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Pitch Mixer: One Ambitious Innovation For UC Berkeley Students

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Pitch Mixer's efforts to collaborate and invigorate the entrepreneurial spirit in Berkeley. By Sabrina Atienza (UC Berkeley Student & Cloud Analytics Intern, Tealeaf Technology)

I once embraced this mantra: succeed in school and accordingly escalate within an entrenched, reputable firm to ensure financial stability. Before stepping onboard my first flight to California three years ago from New Jersey, my home state, my business-savvy uncle warns me that the entrepreneurial spirit of the West will seem a drastic contrast to the aforementioned indoctrination.

Yet, three years at UC Berkeley have elapsed and in my dual pursuit of Physics and Computer Science, I feel puzzled and ashamed to admit that the entrepreneurial scene here at Cal

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Through The Looking Glass – Alice The Perfect Game Developer

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“Why, I sometimes believe six impossible things before breakfast.” — Alice By Jennifer McFadden (Co-Founder, Skillcrush)

If Lewis Carroll had been in tech, he would have undoubtedly been a game designer, building highly complex and whimsical quests. His ability to imagine and re-imagine the world and bend it into nonsensical narratives would have made him a natural.

Designers craft the stories behind the games; develop the characters and the plot; decide which obstacles the characters have to overcome; and, imagine all of the features that make a game challenging, fun and visually exciting.

Carroll creates a sea out of Alice’s tears; turns

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Trade Trade Secrets: Revolutionary Ideas

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Startups are in a race against time, not others. By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Lightsail Energy)

Your revolution will not be stolen.

Great ideas can’t change the world by themselves. They need people.

There are two kinds of revolutionary ideas. The explosive, and the subversive.

The explosive ideas seem to spread like wildfire. What people miss is that wildfires need kindling. One might spark the spark that lights the fire, but the ideas are in nascent forms in other minds

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Team Up Or Operate Alone: The Benefits Of Partnering In Business

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Partnering with other entrepreneurs enables you to implement at a faster adoption rate. By Lisa Falzone (Founder, President & CEO, Revel Systems)

Whether you’re a first time entrepreneur or you’ve built several businesses, it is difficult to bring a business idea from conception to implementation. After 7 years of experience and many lessons learned, if getting help is an option, I will always choose to get help. You can’t do everything yourself and in most matters of business, two (or three or four!) heads are better than one.

When I started Revel Systems, we started out doing everything from software development to hardware creation to hardware installation. We were doing it all because no one else had yet combined

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Can Angels Help Women Shatter Glass Ceilings?

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Women have shied from seeking outside funding to grow their companies, resulting in slower growth. By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer)

Money is a key ingredient for high-growth, job-creating companies. Traditionally women have shied away from using outside funding. As a result, their businesses have grown slowly and created fewer jobs.

But that seems to be changing. For the last two years, angel investors have funded more women-owned businesses than ever before - more than 1,600 per year - which could mean that women-owned, high growth, job-creating companies are finally coming into their own.

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The Opportunities For Robots, Startups And Women

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Women hackers wanted for robots at the Mountain View MEGA Startup Weekend! By Andra Keay (Organizer, MEGA Startup Weekend)

Robots, startups and women - These are a few of my favorite things, but they usually don’t go hand in hand. There are exceptions of course, but in general, the numbers don’t lie. Women are under represented in tech startups and under represented in robotics. Under representation is a missed opportunity.

I’m not just being a cheerleader. It’s tempting to claim that robotics is the future and that we need to get more women involved. But if simply getting more women in the pipes fixed the under representation of women in technology, we’d have seen greater

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A Tale Of Ada Lovelace, Women In Tech – And Steve Jobs’ Biographer

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Meet Ada Lovelace, the 19th century mathematician role model and first computer programmer ever. By Connie Guglielmo (Co-Founder & Editor, One Thing New)

Girl Talk, Woking, England — Suw Charman-Anderson had never heard of Ada Lovelace, the brilliant daughter of the poet Lord Byron, when she dreamed up a project to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and math.

But after learning of Lovelace, Charman-Anderson, an author, social media consultant and self-described technologist who was frustrated by the dearth of women speakers at tech conferences, thought it fitting that her call to action be named after the woman recognized as the first computer programmer. What better role model

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Win A Free Ticket To Women In Business Conference This Saturday In San Jose

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Win a free ticket to Women in Business Conference in San Jose, CA. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Women 2.0 has a bunch of free tickets to the Women in Business Conference this Saturday, April 14, 2012 in San Jose, CA.

To win one of these free conference tickets, be one of the first ten (10) women to leave a comment below letting us know why you want to go to the conference this Saturday!

Join Silicon Valley's top executives on Saturday, April 14, 2012 at eBay in San Jose for interactive breakout sessions featuring idea-transforming strategies and real-world tools that resonate with today's fast-paced society.

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Call For Applications: Apply By May 15 To Mentor In San Francisco Bay Area For TechWomen From The Middle East, North Africa

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TechWomen offers professional mentorship in San Francisco for women from the Middle East and North Africa. By Heather Ramsey (Director, TechWomen & Strategic Partnerships, Center for Women's Leadership Initiatives, IIE)

TechWomen is seeking women in the San Francisco Bay Area to serve as Professional and Cultural Mentors to the 2012 cohort of TechWomen Mentees from the Middle East and North Africa.

Harnessing the power of business, technology and innovation, TechWomen brings emerging women leaders and entrepreneurs in technology together with their U.S. counterparts for a professional mentorship and exchange program with innovative companies, entrepreneurs and startups in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area.

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Women 2.0 And Ellas 2.0 Launching Founder Friday Buenos Aires (Argentina) On May 4

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Join us on May 4 in Buenos Aires for Founder Friday! By Patricia Araque (Co-Founder, Ellas 2.0)

With the new Women 2.0 partnership with Ellas 2.0, we are expanding Founder Friday to Latin America - identifying the best in Argentina entrepreneurship while inspiring and connecting the next generation of women entrepreneurs.

Sally Buberman, Co-Founder of Wormhole IT and María Laura García, Founder of Global News will be co-hosting Founder Friday Buenos Aires on May 4, 2012 at NXTPLabs accelerator.

» RSVP for Founder Friday Buenos Aires here.

Founder Friday is a Women 2.0 monthly networking event

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3 Secrets To A Happy Marriage With Your Co-Founder

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Establishing a relationship in which one bug can’t crash the system. By Claire McDonnell & Gülin Yilmaz (Co-Founders, Awardly)

Marriage counseling is a multi-billion dollar industry for a reason. It’s hard to make a long-term committed relationship work. Yet while there’s a whole industry dedicated to decreasing the divorce rate, you don’t hear too much about making another kind of partnership work. You know, the kind where you spend way more time together than you do with your respective life partners and constantly contend with high stress situations: your co-founder relationship.

About a year ago, we began one of those relationships full of high hopes, despite a somewhat wacky courtship.

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