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Interns To The Rescue At Startups!

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How and why startups should use this valuable resource. By Florence Lowe (Founder & CEO, SQBlueSky)

Conventional wisdom would say that we don’t have the time to train and manage a bunch of young ‘uns - we are trying to start and build a company!

Interns can make a HUGE difference to any startup. Here at SQBlueSky, a fledgling fin-tech startup based in Dallas, TX, we have a bunch of interns spending their summer with us. They have helped us establish our social media presence, develop content, do financial modeling and valuation and create new marketing campaigns

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Women 2.0 Discount On San Francisco General Assembly Classes (Taught By Clare Baley, Anna Pereira And Poornima Vijayashanker)

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Save 10% on General Assembly's classes in San Francisco with discount code "women2". Women 2.0 has partnered with General Assembly to offer a 10% discount on classes popping up in San Francisco this summer!

Mobile apps are hot. If you are interested in learning the basics of Android development, the Writing Your First Android App class on Wednesday, August 8 (6:30pm - 8pm) is for you! Clare Bayley, a product engineer at Hattery Labs, will teach you how to build a fully functional Android application - what software to use, how to architect your app's life cycle and how to run your app on a device.

UC Berkeley Ph.D candidate Anna Pereira will be teaching

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How A Writer Found E-Commerce – And A Hub For Social Good

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Designed Good co-founders Katy Gathright and Imran Khoja are in San Francisco this week until August 3. They would love to meet with anyone who would like to give advice, talk about collaborating, or chat about design and social good. By Katy Gathright (Co-Founder & Creative Director, Designed Good)

I graduated from Williams College in June having thought (and wished) for four years that I would be a writer. I’d been writing essays, articles, blogs and fiction throughout college, but I could never picture myself being a journalist or novelist right after graduation. It wasn’t until a few months ago, when I chose to dive into social entrepreneurship and my co-founder Imran’s idea for a business, that I envisioned a completely new way to write.

Our business is called Designed Good – a play on bad grammar that my English major self is actually quite happy with. When I think about great design, I think about the architecture slides

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Mom By Day, New Entrepreneur By Night

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In many ways, I parallel MoxTree to having another child. By Victoria Oldridge (Founder, MoxTree)

My name is Victoria. I am wife to one, mom to a three year old and one year old by day and entrepreneur by night and anywhere in between! In a previous life, I was in consulting/sales for the medical device industry. When my son was young, I left the industry but my business wheels kept turning. The more I immersed myself in taking note of the ways in which moms were connecting, the more I was struck by the fact that this could be happening in a much more efficient way.

Having a child is a great starting point in forming mom-connections but there's a lot more to add to our interests and goals list...

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Toronto-Based ShopLocket, Co-Founded By Katherine Hague, Raises $1M Seed Funding For E-Commerce Disruption

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The $1M seed round for ShopLocket includes participation from Peter Thiel's Fund Valar Ventures. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Three months after launching, ShopLocket raised $1M in seed funding from Rho Canada Ventures, Valar Ventures, BDC Capital, Relay Ventures, Extreme Venture Partners and private investors.

Co-founder and CEO Katherine Hague aims to change the way consumers buy and sell products online. She said "e-commerce will not longer be reserved for marketplaces and storefronts. Instead, products will find us - on blogs, websites and in our newsfeeds, just as naturally as the videos and photos we share today."

Previously, Katherine was a Shopify theme developer

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Join Stripe For A Saturday Hackathon In San Francisco: Beginners Welcome!

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You provide the project, or start one with other coders who are attending. Your goal for the day should be to walk away having built something cool. By Greg Brockman (Engineer, Stripe)

This weekend, Stripe will be running The Hacker in the Rye, a hackathon of self-discovery at the Stripe office on Saturday, August 4 in San Francisco.

In contrast to the typical all-night frenzy of most hackathons, Stripe wants to make hacking collaborative, relaxing, and enjoyable. Whether you are looking to start a new project with other engineers or have a project you’ve been trying to find time to work on, this is the hackathon for you. Our team will be there to help you improve your engineering skills or chat with you about your latest projects.

