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4 Things Stylematic Learned From Hollywood And Tech

Editor23 January 2012

By Karen Song (Developer, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) Last weekend, I attended a Hosting Bootcamp in Los Angeles that kicked me into gear. I had originally signed up for Lean Startup Machine weekend, but due to room constraints, the venue was not able to accomodate my team and I decided to jet down to LA instead.

The experience proved to be extremely valuable - and I learned a lot of information that is helping the Stylematic team to deliver wonderful presentations and establish our brand. Incidentally, Stylematic had a slew of presentations due this week. We were invited to speak on a panel at Fashion and Tech SF as well as do a demo rehearsal pitch at Startup Monthly.

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Female Entrepreneurs Find Funding Community In NYC

Editor23 January 2012

By Rich Schapiro (Reporter, New York Daily News) When Ellie Cachette started pitching her tech startuup to West Coast investors two years ago, she expected to raise big bucks. Instead, all she got from the roughly 25 all-male investors she met with were dismissive looks and patronizing advice.

“I wouldn’t even finish my sentence, and they’d say I should be a nonprofit,” said Cachette, now 26, who was building a startup designed to help companies manage product recalls. “I found it impossible to raise money.”

So Cachette made a bold decision: She headed to New York to test the waters of the city’s burgeoning tech scene.

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Show Some Love For Female Startup Founders

Editor23 January 2012

By Betsy Aoki (Senior Program/Product Manager, Bing) I first met Lori Anne Wardi, a vice president at .CO, during a Geeks on a Plane tour of Asia last fall. While on the shuttle to and from various startup accelerators and meeting spots, we chatted about the wacky dot-com 90s and how things have changed (and stayed the same) in startupland since those days. More consumers know what a domain name is now but people are still faced with the dilemma of how to fund and shape their new companies. And, just like the 90s, there is still a marked shortage of women tech entrepreneurs.

To that end, I’d like to offer up a resource that will be useful to men and women startup founders – the Bing Booster

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Weight Watchers For SMBs: Setting And Meeting Financial Goals

Editor22 January 2012

This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Rip Empson (Writer, TechCrunch)

Startups and small businesses are the engine of job creation. In the U.S., companies less than five years old created 44 million jobs over the last three decades and, over that time, accounted for all net new jobs created in the U.S. — just ask the White House. Of course, you’d think from reading TechCrunch that all small businesses raise big funding from venture capital. Nope.

The majority don’t raise any kind of venture money or angel investment — most small business owners probably don’t even know any venture capitalists.

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Call For Applications: Astia Global Entrepreneur Program 2012

Editor22 January 2012

By Sharon Vosmek (CEO, Astia) We are delighted to announce our 2012 Call for Applications for the Astia Global Entrepreneur Program. Astia maintains an unparalleled success rate for the companies it serves and your outreach and referrals play a critical role in propelling women–led innovation.

Please pass along the following information to women–led high–growth startups who you believe can benefit from the access to expertise, capital and opportunity that the Astia global offering provides.

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Baby Steps Into Open Source

Editor22 January 2012

By Liz Marley (Senior Software Test Pilot, The Omni Group) "You should get involved in Open Source. It'll help you network, and practice your skills, and bolster your resumé. And we need more women in Open Source."

To which I think "Hmm... that sounds complicated, and I don't know where to start and I'm busy and I'll get around to it someday."

Well, Someday showed up yesterday afternoon. I'd like to talk about two reasons why I think Someday showed up, and then I'll tell you how it went.

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Love With Food Launches Monthly Subscription Service

Editor21 January 2012

By Leena Rao (Reporter, TechCrunch) The subscription commerce market is heating up with Birch Box, Kiwi Crate, and others all offering various takes on the monthly box model.

Today, 500 Startups company Love With Food is launching its subscription model, which offers a monthly box to users with tasty, gourmet samples of food.

