Editor, Author at Women 2.0

PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition Finalist Gives 8 Tips To Balance The Demands Of Startup And Parenthood

Editor7 November 2012

Children and startups have similar demands, needs and rewards. By Shilpa Dalmia (Co-Founder & CTO, ActivityHero)

Many people ask, “How do you balance work and life with two young kids and a startup?”

My answer is, “The same way you raise three kids.” A startup is just like another child. Each child has his/her/its own demands and needs, and each gives you immense satisfaction and pleasure.

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Facebook Director Of Global Agency Relations Sarah Personette To Keynote At PITCH NYC 2012 Conference (November 14)

Editor7 November 2012

PITCH NYC 2012 Conference welcomes Facebook's Sarah Personette to the stage next Wednesday in New York! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We are excited to announce that Facebook's Director of Global Agency Relations Sarah Personette will be delivering a keynote eat PITCH NYC Conference. She joins keynote speakers Geraldine Laybourne (Founder, Oxygen Network), Fran Maier (Founder, Match.com and TRUSTe) and Sandy Lerner (Founder, Cisco and Urban Decay) on November 14.

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Google Developers Live: Google’s Lead Hardware Engineer For Project Glass Jean Wang Talks To Pixel Qi’s Mary Lou Jepsen

Editor6 November 2012

Women innovators featured on Google Developers Live. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

In the throes of the election coverage this afternoon, Google Developers Live hosts Google's lead hardware engineer for Project Glass Jean Wang and Google Global Chrome Developer Relations Manager Vivian Cromwell in a conversation with 2011 Anita Borg "Woman of Vision" Award for Innovation winner Mary Lou Jepsen, Founder and CEO of Pixel Qi.

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PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition Finalist Learns From Launching Product Who Her Customers Really Are

Editor6 November 2012

"Every piece of validation... is a huge lift." By Andi Gillentine (Co-Founder & COO, Whit.li)

Have you ever had the experience of reading a review online – for a book, a hotel or a restaurant - and wanted to know if you were “like” the reviewer? Not if you lived in the same place, were the same age, or bought the same gift for someone else, but if you were really alike, deep down. Me too, and so have all of the founders of Whit.li. This was our inspiration moment.

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Aquto Founder And CEO Susie Kim Riley Raises $8 Million Series A

Editor6 November 2012

Boston-based serial entrepreneur Susie Kim Riley raises Series A for her mobile startup Aquto to disrupt how we look at mobile data plans. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Susie Kim Riley is a serial entrepreneur. After rising in engineering ranks at companies, she founded and led technology development at Camiant as CTO, pioneering a new market for policy control and successfully deploying product with 45 carriers worldwide. Camiant was acquired by Tekelec for $130 million in April 2010.

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Get Introduced To Startup Ecosystem Leaders At PITCH NYC 2012 – NY Tech Meetup, 85 Broads, Girl Develop It, Springboard Enterprises, Pipeline Fellowship, Startup Weekend, Girls Who Code, Golden Seeds

Editor6 November 2012

Representatives from organizations will be attending PITCH NYC 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We are a little more than a week away from Women 2.0's first PITCH Conference in New York - a full day of successful women entrepreneurs speaking about starting up and going big!

Along with mentoring at lunchtime, we will be introduced to the startup ecosystem in New York on November 14 during lunch by:

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Adafruit Industries Founder Limor Fried Speaking At PITCH NYC Conference On November 14

Editor6 November 2012

November 14's PITCH Conference speakers include Adafruit Industries founder Limor Fried. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We are just 8 days away Women 2.0's first PITCH Conference in New York featuring a full day of successful women entrepreneurs as speakers. Meet Limor Fried, founder at Adafruit Industries.

Limor will be in the MAKER panel with Roominate's Alice Brooks, GoldieBlox's Debbie Sterling and Everpurse's Liz Salcedo.

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Company Culture Trumps Title And Pay

Editor6 November 2012

Increasingly, the issue of finding a company that fits your values ranks high for many candidates. By Leah Eichler (Founder, Femme-O-Nomics)

When a recruiter contacted me over a year ago about a role at a prestigious media company, with an impressive job title and above average paycheque, I felt obligated to explore the opportunity. The process took several, exhausting weeks and multiple interviews, once on a weekend and another time on a statutory holiday.

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From Individual Contributors To The COO, Women Make An Impact At Salesforce’s Girl Geek Dinner

Editor5 November 2012

Women represent nearly every level of leadership at Salesforce, from business to technical roles, inspiring others to strive towards that goal. By Courtney Mayeda (MBA, UCLA Anderson)

Upon entering the expansive One Spear Street, we were greeted by the many smiling faces of Salesforce’s Women in Technology group, sporting their nifty red t-shirts. The space offered not only drinks and delicious food, but also the opportunity to experience demos of the expansive Salesforce product offerings.

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PITCH 2012 Speaker Danielle Fong, Chief Scientist And Co-Founder Of LightSail Energy, Raises $37.3 Million Series D Venture Funding

Editor5 November 2012

PITCH 2012 speaker Danielle Fong announced raising Series D from investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Today, news broke that 25-year old chief scientist and LightSail co-founder Danielle Fong closed Series D funding with investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates. The round of venture funding took LightSail Energy a year to close, after the very public failure of solar energy giant Solyndra spooked investors in the energy sector.

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Is This What A Business Woman Looks Like? (Hint: There Is No Cookie Cutter)

Editor5 November 2012

Successful women ask for what they want, and more importantly, give themselves what they need. By Blake Landau (Founder, Artemis)

If you would have asked me to create what I thought a successful business woman looked like when I was 15 years old, I would have drawn something similar to what we see in the stock photo images we see on websites.

She would be angular and slim, in a tight fitting black suit, high heels, pearls and stockings. She’d be standing, hunched

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Women 2.0 Answers Your Questions About PITCH NYC 2012

Editor5 November 2012

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Women 2.0,

I have some questions about the upcoming PITCH NYC Conference coming up on Wednesday, November 14.

Sincerely, Undecided Conference Attendee

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Take Charge: Tara Sophia Mohr Helps Women Play Bigger

Editor5 November 2012

Take your vision to the next level and turn it into reality. By Grace Ng (Director of Product Experience, Lean Startup Machine)

"Most of the time, women don’t know their brilliance. They are certain they 'aren’t ready' to take on that next bigger role. They are more attuned to the ways they aren’t qualified than to the ways that they are. They are waiting for someone to validate, promote or discover them."

Sound familiar?

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How To Pitch To A Venture Capitalist (From The Trenches)

Editor5 November 2012

Venture capitalist Anna Khan will be at PITCH NYC Conference as a lunchtime mentor. Get your $300 ticket to join us on November 14! By Anna Khan (Investor, Bessemer Venture Partners)

I've had a lot of female entrepreneurs ask me the secret to successfully pitch a venture capitalist. Male entrepreneurs (in part through trial and error, and in part by better access to resources) appear to do a better job convincing investors. In reality, there is no secret ingredient for a successful pitch. Instead, there are a number of factors at play.

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Meet The Women Entrepreneurs In Astia’s Fall 2012 Global Entrepreneurs Program

Editor4 November 2012

Astia’s startup teams have a healthy mix of men and women, but clearly have a woman on the Founding/Executive team. By Catherine Berman (Senior Vice President, Astia)

Throw a rock in Silicon Valley and you’ll find a group of startups convening. But woman-led startups? And high-growth woman-led startups that have the potential to transform the business world entirely? Welcome to the Astia Global Entrepreneur Program, a competitive international program that brings the sharpest, hottest woman-led companies from around the world

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