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PITCH NYC 2012: Women Entrepreneurs Talk Disruption In Cleantech, Music And Healthcare With High-Growth Startups

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Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, serial entrepreneur David Weekly moderated a panel of women entrepreneurs who have started ventures in a variety of interesting sectors, from music to health and cleantech.

Vanessa Stewart (Co-Founder & COO, Soltage) started a renewable energy provider for commercial and industrial clients, putting solar panels on warehouses and manufacturing facilities.

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PITCH NYC 2012: Geraldine Laybourne (Founder, Oxygen Media) Talks About Starting Up Oxygen And Its Vision

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Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, Oxygen Media founder Geraldine Laybourne talks about working out of the "Wild West". "I built it the way a woman would build it. I built it with partnerships with cable operators."

Instead of trying to climb the corporate ladder, Geraldine describes herself as mission-driven. She went to Disney because she thought she could make a difference.

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PITCH NYC 2012: MAKER Panel Talks About Kickstarter Campaigns, Prototyping, Pricing Product And “What Makes This A Tech Company?”

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Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, the MAKER panel consists of four women starting companies and shipping hardware products: Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, Alice Brooks of Roominate, Liz Salcedo of Everpurse and Debbie Sterling of GoldieBlox.

These hardware startup founders and CEOs have experience producing products, building prototypes and raising capital for their initiatives.

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PITCH NYC 2012: Facebook Director Sarah Personette Talks About Failing Hard And Iterating Faster

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Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, Facebook director Sarah Personette talks about Facebook being smaller and leaner than most other large companies. "In an environment where you are super constrained in terms of human resources, you think about how to scale your message - to create ambassadors in your audience," said Sarah Personette.

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PITCH NYC 2012: Meebo CTO Sandy Jen Talks About Rethinking The Startup Exit

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Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, Meebo CTO and co-founder Sandy Jen talks about hearing the words "What is your exit?" over and over again. She now hears instead the question, "What kind of company are you building?"

Sandy told the story of being courted to join Yahoo! at age 22 - right after Meebo launched without venture capital. That is the first time the idea of an exit came into play - the moment where

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PITCH NYC 2012: DailyWorth CEO Amanda Steinberg Talks Marketing, Growth Hacking And Building 6 Companies

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Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, DailyWorth CEO and founder Amanda Steinberg talks from her experience of building over 200 websites. DailyWorth is her sixth business and she aimed to share tips with the audience at Women 2.0

"The most important lesson I learned is that as CEOs and founders, we make things too complicated," said DailyWorth's Amanda Steinberg.

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PITCH NYC 2012: Sandy Lerner (Cisco & Urban Decay Founder) Talks Competitive Advantage, Venture Capital And Startup Funding With CNBC Reporter Seema Mody

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Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, CNBC reporter Seema Mody interviewed Sandy Lerner of Cisco Systems, now a large cap company which Seema Mody speaks about on CNBC. Sandy Lerner co-founded Cisco Systems on December 10, 1984 and then started Urban Decay, a cosmetics company sold to LVMH. After starting life as a farmer, she still now involved in organic farming - and book writing, having just published

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Why I’m Going To Women 2.0 PITCH NYC!

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It took the first twenty years of my life as a rock-climbing, wood-romping tomboy to recognize that success would come more naturally by embracing my womanhood and cultivating a strong network of like-minded women. By Emma Frisch (Co-Founder, PEAKS)

Throughout my life, it had never occurred to me that my gender might affect, influence or even guide my career. Anyone who knows me can attest to my brazen independence and strong will, a sure byproduct of being raised by a super-Mamma, with a strong sisterhood.

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Interview With PITCH NYC 2012 Speaker Cheryl Swirnow Of Brooklyn-Based Health Startup Sherpaa

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Tips from the venture-funded startup founder, told to Kate Kendall. By Kate Kendall (Founder & CEO, The Fetch)

In anticipation of PITCH NYC 2012 Conference tomorrow, I chat with speaker Cheryl Swirnow about her Brooklyn-based healthtech startup Sherpaa, a venture funded-company that facilitates email- and phone-based personalized medical advice and access to doctors (or Guides as they call them), meaning patients no longer have to make a trip into the office.

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SandyBaggers Mobilize New Yorkers Into Direct Service Post-Sandy

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One day after Sandy struck New York, four friends and I got on a call to brainstorm. By Divya Kapasi (Co-Founder, SandyBaggers & Founder, Goodlist.co)

Light turned to dark, a steady howl was heard through the windows and mild fear escalated to anxiety as we fumbled to find matches for our candles. Hurricane Sandy had arrived. In just a moment, New York, the city that never sleeps, fell into radio silence. After a cold, sleepless night, we awoke to no power or water and were asked to evacuate.

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Are Entrepreneurs Made Or Born? A Female Founder Weighs In

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Being an entrepreneur is a trial by fire and having the right environment is critical. By Caitlin MacGregor (Co-Founder, Cream.hr)

There’s a lot more involved in becoming an entrepreneur than simply waking up one morning and saying “I want to work for myself.” Sure, anyone can say they would prefer to work in their own company, rather than punch the clock for someone else, but saying it and being able to do it are very different.

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XX In Health: A Retreat For Women In Healthcare

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As in many sectors, healthcare has a dearth of women leaders. By Ariel Schwartz (Senior Editor, FastCompany's Co.Exist)

Just 4% of healthcare CEOs are women even though they make up 73% of medical and health services managers.

And according to health technology startup accelerator Rock Health, just three VC-backed digital health tech startups that raised at least $2 million in 2012 had female CEOs.

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Global Entrepreneurship Week Kicks Off Today!

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PITCH NYC Conference & Competition is held in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Every year Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) features a wide range of events, activities and competitions designed to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystems that are responsible for job creation and economic growth.

To this end, Women 2.0 hosts our first inaugural

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Saving Mothers And Infants Is Serious Business: Maternova Will Be At PITCH NYC 2012

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PITCH NYC 2012 finalist Maternova will be presenting live on November 14 at PITCH NYC Conference – join us! By Allyson Cote & Meg Wirth (Co-Founders, Maternova)

Maternova was founded with the sole purpose of creating a bridge between lifesaving medical devices and the end-users who need them. The global health industry is experiencing unprecedented growth and interest as entrepreneurs feverishly develop healthcare innovations.

When the United Nations recognized maternal mortality

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The Social Media Model And What It Means For Tokii (Presence And Patience)

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It might not be your social media presence that will sink or float your boat, but rather your absence. By Karla Stephens-Tolstoy (Founder & CEO, Tokii)

Tokii has been in business for more than 18 months now, and we’ve been running a social media campaign since its inception. It didn’t take a rocket scientist on staff to determine we needed to rev up our engines by launching a social media campaign, and we’ve done just that. We’ve focused on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

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