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12 Traits Of The Perfect Entrepreneur

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From my own ventures, I've learnt valuable lessons about being an entrepreneur. By Wandia Chiuri (Social Media Enterprise Architect, Wandia.info)

As a female founder, I have learnt a lot of things. When I started my first company, Vfirefly.com, a women's network designed to inspire, empower and connect women across nations, I thought it was going to be a breeze. If anyone could do it, I could!

Having worked in the sales divisions of two Fortune 500 companies I had plenty of training on how to communicate well, had lots of leadership training and strongly believed in what I was doing. Yet I still wasn't prepared.

Building my second company - which was more successful - taught me

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Take Control Of Your Serendipitous Success (GROW It)

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Viva Women 2.0! I wanted send a major shout out to Women 2.0 and the dynamic women it supports. By Brian Wong (Founder & CEO, Kiip)

As I reflect on the last several years of my life, it has been a pretty wicked ride. Growing up in Vancouver and going on to create to create a truly disruptive company in Silicon Valley was hardly a predictable journey.

There two things I feel are worth highlighting that have helped make all of this possible – the unique environment I came from, and the people I have met along the way.

Women 2.0 members save $100 on your ticket for GROW (August 22-24, 2012 in Vancouver, BC) when

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Distance E-Learning In Brazil: Promoting Education Or Marginalizing Women?

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Promoting inclusion of women in education, especially marginalized women or those from the developing countries. By Dr. Melinda dela Pena-Bandalaria (Professor, University of the Philippines Open University)

In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of courses offered in the distance education. Thanks to this mode of delivery, geographical distances ceased to be a problem when it comes to studying or earning a degree or improving one’s educational qualifications.

The rapid advancement in information and communication technologies is making distance education even more accessible and more empowering because now studying can be done anywhere, anytime. Applying modern information and communication technologies (ICT) also makes it possible to simulate many classroom

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Founding CEO Victoria Ransom And Wildfire Interactive Team Join Google In $250M Acquisition

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Google beefs up their social efforts with acquisition of social marketing startup Wildfire Interactive today. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Google declared on its blog today that they will be "sparking better conversation with Wildfire", announcing the acquisition of social marketing startup Wildfire Interactive today. Wildfire was co-founded by Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard (both pictured).

In an interview, Victoria talked about growing up on a farm in New Zealand "in the middle of nowhere". She caught the entrepreneurship bug and in the midst of her second or third company, she realized that even as a business person without technical skills, she wanted to create an online platform to scale the social media marketing efforts for everyone. Wildfire Interactive was born.

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Join The Changemakers #SocEntChat On Women And Technology (August 1)

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Bridge the technology divide on August 1 in a discussion about social entrepreneurship. By Dani Matielo (Community Manager, Ashoka Changemakers)

Life for women and girls in the 21st century can be a challenge. Every day, millions of women worldwide deal with a gender and technology divide that leaves them underrepresented at every level of the pyramid. Change is on the horizon as awareness of this issue grows.

E-learning initiatives are helping to make education more inclusive, particularly for women in low- and middle-income countries; civil society organizations and for-profit businesses are also getting involved by encouraging women to consider careers in tech-focused fields, from engineering to design.

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How To Get Un-Stuck From Your Job: Advice From A 40-Something To A 20-Something

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What to do when you can’t move forward in your job and you can’t quit your job. By Susan Alexander (Founder, Good Disruptive Change)

Dear 40-Something,

I feel stuck. I have on paper what looks like a great job. However, I am miserable. I feel very isolated. I feel like I do not use my brain. I hate feeling ‘stuck’ in my career. I have had conversations with my bosses about taking on more projects and responsibilities, but they have offered me more of the same unrewarding, unsatisfying work.

It has reached a point where I feel depressed at work and feel like I am presenting a facade to all my coworkers. I have stayed in it this far out of loyalty to my company and my bosses.

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How To Win A Hackathon (iOSDevCamp 2012)

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Foodspotting, the leading app for rating dishes at restaurants, made its first public debut at iPhoneDevCamp 2009 when Alexa Andrzejewski pitched the idea in search of co-founders and won Best Social App. This year, Alexa returned and led her team, including Foodspotting's own IOS developers, to win "Best Open Source," a top honor at iOSDevCamp 2012, for FilterKit. She shares her experience & tips for making the most of hackathons, especially as a non-developer, below.

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