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Pre-Launching Women 2.0 Job Board – Find/Post Startup Or Tech Company Gigs!

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You can post your opportunity for 30 days for $10 until October 31. By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0)

Great news! We’ve been asked, for what seems like years, “Does Women 2.0 have a job board?” And we did, then we didn’t, then we did and then we didn’t. Using the cookie-cutter job boards just wasn’t working for us. So we put our heads down and quickly put together this for you! There is only one industry right now, globally, that is OVER-employed and that is in Technology.

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Ashoka Changemakers And Intel Tweet-A-Thon, #GirlTech Finalists Announced October 11

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Empowering women with tech tools to succeed and innovate. By Marzena Zukowska (Community Mobilizer, Ashoka Changemakers)

Investing in women is smart. Investing in women via technology is even smarter. Women offer a type of “multiplier effect” as they tend to pour more money into their communities (Forbes).

With 87% of the world covered by mobile technology (MRMW), putting two and two together is an obvious next step; empowering women with tech tools to succeed and innovate.

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Launching The Indiegogo Campaign For EnJai Earbuds

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"With the help of my family and many years of R&D... over three additional years, we had a product that worked." By Nancy Vartanian (Founder & CEO, shenYon)

When I was 19 years old, I had a dream (literally) about a product idea. I quickly woke up and wrote it down in my notebook. I thought it was such an exciting idea and assumed that it was already on the market.

After searching, I couldn’t find anything close to it on the market! I had studied Macro Economics

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Sheryl Sandberg Explains Why Younger Women Should Pursue Tech Careers

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Facebook leaders Sheryl Sandberg and Jocelyn Goldfein share advice. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

The most influential woman in tech right now, Sheryl Sandberg, outlined some clues for younger women searching for a career or job in today's economy.

In a post to Quora last week, she gave three pieces of advice for younger women and made an appeal for women

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At Patriot Bootcamp, A Commitment To Social Causes And Going Beyond “Finding Tofu Cupcakes”

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What separated Patriot Bootcamp from all of the other Washington DC tech events that I have attended was that it sought to enlist a new source of talent — veteran leaders — into the startup community. By Katya Vasilaky (VP of Research & Strategy, TroopSwap)

Technology’s greatest global contributions could be humanitarian, and this is something that can too often be forgotten in the first world. Foundations spawned from the success of technology-focused companies, such as the Gates Foundation, Google.org, Microsoft Research, and Nike Foundation, all sponsor studies

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Celebrating Oakland’s Tech Community With “2.Oak Tech Innovator Awards” (October 18 In Oakland)

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Oakland's community has an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit. By Minoo Akbarian (Steering Committee Member, 2.Oakland)

Like most people, I used to hear about the city of Oakland’s exciting restaurants, blooming arts & culture, and hot nightlife all the time. BUT it was not until about a year ago that I learned about the growing array of technology firms that call Oakland home.

Oakland’s tech companies (Pandora, Sungevity, Xantrion, LiveScribe and Bright Source Energy to name a few)

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Kids Learning By Playing And Doing With HacKIDemia

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HacKIDemia brings hacking, kids and academia into a global community empowering the future generation of Research & Development. By Bobi Rakova & Stefania Druga (Co-Founders, HacKIDemia)

How do you fire up kids about science and technology when the world is full of distractions? When everything is fighting for their attention, how can we make sure that we can give our kids the best starting point and inspire them to explore and go beyond

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The Minimum Viable Startup (October 10 In Palo Alto)

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Generate your business model hypothesis and validate your idea on October 10 in Palo Alto - Women 2.0 members save 50% on tickets with discount code "Women20oct". By Roger Rappoport (Founder, StartUp Info & Partner, Procopio)

The startup world has developed a vernacular of its own which, for those of us whose daily lives are spent immersed in startups, seems like a first, rather, than second language. However, to friends, family and the uninitiated, we might sound as though we are talking as if from the real, rather than proverbial, Mars and Venus!

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Women Help Startups Succeed. When Will VCs Notice?

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SlideShare, led by Rashmi Sinha, is being acquired by LinkedIn for $119 million. New research suggests that successful startups have more women in top management. By John Tozzi (Writer, Businessweek)

Successful startups have more women in senior positions than unsuccessful ones, according to a new analysis by Dow Jones (NWSA) VentureSource of more than 20,000 venture-backed companies in the U.S. between 1997 and 2011.

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Female Founders To Watch: Grace Hopper Celebration Attendees Celebrating Startup Acquisitions And IPOs

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Celebrating GHC attendees and women entrepreneurs who exit! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

This week, Women 2.0 has been attending the Grace Hopper Celebration in Baltimore, Maryland alongside literally thousands of women engineers, ranging from college students and academics to working professionals.

Amidst the throngs of tech-savvy women, we've spied a few notable women, including Robin Chase who flew in from France

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The New Girls’ Network: ‘The Polite Little Girl in the Room’?

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How to break out of being the dutiful daughter? It's not that easy. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls' Network)

Every year The Center for WorkLife Law, which I direct, runs a leadership academy for women law firm partners. One key message we send is that sometimes what it takes to make partner is different from what it takes to rise in the partnership.

"I've noticed that the women work so exceptionally hard," said a management consultant, when I asked her

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Career Lessons From The Developer Trenches

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Coding is not equal to getting a project done end to end. By Rupa Dachere (Founder, CodeChix & Software Engineer, VMware)

So, you’re a femgineer, you are working in industry and you’re stagnating.... What do you do?

When I started out in industry, I thought coding and writing beautiful, modular, efficient code, and getting it working and shipping, was my ticket to a promotion. Of course, I thought that – that’s what I was programmed (pun intended) to do in school.

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Women Executives Drive Successful Startups (Dow Jones Study)

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Dow Jones study released today measures success of companies with more women in executive positions. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

A study released today, "Women At The Wheel: Do Female Executives Drive Start-Up Success?", examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and 167,556 executives, of which 11,193 were female. Results show that venture-backed startups with women in senior executive roles are more likely succeed than companies where only men are in senior executive roles.

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