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Today’s High School Girls Are Tomorrow’s Mobile App Inventors

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Watch the top 11 teams of high school girls pitch their Android apps and business plans to investors on May 3 in Santa Clara at the Technovation Challenge National Pitch Night. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

What would the next generation of high school girls build if given the chance to build the next big startup? What would their Android mobile apps look like? What would their business models look like? How would their elevator pitches to top investors in the community sound? What do the young tech-savvy inventors of tomorrow look like?

Find out for yourself on Thursday, May 3 in Santa Clara, California at the National Pitch Night for Technovation Challenge as the top 11 teams from New York, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles high schools compete to have their innovative smartphone apps taken to market! The event open to the public - free RSVP here.

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Dear Siri, Please Come To Startup.Synergy

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Startup.Synergy is the annual event for the Citrix Startup Accelerator. By Jeremiah Shackelford (Marketing & Operations, Citrix Startup Accelerator)

I’m not sure if she’s been made an honorary mentor for Women 2.0 yet but I’m infatuated thru and thru with Siri. Smart, resourceful, awesome accent, I mean what’s not to love? I hope she comes to Startup.Synergy, and I hope you do as well.

Startup.Synergy is the annual event for the Citrix Startup Accelerator. We do early-stage corporate venturing in enterprise-focused startups. We help bridge them from seed stage to Series A or acquisition faster. Our offering in doing so is $250K, an office in Silicon Valley, and assistance in enterprise customer validation.

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Reaching Your End Game: Collective Success For Women Entrepreneurs

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Instead of struggling in a silo, it’s critical to create a networked, multifaceted strategy to solving problems by sharing resources and learning about proven tactics. By Marilyn Nagel (CEO, Watermark)

The great news is that the number of women entrepreneurs continues to rise regionally, nationally, and internationally. The bad news? Not everyone successfully navigates the journey from concept to the bustling and profitable business initially envisioned.

The number of obstacles business owners and growers face can seem truly insurmountable: finding funding, getting access to the right resources, hooking great talent (on a budget!), and building the right technology platform are just a few of the problems entrepreneurs find themselves challenged with.

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The Art Of The Startup (May 3 In Menlo Park)

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First-time entrepreneurs will benefit from the event "The Art Of The Startup" on May 3 in Palo Alto. By Roger Rappoport (Founder, StartUp Info & Partner, Procopio)

For entrepreneurs, deciding to form a company or become involved with a startup presents enormous challenges. Navigating around legal, fund raising and other issues can often seem overwhelming, and traps for the unwary or uninformed are numerous.

However, successfully avoiding the most common pitfalls can make a significant difference as to whether or not a company is fundable, the sources and types of capital that will be attracted, who controls the company, the economic impact on founders upon exit, and a company's likelihood of success.

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An Obligation To Help Each Other

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There are so many ways to support each other – even signing up for each other’s apps and giving feedback is invaluable. We should all help each other. By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne)

AboutOne would not be where it is today without the support I received early on from Philly Startup Leaders (PSL). This group of like-minded entrepreneurs gave me invaluable advice and contacts.

Gloria Bell and Tracey Welson-Rossman are key members of this organization who have given selflessly of their time, so when they invited me to speak at the Philadelphia Women in Tech Summit, I was thrilled to return the favor.

The first ever Philadelphia Women in Tech Summit

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Prosperity Candle’s Triple Bottom Line Approach To Business

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We don’t hire women to make candles. We make candles to hire women. By Siiri Morley (Founding Partner, Prosperity Candle)

"Born or made?"

This was the question posed to me at the end of a panel discussion where I was speaking about my work with Prosperity Candle. The question asked whether I believed I was born or made an entrepreneur.

As I answered, I realized that I didn’t become an entrepreneur because of an inherent interest in business. I became an entrepreneur because I am a social justice and human rights activist at heart and found that business was the right tool to achieve my goals of empowering women.

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How Startups Really Survive (The Short And Long Of It)

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Weathering long-distance moves, moving in with parents, long commutes, tight budgets, pregnancy... By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit)

Last night, I was at Google on a panel talking about women in entrepreneurship. Afterwards, I chatted with an attendee about the very early days of LaunchBit.

I mentioned that one point, I'd lived at my parents' house to save money. This shocked her and she replied, "Oh...I could never do that." And that was just the beginning of all the sacrifices that many people have made in order for LaunchBit to work.

There is so much that goes on behind the scenes of a startup - beyond actually running the core business.

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I Can Has Co-Founder: A Tale Of Cheezburgers And K-Pop Stars

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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one." - C.S. Lewis By Joyce Kim (Co-Founder, Simple Honey)

I first met Eric in Tokyo (where Eric was living) on the inaugural Geeks on A Plane trip over two years ago.

We quickly connected on our shared entrepreneurial history – both of us had co-founded passionate community sites that were not born from a business plan. They developed from a personal interest on a random topic that just exploded: lolcats for Eric and K-pop for me.

We both had experienced growing pains from trying to monetize fast-growing sites that were initially passion projects.

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Meet Maria Carolina Cintra, Founder Of Kingo Labs In Brazil

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You should constantly be asking people about salary. Go ahead - ask. By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women's Capital Connection)

Maria Carolina Cintra always wanted to have her own company. Knowing there are only a handful of Brazilian female tech entrepreneurs, she has used her internet savvy to change that.

Cintra is the founder and Innovation Director of Kingo Labs, the first company in Latin America to develop its own reality mining applications, collecting and analyzing data through mobile devices.

In efforts to support other women entrepreneurs, she and a group of like-minded, trailblazing girlfriends started

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Why Banking Is Broken – And How It Can Be Transformed

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Pictured: The most powerful women in banking. By Carol Realini (Author, BANKRUPT: Why Banking is Broken. How it can be Transformed.)

The book "BANKRUPT - Why Banking is Broken. How it can be Transformed" was a decade in the making. It started when I was traveling in Africa in 2002. I was taking a long needed break from being a technology entrepreneur and was supporting a non-profit working in central Africa.

It was my first time visiting a place where the infrastructure was severely lacking; transportation, roads, electricity, water, and health care – nothing worked. Yet even in 2002, many people had cell phones.

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10 Competencies Of Successful Women Entrepreneurs In Developing Countries

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Empretec’s formula for success is built around 10 Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies. By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women's Capital Connection)

Melissa De León, founder of Panama Gourmet, a company which produces gluten-free foods, just won the 2012 UNCTAD Empretec Women in Business Award. This award honors businesswomen from developing countries who have founded successful firms, created jobs, and become role models in their communities. The finalists for this year’s award were women from Brazil, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Jordan, Nigeria, Panama, Uganda, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.

A focus on 10 key entrepreneurial competencies was key to her success.

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