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4 Handy Tools For Working Remotely And Productively

Editor26 January 2012

By Sepideh Nasiri (Director of Sponsorships & Events, Women 2.0) It wasn’t that long ago that being an employee meant coming in to the office at 9am and having in-person meetings and presentations all day. Not everyone is fit for this kind of role, maybe because their team is not all in one location, they live a long distance from the office, or perhaps they just prefer a job where they don’t have to put in much face time.

Whatever the case may be, there was a problem that needed to be solved – actually getting your work done without being at the office.

Luckily for us, there are now many solutions

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Cartier Seeks Exceptional Women Social Entrepreneurs

Editor26 January 2012

By Cecile Ney (Coordinator, Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards) Cartier Women's Initiative Awards is a business plan competition for startups led by women, organized by Cartier in partnership with McKinsey and INSEAD business school.

This social entrepreneurship competition aims at supporting creative, financially sustainable and responsible women-led startups in all countries and industries. We are currently calling for applications phase for our contest and are looking for women leading for-profit responsible enterprises between 1 and 3 years old.

The Award will be given to six laureates who

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Women In Tech: Start Speaking At Conferences

Editor26 January 2012

By Chiu-Ki Chan (Android Developer, Monkey Write) My resolution this year is to be a public speaker. One of the difficulties in breaking into the speaking circuits is to be aware of conferences six months in advance to meet the call for participation deadlines, so whenever I hear about one, I share it with others.

Recently I shared the call for participation for FluentConf:

"Are you a JavaScript performance guru? Have you got big ideas and mad JavaScript skills? Do you know the ins and outs of future ECMAScript specifications?
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10 Startup Entrepreneur Mistakes To Avoid

Editor25 January 2012

By Joyce Chuang (Marketing Coordinator, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP) For those who have started a company and have seen the challenges first hand, you have an idea of just how much energy and effort goes into creating and building a company. Not only do you have to worry about establishing it, but at some point you’ll have to find investors to fund it, build a team, hire and fire employees, and so much more.

What if someone could provide you with a road map for it all? We can’t, but we can offer some suggestions and advice.

Our panel with

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The Face of Success: Women and Venture Capital

Editor25 January 2012

By Vivek Wadhwa (Contributor, Inc) In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy. That was before I moved to the Valley and learned that this so-called meritocracy is highly imperfect, omitting women, blacks, and Hispanics. When I researched the dearth of women, I could find no explanation.

Women are equally motivated to become entrepreneurs; are equal or more competent at managing businesses; match boys in mathematical achievement; dramatically outnumber

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The $100,000 Chris Rock Story (Risk, Meet Reward)

Editor25 January 2012

By Ramit Sethi (Author, I Will Teach You To Be Rich) Telling a story about Chris Rock helped me earn over $100,000 in scholarship money to attend college. During senior year of high school, my parents — immigrants who raised four kids and didn’t have money to send us to college — encouraged us to apply to every scholarship we could find.

Since I’m a big weirdo, I built a system that allowed me to apply to over 60 scholarships in a few weeks (I’ve detailed parts of the system I used to get so many college scholarships).

The largest scholarship I received had an extensive

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4 Reasons You Should Attend Startup Weekend

Editor25 January 2012

By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Awesome, Tekserve) Startup Weekends and Hackathons are held all over the world.

Check out the Startup Weekend event list and signup for their mailing list. If you’re unsure about participating your first time around, contact the local organizers and offer to volunteer for the weekend.

Here are 4 reasons why you should attend Startup Weekend:

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Saying No To Sexual Harassment At Startups

Editor25 January 2012

By Dyuman Bhatt (CEO, Red Seraphim) Just after college, I took my first job in retail sales as a part of a management training program. While there was a lot to learn, one issue that stood out was the inescapable daily reality of sexual harassment.

