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Early-Stage VC Brad Svrluga Of High Peaks Venture Partners Joins Live Judging Panel At PITCH Conference (November 14 In NYC)

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PITCH NYC 2012 live competition judges include High Peaks Venture Partners co-founder Brad Svrluga. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We welcome experienced investor Brad Svrluga to the morning live judging panel at November 14's PITCH NYC 2012 Conference. Brad co-founded High Peaks Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm in New York. Portfolio companies include Lily Liu's PublicStuff, a platform enabling government agencies to break through barriers of relying on paper records, outdated systems

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Roominate Founder Alice Brooks Joins MAKER Panel At Women 2.0 PITCH Conference In November

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PITCH Conference speakers include Roominate co-founder Alice Brooks on the November 14 MAKER panel. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Today is the first International Day of the Girl, sanctioned by the United Nations. Coincidentally, we're one month away from Women 2.0's first PITCH Conference in New York featuring a full day of successful women entrepreneurs as speakers. Meet Alice Brooks, founder at Roominate where she make toys that get girls excited about math and science.

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3 Reasons You Need A Product Roadmap

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Create a product roadmap for so each feature launched accomplishes one of three major business goals: customer acquisition, engagement, monetization. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee)

The lean startup movement has been great about touting how you should “fail often” and “fail fast”, do market research with landing pages and by buying AdWords to see if there is interest, I know it goes into more depth than that. But too many of its followers are taking it for face value and focusing on validating their idea

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Augmented Reality: Changing The Face Of Marketing

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Augmented reality can make shopping that much more interactive — and easier. By Ayesha Mathews-Wadhwa (Founder & Creative Director, PixInk)

If your world is feeling small, try augmented reality on for size. From mobile apps to video games and so much more, this forward-thinking technology is becoming more mainstream... not to mention appealing.

Augmented reality (AR) involves tying in live view of a physical, real-world environment with amplified elements

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Happy International Day Of The Girl (Infographic)

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Today, Thursday, October 11, 2012 honors and celebrates the lives of girls and behooves those in their communities to give back in the name of girls’ education and empowerment. By Zanoon Nissar (Director of Events, Jolkona)

Never heard of it? That’s because this year marks the first time the United Nations has sanctioned such a day. And why not? Women make the world go round. They inspire, lead, challenge, and renew the lives we lead and the places we call home.

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Investing In Design Entrepreneurs

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Design is the fastest growing business sector in New York City. Now do they know how to sell? By Jennifer Markas (Founder, Damsels in Design)

We've heard it over and over again. Designers know next to nothing about business. Whether or not this is vast generalization, can we blame them? Their education is lacking. Institutions are not receiving enough support to teach designers practical business skills to take their careers to the next level.

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Interview WIth CEO Tamar Yaniv, Co-Founder Of Preen.Me, After Raising $800K Funding For Her Beauty Startup

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Congrats to founder and CEO Tamar Yaniv for closing seed funding for social beauty startup Preen.Me! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Hailing from Tel Aviv, beauty startup Preen.me raised $800K seed funding led by Genesis Partners with participation from Horizon Ventures and Oren Zeev. The beauty industry is a $60 billion market that can afford to be disrupted by technology platforms helping users find the best products for them

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Validating Startup Ideas With Lean Startup Machine Los Angeles

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After attending Lean Startup Machine L.A., I can say that the LSM model provides some of the most practical and focused guidance on how to define and launch a business that I’m likely to ever receive. By Kelsey Greenberg (Co-Founder, Difference Lab)

My Lean Startup Machine (LSM) team was formed of two separate MuckerLab companies currently working on GetMeRated and Blayze. We were told that in order to get the most out of the experience, we shouldn’t work on our current products, but come up with something new.

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Mentor A Teenage Girl At Technovation And Give Back!

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When you were a teenager, did you have a female mentor or role model who showed you that girls can grow up to be programmers, entrepreneurs, and leaders? By Dara Olmsted (Director of Development, Iridescent)

Help the next generation of girls learn to code and start companies - sign up to be a Technovation Challenge mentor today. This year, Technovation is going global and we have hundreds of teams from around the world who need strong, female mentors like you to inspire and lead them. No experience necessary - we will train you.

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Startup Teaches Kids How To Write, Invites Teachers And Students To Join

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A fun and social online writing environment, Cubert’s Cube is designed to creatively engage young students in the writing process. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million)

Most kids use technology for games and music. What about using technology to learn to write, an essential skill to master early in life?

With Cubert’s Cube, entrepreneur Melanie Kusmik is attempting to do just that – teaching kids how to write

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Makers, First And Foremost

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At Hack'n Jill, our hackathon attendees are concentrating on building amazing products and services. By Eugenia Koo (Co-Founder, Hack'n Jill)

Recently Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gave some serious kudos to software engineer Nora Mullaney on Quora for Mullaney's response to the question, "What advice would seasoned women in tech give to younger girls deciding to make a tech career for themselves?"

The total response thread is delightfully lengthy

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Investors Share Advice With Entrepreneurs At Pipeline Fellowship Conference

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Female angel investors come together to share expertise at first ever Bay Area conference. By Carolyn Gerin (Co-Founder, Adorii)

“Never invest in anyone you wouldn’t have to your home for dinner,” quipped Cyan Banister, Uber and Zivity investor, setting the tone for an intensely fun and resonant day at the Pipeline Fellowship Conference, making one thing abundantly clear: female investors put a huge emphasis on relationship-building with the seed-stage companies they help launch.

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London-Based HouseTrip, Co-Founded By CFO Junjun Chen, Raises $40M Series C Funding

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Congrats to HouseTrip on the additional VC funding raised! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Holiday rental website HouseTrip for booking your vacation rental online raised $40 million Series C funding, led by Accel Partners and joined by return backers Balderton Capital and Index Ventures.

Junjun Chen co-founded HouseTrip in 2009, and has served as Chief Financial Officer since the company's inception.

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Setting Sail Without A Map

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You have your gut. There is no map. By Nayia Moysidis (Founder, Writer's Bloq)

One of the most daunting things about being a CEO of a startup is that no one else has done it before you. Sure, people have been CEO, but no one has been the CEO of this startup. This puts you in the position of navigating a directionless ship.

Think: Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.

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