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Recognize Career Regrets Before It’s Too Late

Editor13 February 2012

Professional choices and personal identity are hard to separate. By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics)

I’ve felt it, and I know I’m not alone. It’s the Sunday-night syndrome – that feeling of dread at the end of a weekend where you stare at your calendar for the coming week and anticipate the avalanche of appointments, phone calls and meetings with co-workers.

It’s a phenomenon that can repeat week after week, but at some point you need to ask: Is this it?

Admitting to a career misstep can be challenging. Unlike other major decisions you make, it can be a stretch to blame

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Tips For Pushing Your Outer Limits To Reach Goals

Editor13 February 2012

By Carrie Chitsey (Founder & CEO, 3Seventy) For me, I think the entrepreneurial spirit began when I was about 10 or 11 years old. Growing up, my dad owned several businesses, so my weekends were filled working at them. Looking back, this is likely why I work 7 days a week; I didn’t know what a free weekend was, even as a child.

I had several jolts of entrepreneurship as a child. Whether it was convincing my dad who owned a restaurant that we needed to move to a “waitress” model vs. counter service so I could make tips, getting him to pay me for helping

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Silicon Valley Attracts Major Share Of VC Funding, But Silicon Alley Is Rising

Editor13 February 2012

By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest) Venture capital firms invested $28.4 billion into 3,673 deals last year, with the majority of deals going into the software and biotechnology industries. This year’s VC funding figures represent the third highest annual investment numbers in dollar terms of the past decade. The annual figures represent an increase of 22% in dollar terms and a 4% increase in terms of deals conducted as compared to figures from the year prior, according to The MoneyTree™ Report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture

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Getting Down With The Numbers (Women & Finance Go Together)

Editor11 February 2012

By Teresa Dentino (Founder & CEO, The Financial 411) Women’s vast economic power having finally been recognized, it’s time to think differently and own our relationship with money and our business finances.

Having a clear understanding of the nuts and bolts of finance that affect your bottom line gives you a leg up over any competitor, and, not least, with every potential investor or funding source.

Financial literacy is within reach of every woman, and not just those who excel in math. (When was the last time you

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Social Media: The Right Move For Your New Business?

Editor11 February 2012

By Adria Saracino (Head of Outreach, Distilled) Starting a new business is a daunting experience. You have a limited amount of time to become profitable and there are only so many resources to go round. Choosing what to spend time and money doing can therefore be a tricky decision, particularly when it comes to marketing.

Social media is often touted as a cheap and easy way to grow your sales. There is some truth in this idea, considering there is an 82% increase in social media usage

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Marissa Mayer On Creativity From Constraints (Thinking Big)

Editor10 February 2012

By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Awesome, Tekserve) Marissa Mayer (VP of Google Local/Maps/Localization) spoke at the MIT Sloan Women in Management Conference today. Known for being the first female engineer hired by Google in 1999, she spoke about how challenges at Google has shaped the advice she gives.

“Passion is a gender neutralizing force.”

At Google, Marissa says, she wasn’t treated like a women. She is just a Geek at Google and “Google is a great place to be a Geek.”

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Valentine’s Day vs. Women 2.0 Conference (Infographic)

Editor10 February 2012

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Personal relationships can be fleeting or last a lifetime. Same goes for business relationships. Invest in your professional future.

Spend your Valentine's Day with 800+ women and men interested in tech innovation and leading product development - these are investors, entrepreneurs, technologists, product managers, biz dev, marketing, etc.

Silicon Valley Ryan Gosling has posted an infographic on the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference vs. Valentine's Day.

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Founder Friday Barcelona: A Silicon Valley Perspective

Editor10 February 2012

By LouAnn Conner (Founder & CEO, SagaciousThink) On February 3, I was invited by Patricia Araque to attend Founder Friday in Barcelona, Spain. Being active in the startup community in Silicon Valley, I was curious to see what an entrepreneur event would be like in another country.

The people, the conversations, and the event all exceeded my expectations. First, I could not believe it was only the third Founders Friday for Barcelona, it was a packed house and very efficiently run. I’d have guessed that they had been doing this for a while.

Ellas 2.0 (as Women 2.0 is called in Spain) had

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Friday Roundup: For The Love Or The Money?

Editor10 February 2012

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, we learned that social networking site Pinterest reached record-breaking pageviews in an ungodly amount of time. Almost simultaneously, we heard that Pinterest has been generating revenue - a feat achieved by few early-stage startups.

Alicia Navarro's venture-funded startup Skimlinks powers the monetization of Pinterest's pins through affiliate marketing.

Blogger Penelope Trunk comments on Sheryl Sandberg and brings up Jeff Atwood, founder of Stack Overflow:

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7×7 Entrepreneur Mentoring Salon (February 23 In New York City)

Editor10 February 2012

By Christina Vuleta (Founder, 40:20) Every woman deserves to have her own advisory panel. As part of 40:20 Vision’s mission to start conversations and facilitate mentoring between generations, we offer live mentoring events between established and aspiring / early-stage entrepreneurs.

The idea is that we can have more than 20:20 vision if we share our knowledge in a mentor-like, collaborative setting.

7X7 is not a networking event or cocktail party. Rather, it’s a group of 7 experienced and 7 aspiring / new female entrepreneurs getting together to exchange wisdom and experience.

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Fucking Ship It Already: Visual Design

Editor10 February 2012

By Laura Klein (Principal, Users Know) I asked on Twitter whether anybody would buy a UX book called Fucking Ship It Already. Apparently some of you are interested. So, in the interest of following my own advice, I’m shipping the book iteratively in the form of this blog. You’re welcome.

I’ve talked in the past about lots of ways to do user research faster. Now, let’s talk about a way to make your design process faster. This is not a new idea, but it’s worth reiterating for those of you who are trying to make decisions like this on a day to day basis.

Today’s chapter will cover the fastest and most useful

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Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram (Awwwwwwww)

Editor9 February 2012

Editor's note: Won't you be our Valentine? Women 2.0 PITCH Conference is February 14, 2012 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Get your ticket here. By Alexia Tsotsis (Writer, TechCrunch)

This might just be the sweetest Valentine’s Day story I’ve ever heard. It’s definitely the sweetest Valentine’s Day story I’ve ever written.

Kaitlyn Trigger is a marketing director at Rally.org. She also happens to be Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger’s girlfriend of two and a half years (The 26 year old Krieger and 27 year old Trigger met at a friend’s house in October of 2009 and moved in together in October 2010). And my hero.

Last December, Trigger decided she wanted to be able to talk to her boyfriend in depth about

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Dare To Be: Digitally Innovative (February 13) #d2bdmonday

Editor9 February 2012

By Alice Krause (Founder, NewsOnWomen) Young women use so much technology (Facebook, cell phones, iPad, Twitter, e-commerce), and yet rarely do they consider the career opportunities tech has for them. This is a contradiction we must all set out to solve.

In an effort to do that, we have declared Monday, February 13, 2012 - Dare2BDigital Monday - a day to talk to young women about innovation. You can help by telling young women you know:

Innovation is important for everybody. You are part of the innovation world every time you log on to Facebook or Twitter or use your iPad.... Read More...

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Female-Founded Startup Skimlinks Powers Pinterest Monetization

Editor9 February 2012

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, social photo sharing site Pinterest makes headlines with record-breaking pageviews in a very short amount of time. This means that Pinterest is more popular today than, say, Etsy.

On the revenue side of startupland, Skimlinks is the real story behind Pinterest's success. The site has been modifying user-submitted pins on Pinterest, quieting generating revenue as a early-stage startup. Kudos to them!

Cue righteous indignation

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