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10 Tips For Leveraging Technology To Improve Women’s Lives In The Developing World (Day 2, Grace Hopper Celebration)

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Considerations for designing technology for developing countries. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Speaking at Grace Hopper Celebration, Ann Mei Chang talked about developing mobile apps for women in developing countries. She is a Senior Advisor for Women and Technology in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues at the US Department of State.

Ann Mei's presentation brought up 10 points for consideration when addressing mobile apps for developing countries.

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You Need Romance In Your Startup

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The most legendary founders saw something others couldn’t. By Nayia Moysidis (Founder, Writer's Bloq)

Ever since I started a company, I've been living in a cocoon. My cocoon. It's a safety layer that allows me to fully focus on my company, keeps me from the anxiety of everyone’s questions, and enables me to keep my sanity. It’s also a cop out.

Last weekend, I went out

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Can You Build A Startup That Changes The World With Just One Hundred Dollars?

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Start your dream project or business in 100 days for $100. By Natalie Sisson (Founder & Chief Adventurer, The Suitcase Entrepreneur)

Everyone has a dream project or idea they need to bring to the world. The reason most people never make this idea a reality is because they don’t know where to start, they lack the motivation, the know how or the support to just take that first step.

That’s why Women 2.0 is such an important

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This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Jessica Roazzi Magoch

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Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our weekly "This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like" series. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

A former VP at Atlantis Health Plan, Jessica Roazzi Magoch was interested in social entrepreneurship: “When I first heard of social entrepreneurship, I thought it had something to do with Facebook or social media. Then I realized it’s just companies doing what they’re supposed to do: good.”

She believes that successful companies should seek a public and social dividend rather than profit, because just giving away a percentage of profits as an after-thought is not enough.

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Women, Thought Leadership, Mentorship And Sponsorship (Day 1: Grace Hopper Celebration)

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Takeaways from an afternoon at Grace Hopper Celebration in Baltimore Convention Center. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

The first day of the three-day Grace Hopper Celebration of women in computing kicked off with an afternoon of panels and talks about thought leadership, mentorship, sponsorship and more leadership exercises. Around four thousand women engineers and academics are in attendance, as well as women from tech companies recruiting Grace Hopper conference attendees.

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3 Tips For Starting Up

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It's never a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket or to rely on one set of advice. By Meg Wirth (Founder, Maternova)

We're very happy to have the chance to share lessons learned in the five years since Maternova was conceptualized. I sat in a coffee shop in 2007 coming up with initial ideas around Maternova, not on a napkin but in a small notebook which I just recently found. I remember knowing next to nothing about social media, posting

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Owning Your Education (Hungry For Life)

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While it is easy to read and read about certain theories, it is important to apply the learnings to a tangible output. For programming, the best way is to make a project, be it a mobile app, a website or a patch to an open source project, which leads to the next step. By Michelle Sun (Recent Graduate, Hackbright Academy)

After a summer of intense, guided learning, I feel empowered and very blessed to be equipped with the right skills to pick up new skills along the way. Learning to program

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From “n00b” To Engineer In One Year

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I am joining Red Hat as a Associate Software Engineer. By Lynn Root (Founder, PyLadies San Francisco)

It is my great pleasure (and squee!) to share with my friends, family, PyLadies, Twitter nerds, Women Who Code’rs, DevChixen, Systers, and everyone else that I can now say: I am an Engineer.

Yes, the same person that once did not know the difference between a compiler and an interpreter, couldn’t explain

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What I Learned Building ParentSquare

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I have always been full of ideas... By Anu Vaid (Founder, ParentSquare)

I have over 15 years of hands-on experience in the software industry. This experience includes requirements analysis, software design, implementation and testing to leading teams, process management and even quality optimization.

I enjoy turning vague requirements into products

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Lisa And The 30-Pin Adventure, Or “Why I Built A Hardware Startup”

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Here I am, over two and a half years later, and to date, Revel has built not one, but two pieces of proprietary hardware! By Lisa Falzone (Founder & CEO, Revel Systems)

When I finally took the leap into Silicon Valley entrepreneur-dom, hardware was certainly the last thing on my mind. I had started a software company, after all — the award-winning leader in the iPad point of sale space, Revel Systems. Sure, hardware was a necessary component, but we could just buy all that. Right? Why venture into the unknown?

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Women On The Verge: Day 1 At Hackbright Academy

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16 of us filed into an office in San Francisco's Mission District today - among our ranks were physicists, teachers, mech and electrical engineers, sys admins, women fresh out of college, mothers, MIG welders, professors, biologists. By Margaret Morris (Student, Hackbright Academy)

We're the newest batch of Bene Gesserit Hackbright women, here to learn the entire Python-based dev stack, one layer at a time. We all hail from vastly different backgrounds and found this path through multiple routes, each with our own

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Top 10 Finalists Announced: PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition, Competition Culminates November 14!

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Join us for PITCH NYC Conference & Competition on November 14. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

The PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition received 275+ applications from over 24 countries. Today, we announce the 10 women-led startups selected by 30 seasoned VCs and angel investors to compete on November 14, 2012 at PITCH NYC for prizes.

We are excited to introduce the finalists of the 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH NYC Startup Competition (in alphabetical order):

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Keynote Speakers Announced For PITCH NYC 2012 Conference In November: Sandy Lerner (Cisco, Urban Decay), Geraldine Laybourne (Oxygen) And Fran Maier (Match.com, TRUSTe)

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  By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We are excited to announce our three keynote speakers for PITCH NYC Conference & Competition on November 14, 2012.

We are thrilled that Sandy Lerner, co-founder of tech giant Cisco and cosmetics company Urban Decay will be joining us and presenting the morning keynote at PITCH NYC Conference.

Founder of Oxygen Media, Geraldine Laybourne, will be presenting the afternoon keynote at PITCH NYC Conference.

As we've announced earlier, Match.com and TRUSTe founder Fran Maier is a keynote speaker at PITCH NYC Conference as well, along with a full roster of successful women startup founders like Sandy Jen (CTO of Meebo, acquired by Google), Michelle You (CPO of Songkick, funded by Sequoia) and Limor Fried (CEO of Adafruit Industries, up for Entrepreneur.com Entrepreneur of the Year). Full speaker roster and agenda at pitch.women2.com.

Learn more about our three impactful keynote speakers

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The Hacker Spirit, Alive And Well In DC: Introducing The Presidential Innovation Fellows Program

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Apply to the next PIF cycle or reach out to help with one of the existing initiatives, this is a chance to apply technical innovation and the hacker spirit with incredible backing from the White House. By Sophia Chou (Co-Founder, Loudly)

Only a week ago, I would never have associated the words "agile software development", "sprints" and "hackers" with the White House or federal government. These were words I had previously reserved for morning scrum sessions or startup life in general. That is until I participated in a roundtable discussion in DC last week

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