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From Your “Forty-Godmother” – Here Are 3 Tips For A 20-Something

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This week's 3 tips from one generation to another - from your "Forty-Godmother." By Christina Vuleta (Founder, 40:20)

Women in their forties today are part of the first wave of women to grow up with more choices. We have seen the consequences of delaying marriage, fore-going childbirth or following an unexpected career path in large numbers. And while we all have made different decisions, what we all have in common by the time we hit our forties is the comfort of finally making decisions that are right for us.

We feel stronger, sexier and smarter than ever. We may still have shit happen to us, but we now know “shit happens” and we have a whole vault of experiences and strength to

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This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Joanne Chang

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

Chicago-based Joanne Chang is a healthcare angel investor and advisor with companies in stealth and early-stage mode.

She holds a joint MBA-MS degree in healthcare, clinical sciences and general management from Harvard and MIT.

While Joanne is best known as a Chicago-based healthcare angel investor, she invests in areas outside of Chicago - and in consumer as well. Find out more about the healthcare angel investor below:

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Is It Time To Rethink The Stigma For Tech Companies Led By Couples?

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Two other recent acquisitions by companies led by couples: Kush sold to Smule, and Yell bought Moonfruit. By Liz Gannes (Writer, AllThingsD)

Romantically involved tech company co-founders are having a good year.

In the past four months of big-ticket tech exits, Wildfire, co-founded and led by the engaged couple Victoria Ransom (CEO) and Alain Chuard (head of product management), was bought by Google for at least $250 million; Michael (CEO) and Kass (COO) Lazerow’s Buddy Media sold to Salesforce for $745 million-plus; and LinkedIn purchased married couple Rashmi Sinha (CEO) and Jon Boutelle (CTO)’s SlideShare for $119 million.

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Low-Cost Ways To Earn “Brand Bragging Rights” Using Your Existing Products And Services

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Women 2.0 readers save $150 on the Smarter Branding For Startups class for creating a powerful brand. By Brenda Bence (Instructor, Udemy)

Bragging rights – everybody wants them. But when it comes to your brand, do you honestly have them? How confident are you that your products or services are truly superior to your competition?

  • If your answer is “not that confident…”, then hang with me. I’ll share some ideas for how to create a perception of superiority even if your products and services are the same as your competitors.
  • If your answer is “very confident!” then it’s key to get your products or services in the hands of potential customers, even if it means you have to give the away for free.... Read More...
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How Long Is Your Startup’s Runway?

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Why runway is one of the most important things for a startup founder. By Florence Lowe (Founder & CEO, SQBlueSky)

From a simple Google search:

Noun: run·way [ruhn-wey] 1. Strip of hard ground along which aircraft take off & land. 2. Raised aisle extending into the audience from a stage.

Let me suggest a third definition.

3. The amount of time a startup founder has to figure it out and make it happen before they have to give up and go find a job.

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My First Hackathon: iOSDevCamp 2012

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While I didn’t have a clear output to show for my efforts, I made the complexity of the task apparent. I got to know the people working on projects in the same room. Most importantly, I became inspired to learn more about CSS3. By Veronica Ray (Senior, Duke University)

I’m a rising senior at Duke majoring in Public Policy.

I took my first Computer Science class this past spring and did web development over the summer for Y Combinator startup Jellyfish Art in San Francisco. This fall I’m taking a class on iOS development and another on web application development. I was hired as a part time web developer for Jellyfish Art for the upcoming school year. I will return to the Bay Area when I graduate.

My first hackathon was iOSDevCamp at PayPal/Ebay headquarters on July 20-22, 2012.

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Did You Really Miss That Opportunity? (Startup Recruiting)

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If someone is asking for your services, ask for a partnership opportunity, an equity percentage or simply a return for your effort. By Adriana Galue (Co-Founder, Mint Consulting)

There is a new business model available today. It involves recruiting talent at low or no cost. I know several talented people who are currently “doing internships” at both new and established companies in exchange for “experience”, “recommendation letters” and “peanuts”. I don’t think that this model is sustainable nor do I think that it generates true economic development.

