.0 members save 25% off tickets with discount code "Women25" when you register here.

Whether you're considering launching a startup or innovating from inside a company, we invite you to join BlogHer's 2011 Business, Entrepreneurism and Technology conference (March 24-25 in Silicon Valley). Women 2.0 CEO Shaherose Charania joins 49 other amazing women role models and mentors to work with 100 entrepreneurial women. Women 2.0 members save 20% on BlogHer BET tickets with discount code "Women2" when you register here.

The Foodspotting story began over a year ago when a user experience designer at Adaptive Path. Alexa Andrzejewski (on Twitter at @ladylexy) traveled to Japan, learned about new foods like Okonomiyaki and Takoyaki, and woke up one morning with the idea to publish a book -- a field guide to food and to introduce people to food. As Alexa shared her idea with others, she began to realize that this idea would make a great website and mobile app, but she had no idea where to start.

This guest blog post is from Angel Manzo titled "Insecurities & Judgments." One week ago I had no business idea and no team. Now I have attachments to several ideas, team bonding, and boundless optimism paired with sheer fright. This journey has been eye-opening, ego-crushing and inspirational. If this emotional roller-coaster ride is indicative of what’s to come as an entrepreneur, then I’d better hold on tight with both hands!

"Learning to Pivot: Notes from Eric Ries speaking at Women 2.0 Founders lab" is a guest blog post from Sally Grisedale, a Founder Labs participant. The first week of January 2011, I started a five-week program led by Shaherose Charania, CEO and co-founder of Women 2.0, to collaborate with engineers, designers and business leads on building a startup mobile business. By day five, 18 people had formed five teams and were pitching their ideas to a star studded team of mentors and advisors.

This blog post from Women 2.0 Founder Labs participant Resmi Arjunanpillai is titled "How To Survive The Trough Of Sorrow And Be Successful." Follow Resmi on Twitter at @resmia. Be persistent. That was a key piece of advice from Jessica Livingston, founder of Y Combinator, as she talked to the future founders at Women 2.0 Founder Labs, Mobile Edition.

Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley's premier startup pitch and networking event, coming up once again on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 in Mountain View, CA. This quarterly event brings together over 300 investors, founders, and members of the press for one action-packed night to network, hear talks from leading CEOs, and help launch a startup company to greatness.

The inspirational theme this year is to Optimize Your Effectiveness on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Building on the success of previous years, OPEN Silicon Valley presents OPEN Women's Leadership Forum 2011.