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Meet “Wed-Tech Startups” Tailored, Lover.ly, Wedding Lovely, Happily Ever BorroWED

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By Brittany Haas (Founder, Happily Ever BorroWED) It's a term we coined ourselves...and by we, I mean the dozens of bridal technology startups here in NYC. As I was meeting with fellow entrepreneurs talking about my own startup, Happily Ever BorroWED (formerly Something Borrowed NY), I had so many conversations about the wedding space and how antiquated it is.

The most obvious conversation was how The Knot, formally known as "the" e-commerce resource for weddings, is a mess. Their content is haphazard and organized in a manner that is unhelpful to brides planning their weddings, their vendor matrix

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4 Tips For Overcoming “Inspiration Overload” (Moving Forward)

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By Anjali Tuljapurkar Cameron (Founder & CEO, TripLark) Yes, you read it right. Inspiration overload. It happens to many new entrepreneurs. Knowing we’ll get nowhere by sitting alone at home, we attend every networking event and conference in the vicinity. Add blogs, books and business columns - and your brain is deluged with an endless slew of you-can-do-it stories. Returning home at night, you feel more inspired than ever but often still confused or questioning how you’ll ever get there.

I know this feeling intimately as the founder of TripLark, a new travel planning site. Having finally made more sense of what will provide me with the most learning and connections, here are a few

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Q&A: How Do Introverts Manage Sales, Pitches And Speaking?

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By Natalie MacNeil (Co-Founder, YEC Women) The following answers are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the country’s most promising young entrepreneurs.

Q: I'm inherently introverted and hate doing sales, pitches, speaking opportunities, etc, but as a founder and I can't avoid it. What tips do you have for overcoming these fears?

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Increase In Women Patent Holders Indicates Growth In Women-Led Innovation (Surge In Some Emerging High-Tech Industries)

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) According to a new report released last week by National Women's Business Council, the number of patents granted to women is "increasing at an accelerating pace" (34% from 2009 to 2010). In the same period of time, the number of primary patents granted to women has increased by 28% and the number of non-primary patents granted to women has increased by 38%.

While there is a definite increase in the participation of women in U.S. patent activity in recent years, it is premature to make definite conclusions from the jump in the grant of patents

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Learn How To Start A Profitable Business At SXSW Interactive

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By Espree Devora (Founder, Save Business Time) Attending South by Southwest for the first time back in 2009 was like being in the nerd version of Willy Wonka’s Wonderland. Everything was a stimulus. Gary Vaynerchuk showering his audience with entrepreneurial inspiration and outlandish profanities. Start ups launching their new products.

South by Southwest Interactive was, and still is, a candy land of the very best people, technologies, influencers and, at times, affluent hustlers like Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, riding around town on his Delivering Happiness bus.

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Starting An Early-Stage Startup Without A Technical Partner

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By Arum Kang (Co-Founder & CEO, Coffee Meets Bagel) Last August, as a freshly minted MBA from Harvard Business School, I decided to strike on my own. I’ve always dreamt of building my own company, but it wasn’t anything more than an idea. Even though I have never worked for a startup or knew many people in the startup world, I decided to take the plunge.

Thankfully I had my sister Soo, a talented designer, as a co-founder to bounce off product ideas for our future company. The only missing minor detail was that we didn’t have anyone to actually build the product. Sleepless nights

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Pipeline Fellows Increasing Financing For Women-Led Businesses

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By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Your startup may be doomed to failure if you under-capitalize it from the get-go, but friends and family can only do so much and venture capitalists are looking for businesses that are more established with huge growth potential. Bridging that financing gap has been especially difficult for women-led businesses and for social enterprises.

But Natalia Oberti Noguera has found a new recipe for financing women-led startups focused on social good.

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Cross-Cultural Communication In The Global Marketplace

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By Irene Tieh (Founder, Cross-Cultural Connector) After hearing several frustrating accounts of friends working in China or having difficulty engaging with their Asian employees and students, I was inspired to launch my cross-cultural communications startup due to my experience in dealing with clients from China, engineers from Germany, programmers from India, and partners from all over the United States with diverse backgrounds

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Partner Event: ElggCamp San Francisco (March 24)

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ElggCamp San Francisco (March 24, 2012 in San Francisco, CA) is a one day event that bring together leaders in innovative technologies and experts in social media to discuss how Elgg.org fits into current social media trends, and how it has an important part as an open source project in helping to shape future technology. Women 2.0 members save 33% with the code “women2" when you register here.

Elgg.org is an award-winning social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build

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Notes From CEO Joanne Lang: Presenting At Founder Friday

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By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne)

A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a friend Ellie Cachette, CEO of ConsumerBell (one of AboutOne’s strategic partners) asking me if I was interested in being a presenter at the Women 2.0 Founder Friday in New York. I am very proud to be a member of Women 2.0 and the work they do, so I changed my schedule to be there.

Women 2.0 hosted six global Founder Friday networking mixers for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, February 3, 2012 in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York

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Female-Focused Accelerator “Women Innovate Mobile” Announces First Participants: Appguppy, Loudly, Twain, Whadyathink

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This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch.

By Sarah Perez (Writer, TechCrunch)

 

Women Innovate Mobile (WIM), the new accelerator aimed to help promote companies started by female entrepreneurs, is ready to debut its first class. Like other incubators, WIM provides mentoring, support, free office space, and seed funding. Participants in the program receive $18,000 to help get their companies get off the ground.

Except unlike the majority of other programs, WIM requires not only that the companies focus on mobile, but also that one of the co-founders must be a woman.

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Good CEOs Ask The Most Questions Of Anyone

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By Debra Benton (President, Benton Management Resources) Asking questions seems to be very basic advice. Yet it is shocking the number of times a day you chose to “tell” instead of “ask”. The most successful leaders ask more then they tell.

People like you better if you ask them things rather than tell them things.

You don’t ask to impress, interrogate, intimidate, dominate, embarrass, put people in the corner, ‘nail’ others on something, catch people off guard, be nosy, or verbally stalk.

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Ernst & Young Winning Women The “Most Unknown, Underrated & Undersubscribed – But Brilliant – Growth Accelerator Program For Women Entrepreneurs”

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Nominate a dynamic woman entrepreneur for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to a top program accelerating high-growth entrepreneurs. Deadline for nominations is April 30, 2012.

To qualify, the entrepreneurs must be women CEOs who have founded their privately-held US companies within the past 10 years and have reported at least US$1 million in revenue during each of the past two. Typical applicant company revenue ranges from US$1 million to approximately US$20 million annually.

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When You Lack Experience, Sometimes Simply Participating Is Enough To Get Started

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By Maris McEdward (Community Manager, Startup Weekend) “If not for Startup Weekend, when I graduated I’d be looking for jobs like my classmates instead of creating them.”

When Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao attended their first Startup Weekend in Los Angeles in February 2011 they didn’t quite know what to expect. With no real understanding of front or backend design and as the only college students at the event, Anna and Fei felt out of their element. Their classes in entrepreneurship at USC had whetted their appetites for the world of startups but they weren’t founders and didn’t know anything about coding.

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