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Notes From The SugarSync Girl Geek Dinner

Editor12 March 2012

SugarSync CEO Laura Yecies and Board Member Paula Long host a Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner. By Deboshree Dutta (Software Development Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent)

After a long day at work, I always find it refreshing to meet with my girl friends, grab some food and catch up with each other. Last evening was just like that, only a lot more fun, because it was with a room filled with enthusiastic women I’ve never met before, talking about their lives, goals and challenges, which I learnt are not very different from my own!

How often do we women ever take a moment to think about what it takes to step out of our shells, own the podium and speak our minds out? A lot of us tend to be timid, talk shyly about

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Woodstock For Geeks: SXSW Interactive

Editor12 March 2012

Opportunities for SXSW and HIMSS. By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) At HIMSS a few weeks ago, I was feeling semi-hip among the... Read More...

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Why Silicon Valley Hasn’t Built A Good Health App

Editor12 March 2012

Homogenous teams of innovators make products for people just like them. And that's a problem.

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The People Of The Petabyte (Big Data, Big Money)

Editor12 March 2012

Big data is big noney. And the "big" adjective is crucial, because that’s what justifies new infrastructure investments. By Venkatesh Rao (Contributor, Forbes)

Speaking of data geeks, that’s the topic of this post. I’ve spent much of my first couple of days at Strata idly observing them (and wondering whether I am one of them), and speculating about the various species in the data scene (people-watching is how you stay awake between the interesting slides at conferences). So here is my informal taxonomy and anthropological survey of data-land.

A Taxonomy for Data Land

The taxonomy part is simple.

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Woodstock For Geeks: SXSW Interactive

Editor12 March 2012

Opportunities for SXSW and HIMSS. By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group)

At HIMSS a few weeks ago, I was feeling semi-hip among the healthcare uber-nerd crowd that worries about how to make big hospital and healthcare enterprises function with big data.

Fast forward two weeks and I found myself, too uncool for school and entirely overdressed, among the techno glitterati at South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, TX. Not a suit to be found here at this gathering, which would blanche at the thought of being called a conference. SXSW is more of a happening. More than anything, sensory stimulation is the big difference between

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Entrepreneurs Pitch For Feedback, Funding At SXSW Dolphin Tank

Editor11 March 2012

Dolphin Tank in collaboration with Startup America Women at SXSW. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Startup America Women's Dolphin Tank is not a softer version of Shark Tank for women.

"The #1 predator for sharks is dolphins," says Scott Case, CEO of Startup America Partnership in opening remarks.

The Dolphin Tank showcased entrepreneurs giving 2-minute pitches to a panel of powerhouse women who gave feedback.

First up, serial entrepreneur Bettina Hein (Founder & CEO, Pixability) sold first company

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Young CEOs Of Startups Find Benefits, Challenges By Hiring Employees 40 And Older

Editor11 March 2012

Young startups tend to hire younger workers. By Nate C. Hindman (Writer, Huffington Post)

Eric Grosse's rite of passage at TaskRabbit, a San Francisco-based web startup, came late last year at the company's annual holiday party. It was just one month after TaskRabbit hired Grosse, who was previously a senior executive at Expedia, the online travel giant. Someone at the party turned on the office's Xbox and popped in the game Dance Central. Suddenly, Grosse, who is 42, found himself in a virtual dance-off with his co-workers, most of whom are in their 20s.

Despite some dexterous dance moves, Grosse is still considered the old guy at the office. Had he remained in corporate America, his age would be unremarkable, but young companies

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Women Entrepreneurs: 5 Ways To Supersize Your Business

Editor11 March 2012

Women are starting businesses at a record rate, but the number that break a million in revenues is flat. What's up with that?

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Women 2.0 At SXSW Interactive In Austin This Week!

Editor11 March 2012

Women 2.0 goes to SXSW Interactive 2012.

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“Brogrammers”: Just One Of The Girls

Editor11 March 2012

Accessibility to tech rained on by "brogramming". By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder, Balance Media & Skillcrush)

I have been following the “brogrammer” meme for months now with a mix of annoyance and exasperation. I was bummed that Twilio, a company whose product I greatly admire, helped start this “joke” and then followed the Hacker News job posting hubbub and subsequent chronicling of “brogramming” by a number of tech media outlets.

But as I was reading about Klout’s “Want to bro down and crush code?” job recruitment poster at a recent Stanford career fair, I for the first time felt some sympathy for the guys

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Stop Asking Permission: Be Seen, Be Heard

Editor10 March 2012

How can anyone give you what you want if you don’t actually ask? By Christina Wallace (Co-Founder & CEO, Quincy)

Two weeks ago I spoke as part of a workshop for the Undergraduate Women in Business conference at NYU Stern School of Business.

The workshop was called “Necessary Conversations” and the overall theme was how to grab a seat at the table, speak up, and have the conversations that matter — whether pitching for an investment, negotiating a raise, giving difficult feedback, asking for a mentor relationship, you name it.

Undergraduate women at NYU Stern are facing the same difficulties that women at many top business schools face - they are

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Investing In Women – And Not Just In The Abstract

Editor9 March 2012

Some firms are giving investors the option to invest in companies that promote gender equality. By Alice Korngold (Blogger, Fast Company)

You can probably name the CEOs of many global corporations - but you might not be able to name the people who serve on the boards. Nor might you be able to say how many women serve on the boards.

And yet, corporate boards make decisions that affect shareholder value, company brand and reputation, global economies and industries, employment, the environment, human rights, the fortunes of suppliers and distributors, health care and pensions, and much more. And studies show that companies with more women on boards and in leadership positions outperform - financially and otherwise - companies with fewer women.

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International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women In Tech (Slideshow)

Editor9 March 2012

By Chandra Steele (Writer, PCMag) International Women's Day is not a day to drag out the familiar (and all-too-true) lament about the dearth of women in technology or debate the merits of computer scientist Barbie.

At PCMag, we're celebrating women who have improved the world through technology. Some of the first technological achievements are directly attributable to women. The title of world's first computer programmer goes to Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, whose notes on Charles Babbage's analytical engine are recognized as the first algorithm for processing on a machine.

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Female Founders To Watch From Springboard Attending SXSWi

Editor9 March 2012

By Katie Gage (Programming Manager, Springboard Enterprises) Melinda Wittstock (Founder & CEO, NewsiT) is launching her new mobile app at SXSW, demoing on Friday, and pitching at Hatchpitch on Sunday. NewsiT is a crowd-reporting platform and a social network for news.

Here are a list of Springboard companies that will be at SXSW: Bettina Hein (Founder & CEO, Pixability) Serial entrepreneur Bettina founded Pixability. Follow her company at @pixability.

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Roundup: Female Founder Successes To Celebrate This Week

Editor9 March 2012

March 8 may be International Women's Day but we are celebrating women all week, year long! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

This week, we highly respect Sara Blakely for joining Forbes' World Billionaire's list thanks to her company Spanx. The 41 year old is the youngest person on the list - and worth ten figures without the aid of a husband or an inheritance, and she still owns 100% of the company she founded in 2000.

This Week: Female-Founded Startup Fundraising

Songkick raised $10M Series B from Sequoia Capital, the firm's first UK investment reported TechCrunch. Songkick was founded in 2007 by Michelle You as a Y Combinator company.

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