Nowadays, it is extremely important to refine one’s negotiating skills. After having made a plethora of errors by jumping too soon into a deal, these are my recommendations:

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Zynga Adds Ellen Siminoff To Board Of Directors This Month (Women In The Boardroom)

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Ellen Siminoff, founding executive at Yahoo!, joins the all-male board of social gaming company Zynga. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

From the successful Internet campaign to add Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to the all-male board of directors at the social networking giant (which happened after the company went IPO), to a steady stream of studies and articles touting higher ROI for companies with women on the board, there is a growing awareness of board hegemony making decisions for a heterogeneous society.

Former Yahoo! executive Ellen Siminoff was added Zynga's board of directors this month, the first woman to join the previously all-male board. She will also join the audit committee at Zynga.

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Get A Better Smartphone Case On Crowdfunding Platform Indiegogo

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Entrepreneur Susan Wilson is raising funds for Life-Case on Indiegogo - one week left to fund her! By Amy-Willard Cross (Editor, Vitamin W)

You can’t really walk around with just a phone and a $20 bill. But most phone cases don’t let you stash more than that.

Susan Wilson realized she didn’t want to carry around a purse All-The-Time - especially after she left a rest-stop with her phone but without her wallet with hundreds of dollars in it. Wilson says, "I'm more connected to my phone than my wallet."

So she designed the Life-Case which can hold credits cards, keys, business cards and condoms. Bigger than a wallet, smaller than a purse, it can even hold tampons.

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Everlasting Entrepreneurship Dreams In Colombia

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Since I was a little girl, I always wanted to create and run a successful business. By Lilian Simbaqueba (Founder & CEO, LiSim)

My family says that as a child, I created imaginary corporations that carried out fantastic made-up transactions. After studying systems engineering in Konstanz, Germany, I vowed to return to my country not look look for a job but to generate several of them.

I worked for a multinational company in Hamburg to acquire the knowledge and the economic, relational and conceptual fundamentals necessary to create my own business. This is how, on 1996, 11 years after leaving to Germany, I returned to create LiSim, a company that generates and implements knowledge based on statistical models that foresee mass market consumer behavior.

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Female Founders To Watch: Enterprise Social Marketing Companies

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Social media marketing serving the masses means high-growth startups - creating lots of value and jobs. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

PITCH 2010 Startup Competition finalist Amita Paul pitched Objective Marketer onstage at the November conference. A few months later, Objective Marketer was acquired by Emailvision!

This year, we've seen big exits from social media marketing companies, starting with Buddy Media (co-founded by COO Kass Lazerow) getting acquired by Salesforce for a whopping $689M), Involver was acquired by Oracle while Wildfire Interactive (co-founded by CEO Victoria Ransom) was acquired by Google for $250M.

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Disruptive Innovation With A Capitol Twist

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Externalize the fact that disruption in the marketplace is both necessary and difficult. By Stephanie Sheridan (Founder & Policy Coordinator, Institute for Policy Analysis & Implementation)

Many a crucial moment I find myself sitting in front of my computer or my phone, typing on my Android as I so often do, sometimes, with both my computer and my phone on in front of me, in the middle of one email, text or link follow up. What stops me, what complicates and confuses me is complexity in relationships. Let me try to explain.

I live and work in Washington, DC - in Dupont Circle, to be exact. I consider this the best neighborhood in the entire world. Why I bear such fondness for my neighborhood is that I can live, work and play all around the topics that I care deeply about: urban sustainability, macro and micro economic policy, private sector development

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Getaround, Founded By Jessica Scorpio, Raises $13.9M Series A

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Jessica Scorpio's cleantech startup raises funding to solve car overpopulation and change the world. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

"Like Airbnb for cars" - social carsharing marketplace Getaround announced raising $13.9M in Series A funding today led by Menlo Ventures. In the list of investors includes Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. Getaround was founded by Jessica Scorpio who also serves as director of marketing.

Getaround's vision is "to make the world a better place through the power of disruptive technology, movements and ideas with a focus on collaborative consumption and sustainability."

Congrats to Jessica Scorpio and the Getaround team

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