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Startup Lessons Learned From A Four-Time Bridesmaid

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Men can rent tuxedos, why can't women rent bridesmaid dresses? By Corie Hardee (Founder & CEO, Little Borrowed Dress)

The idea behind Little Borrowed Dress came where I do most of my best thinking: in front of my closet. Rather than deciding what to wear, I had the less glamorous task of choosing what not to wear, specifically what to toss. The main offenders: bridesmaid dresses.

The four bridesmaid dresses were the most expensive items in my closet, yet each had been worn exactly once. That’s when I thought, this is nuts, men can rent tuxedos, why can’t women RENT bridesmaid dresses? I started Little Borrowed Dress to make that a possibility.

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Why You Should Participate In Hackathons, Startup Weekends

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Hacking on StartupBus en route to SXSW Interactive 2012. By Esther Crawford (Co-Founder, glmps)

I'm writing this from a bus that's traveling from Las Vegas to Austin with 30 guys and 4 women who are working round-the-clock to launch companies on this year's StartupBus. My team is building Open Wallet, an app that lets you get cash from people nearby instead of having to go to an ATM.

It's an invitation-only community of hackers, hustlers and hipsters passionate about startups that started in 2010 and has become an annual hackathon-style competition on buses traveling across America

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Manage Your Career And Don’t Let Others Do It For You

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By Debra Benton (President, Benton Management Resources) You, not human resources, your boss, a sponsor, parents, or search firms control your career.

The biggest, costliest, and most avoidable mistake you can make in your life is not managing your own destiny from the start of your career – and continuing throughout.

It’s not just about doing good work and having a ready resume.

If you chose to do this (because it is your choice), you manage your career

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Surfing And Entrepreneurship: Women Making Waves

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By Amy Schrier (Founder & CEO, MISSION.tv) Many years ago as a young girl, I wanted to go surfing. The beach that I frequented in Long Island was then very male-dominated. If you don't know much about surfing, you might think... a girl who wants to learn to surf! Why, wouldn't she be welcomed? Well... no. At that time and in my experience, many surfers (interestingly, not unlike many venture capitalists) tended to be territorial and gender biased.

I quickly learned that unless you really know what you are doing, you will do best to stay out of the way. Instead of fighting the tide, I took my surf desire to Indonesia

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Partner Event: TL;DR Conference (HTML5)

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We are in the early days of a major new technology cycle driven by mobile Post-PC Devices and HTML5. TL;DR is an event designed to help entrepreneurs understand and leverage the opportunities, and will take place on Friday, March 30 at Mission Bay in San Francisco. Hear from speakers like Floodgate Fund's Managing Partner Mike Maples Jr., Mozilla WebFWD Director Pascal Finette, SoftTech's Charles Hudson, frog design's Scott Jenson, as well as entrepreneurs who are blazing the trail into the next paradigm.

Women 2.0 members save 20% on tickets

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Women Who Code Lightning Talk: Winning Hackathons (Video)

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Winning! By Anna Billstrom (Developer, Momentus Media)

I spoke on “Winning! At Hackfests” for Women Who Code in San Francisco where we had 12-15 lightening rounds of women talking about coding. It was really awesome! Some favorites: using genetic algorithms to solve computing problems, and digital visualization.

Back to me. Ever since seeing myself on cable access, singing and dancing in a musical at the age of 12, I’ve really cringed whenever I see myself on screen. Mostly because of the disconnect between how I think I appear, and how I really appear. Not that I’m judging the quality of my haircut or anything.

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Partner Event: Got Game? How to Gamify Your Startup

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Women 2.0 members save 15% on tickets with discount code “WOMEN” when you register here. Vator is excited to announce Vator Spark, a full-day, multi-track gathering designed for learning and networking. Our kick-off topic in the series "Got Game? How to Gamify Your Startup" will be on May 1, 2012 in Berkeley, California.

By 2015, more than 50% of organizations that manage innovation processes will "gamify" those processes, according to a Gartner Report. If you're not taking a hard look at how you can transform your startup and leverage game mechanics, you're falling behind the innovation curve. Gamification helps you engage

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Do Women Support Each Other In The Workplace?

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As women increasingly secure more senior positions in a corporation, their ability to nurture conflicts with the male model of effective leadership. By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics)

I recently engaged in two separate conversations, one with a man at the height of his career and one with a woman in the same spot. While both advocate on behalf of women’s advancement in the workplace, they felt they needed to expose a dirty secret on this topic. Women just don’t help each other out.

This sentiment, that women don’t support other women or even undermine their efforts, keeps coming up in this dialogue on women and careers. The persistence of this belief surprises me. I recall some instances where I felt other women treated me unfairly early on in my career but the last few years have

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Finding Technical Teammates At Women 2.0 Startup Weekend

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Women 2.0 Startup Weekend... and the rest is history. By Tricia Rampe (Founder & CEO, GetArtUp)

The idea for GetArtUp was conceived months ago when I pondered whether art was a market ripe for the collaborative consumption model that has worked well for startup companies like Airbnb and Getaround.

After discussing the idea of renting art on a monthly subscription basis with art industry friends, I received great feedback and was suggested to pitch it at a local hack-a-thon. To pursue the project more seriously and seek co-founders, I attended the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend in 2011 and the rest is history.

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Meet “Wed-Tech Startups” Tailored, Lover.ly, Wedding Lovely, Happily Ever BorroWED

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By Brittany Haas (Founder, Happily Ever BorroWED) It's a term we coined ourselves...and by we, I mean the dozens of bridal technology startups here in NYC. As I was meeting with fellow entrepreneurs talking about my own startup, Happily Ever BorroWED (formerly Something Borrowed NY), I had so many conversations about the wedding space and how antiquated it is.

The most obvious conversation was how The Knot, formally known as "the" e-commerce resource for weddings, is a mess. Their content is haphazard and organized in a manner that is unhelpful to brides planning their weddings, their vendor matrix

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4 Tips For Overcoming “Inspiration Overload” (Moving Forward)

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By Anjali Tuljapurkar Cameron (Founder & CEO, TripLark) Yes, you read it right. Inspiration overload. It happens to many new entrepreneurs. Knowing we’ll get nowhere by sitting alone at home, we attend every networking event and conference in the vicinity. Add blogs, books and business columns - and your brain is deluged with an endless slew of you-can-do-it stories. Returning home at night, you feel more inspired than ever but often still confused or questioning how you’ll ever get there.

I know this feeling intimately as the founder of TripLark, a new travel planning site. Having finally made more sense of what will provide me with the most learning and connections, here are a few

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