The company did its best to train its managers and entry level employees to deal with the matter, but there was no sense of prevention. For almost all women working there, it wasn’t a matter of if they would be sexually harassed, but more a matter of when. Sometimes, it was a sleazy customer asking,

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Lessons Learned Building VC Industry In Latin America, Caribbean

Editor24 January 2012

By Susana Garcia-Robles (Principal Investment Officer, MIF Early Stage Equity Group) Established in 1993 as part of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) was created to develop effective approaches to advance private sector development, improve the business environment and support micro and small enterprises in order to promote economic growth and poverty reduction in the Latin American and Caribbean regions (LAC).

Drawing upon a resource base of $ 2.2 billion in assets, the MIF works with governments, NGOs and financial intermediaries, using a range of instruments including

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Women’s Advantage In Building Next Wave E-Commerce Startups

Editor24 January 2012

By Geri Stengel (President, Ventureneer) In the early days of online shopping, when most of the products sold were computers, software, music, and consumer electronics, men ruled e-commerce. That may be changing now that product choices have expanded to everything from cosmetics to shoes to toys. Just as women dominant shopping in the brick-and-mortar world (women account for 85% of all consumer purchases), they will dominant shopping in the online world.

Mass e-commerce sites such as Amazon and eBay will always have a place in e-commerce, just as Walmart does

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Let’s Join The Manhattan Girls Club (Founding Tech Startups)

Editor24 January 2012

By Heddi Cundle (Founder & CEO, myTab) Earlier this month, I was in New York City. Now, I used to live in New York in the 90s when New York was still testing my inner strength by making me dodge flying bullets and knives in the not-so-pretty Meatpacking District. No one from Manhattan would venture over the Brooklyn Bridge (do I need a passport?) and certainly no female in business was truly on my side while I worked day and night in the music industry.

So over the past 10 years, since I’ve lived on the West Coast, I’ve only been to New York three times. The first was quite an eye opener – the city had been cleaned up (thanks Giuliani, for

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The Changing Workplace: Women Entrepreneurs

Editor23 January 2012

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) San Francisco is teaming with women who have the technological know-how to solve daily problems. These innovative solutions apply to all fronts and industries, ranging from:

Finding new dishes instead of restaurants (Foodspotting)
Getting kid-friendly entertainment delivered to your door (Kiwi Crate)
Leveraging the quantified self for self-improvement (LARK)
Maximizing efficiency (TaskRabbit)

What do these these female-founded startups have in common? Women entrepreneurs have found

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Not Everyone Gets A Seed Round

Editor23 January 2012

By Bryce Roberts (Co-Founder & Managing Director, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) As investor FOMO and entrepreneurial access to capital have increased, so too has the level of entitlement to that capital. Swap the trophy for a seed round, and that’s directionally where things are headed in startupland. Everyone gets a seed round. Everyone gets to be CEO. Everyone starts a billion dollar company. Everyone can be the next Zuckerberg.

Just as with the kids lying on psychiatrist’s couches above, eventually the founders will come into contact with the real world. But the bullies on the playground they were protected from will now be unhappy customers. The encouraging teacher will be

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A Year Of Green (Energy) Dreams: Life In The Year Of The Rabbit

Editor23 January 2012

By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, LightSail Energy) Editor's note: LightSail Energy's Danielle Fong will be speaking on February 14 at Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Get your ticket here!

I’ve lived a lifetime this year. It sometimes feels as if so much is happening that one can feel however one chooses. Yet, sometimes, life gives you so much to feel happy about you can't help but be overwhelmed with a feeling of gratitude.

We’ve launched our new website, and finally revealed the technology that we’ve developed and we think is going to change the world — regenerative air energy storage! LightSail set out to prove that the science of our regenerative air energy storage concept works, and we have answered

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Libraries As Tech Incubators?

Editor23 January 2012

By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) A few weeks ago, I stumbled across an article in the Huffington Post, titled “Art Incubators: How Libraries Offer More Than Books.” The article highlights a project called Library as Incubator that focuses on using libraries as a community resource which support and allow collaboration with artists. The Library as Incubator Project appears to be focus on creative artists, but I believe the same project can be applied to tech entrepreneurs as well.

After reading the article, I was became interested in the possibilities of running a tech incubator from a library. As an bootstrapping entrepreneur, I’ve also taken advantage of coffee shops

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