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Cisco Tech Chief Outlines Women’s Advantages in Tech

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By Bianca Bosker (Technology Editor, The Huffington Post) Cisco Systems' chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior is one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley.

She is responsible for around two-thirds of Cisco's revenues, which totaled $43 billion in the most recent fiscal year and, with her colleague Pankaj Patel, oversees more than 22,000 engineers.

But Warrior nearly bypassed a career in business altogether -- turned off from the tech industry by the dearth of women in the field, she instead aspired to be part of academia.

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Matchmaker-Turned Entrepreneur: How To Find A Co-Founder

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By Talia Goldstein (Co-Founder & CMO, Let's Do) Editor's note: Talia Goldstein is co-hosting Founder Friday Los Angeles on November 4, 2011. FREE RSVP for Founder Friday here. Picking the right co-founder is a lot like finding the perfect match. Prior to co-founding Let's Do, I co-founded a successful dating startup. I moonlighted as a matchmaker for the site (a founder needs multiple revenue streams) in between developing strategic partnerships and branding. I matched hundreds of people and got it down to a science.

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Is Technology the Best Sector For Female Advancement?

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By Samantha Kemp-Jackson (Founder & Principal, Triple M Communications) The announcement that two of the largest technology companies are now headed by women gives us pause. Ginni Rometty’s just-announced role as the next CEO of IBM, in addition to Meg Whitman, who became CEO of Hewlitt-Packard (HP) last month forever changes the landscape of America’s high-tech world. Furthermore, these recent appointments redefine what has thus far been a largely male-dominated field, at least at the senior ranks. Both women spoke at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit that was held in Laguna Niguel, California in early October.

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First Round Winners for Rapleaf Personalization Fund

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By Caitlin MacDonald (Head of Marketing, Rapleaf) We are officially announcing our first round winners for the Rapleaf Personalization Fund -– a fund dedicated to supporting developers interested in creating projects built around data and personalization.

We’re extremely excited to showcase the first round of winners. We’ve already received over 85 applicants in the first month, covering a wide breadth of personalization and data-related services, ranging from highly targeted daily deal sites to event recommendation services.

The following winners are now live with Rapleaf data in their platforms to get their startups up and running -- check em out:

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Why I’ll Quit Playing Your Mobile Game

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By Sophia Perl (Founder, PicPredict) The mobile gaming space is really exciting right now.

Anyone notice that AT&T is offering the iPhone 3GS for $0 now? The user base (e.g., TAM) is rapidly growing and there are no dominant players in the space. Major game companies from console and social platforms (e.g., EA, Zynga) are starting to take notice and want a piece of the mobile game action. It seems that almost every other small game company is joining in as well.

However, there are major challenges for developing games for mobile devices, like working with the limitations

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Women Entrepreneurs Need More Collaboration and Networking

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Editor's note: This is a Op-Ed titled "The Tenacity and Networking It Takes" by the Kauffman Foundation's CEO Carl Schramm as translated from Turkish, Radikal (October 20, 2011). The former Canadian foreign minister Pierre Pettigrew was possibly the first to state that the era of globalization would count women among its winners. And indeed, women have made great strides, virtually all over the world, as far as their labor force participation and their level of education are concerned.

According to the World Bank, women accounted for 40.1% of the global labor force in 2009. Women now account for the majority of university students in countries including Malaysia, Libya, Venezuela and Iran. And yet, for all these successes, there is one

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Partner event: GigaOm RoadMap

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At GigaOM RoadMap 2011, you'll meet the innovators and business leaders who are driving consumer connectedness. In one-on-one chats on stage with GigaOM editors, they will reveal business opportunities and trends unfolding over the next 12 to 18 months. All speakers have been selected and invited by GigaOM editors for their success in shaping the connected consumer marketplace. You'll hear from:

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To Product/Market Fit and Beyond: Join Us on November 11!

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By Phang Chun Kai (Co-Organiser, Rainmaker Live) On November 11, 2011 in AOL's HQ in Palo Alto, join Rainmakers and our community of entrepreneurs and startups for a discussion on "To Product/Market Fit and Beyond". The discussion panel will explore the benefits and risks of entrepreneurs going through programs like Y Combinator, AngelPad, etc in the exciting, ever-changing funding landscape of Silicon Valley. Our speakers will be Frank Chen (Andreessen Horowtiz), Josh Elman (Greylock Partners), Sharon Vosmek (Astia), Manu

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When Babies Become Taboo (Work/Life Balance)

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By Melissa Fudor (Program Manager, Women in Wireless) I have babies on the brain. As a woman in my mid-twenties, starting a family has always been something that will eventually happen in the far and distant future. I have the timeline figured out: finish college, travel, start a great flexible career, meet someone, fall in love, get married by 30, and get pregnant (the latest) by 32. But recently I’ve been dreaming up some pretty hefty career goals which includes becoming an entrepreneur and starting my own business, which has left me wondering two things:

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A Very Unusual Startup Horror Story (Startup Lessons Learned)

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By Grace Ng (Lead Interaction Designer, Snapette) There is a giant push for more female entrepreneurs right now led up by empowering initiatives and resources like Change the Ratio, Women 2.0, WITI, and The Daily Muse. With so much support and encouragement from the growing women in tech community, now is definitely a great time to take your step and run after your dreams. But as a female entrepreneur myself, I would like to take this time to share some of my experiences and missteps

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Crowdsourcing Conversation on the Startup Funding Gap

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By J. Maureen Henderson (Contributor, Forbes) Australian entrepreneur Pemo Theodore spent five years in London trying to drum up venture capital funding for her digital matchmaking start-up. She came away empty-handed, but with a desire to explore the well-documented gender gap in funding for female-led startups.

Theodore interviewed dozens of venture capitalists, female founders and tech industry experts (both female and male), quizzing them on the challenges facing female founders and soliciting their perspectives on what was driving the female funding shortfall. In the end, she packaged a cross-section of these interviews

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We Can See the Future: Collaborative Ecosystem for Startups

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By Myra Landsburg (Brand Champion, Grow VC)  

When we started building what is now the Grow VCM platform, we had a vision for the future of entrepreneurship and investments, where anyone could participate in startup funding and be part of new innovations. We saw that entrepreneurs could gain the backing of larger global communities to create tomorrow’s innovations and participate in the journey from early on. Today, looking back, we’re delighted to see how far we have come as not just an organization but as a larger community in shaping the future of innovation. We’ve seen the global community

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Skeptical About Networking? Here Are My Career Results

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By Kelly Hoey (CEO, Foundation for Social Change) Beauty Creams. Exercise Videos. Diets. We’re all skeptical -- “will it really work“ -- until we see actual results... It’s the same with networking. Until you hear that a friend was offered a job or scored a sought-after interview or received a career-enhancing assignment, you wonder if all the time and effort is really (I mean, really) worth it. It is worth it. Really.

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Why Women Make Excellent Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age

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By Nellie Akalp (CEO, CorpNet) In 2010, women became the majority of the U.S. workforce for the first time in the country’s history. Also, 57% of college students are now women. While men continue to dominate the executive ranks and corporate board rooms, women now hold a number of lucrative careers: they make up 54% of accountants, 45% of law associates and approximately 50% of all banking and insurance jobs. These statistics, which appeared in Hanna Rosin’s Atlantic article “The End of Men”, have prompted considerable attention and debate.

Women are advancing in entrepreneurship as well.

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