Uncategorized

article placeholder

Why You Should Build Your Own “CEO Club” (Networking)

Editor

By Sonia Sahney Nagar (Co-Founder & CEO, Smarketplaces) I can’t take credit for this idea, but I think it’s fantastic. I recently attended Arianna Huffington and Donna Karan’s WIE conference in New York (Women Inspiration Enterprise). My startup, Smarketplaces, was invited to participate in a pitch event that happened at the end of day one, and I decided to show up early (very early) to catch the full day of speakers. It was definitely worth the Sunday morning early-wake-up, the conference brought together an interesting mix of fashionistas, social enterprisers and politicos (within a span of 2-hours I saw the co-founder of Jimmy Choo and Nancy Pelosi speak).

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

Rails Girls: From Helsinki to Singapore, Ruby on Rails for Girls

Editor

By Joash Wee (Writer, E27) With Lady.py concluding last month, Rails Girls brings more knowledge to the local developer community and hopefully will spur more execution of ideas. Join the Rails Girls for a two-day crash-course on October 7-8 in Singapore to the exciting world of building web applications with Ruby on Rails, with an Asian twist.

If you are a female programmer/aspiring programmer (guys may be considered but you will have to bring a female friend who is interested), you can apply for the one-day program here.

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

Founding CEO Tereza Nemessanyi of Honestly Now Secures Funding From Golden Seeds, Canrock Ventures

Editor

By Tereza Nemessanyi (Co-Founder & CEO, Honestly Now) Editor's note: Last week, TechCrunch announced Honestly Now raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Golden Seeds and Canrock Ventures. Co-Founder and CEO Tereza Nemessanyi authors a guest blog post special to Women 2.0 about the process.

As I sit down to write this, I’m nervous. Really nervous. Our team is jamming to complete the data migration from 1.0 to 2.0. In 1 hour 7 minutes, the announcement is set to break in the press. It will tell the world, or the part of the world who cares, that Honestly Now has a new product, and got funded.

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

Silicon Boro: Tech Talent Toils In Queens (New York)

Editor

By Wilson Dizard (Writer, New York Post) Jalak Jobanputra -- a veteran venture capitalist with cred on both coasts and around the world -- sees immigrants from India as a key ingredient energizing New York City’s tech boom, which she has helped build since the early days of dial-up.

“When you look at what makes strong entrepreneurs, perseverance is a large part of their success. Immigrants often have to persevere in adverse circumstances,” Jobanputra said.

“I think what makes a strong entrepreneur is

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

Negotiating the Glass Maze: Women Succeeding in Tech (Video)

Editor

By Ellen Lahr (Director of Communications, Excelsior College) Statistics say up to 56% of women leave the tech fields by mid-career. Why? What factors have led us down this path? More importantly, what can we do to reverse the trend?

These questions Excelsior College (Albany, N.Y.) posed to its eclectic panel of women technologists on September 21 at Negotiating the Glass Maze: Women Achieving Success in Technology, an event co-hosted by the College’s School of Business and Technology as well as the NYS Capital District Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

Want More Female Engineers? How Do You Retain Engineers?

Editor

By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) Looking back 21 years ago I never would have fathomed I would have become a femgineer. At the age of eight, I had decided I was going to be a lawyer, writer, and professor, because I loved to read, write, and speak. I spent the next 10 years of my life working toward that goal. In elementary and middle school, I wrote short stories. In high school, I joined the debate team, and when it was time for college. I chose Duke because it has a really great law school.

So where did I get off course and decide to become an engineer, pursuing two majors (Electrical Engineering and

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

Foodspotting Founder and CEO Alexa Andrzejewski Virtually Only Woman Onstage at Facebook Developer Conference

Editor

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the space recently occupied by TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook developer and press conference f8 featured a keynote by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the new Facebook Timeline.

Foodspotting, founded by Alexa Andrzejewski, was prominently featured in Zuckerberg's keynote onstage at f8.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tweets no less than five times about the lack of women and diversity onstage at f8. Alexa was virtually the only woman onstage

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

How Customer Development, Product Management Fit Together

Editor

By Cindy Alvarez (Head of Products and Customer Development, KISSmetrics) “Isn’t customer development just product management?”

“You don’t really need product management if you do customer development right.”

“Customer development is fine for startups with no process, but it doesn’t fit into a mature product management organization.”

I’ve heard all 3 of these, and I think they’re all completely wrong.

Customer development and product management are

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

Startup Weekend: Let’s Teach Teachers To Speak Ed Tech

Editor

By Katrina Stevens (Co-Founder, LessonCast) When I went through the pitch process at the Mega Startup Weekend in Mountain View (see article in Fast Company for description of event), I initially felt frustrated. Coming into the weekend, I was hyper-excited about being there because I loved my first experience of Startup Weekend SF EDU.

When pitch after pitch had little to do with teaching, and two pitches advocated horrible pedagogy, I was running a bit hot. I felt like we were facing the same issue as we did before: a real lack of understanding in the tech world of true needs of education.

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

A Co-Founder Love Story (My Top 10 List)

Editor

By Bridget Thornton (Co-Founder & CEO, TrackIgnite) OK, so my co-founder and I aren't "in love" but we sure are one hell of a match. The other day I came across a lot of posts on Hacker News from single founders desperate to find their co-founder in time for the Y Combinator applications for winter class.

My co-founder and I chuckled at the desperate pleas that sounded like people desperate to find a husband or wife before it's too late to procreate. A co-founder is just like finding a domestic partner: You. Can't. Push. It. There must be shared interests, common goals and dreams and mutual respect in a marriage

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

A Born Dealmaker: Interview with Debbie Landa, Founder and CEO of DealMaker Media

Editor

By Heidi Isern (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Some women start companies. Other women run corporations. And then there are women like Debbie Landa, founder of Dealmaker Media who bring them together.

Eager to learn more about the high tech yenta, I met Debbie in her headquarters in the industrial SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. The Dealmaker Media space resembled a swanky boutique hotel lobby much more than a corporate office.

“It’s great, isn’t it?” she asked, welcoming me inside.

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

Edutech Startup Founder & CEO Sue Khim Talks Accelerators, Programming, and Saving Students Money

Editor

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Sue Khim is founder and CEO of Alltuition, a startup that empowers students and their families to navigate the financial aid process. She developed the concept for Alltuiton when she was a junior at the University of Chicago with $50,000 of undergraduate debt. With her co-founders Sam Solomon and Silas Hundt, together they have built out a powerful platform of college finance tools.

Alltuition brings every step of financial aid into one easy interface, like a TurboTax for college. Students, parents, and grads can fill out forms, manage deadlines, compare loans, and more.

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

Resources For Learning Programming On Your Own

Editor

By Natalie MacNeil (Co-Founder, YEC Women) The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council. Founded by Scott Gerber, the YEC is an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the country's most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to youth unemployment and underemployment and provides its members with access to tools, mentorship, and resources that support each stage of a business's development and growth.

"O'Reilly Books are My Secret Sauce"

... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read
article placeholder

10 Lessons From Starting a Business, Lots of Coffee and More

Editor

By Simone Brummelhuis (Founder, TheNextWomen) Elizabeth Hodgson is founder of Civic Boom, a startup that is building the world's first true community and audience assignment system that connects people with stories with people who need them. A journalist, blogger, publisher or media organisation asks for stories. The audience responds directly with videos, photo, audio and text.

Reflecting on her startup experience and entrepreneurial journey, Elizabeth Hodgson uncovers these 10 lessons learned from starting a Civic Boom:

  1. Caffeine is serious business. No matter how... Read More...
Uncategorized0 min read