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First Bootstrapper/Student Discount Batch For PITCH NYC Released

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Apply for a bootstrapper/student discount to attend PITCH NYC Conference & Competition on November 14. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We have released a small batch of bootstrapper and student discount codes for the PITCH NYC Conference & Competition. We have emailed a limited number of applicants a discount code, good for use in the next 2 weeks. We will be releasing another small batch of deeply discounted tickets in a few weeks.

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Turning Big Ambitions Into Reality: Dramagame Indiegogo Campaign

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In Finland, we have this term “sisu” which means an attitude of not giving up. You do what it takes go forward.

By Elina Arponen (Co-Founder & CEO, Tribe Studios)

Dramagame is a whole new interactive experience, a type of social storytelling that has not been seen before. When we started to develop Dramagame, we had big ambitions on what we wanted from the start. We knew where we wanted to go, but we did not

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5 Effective Leadership Practices For CEOs To Drive Company Growth

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In an age where women breaking through the glass ceiling have become more common, there still seems to be some mystery around what happens after that well-earned appointment to CEO takes place. By Pamela Springer (President & CEO, Manta)

Based on my personal experiences, I wanted to share the tips and advice that have helped me stay focused, accomplish the milestones I set for myself and transform a company into a successful business that supports entrepreneurs.

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LadyCoders: Getting More Women In Technology In Seattle

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We want to help women get hired into technology careers. By Lorraine Sawicki (Co-Founder, LadyCoders)

Two big things happened to me over this past summer. I met two geeky, fun, and talented women and together we formed LadyCoders.

I then gave birth to my second child (a boy) in July. Now I'm working full time on both of these at the same time, and I love how both are shaping up! Along with my partners Liz Dahlstrom and Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack, we promoted our idea for a LadyCoders seminar through Kickstarter and got fully funded. It was an extremely beneficial learning experience, and we got support from people all around the world. We saw the need for

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Managing Engineering: How To Keep Your Startup Engineer Sane

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Solving technical issues with your engineer. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee)

You worked hard to attract that so-called rock star engineer, thinking that they would be the golden goose who could bring your vision to reality, but now things have gotten rocky.

Iteration cycles are taking too long, buggy code is being shipped, or you find that your engineer is working on things that are not a priority.

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UX Design Can’t Be An Afterthought

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Win a FULL SCHOLARSHIP for General Assembly’s User Experience Design Course - enter your email for a chance to win! By Christina Wodtke (Product Designer, Wodtke Consulting)

Historically, designers in technology companies often feel like the only girl in the room. They were brought in late, more often than not and shown a ugly product and were asked to “make it pretty.” This sounded mighty familiar to some, who also heard in their personal life to “just sit there and look pretty.”

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The Future Of Monetization And Money On The Internet

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Monetization in information delivery and communications platform. By Patricia Handschiegel (Founder & CEO, 9)

Monetization in information delivery and communications platform business has remained the same through decades, including with multiple disruptive new platforms and innovation. While it’s true that some things can change in innovation, often the core business truisms generally remain the same. Case in point: the steam engine replaced the paddle-powered boat, but it did not change

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Be Part Of Global Entrepreneurship Week 50 (“GEW 50”) – Apply For Startup Open By September 15 (Win A Trip To Rio de Janeiro!)

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Global Entrepreneurship Week hosts Startup Open, a competition offering prizes to help startups succeed - apply by September 15 for recognition of your high-growth potential. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Get recognized as one of the 50 of the most promising ventures from around the world for Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). The 2012 class of the "GEW 50" will be announced October 15, 2012 and then competes for a handful of prizes.

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Startup America Optimism Survey Finds 85% Of Startups Plan To Hire Employees In The Next Year

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Kauffman Foundation data show that young companies (those less than five years old) accounted for nearly all net job growth in the U.S., creating three million new jobs annually. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

The Startup America Partnership recently released the results of an optimism survey gauging startups' confidence about their businesses and the overall U.S. economy, with its 8.1% unemployment rate. An encouraging finding is that 85% of survey participants plan on hiring in the next year. 11% of those reported planning on hiring

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Back To Work, With Cigars

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Criticism of fathers who sought leave was harsh and very much in the open. This needs improvement. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls' Network)

The Labor Day op-ed I co-authored with Anne-Marie Slaughter was written before I read a stupendous, and sobering, article by Erin Kelly, a sociologist at The University of Minnesota, who is one of the foremost work-family researchers in the country. (All data and quotes in this article are from her study.)

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After 10-Week Python Training Program, Women Engineers Receive Job Offers From Silicon Valley Startups

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Hackbright Academy in San Francisco trains women to be developers. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Andree Brazeau moved to San Francisco from Canada and began teaching herself to code. A year later, she still wasn’t able to find a job as a developer, so she applied for Hackbright Academy. The Python training program was already full, but Andree persisted. Thanks to a last-minute dropout, Andree was admitted to the all-female software training program in June.

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Women Entrepreneurs At Fashion’s Night Out In New York City

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Meet enterprising female founders at the Plum Alley event. By Leena Sukumar (Vice President, mySkin)

I attended a Fashion's Night Out event in New York co-hosted by Plum Alley, a new venture by Deborah Jackson. Deborah, a champion of women-owned companies, seeks to provide exposure to curated emerging brands founded by women, via limited sales.

The event was packed with high-energy women dressed fashionably in true New York City style.

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An Entrepreneur’s Brain Dump

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Meebo co-founder and CTO Sandy Jen will be speaking at PITCH NYC on November 14, 2012. By Sandy Jen (Co-Founder & CTO, Meebo)

I helped found Meebo in 2005. It's now 2012. I heard somewhere that the average lifespan of a startup is 7 years. I have no idea if that's still true, but somehow Meebo hit that statistic right on the dot.

Growing Meebo to almost 200 people was

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