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2012 PITCH Startup Competition Finalist Kismet Announces Funding, New Features For SXSW

Editor9 March 2012

PITCH Competition finalist secures seed funding. By Michelle Norgan (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Kismet)

I'm excited to announce that Kismet, featured last month as a finalist of the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition, has raised our seed round with investments from Triple Point Ventures, NEA, and an incredible list of angels including Shiva Rajaraman (Head of Consumer at YouTube), Steph Hannon (an early PM on Gmail), Roham Gharegozlou, and several others.

Kismet helps you meet new people in the real world. We've just unveiled some features that will make meeting new people even easier, especially this coming week at SXSW.

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Women 2.0 Commits To International Growth, Enters Latin America With Ellas 2.0

Editor8 March 2012

Women 2.0 goes global with Ellas 2.0 on International Women's Day. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

On International Women's Day this March 8, 2012, Women 2.0 is announcing our partnership with Ellas 2.0, a Spain-based non-profit supporting female founders of tech startups, to reach a broader community of women entrepreneurs in Spanish-speaking communities in the United States and Latin America.

We will be expanding Founder Friday to Latin America and providing educational content, previously available only in English, in Spanish.

“Women are an important and powerful contributor to economic growth, innovation and job creation in the global

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Women’s Capital Connection: Changing The Face Of Angel Investing (Women Angel Investors)

Editor8 March 2012

By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women's Capital Connection) At a time when media coverage and conversations about angel investing revolve around how few women-led businesses have access to capital and on expiring tax credits for angel investors, I am reminded of a question posed by Barbara Stanny in her book, Secrets of Six-Figure Women:

“What if we turned our attention from what’s wrong with the system and instead analyzed what’s working for those who are succeeding? We would not be ignoring the problems, we would be merely shifting our perspective.”

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BestBuzz To Celebrate Friday “APPY” Hour At SXSW Interactive

Editor8 March 2012

Female-founded startup hosts "APPY" hour at SXSW Interactive. By Caitlin Miller (Marketing Director, BestBuzz)

BestBuzz will be celebrating their annual SXSW Interactive ‘APPY’ Hour party on Friday, March 9 at 5pm in Austin, TX at the 512 Bar on 6th Street.

Founder and CEO of BestBuzz Carrie Layne says, "We spend months planning our ‘APPY’ Hour party, and we look forward to this event every year. SXSW is all about networking and this event is the perfect kickoff to an exciting Interactive week. We’ve met so many great people in the industry, and we look forward to seeing our old ‘appy’ friends and meeting new ones

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Partner Event: Invent Your Future Conference 2012

Editor8 March 2012

The “rules of the game” have changed! Learn how to navigate the new world of business, enhance your skill set, and expand your network. Invest in yourself by attending the 2012 Invent Your Future Conference taking place Thursday, March 22 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

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For International Women’s Day, Give To Girls Around The World

Editor8 March 2012

March 8 is International Women's Day! By Zanoon Nissar (Fundraising & Partnerships, Jolkona)

It's crazy what a difference 101 years can make. When International Women's Day started back in 1911, over a million men and women attended IWD rallies to stand up for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination.

Now it's 2012, and we're joining each other on bridges in solidarity - proud of the advancements made.

We now have female astronauts and heads of state, school girls are welcomed into university, women can work

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Startup Lessons Learned From A Four-Time Bridesmaid

Editor8 March 2012

Men can rent tuxedos, why can't women rent bridesmaid dresses? By Corie Hardee (Founder & CEO, Little Borrowed Dress)

The idea behind Little Borrowed Dress came where I do most of my best thinking: in front of my closet. Rather than deciding what to wear, I had the less glamorous task of choosing what not to wear, specifically what to toss. The main offenders: bridesmaid dresses.

The four bridesmaid dresses were the most expensive items in my closet, yet each had been worn exactly once. That’s when I thought, this is nuts, men can rent tuxedos, why can’t women RENT bridesmaid dresses? I started Little Borrowed Dress to make that a possibility.

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Why You Should Participate In Hackathons, Startup Weekends

Editor8 March 2012

Hacking on StartupBus en route to SXSW Interactive 2012. By Esther Crawford (Co-Founder, glmps)

I'm writing this from a bus that's traveling from Las Vegas to Austin with 30 guys and 4 women who are working round-the-clock to launch companies on this year's StartupBus. My team is building Open Wallet, an app that lets you get cash from people nearby instead of having to go to an ATM.

