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Partner Event: What Startup Employees Should Know About Their Equity (December 6 in San Francisco)

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Are you a startup employee or shareholder interested in learning more about your rights, liquidity options and the value of your equity or stock options? Join SecondMarket for "Cocktails & Conversations: What Startup Employees Should Know About Their Equity" on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm in San Francisco.

Women 2.0 members save 50% with discount code "Women20VIP".

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Day 3: Final Presentations At Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011

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By Christina Gunarto & Angie Chang (Co-Organizers, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) On Sunday, the teams wasted no time working on their projects. The Hatchery was filled with both excitement and anxiety building up to pitch time.

Everyone was full of energy, squeezing every last ounce of thought from their brains and coding away to put together the final product, presentation and hopefully, a working demo for the judges.

At 6pm, all 150 participants squeezed in for a group photo. One last hurrah before demo time!

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Advice for Women Entrepreneurs Seeking Angel Funding: Just Ask

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By Liza Porteus Viana (Contributor, FOXBusiness) When Ashley Kingsley and Whitney Trujillo, co-CEOs of Daily Deals for Moms, were looking to expand their business in April 2011 after running it on their own for about a year, they thought angel investors were the way to go.

But they weren’t sure on how to go about finding investors who would be interested in their deal site offering discounted deals on clothing, kids activities, and other offerings.

“We just kept reaching out

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Women 2.0 Startup Weekend: One of the Best Weekends of My Life!

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By Daisy Jing (Founder, Perfect Beauty) I've always loved entrepreneurship. I've loved being surrounded by people who are motivated by nothing else other than their vision, and will suffer through sleepless nights to make it happen.

I moved to San Francisco after college to be part of this network, because I have always wanted to work in startups. However, I never knew where to begin. Every time I went to an entrepreneurship networking event, I felt I as if I couldn't connect with the people.

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Pipeline Fellowship to Launch Conference on Angel Investing (December 2 in Boston)

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By A. Lauren Abele (COO, Pipeline Fellowship) The Pipeline Fellowship will launch its signature conference on angel investing in Boston on Friday, December 2, 2011. The 2011 Boston Pipeline Fellowship Conference features a series of educational presentations and engaging panel discussions covering various aspects of the angel investing process. Regina Pisa, the Chair and Managing Partner of Goodwin Procter LLP, will provide lunch remarks.

The 2011 Boston Pipeline Fellowship Conference is open to the public. Aspiring angels, current investors, and entrepreneurs are encouraged to attend.

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How Leah Busque Single-Handedly Created Thousands of Jobs

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By Jolie O'Dell (Contributor, VentureBeat)  

Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit, is passionate about creating a community of “micro-entrepreneurs” — people who work autonomously on a part-time or full-time basis.

Her company, which only operates in a limited number of geographic areas so far, has already created several thousand opportunities for this kind of work.

On the site, people list their needs for help with specific tasks (and) other people -- called “taskrabbits” -- get the job done

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NYC Startups: 400 Companies From Central Park To Broadway

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By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0)  

What do Tumblr and Gilt Groupe have in common? How about Kickstarter and Foursquare? They are a few of 400 tech startups, many of which have been funded in New York City in the last two years. 31 health care companies, 37 finance startups, and 145 shopping and advertising startups are buttressing existing NYC industries. They're sharing the space with 225 consumer internet, enterprise software, and media and entertainment startups.

There is a startup hub forming within blocks of venture capital investors in Midtown

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WIE Call To Action: Help Put 11 More Women Into Congress

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By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0)  

During the 2010 election cycle the number of women in Congress dropped for the first time in 30 years. Now just over 17 percent of Congress is made up of women, paltry representation when women are over 50 percent of the population.

This month WIE (Women Inspiration & Enterprise) responds by highlighting the eleven women running for Congress in 2012. WIE is hoping to spread the message and support "these courageous, powerful, and inspiring women" such as

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4 Tips For Finding Time to Enjoy Life While Running Your Business

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By Elizabeth Grace Saunders (Founder & CEO, Real Life E) Beep! Beep! Beeeep!

The shrill sound of your alarm splits through the crisp morning air.

With a sigh, you bury your face in your pillow and do a quick mental calculation of how many more times you can swat the snooze button before you really must get up.

It’s not that life is awful: you’ve got a business you enjoy and some good things going for you in your personal life.

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Day 2: Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011 (Meet The Teams)

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By Salem Kimble (Volunteer, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) It’s edging on towards late evening on Saturday, November 19, 2011 with a good number of the 22 teams still going strong.

This year’s startups will be pitching everything from fashion to language learning. The size of the startup team varies greatly with several teams of 6 or more people and just a few one and two person groups.

Here’s the breakdown, working titles, missions and happy faces of the developers, designers, business/marketing pros.

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Does Being Nice Pay Off For Women?

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By Nilofer Merchant (Contributing Writer, Harvard Business Review) Two interesting research pieces crossed my desk in the past few weeks.

One, from Stanford, argues that while people want to hang out with generous, kind, honest, sincere, and trustworthy people, they often select (hire or buy from) people who exhibit competitiveness, effectiveness, intelligence, and confidence.

The other, from Harvard, argues that “nice guys can finish first”. Specifically, that social networks aid in cooperation and

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Why Millennial Women Are Burning Out At Work By 30

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By Larissa Faw (Contributing Writer, ForbesWoman) Young professional women may not relate to the financial struggles their Millennial peers are protesting against during the Occupy New York movement. After all, these ambitious go-getters are working as doctors, lawyers, engineers, and advertising executives, blessed with great salaries, health benefits, and paid vacation.

But these women understand the protestors’ frustration and unhappiness over the fact that their lives aren’t supposed to turn out this way. This is why a growing number of young professional women who seem to “have it all” are burning out at work

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Racism and Meritocracy (Engineers Don’t Blog)

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By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders) It was never my intention to write about racism and meritocracy. Mainly, because I hate “talk” and prefer to “do”. Not saying that “talk” and discussion isn’t helpful, but its never been my thing, I “do”. So it slightly pains me to add to the “talk” with another blog post about racism and meritocracy.

First, my opinion on the media frenzy (CNN Black In America, Arrington, etc) that has taken place in the last month. Honestly, many of the points covered, (in blog posts and interviews), miss the mark and are shameful attempts for media coverage.

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Day 1: Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011 in San Francisco

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By Christina Gunarto & Angie Chang (Co-Organizers, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) Things got crazy at the Hatchery in San Francisco on Friday night at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011. The soldout crowd of over 150 was a diverse mix of people by any count: gender (65% female), ethnicity, age (at least 3 youths), location (lots of East Bay folks)...

We started off with Women 2.0 and Startup Weekend representatives making introductions and housekeeping remarks.

Quickly things got exciting when the ice breaker began (pictured, right) -- Imagine an out-of-control game of rock, paper and scissors.

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Racism and Meritocracy

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By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says: “All I see is white men. Therefore, people like Michael Arrington must be racist.” The other responds, “Silicon Valley is a colorblind meritocracy. If there were qualified women or minority candidates, we’d welcome them.”

I’d like to say a few words about this, but I want to do so under special ground rules.

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