Here’s how it works. Through monthly sample boxes, which are $14 per month with free shipping, Love With Food includes 5 or more gourmet tasty bites. The model gives people a way to find and taste samples of new foods before they buy full-size orders.

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Retreat For Entrepreneurial Women In March At Monterey Bay

Editor21 January 2012

By Oscia Wilson (Founder & CEO, Boiled Architecture) Five months ago, I became an entrepreneur. After pulling the trigger on my dream, I wanted to learn from and bond with other women who had made their own leaps of faith. Strangely enough, I had a hard time finding a conference or retreat in California that wasn't specifically for tech startups or venture capital funded structures. This didn't seem right to me. Don't the rest of us also need to round out our skills, find mentors, and get support?

So I took it upon myself to organize just such an event. The Retreat for Entrepreneurial Women is a three-day event

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WeFestival Blog Post From The Young Man Behind The Camera

Editor21 January 2012

By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal) I love this post because it was sent to me from a young man who was behind the camera, not an attendee and not a woman. It is a great read...and I thank Dekunle for sending this to me:

I’m a 22 year-old male and the women’s entrepreneurship festival that took place at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program last Wednesday turned out to be a huge source of inspiration for me. I hope I don’t lose an street credibility for that statement but let me preface my thoughts on the event by explaining exactly why
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Tweet To Win A Ticket To Join Women 2.0 At The Crunchies!

Editor20 January 2012

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) WIN A FREE TICKET to the Crunchies Awards. Join us this year for the Crunchies, awarded on January 31 in San Francisco.

Here's how to win a free ticket to "the Oscars for the Internet":

Step 1: Follow us on Twitter at @women2 Step 2: Tweet this from your Twitter account:
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Female Founders To Watch: Health Innovation

Editor20 January 2012

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Rock Health hosted the 2012 Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco this week, showcasing a remarkably gender-balanced set of interdisciplinary innovators in the burgeoning health/tech space.

As keynote speaker Mitch Kapor stated, "It is possible to go up the learning curve yourself without the basics of the domain you're in." The health tech space is still very new, he reminded the audience, and recommended for early entrepreneurs to educate yourself of the ecosystem, overcome your fears and find a way to "dive in" - find advisors that know about the space, can help you learn, and figure out how to build the right partnerships.

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2012 Grace Hopper Celebration Of Women In Computing (Call For Participation)

Editor20 January 2012

By BJ Wishinsky (Community Manager, Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology) The 12th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) has opened its Call for Participation.

The annual conference, presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing.

The Grace Hopper Celebration will take place from October 3 - 6, 2012 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

This year’s theme “Are We There Yet?”

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Startup Lessons Learned At The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show

Editor20 January 2012

By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne) I spent the last week in Las Vegas, promoting the announcement of AboutOne’s latest release at the Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

We chose to attend CES for our announcement because it’s the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow and attracts the “who’s who” of the technology industry. This conference provided us with myriad opportunities to connect with traditional and new media, potential partners, and prospective customers. As I wait for my red-eye flight home, I want to share my lessons learned about being an exhibitor at this amazing event.

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Friday Roundup: SOPA, WEFestival, CES & Social Entrepreneurs

Editor20 January 2012

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, we watched SOPA protests literally black out the Internet while the #wefestival tweets allowed a glimpse into a powerhouese event in New York. Meanwhile in San Francisco, the Health Innovation Summit demonstrated that a gender-balanced tech conference speaker rosters can be done - without women objectified as booth babes - ahem, CES. Moving forward - please nominate your favorite social entrepreneur for BusinessWeek's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs. Catch Women 2.0 on February 3 at a Founder Friday near you, and on Valentine's Day for the PITCH Conference at the Computer History Museum!

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Meet Aileen Lee, Dave McClure, Joy Marcus & More Investors!

Editor19 January 2012

Watch as the Top Finalists of the 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition present LIVE -- Ten teams with at least one female co-founder will take the stage on February 14 at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference and present their best pitch in front of a panel of investors for prizes.

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