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Startup Hiring Room

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We've worked hard to ensure that women and other people typically under-represented at entrepreneurship conferences are very much a part of this event By Sarah Milstein (Co-Host, The Lean Startup Conference)

What do startups need most these days? Great people to hire.

To help young companies find strong candidates, The Lean Startup Conference is hosting a Hiring Room, and we want to make sure women-led startups are represented.

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Learn Product Development For Technology And Physical Products November 14 In Oakland

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Turn your product into a business - think through product development! By Darlene Crane (Executive Director, Alliance for Community Development)

The Alliance for Community Development is in program mode again. We always want to encourage a climate of forward progress and growth, so we've renamed the series Propel Business Growth Forums. Starting on November 14, the first forum in the series focuses on product development for technology and physical products.

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Life’s Biggest Challenges Are Your Best Business School

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EatDrinkJobs is one of the 10 startups pitching onstage at PITCH NYC Conference & Competition - get your $300 conference pass to join Women 2.0 on November 14. By Julie Lerner (Founder, EatDrinkJobs)

Everything I learned about entrepreneurship started with three words... "you have cancer."

My sudden diagnosis turned each day into a gift and at a very young age, this harrowing journey taught me more than I ever expected to learn about life, true grit, and making things happen.

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Slowly, Slowly: Growing From Side Project To Funded Startup

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The startup seems to move very fast. But actually, it is a slow story. By Natalie Gordon (Founder, BabyList)

My company, BabyList, is part of the fall batch of 500 Startups. I decided that 500 was the perfect accelerator for BabyList, saw that they had open enrollment, spent two days on my application, had an interview and was accepted. Two days later, I was in Mountain View (a painful commute from my home in San Francisco). All of this took place in under two weeks.

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PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition Finalist Gives 8 Tips To Balance The Demands Of Startup And Parenthood

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Children and startups have similar demands, needs and rewards. By Shilpa Dalmia (Co-Founder & CTO, ActivityHero)

Many people ask, “How do you balance work and life with two young kids and a startup?”

My answer is, “The same way you raise three kids.” A startup is just like another child. Each child has his/her/its own demands and needs, and each gives you immense satisfaction and pleasure.

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Facebook Director Of Global Agency Relations Sarah Personette To Keynote At PITCH NYC 2012 Conference (November 14)

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PITCH NYC 2012 Conference welcomes Facebook's Sarah Personette to the stage next Wednesday in New York! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We are excited to announce that Facebook's Director of Global Agency Relations Sarah Personette will be delivering a keynote eat PITCH NYC Conference. She joins keynote speakers Geraldine Laybourne (Founder, Oxygen Network), Fran Maier (Founder, Match.com and TRUSTe) and Sandy Lerner (Founder, Cisco and Urban Decay) on November 14.

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Google Developers Live: Google’s Lead Hardware Engineer For Project Glass Jean Wang Talks To Pixel Qi’s Mary Lou Jepsen

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Women innovators featured on Google Developers Live. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

In the throes of the election coverage this afternoon, Google Developers Live hosts Google's lead hardware engineer for Project Glass Jean Wang and Google Global Chrome Developer Relations Manager Vivian Cromwell in a conversation with 2011 Anita Borg "Woman of Vision" Award for Innovation winner Mary Lou Jepsen, Founder and CEO of Pixel Qi.

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PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition Finalist Learns From Launching Product Who Her Customers Really Are

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"Every piece of validation... is a huge lift." By Andi Gillentine (Co-Founder & COO, Whit.li)

Have you ever had the experience of reading a review online – for a book, a hotel or a restaurant - and wanted to know if you were “like” the reviewer? Not if you lived in the same place, were the same age, or bought the same gift for someone else, but if you were really alike, deep down. Me too, and so have all of the founders of Whit.li. This was our inspiration moment.

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