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NewMe Accelerator Pop-Up In Miami (November 12-14)

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The NewME Pop-Up is a concentrated, three-day version of the critically acclaimed 12-week startup accelerator to be held in Miami. By Angela Benton (Founder & CEO, NewME Accelerator)

Miami’s diverse culture and growing entrepreneurial presence has NewME Accelerator, a Silicon Valley program designed to launch underrepresented entrepreneurs in technology, hitting the road to do its first ever Pop-Up Accelerator.

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DailyWorth CEO Amanda Steinberg Speaking At Women 2.0 PITCH NYC Conference On November 14

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November 14's PITCH Conference speakers include DailyWorth founder and CEO Amanda Steinberg. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We are just weeks away from Women 2.0's first PITCH Conference in New York featuring a full day of successful women entrepreneurs as speakers. Meet CEO Amanda Steinberg, founder at DailyWorth.

Amanda will be presenting a case study about user acquisition alongside women entrepreneurs and executives

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Entrepreneurs, Stop Sweeping It Under The Rug!

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As a startup CEO, I am constantly juggling more than I can possible keep in the air. By Paige Brown (Co-Founder & CEO, BookingMarkets)

It hass been a wild and crazy ride so far at TechStars Boston - the learning curve is moving faster than I ever imagined. They keep us extremely busy with mentor meetings, workshops and sessions. We at BookingMarkets are pivoting, improving our existing business model and are on the track to something really amazing.

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Dreaming Of Being An Investor? Learn From The Best In Silicon Valley WIth Smart$

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Smart$ program informs, inspires, educates, and prepares business angels and venture capitalists for future investments in IT startups. By Pemo Theodore (Founder, Ezebis)

Join us at the StartupMonthly Smart$ (SmartMoney) (November 12-15, 2012 in Silicon Valley). I am very excited to be asked to coordinate this program and it is shaping up to be an exciting line up of venture capitalists and angel investors who are significant in the startup ecosystem.

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Understanding Social Discovery

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People probably have to come across your product several times, perhaps from several people before they consider buying it. By Tine Thygesen (Co-Founder & CEO, Everplaces)

Social discovery may very well be the next big hope for companies trying to reach customers. As it gets harder and harder to get results from advertising, marketeers have to start digging deeper, to understand why we sell products, not just when and what.

One could argue that we've reached the threshold

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10 Lessons Learned From One Year Of Being An Entrepreneur

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There’s a quote I love most, which is “when you see a successful person, you just see the success, not all the work and pain it takes them to get there”. By Daisy Jing (Founder, Perfect Beauty)

It's been an entire year since I pitched my idea at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend. Now I have a live private beta site with heavily engaged users. However the road was anything but easy, and here are the top 10 things I've learned from this past year.

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The Importance Of Women Discussing Personal Finance

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The need for financial literacy hit home when I realized professional, independent women bringing home the bacon (and cooking it up the way we want to) rarely discussed our finances with each other. By Lena Rizkallah (Founder, Money Moxie)

A recovering lawyer, my path to personal finance was long and windy. Over the years, I’ve served on the “nerd squad” of several financial companies where my role was to present, consult and write about estate and trust planning, tax policy and retirement.

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Mediabistro’s Laurel Touby Will Be A Live Judge At PITCH NYC Conference On November 14

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PITCH NYC 2012 live competition judges include exited entrepreneur now investor/advisor Laurel Touby of Mediabistro fame! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We're a few weeks away from Women 2.0's first PITCH Conference in New York - join us for a day full of successful women entrepreneurs sharing their stories of starting up and going big. Meet Laurel Touby, founder of Mediabistro. She sold her company to Jupitermedia for $23 million in July 2007 and is now investing in and advising various startups.

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(Infographic) The Ascent Of America’s High-Growth Companies

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Check out 30 years of Inc. 500 companies data. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

A new Kauffman infographic and interactive map show the fastest-growing privately-held companies in the U.S.

In the infographic below, discover unexpected regions and industrial sectors where companies have been sprouting up, like Salt Lake City (Utah) and Washington D.C.

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Successful Business Women Push Back

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A woman’s ability to push back has an astonishingly direct correlation to her success. By Blake Landau (Founder, Artemis)

For many of us (stubborn folks like myself), the best way to learn is through trial and error. And I’ve had a lot of errors. There are so many things I would say if I could talk to the younger version of me. I hope that other women don’t have to wait around until they figure out the answers the hard way.

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How Poshly Giveaways Caught InStyle’s Eye

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Poshly.com founder Doreen Bloch shares the company’s journey from Minimum Viable Product to maximum style press milestone. By Doreen Bloch (Founder & CEO, Poshly)

At Poshly, we believe personalization is the future of the web. From e-tail to online content, we believe digital experiences will become more and more tailored to the individual. Our team is working, in particular, to build innovative, data-driven personalization tools for beauty consumers and brands.

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Female Founders To Watch: 5 Women Entrepreneurs From Astia

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Check out five up-and-coming women entrepreneurs from Astia's current class. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Astia is a non-profit accelerating women starting high-growth high-tech ventures. They just released details about the women entrepreneurs participating in the Fall 2012 Astia Global Entrepreneur Program.

Here are five up-and-coming women entrepreneurs aiming to go big with their innovative business ventures with Astia:

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Here Are Two Reasons Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) Fail

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Come to Poornima's workshop at General Assembly in San Francisco on October 27 for an Introduction to Product Development class to learn the process for picking features to create a viable MVP - register here to save 15% as a Women 2.0 member. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee)

Everyone wants to start validating the idea for their startup by creating an MVP (minimum viable product), but very few people get it right because they overcomplicate the process

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The New Girls’ Network: Binders Upon Binders Of Stolen Ideas

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What Romney did was a very public example of "The Stolen Idea"- a phenomenon women regularly face at work. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls' Network) & Katherine Ullman (Program Associate, Center for WorkLife Law)

"Binders full of women." We all know what Mitt Romney meant during this week's presidential debate when he discussed his "effort" to recruit more women during his tenure as Governor of Massachusetts. But what he said spread like wildfire across the Internet and produced some amusing results.

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