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Etsy Hacker School Scholarships Support Women In Technology

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Etsy wants to hire 20 women engineers, starts by providing scholarships to Hacker School for women. By Marc Hedlund (VP Engineering, Etsy)

Today, in conjunction with Hacker School, Etsy is announcing a new scholarship and sponsorship program for women in technology: we’ll be hosting the summer 2012 session of Hacker School in the Etsy headquarters, and we’re providing ten Etsy Hacker Grants of $5,000 each — a total of $50,000 — to women who want to join but need financial support to do so.

Our goal is to bring 20 women to New York to participate, and we hope this will be the first of many steps to encourage more women into engineering at Etsy and across the industry.

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Ms. Sankar Goes To Washington

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On practicing her startup pitch and meeting the Vice President of the United States. By Pooja Sankar (Founder & CEO, Piazza)

Vice President Biden, Pooja Sankar, Dr. BidenAt first I thought it was a phishing scam.

I received an email with an image attachment inviting me to meet the Vice President and his wife Dr. Jill Biden at a reception at their official residence in Washington, DC. All I needed to do was RSVP with my social security number. Hah! What kind of idiot falls for that?

But whoever put this together had done a nice job on the invitation, which looked very professional and contained none of the usual misspellings. So I showed it to

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HTML5 Frameworks For Developers, Users (The Mobile Future)

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New developments in HTML5, including a HTML5-based website builder for non-programmers. By Kristen Nicole (Senior Editor, SiliconAngle)

HTML5 is said to be “the one” that would dominate all forms of computer language from desktops to mobile devices, toppling Flash along the way. Back in November, Adobe pulled the plug on their Flash for mobile to focus on HTML5, which was a hard pill to swallow since the late Steve Jobs was never really a fan of Flash, stating that HTML5 was the solution for everything and influencing the mobile sector’s perspective of Flash overall.

Though it seems Flash is already in its final stages life, some believe that HTML5 still has a lot of maturing to do.

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Young And Female In Startup Central: Inc. Interview With Shaherose Charania, A Founder Of Women 2.0

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A founder of Women 2.0 explains how the startup scene is evolving for women and offers networking advice for aspiring female founders. By Jessica Stillman (Writer, Inc.)

Silicon Valley may earn praise for its creativity and dynamism, but rarely is America's foremost startup hub held up as a model of diversity. The world's engineers may flock to the area's startups, but when Shaherose Charania moved to the Valley to explore becoming an entrepreneur several years ago, she often found herself the only woman on product teams and at networking events.

These days, she and a few friends are doing something about this gender imbalance with Women 2.0, an organization that supports female founders and runs a host of women-friendly networking events around the world.

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Call For Applications: Bay Area Capital Connections Seeks Entrepreneurs To Pitch For Investment (Apply By April 11)

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Apply to pitch by April 11, 2012 for Bay Area Capital Connections. By Darlene Crane (Executive Director, Alliance for Community Development)

This is a special call to members of Women 2.0 to raise visibility of women at the 5th Annual Bay Area Capital Connections Conference on May 10, 2012.

I am urging Founders of startups ready to pitch to apply today for our Pitch session on the afternoon of the conference.

The deadline to apply to pitch is April 11, 2012 - Apply here.

Since 2006, the Alliance for Community Development has held these Capital Connections conferences to showcase

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Blurtt: The Startup That Did Not Stop Believing

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The idea to ‘blurtt anonymously’ from a website I used often while working on Wall Street where you could send anonymous tips to people. By Jeanette Cajide (Co-Founder, Blurtt)

Blurtt has a longer history than most startups as it originally launched in 2009. I spent most of my career funding and investing in leveraged and distressed companies. It was not a practical move for me to be an entrepreneur because I had a lot of school loans, but I felt deeply compelled to give it a shot.

Kuba Tymula asked me to join Blurtt as a founder in October 2010 and later in April 2011, I convinced Laura Gurasich, another Kellogg MBA who is consumer insights expert to join as a founder. Laura and I manage Blurtt day-to-day

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CEO Notes From Presenting At The Women Entrepreneur’s Festival

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Notes from the Womens Entrepreneurship Festival. By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne)

Did you know that women invented the cooking stove, refrigerator, dishwasher and ironing board? As well as the Apgar test, the circular saw, Scotchgard, fire escapes, liquid paper, the windshield wiper, the life raft, and the first software for computing? Women have always been change makers.

