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6 Steps For Moderating Your Startup’s Growing Pains

Editor21 April 2012

Building your company at a steady pace encourages stability and a focus on good customer service. By Lindsey Carnett (CEO & President, Marketing Maven)

The top 25 best-paid chief executive officers in the U.S. earned more in salary and other compensation in 2010 than their companies’ federal income tax expenses as disclosed in public filings, according to a report by the Institute for Policy Studies.

After reading a stat like that, how many of you are even more tempted to start a company of your own? Steer away from the dollar sign flashing in front of your eyes because the number one trick to success is to slow down.

Building your company at a steady pace encourages

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Women Make Groups Smarter, But Gender Disparity Remains

Editor20 April 2012

Why do women continue to be under represented in the growing tech industry? By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest)

There's little correlation between a group's collective intelligence and the IQs of its individual members.

But if a group includes more women, its collective intelligence rises," was the finding of a study published by the Harvard Business Review.

The finding begs the question: Why do women continue

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Meet Your Founder Friday Hosts For May 2012 – New Cities Launching: Orange County, San Diego, Buenos Aires & Santiago!

Editor20 April 2012

11 cities will be hosting Women 2.0 Founder Friday events in May - find one near you! By Sepideh Nasiri (Director of All Things Offline, Women 2.0)

We have some exciting news! We are launching new cities for Founder Friday! Founder Friday is a Women 2.0 networking event promoting the creation of new networks among aspiring entrepreneurs, current entrepreneurs and investors in innovative cities around the world.

Founder Friday events are currently hosted in

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Meet Your Founder Friday Hosts For May 2012 – New Cities Launching: Orange County, San Diego, Buenos Aires & Santiago!

Editor20 April 2012

11 cities will be hosting Women 2.0 Founder Friday events in May - find one near you! By Sepideh Nasiri (Director of All Things Offline, Women 2.0) We have so... Read More...

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Female Founders To Watch: Latina Entrepreneurs

Editor20 April 2012

Celebrating a diverse range of Latina entrepreneurs in the United States - and beyond! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

When Women 2.0 partnered with Ellas 2.0, founded by Patricia Araque in Spain, we set out to identify emerging Latina entrepreneurs. The media is buzzing about Latina entrepreneurs, talking about how why Latinas are leaving corporate America.

Entrepreneurs wear many hats, from functional roles in their startups to affinity groups they can tap into. Take for example the venerable Skimlinks Founder and CEO Alicia Navarro - her Twitter profile reveals a smorgasbord of identities: "Spanish-blooded, Aussie-born, London-headquartered, San Francisco-based..."

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500 Startups: Moms We’d Like To Fund

Editor20 April 2012

This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Christine Tsai (Partner, 500 Startups)

Are you an entrepreneur looking to build something truly awesome that will positively impact millions of people’s lives? (And by the way, make a LOT of money?)

If so, then I have a suggestion…

Stop building yet another daily deal site or mindless social game or yellow filter so-lo-mo photo-sharing service. Instead, build something awesome for moms, dads, families, or kids. Believe it or not, there are a lot of them so make their lives easier and happier. Because, the best part is that they’ll probably pay

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Free Tickets For Founder Showcase With Eventbrite’s Kevin Hartz

Editor19 April 2012

Win free tickets and a demo table to the Founder Showcase in San Francisco! By Jonathan Greechan (Partner, The Founder Institute)

The Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley’s Leading Seed-Stage Pitch Event, bringing together over 500 investors, founders, and press for one action-packed day to network, hear talks from leading CEOs, and help launch a startup to greatness.

There are still a few tickets left for Tuesday’s 10th Founder Showcase at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.

The Founder Institute is giving away 10 free tickets to Women 2.0 members! The first 10 to register here get the tickets!

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How To Counteract A Sedentary Work Life (Studies Show Women Exercise Half As Much As Men)

Editor19 April 2012

Increase the amount of exercise in your life without taking extra time out of your day. By Steve Bordley (CEO, TrekDesk Treadmill Desks)

Studies show that exercise alone cannot undue the health damages of sedentary office environment.

The journal of Preventative Medicine at Oregon State University shows an alarming disparity of exercise between men and women. The study points out the need for new solutions.

The health message that seems to be escaping American men and women is that a daily trip to the gym is not enough to counteract the debilitating effects of sedentary lifestyles.

