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Team Up Or Operate Alone: The Benefits Of Partnering In Business

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Partnering with other entrepreneurs enables you to implement at a faster adoption rate. By Lisa Falzone (Founder, President & CEO, Revel Systems)

Whether you’re a first time entrepreneur or you’ve built several businesses, it is difficult to bring a business idea from conception to implementation. After 7 years of experience and many lessons learned, if getting help is an option, I will always choose to get help. You can’t do everything yourself and in most matters of business, two (or three or four!) heads are better than one.

When I started Revel Systems, we started out doing everything from software development to hardware creation to hardware installation. We were doing it all because no one else had yet combined

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Can Angels Help Women Shatter Glass Ceilings?

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Women have shied from seeking outside funding to grow their companies, resulting in slower growth. By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer)

Money is a key ingredient for high-growth, job-creating companies. Traditionally women have shied away from using outside funding. As a result, their businesses have grown slowly and created fewer jobs.

But that seems to be changing. For the last two years, angel investors have funded more women-owned businesses than ever before - more than 1,600 per year - which could mean that women-owned, high growth, job-creating companies are finally coming into their own.

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The Opportunities For Robots, Startups And Women

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Women hackers wanted for robots at the Mountain View MEGA Startup Weekend! By Andra Keay (Organizer, MEGA Startup Weekend)

Robots, startups and women - These are a few of my favorite things, but they usually don’t go hand in hand. There are exceptions of course, but in general, the numbers don’t lie. Women are under represented in tech startups and under represented in robotics. Under representation is a missed opportunity.

I’m not just being a cheerleader. It’s tempting to claim that robotics is the future and that we need to get more women involved. But if simply getting more women in the pipes fixed the under representation of women in technology, we’d have seen greater

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A Tale Of Ada Lovelace, Women In Tech – And Steve Jobs’ Biographer

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Meet Ada Lovelace, the 19th century mathematician role model and first computer programmer ever. By Connie Guglielmo (Co-Founder & Editor, One Thing New)

Girl Talk, Woking, England — Suw Charman-Anderson had never heard of Ada Lovelace, the brilliant daughter of the poet Lord Byron, when she dreamed up a project to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and math.

But after learning of Lovelace, Charman-Anderson, an author, social media consultant and self-described technologist who was frustrated by the dearth of women speakers at tech conferences, thought it fitting that her call to action be named after the woman recognized as the first computer programmer. What better role model

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Win A Free Ticket To Women In Business Conference This Saturday In San Jose

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Win a free ticket to Women in Business Conference in San Jose, CA. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Women 2.0 has a bunch of free tickets to the Women in Business Conference this Saturday, April 14, 2012 in San Jose, CA.

To win one of these free conference tickets, be one of the first ten (10) women to leave a comment below letting us know why you want to go to the conference this Saturday!

Join Silicon Valley's top executives on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at eBay in San Jose for interactive breakout sessions featuring idea-transforming strategies and real-world tools that resonate with today's fast-paced society.

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Call For Applications: Apply By May 15 To Mentor In San Francisco Bay Area For TechWomen From The Middle East, North Africa

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TechWomen offers professional mentorship in San Francisco for women from the Middle East and North Africa. By Heather Ramsey (Director, TechWomen & Strategic Partnerships, Center for Women's Leadership Initiatives, IIE)

TechWomen is seeking women in the San Francisco Bay Area to serve as Professional and Cultural Mentors to the 2012 cohort of TechWomen Mentees from the Middle East and North Africa.

Harnessing the power of business, technology and innovation, TechWomen brings emerging women leaders and entrepreneurs in technology together with their U.S. counterparts for a professional mentorship and exchange program with innovative companies, entrepreneurs and startups in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area.

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Women 2.0 And Ellas 2.0 Launching Founder Friday Buenos Aires (Argentina) On May 4

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Join us on May 4 in Buenos Aires for Founder Friday! By Patricia Araque (Co-Founder, Ellas 2.0)

With the new Women 2.0 partnership with Ellas 2.0, we are expanding Founder Friday to Latin America - identifying the best in Argentina entrepreneurship while inspiring and connecting the next generation of women entrepreneurs.

