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New Kickstarter Campaign: Culture Kitchen Kits

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Pressing that little green rocketship was a little harder than anticipated. By Jennifer Lopez (Co-Founder & CEO, Culture Kitchen)

"Should I hit the green button?" "Are you ready? You sure?" "Okay, let's press it together."

A little dramatic, I know, but that was what my Monday morning looked like. Those were the last few seconds before we officially launched our Culture Kitchen Kickstarter campaign. My co-founder Abby Sturges and I physically pressed the button together for the 15 incredible Master Cooks we work with, the hundreds of customers who eat lovely Culture Kitchen dinners every month and the countless people in our community that say, "I just love Culture Kitchen."

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Startups Need To Learn To Pitch To More Than Just Investors

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I started Pitch Refinery for the same reason I started my women coding group, CWDevs - I built it because I didn't know how to do it... By Melissa Pierce (Founder, Chicago Women Developers)

It's a catch 22 starting a business built on learning to pitch to anyone when I don't know how to pitch myself.

I often joke about wishing I could attend my conference before I organized it. Not having pitching skills is all too common a problem in the startup space, especially in women led startups. Let's face it, until recently, we've been taught NOT to draw attention to ourselves.

Add the fact that many women entrepreneurs come to startup land via the non-business school route

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Women-Led Startups Compete With “Bro-grammers” For Funding

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Gender stereotypes die hard as females make tech gains. By Christopher Heine (Staff Writer, Adweek)

Sophia Chou is president of Loudly, a new text-and-call phone app that just finished a 12-week accelerator program called Woman Innovate Mobile (WIM).

Every morning, Chou and Loudly co-founder Foy Savas leave a tiny apartment they share in Bay Ridge Brooklyn and head into Manhattan, often to meet with venture capitalists and other potential investors. They moved from Boston last winter to participate in WIM and rub elbows with movers-and-shakers in New York’s growing tech scene.

While Chou’s forecast for Loudly is clearly optimistic, she

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Google, The Carrier

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The internet is designed to replace both legacy voice calling networks, which currently is the cellular (mobile) and PSTN (landline) platforms that millions and millions Americans use to make telephone calls. By Patricia Handschiegel (Founder & CEO, 9)

Google officially entered the carrier arena today.

For those who may not click through, it’s Google’s new internet offering, which it has rolled out in Kansas. According to the Associated Press, the company is intending to push digital television, which is television delivered via the internet platform versus broadcast TV platform. The internet has always been designed to do this since its original creation, and has been able to deliver it in a meaningful way (aka, no quality issues, delays, etc.) since roughly 2005. That had more to do with the internet

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The Power Of Diversification (Investing In Startups)

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You need to make enough investments to be confident that you will get at least one big winner. And so that means making enough bets. By Fred Wilson (Managing Partner, Flatiron Partners & Union Square Ventures)

Investing in startups is risky. If you make just one investment, you are likely going to lose everything. If you make two, you are still likely to lose money. If you make five, you might get all your money back across all five investments. If you make ten, you might start making money on the aggregate set of investments.

The math behind this is pretty simple. If you assume that the average startup has a 33% chance of making money for the investors, a 33% chance of returning capital, and a 33% chance of losing everything and that only 10% will make a big return

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Brittany Wenger, 17, Wins Google Science Fair Grand Prize For Breast Cancer Diagnosis App

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Earlier this week, the winners of the second annual Google Science Fair were announced. By Dino Grandoni (Contributor, The Huffington Post)

The Grand Prize winner of the science fair, for good reason, was a 17-year-old from Lakewood Ranch, Florida.

Combining the fields of biology and computer science, Brittany Wenger wrote an app that helps doctors diagnose breast cancer, according to the description of her project on Google.

The type of computer program, called a "neural network," was designed by Wenger to mimic the human brain: Give it a massive amount of information (in this case, 7.6 million trials), and

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New York: Girls Who Code

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If this next group of girls can walk out feeling like they rule, then there is no doubt you are looking at the next generation of young women in the tech world. By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal)

Please meet the next generation of the tech world - these lovely young women sitting in a room in Chelsea learning how to code, think big and become engineers.

Reshma Saujani who founded Girls Who Code is showing all of us how to make a difference in kids lives. She is also running for NYC public advocate.

Her passion for getting girls interested in technology and reaching across the divide is impressive - and she is making a difference doing what she talks about.

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How To Turn Your Passion Into A Business Model (Coolhaus)

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Unable to afford a brick and mortar storefront, the young entrepreneurial duo bought a second-hand truck and split their time baking cookies and making ice cream in Freya’s mom’s kitchen during the Fall of 2008. They launched their first food truck one year later, and they’ve been using Google Apps ever since to scale their business to Austin, New York, and Miami. Most recently, CoolHaus announced its first ice cream truck in Dallas, with additional launches slated for this summer. By Natasha Case (Co-Founder & CEO, Coolhaus)

While finishing up grad school for architecture, I was looking forward to building my professional career with real projects and clients. I wanted my first job to be the kind of position where I could not only apply my training, but also make connections with the public. Within 6 months of starting my first job, the recession hit.

I realized I might have to get more creative with my career path to survive the changing economy.

Luckily, I had been developing

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Partner Event: Monetization Strategies Exposé (July 31 In SF)

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Judging companies on financial metrics doesn't meet the need of today's digital success stories. At a Monetization Strategies Exposé in San Francisco on July 31, hear from Silicon Valley experts on the strategies they recommend - the good and the ones to avoid. Top companies are achieving acclaim through alternative monetization approaches. Some are paid via a subscription model. Others are exploring paywalls, price discrimination, flash sales, freemium, and social standing.

Women 2.0 members save 25% on tickets when you register here with discount code "women2".

Panelists include Diana Stepner (Head of Future Technologies, Pearson), Lisa Marino (CEO, RockYou), Tyler Singletary

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Commenting On The Web Is Broken

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When we came up with ReadSocial, we knew it was solving a big problem but it wasn’t necessarily an obvious problem. By Travis Alber (Founder, ReadSocial)

Commenting is broken. I don’t want to sound too harsh, realizing there are comments at the end of this article and that it’s technically possible to use them. The paradigm for commenting on the web hasn’t changed in 15 years, but how we communicate online has. We communicate in the moment. We share our thoughts. Talk about it.

But just like we’ve done for more than a decade, we talk about it somewhere else. We scroll 30 paragraphs down the article and type in a little box at the end. Or open a separate tab. Sometimes we comment on a separate social network

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