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To Be Or Not To Be A Woman Entrepreneur

Editor19 April 2012

Moving into management takes a shift in thinking, and new ways of finding self-actualization. By Gargi Nalawade (Founder & CEO, Sepalz)

Successes such as Instagram has got the whole developer community up in restless excitement. At least two developers approached me the day the Instagram acquisition was announced. And they did their own announcements to me.

“I would like to talk to you about becoming an entrepreneur”, one said. “I would like to know how exactly to become an entrepreneur and understand what it takes” said another.

Looking at Instagram and the 12-person team that made hundreds of millions in a few months is giving them a blood rush.

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Words Of Wisdom From Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard CEO

Editor19 April 2012

Check out the inspiring video series with Meg Whitman on Makers! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

In the way that Hillary Clinton's popularity rating has increased with time (and the one-week Internet meme sensation Texts from Hillary), perhaps Meg Whitman's star is still rising.

Best known as eBay's veteran CEO - she joined the company when it had only 30 employees in 1998 - Meg ran eBay as CEO for 10 years and scaled the company to over 15,000 employees and $8 billion in revenue. She took the company public and currently sits on the board of directors at Proctor & Gamble, Teach for America, Zipcar and Hewlett-Packard, where she is now the CEO.

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SMS Campaigns More Effective Than Email Marketing (Mobile Marketing)

Editor19 April 2012

SMS marketing and SMS advertising are an excellent way to engage consumers. By Carrie Chitsey (Founder & CEO, 3Seventy)

Why would you choose SMS campaigns over email marketing for your business? If you are more familiar with email marketing, it can be tempting to stick with something you know.

The issue with trying to contact your customers by email is that so many companies have used this strategy that it can easily be associated with spam by your target market.

SMS marketing and SMS advertising are an excellent way to engage consumers, especially if you are using highly targeted content in your messages. They are more likely to be opened

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Partner Event: CleanTech Mixer (April 26 In San Francisco)

Editor19 April 2012

Bringing together startups envisioning a cleaner, more sustainable future - meet them! Each month, pariSoma hosts a mixer featuring 15 of the hottest startups demoing their products and vision. The event brings together upwards of 200 attendees, including VC firms, startups, journalists and professionals eager to stay on the cutting-edge of their industry.

Women 2.0 members save 10% on tickets when you register here.

The CleanTech Mixer on April 26 in San Francisco includes demos from Cree, Powerzoa, Carbon Lighthouse, Pyro-E, Sylvatex and RidePal.

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Generative Feedback: The “New Biofeedback” For Positive Change

Editor18 April 2012

Generative feedback gives you the means and motivation to effect positive change in your life. By Kathy Keenan (Director of Marketing, SweetWater Health)

We are all familiar with what biofeedback means. Some of us have experienced the use of biofeedback when learning how to do something. For instance, a student learning to drive can use a machine that measures reaction time and tells the student whether he braked in time to avoid an accident (or not).

There’s a new term “generative feedback” that is just coming into use, so you may not know what it means. Generative feedback is a subset of biofeedback, and means feedback that drives change in behavior.

For example, hybrid cars have a visual display that

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Our Time Has Come… Women Founders

Editor18 April 2012

Now is our time to turn that around and seize our time - do business on our time, our way. By Pilar Stella Ingargiola (Founder & CEO, OneGiving)

I thought I'd share this article from a group called Women 2.0 that is helping more women to become founders of startups.

Being a woman founder of a technology startup is not a walk in the park. In fact, some days it is down right debilitating. But somehow I keep on because I am committed not only to the success of my own vision and startup OneGiving, but also to the broader movement of women's success - in business and in transforming the planet through business.

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Moneyball And Finding The Real, Ongoing Competitive Edge

Editor18 April 2012

If you are a geek, you can get excited about the new math Billy Beane put into play. By Nan Hickman (Author, Open Strategy)

"I mean, this is why I'm here. This is why you hired me. And I gotta ask you... what are we doing here if it's not to win a championship? That's my bar. My bar is here.." - Brad Pitt as Billy Bean, Moneyball

Moneyball opens to scenes of loss and emptiness. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane sits in a ghostly stadium that should be alive with game. He sits in a gutted team, with the other teams using them as “organ donors,” a talent farm. By the prevailing wisdom, the field was already sorted into winners and losers before the next season started.

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