Sally Buberman, Co-Founder of Wormhole IT and María Laura García, Founder of Global News will be co-hosting Founder Friday Buenos Aires on May 4, 2012 at NXTPLabs accelerator.

» RSVP for Founder Friday Buenos Aires here.

Founder Friday is a Women 2.0 monthly networking event

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3 Secrets To A Happy Marriage With Your Co-Founder

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Establishing a relationship in which one bug can’t crash the system. By Claire McDonnell & Gülin Yilmaz (Co-Founders, Awardly)

Marriage counseling is a multi-billion dollar industry for a reason. It’s hard to make a long-term committed relationship work. Yet while there’s a whole industry dedicated to decreasing the divorce rate, you don’t hear too much about making another kind of partnership work. You know, the kind where you spend way more time together than you do with your respective life partners and constantly contend with high stress situations: your co-founder relationship.

About a year ago, we began one of those relationships full of high hopes, despite a somewhat wacky courtship.

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Women In The Law, We’re Building An App For You

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Creating a mobile app for women in the field of law. By Lynnett E. Brooks (Juris Doctor Candidate, 2013, New York Law School)

By way of introduction, three law students from New York Law School, University of Miami School of Law, and School of Transnational Law, Peking University.

We are part of a program called Law Without Walls where we are prompted to identify a problem or "gap" area within our topic in order to design a project to solve the problem using a method that incorporates innovation and technology.

Our assigned topic is "Women in the Law; Is the Glass Ceiling Cracked, Smashed or Unbreakable?"

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Alltuition: Helping Make College Accessible For The Masses

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Bringing greater transparency and ease to college financing for students and families. By Sue Khim (Founder & CEO, Alltuition)

Like millions of others, I required financial assistance as a college student. I went through the arduous and frustrating financial aid and student loan process.

I spent hours surfing the internet only to find that I needed to complete the same information repeatedly and get bombarded with risky financial offers and email spam. As an engineer, I looked at this broken process and thought, if there were software to help me through this, the process could be easy.

This experience brings me to where I am at today.

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Latinas In Business And Technology: The Importance Of Mentors

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Mentors hold you accountable for your actions. By Yvonne Garcia (Director of Segment Marketing, Liberty Mutual & National Vice President, ALPFA)

The Labor Council for Latin America Advancement (LCLAA) report recently released some surprising statistics regarding women in the workforce. Their findings include the following results: over 2.5 million (31.7%) are in sales and office occupations, and less than 2 million (24.1%) are in management or professional occupations, yet Latinas earn 60 cents for every dollar earned by U.S. white males.

The numbers are even more problematic when it comes to women in Corporate America, female entrepreneurs, and women in technology. In a 2009 study, where Latinas formed 5% of entry level technology jobs. That number was at zero percent at

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How Can I Fund My Startup? A Look At Fundraising Options

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Secure the funds you need to give your startup runway - from competitions to crowdfunding. By Nillie Goldman (Founder & Publisher, WebToTheRescue)

For some entrepreneurial ventures, startup capital needs are minimal. If an entrepreneur has a low risk profile (and an idea that doesn’t require a lot of startup capital), this could be the way to go.

For other ventures, startup capital requirements are more involved. While there are entrepreneurs who are able to finance their startups themselves - either from savings and investments or by continuing to work at least part time - most of us need to investigate other sources of financing.

In addition to all the standard options

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Why Not To “Buck Up” – Practice Mindfulness

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Secure the funds you need to give your startup runway - from competitions to crowdfunding. By Marina Illich, Ph.D. (Principal, Broad Ventures Leadership)

Ever been told to “buck up”? The message is everywhere. Get over it. Chin up. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Make some lemonade out of them lemons.

As a native Manhattanite, I grew up with the “buck up” ethos everywhere. “Harder, faster, more intense” was the mantra. It took the form of walking through biting wind tunnels on narrow avenues to subway stations that might have been three cantons away. In heels. Through slush. Or taking my doctoral advisor at Columbia seriously when he suggested I learn Manchu and Mongolian

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