It's an invitation-only community of hackers, hustlers and hipsters passionate about startups that started in 2010 and has become an annual hackathon-style competition on buses traveling across America

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Manage Your Career And Don’t Let Others Do It For You

Editor8 March 2012

By Debra Benton (President, Benton Management Resources) You, not human resources, your boss, a sponsor, parents, or search firms control your career.

The biggest, costliest, and most avoidable mistake you can make in your life is not managing your own destiny from the start of your career – and continuing throughout.

It’s not just about doing good work and having a ready resume.

If you chose to do this (because it is your choice), you manage your career

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Surfing And Entrepreneurship: Women Making Waves

Editor7 March 2012

By Amy Schrier (Founder & CEO, MISSION.tv) Many years ago as a young girl, I wanted to go surfing. The beach that I frequented in Long Island was then very male-dominated. If you don't know much about surfing, you might think... a girl who wants to learn to surf! Why, wouldn't she be welcomed? Well... no. At that time and in my experience, many surfers (interestingly, not unlike many venture capitalists) tended to be territorial and gender biased.

I quickly learned that unless you really know what you are doing, you will do best to stay out of the way. Instead of fighting the tide, I took my surf desire to Indonesia

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Partner Event: TL;DR Conference (HTML5)

Editor7 March 2012

We are in the early days of a major new technology cycle driven by mobile Post-PC Devices and HTML5. TL;DR is an event designed to help entrepreneurs understand and leverage the opportunities, and will take place on Friday, March 30 at Mission Bay in San Francisco. Hear from speakers like Floodgate Fund's Managing Partner Mike Maples Jr., Mozilla WebFWD Director Pascal Finette, SoftTech's Charles Hudson, frog design's Scott Jenson, as well as entrepreneurs who are blazing the trail into the next paradigm.

Women 2.0 members save 20% on tickets

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Women Who Code Lightning Talk: Winning Hackathons (Video)

Editor7 March 2012

Winning! By Anna Billstrom (Developer, Momentus Media)

I spoke on “Winning! At Hackfests” for Women Who Code in San Francisco where we had 12-15 lightening rounds of women talking about coding. It was really awesome! Some favorites: using genetic algorithms to solve computing problems, and digital visualization.

Back to me. Ever since seeing myself on cable access, singing and dancing in a musical at the age of 12, I’ve really cringed whenever I see myself on screen. Mostly because of the disconnect between how I think I appear, and how I really appear. Not that I’m judging the quality of my haircut or anything.
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Partner Event: Got Game? How to Gamify Your Startup

Editor7 March 2012

Women 2.0 members save 15% on tickets with discount code “WOMEN” when you register here. Vator is excited to announce Vator Spark, a full-day, multi-track gathering designed for learning and networking. Our kick-off topic in the series "Got Game? How to Gamify Your Startup" will be on May 1, 2012 in Berkeley, California.

By 2015, more than 50% of organizations that manage innovation processes will "gamify" those processes, according to a Gartner Report. If you're not taking a hard look at how you can transform your startup and leverage game mechanics, you're falling behind the innovation curve. Gamification helps you engage
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Do Women Support Each Other In The Workplace?

Editor7 March 2012

As women increasingly secure more senior positions in a corporation, their ability to nurture conflicts with the male model of effective leadership. By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics)

I recently engaged in two separate conversations, one with a man at the height of his career and one with a woman in the same spot. While both advocate on behalf of women’s advancement in the workplace, they felt they needed to expose a dirty secret on this topic. Women just don’t help each other out.

This sentiment, that women don’t support other women or even undermine their efforts, keeps coming up in this dialogue on women and careers. The persistence of this belief surprises me. I recall some instances where I felt other women treated me unfairly early on in my career but the last few years have
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Finding Technical Teammates At Women 2.0 Startup Weekend

Editor6 March 2012

Women 2.0 Startup Weekend... and the rest is history. By Tricia Rampe (Founder & CEO, GetArtUp)

The idea for GetArtUp was conceived months ago when I pondered whether art was a market ripe for the collaborative consumption model that has worked well for startup companies like Airbnb and Getaround.

After discussing the idea of renting art on a monthly subscription basis with art industry friends, I received great feedback and was suggested to pitch it at a local hack-a-thon. To pursue the project more seriously and seek co-founders, I attended the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend in 2011 and the rest is history.
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