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5 Lessons Learned From A Day With 1000 Women Entrepreneurs

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By Thomas Korte (Founder & Managing Partner, AngelPad) I was invited this week to judge the Women 2.0 PITCH Competition. I blocked out the day with one goal: give a lot of feedback and advice to entrepreneurs. And I am glad I did.

The conference was unlike any I have attended in recent years. 1000 women-tech entrepreneurs, many of them not from Silicon Valley, skipped Valentine's Day to listen to the learnings, inspirational and success stories of fellow women entrepreneurs. 99% of the audience were women and Dave McClure, Naval Ravikant, Jeff Clavier and myself were the only men on stage.

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Alice Wang’s Spark Box: Toys For A Child’s Developmental Benefit

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A former investment banker, entrepreneur Alice Wang watched her extended family grow in size with the arrival of three babies. She found it inspiring to see how the families experienced parenthood, and subsequently, how quickly the children got sick of toys.

She thought there had to be a better way to test toys with the child and provide some educational value to the experience.

This was the spark that launched her startup Spark Box, a toy rental company providing an eco-friendly way for parents

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Why Don’t More Women Go Big With Their Business?

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By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Awesome, Tekserve) With few female entrepreneurs to look to, MIT Sloan hosted a panel on how women can go big with their own businesses. The panel included Joanna Rees (Founder of VSP Capital), Katrina Markoff (Founder of Vosges Haut-Chocolat), Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (Founder of Gilt Groupe), and was moderated by Fredricka Whitfield (Anchor, CNN).

What Is Getting In the Way?

Joanna thinks that fear and giving up after set-backs get in women’s way. Some women quit after their first major

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Accelerating Diversity In Startups With StartX (Bridging the Divide)

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By Jessie Arora (Education Consultant, Stellar K12) Demo Days can be pretty exhausting events of information overload as you try to capture the energy of the various pitches and teams (Y Combinator has 65 this round) while connecting with all the impressive folks in the crowd.

However, I was pleasantly surprised by the latest batch of StartX accelerator companies that launched at their Demo Day.

The event began with quick pitches from their 9 startups, followed by dinner and plenty of time to speak with the teams

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Chief Digital Officers: Perry Hewitt, Rachel Sterne And Angela Wei

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By Leslie Bradshaw (Contributor, Forbes) In recent interviews, we’ve talked about the lack of women in the technology world, but we haven’t yet touched on the need for more women in leadership roles in academia.

In 2009, The White House Project found that women hold just 23% of the leadership roles in academia, this despite the fact that for over a decade women have outnumbered men in college enrollment.

My interview today focuses on an individual who is making waves in both pools: tech and academia.

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Friday Roundup: All Things PITCH-Related, And Then Some…

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Thanks to everyone who joined us for the fifth annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on Valentine's Day.

For those who missed it, the PITCH conference rocked the house. Here are 9 lessons learned from the day, as well as a guy's perspective on Women 2.0 moving the needle for women entrepreneurs.

The day was filled with love and startups, as speakers like Facebook's Katie Mitic reminding us that the job is only 1% done - building tech products is a labor of love and passion.

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Women 2.0 PITCH Conference Rocks The House

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By Megan Conley (Founder & Principal, Social Tribe)When I signed up for the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference a few months ago, I wasn’t entirely clear on what I was getting myself into.

I was pretty sure of two things: women + startups = I’m in.

In the Bay Area, startup buzz is omnipresent…pretty much like God (or coffee, whatever your religion). Everyone’s working on a small, stealth, no-name company that’s going to change the world... or how you take notes, which will eventually change the world. With so much noise, it can be hard to separate the talk from the walk.

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For The Men Who Missed It – The Women 2.0 PITCH Conference

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By Jenna Hannon (Writer, TechZulu) Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. So when I heard about Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. I was mistaken.

A 50 car line stacked up the street from the conference entrance filled with women idling, applying mascara, brushing their hair, and finishing early morning conference calls.

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Photos From Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition 2012

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By Erica Kawamoto Hsu (Online Media Producer & Photographer, Kuishimbo) The 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on Valentine's Day was amazing - the agenda and speaker lineup made me realize it was something I had to be at.

I brought my camera to the PITCH Conference on Tuesday to shoot candids at the event. But I kept stopping - to speak to the amazing women entrepreneurs I was meeting.

Each person that I spoke to or I shot for the Sit With Me campaign had their own startup - and would show me what they were working on their smartphones.

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