The festival started with a keynote from Arianna Huffington. She was tall and extremely funny – much more than I expected. Her speech was incredibly motivating with a focus on real life issues and the personal obstacles women face.

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Interview With Karen Tanenbaum, Inventor Of The Wearable RFID-Enabled “Reading Glove”

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Karen Tanenbaum uses wearable tech and sensors to explore the boundaries of storytelling. By Suzanne Axtell (Technology Evangelist, O'Reilly)

I encountered Karen Tanenbaum (@ktanenbaum) through friends over on the Make side of O'Reilly Media. Thinking she might be a potential speaker for an upcoming edition of our Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, I contacted her for more information about the cool stuff she's working on, particularly her Reading Glove project.

"The Reading Glove is a collaboration between myself and my husband, Josh Tanenbaum," said Karen. "I have an interest in adaptive and intelligent systems, his research looks at storytelling and video games, and we both like to explore alternative interfaces: tangible, wearable, and ubiquitous computing environments."

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Gust And Astia Partner To Provide A International Women’s Day Scholarship For A Deserving Woman Entrepreneur To Attend Astia

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Awarding entrance into Astia’s Fall 2012 Global Entrepreneur Program in Silicon Valley. By Ilana Grossman (VP Marketing, Gust)

In the competitive and bustling world of startups, the right mentor or support network is key in determining whether a startup makes it or breaks it. While true in most cases, this statement is particularly relevant in the case of under-represented groups, such as female entrepreneurs.

That’s why I’m so proud Gust, the global platform for startup funding and early stage investments, has partnered with Astia, a not-for-profit dedicated to the success of women-led, high-growth ventures, for the International Women’s Day Scholarship.

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Women Funding Women Opens The Door To Responsible Investing

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WIN-WIN is the Women Investing In Women Initiative created by the Calvert Foundation. By Alex Goldmark (Writer, Good Business)

Most people who want to change the world and make a profit don’t have the money to buy into the growing number of investment funds that focus on social impact. But what if you only need $20 to get involved?

That's the idea behind WIN-WIN, the Women Investing In Women Initiative, which was created by the Calvert Foundation to fund businesses that improve womens’ lives by targeting women investors.

“We are trying to popularize impact investing to make it accessible to everyone,” says Lisa Hall, the Calvert Foundation's CEO. “There is power in the purse.

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3 Steps To Starting A mHealth Business: Meet Ronda Collier, Founder And CEO Of SweetWater Health

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From clinical need to research, how one medical professional created a team and build a product. By Radostina Stoycheva (Business Development, SweetWater Health)

After years of wanting to start a medical technology company, Ronda finally conceived and implemented a 3-step formula to get things moving:

Step 1: Clinical Need

Step 2: Research

Step 3: Create a Team/Build a Product

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In A Room Of 25 Engineers, Only 3 Will Be Women. Let’s Change This.

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20% of women with math and science degrees work in a related field. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Girls are smarter than boys, the infographic below states. Studies show that at an early age, girls are smarter than boys.

But girls question their ability, losing confidence and self-esteem from elementary years to their teens - even into college.

20% of female computer science students question whether they should be there. Then - only 20% of women with a degree in math or science even work in a related field. So when we ask, "Where are the women in the maths and sciences?" - now

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YouNoodle Co-Founder And CEO Rebeca Hwang On Meritocracy

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Rebeca addresses the advantages of gender diversity in a startup. By Beth Pitts (Editor, TheNextWomen)

Rebeca Hwang is a co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based startup, YouNoodle, which focuses on helping companies and governments engage with communities of entrepreneurs and innovators for open innovation and co-creation processes.

Currently, YouNoodle’s technology platform, Podium, helps power entrepreneurship initiatives by the governments of Chile, Malaysia and Korea as well as by NASA and 7 out of the top 10 universities in the world. YouNoodle is also working with companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM to facilitate

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