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SF MusicTech: Outstanding Women in the Music and Tech Industry

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By Melissa Tinitigan (Production Coordinator, SF MusicTech Summit) There is never a shortage of folks working to innovate and outshine each other with the hottest technology or most avant-garde business idea in Silicon Valley.

The SF MusicTech Summit IX on September 12, 2011 at Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco, the premier conference that brings together visionaries around internet music and technology, is proud to be featuring many powerful women who are doing just that in the music and technology space, including:

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How To Keep Your Startup On Track With Project Management

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By Natasha Murashev (Co-Founder & Director of Operations, Holler) Running a startup is like running on a treadmill. You keep running and running and after all the running, you still have to keep running. The treadmill gives you no mercy. It doesn’t slow down when you’re tired or thirsty, it just keeps going and going and you have to keep up or else you’ll fall off.

The key to mastering the treadmill is starting the run with realistic goals in mind. You have to know yourself well enough to set the optimal speed and running time for your body to keep going even when it gets rough. In a startup, that is

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PyLadies: Events, Workshops, Hackathons and Startup Kits

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By Esther Nam & Sophia Viklund (Co-Organizers & Board Members, PyLadies) The PyLadies’ mission is to promote and improve the Python community through workshops, outreach and social activities. It was started by a core group of seven female Python developers who decided that calls for diversity required action, rather than... repeated calls for diversity. We immediately set out to improve the gender balance of the Python community, starting with plans to organize a programming workshop for beginners. After three weeks of intense planning, networking and outreach, we held our first class, attended by 25 women and 2 men -- and sparked a movement in the development community that has worldwide impact.

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Partner event: The Alchemist Start-Up Master Class in Palo Alto

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The Alchemist Start-Up Master Class is a course taught by some of the Valley’s most influential mentors and directed at current and aspiring founders. The program helps start-ups tackle critical aspects of starting and growing a company. Our purpose is to provide a focused tool set for figuring out winning business strategies, customer acquisition and building/managing successful teams. From each lecture, you will walk away with a set of practical strategies and tactics as well as means to apply those to your own startup.

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Y Combinator Alum Jen McCabe Merges Contagion Health with Seattle Game Startup Health Month

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The new Habit Labs focuses on contextual computing for health behavior change. Jen McCabe is now CEO of Habit Labs, while co-founder Buster Benson serves as CTO. The merger will take Habit Labs from San Francisco to Seattle, where Jen's background in patient advocacy and social design will work with Buster's expertise in personalized recommendations and gamification techniques.

"There's something really interesting happening in Seattle with local startups, particularly in health and education. I'm gratified to find such a supportive community here.

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The Founding Dreams of Teens

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By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) VentureBeat recently asked: "Do teens make good founders?"

As the parent of a teenager, my immediate thought was, "Yeah, sure, right after they clean up their rooms and set the table, they can be totally awesome founders, as long as they can tear themselves away from the latest installment of the Twilight series." What do I know? As it turns out, some kids actually do get off the couch and take action to be the next Steve Jobs.

The VentureBeat post was about an entrepreneurial incubator put together by Teens in Tech, an 8-week summer

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Female Founders to Follow from TechStars, NewME Accelerators

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the last few weeks, we watched the NewMe accelerator launch the first class of minority led start-ups. We also watched the TechStars Boulder class launch a class of new ventures.

Here are the women starting some of those newly launched companies:

Angela Benton (Founder, Cued) Angela founded of Cued, a mobile app changing the way you experience location. She co-founded NewMe and publishes Black Web 2.0. Follow her on Twitter at @ABenton.

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To Entrepreneurially Minded Women: New York Welcomes You!

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By Julia Rulovo (Co-Founder, Solvate) Nothing against Silicon Valley, but New York is officially where it’s at for aspiring women in digital.

Women run digital in New York. Mayor Bloomberg appointed Rachel Sterne as the city’s first Chief Digital Officer, and Jessica Lawrence was named the first Managing Director of the 18,000-member strong New York Tech Meetup.

Despite a fundraising environment that may never return to pre-2008 glory, it’s a golden time for women in media.

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TOC New York 2012 Call for Proposals: Due August 29

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By Kat Meyer (Co-Chair & Community Manager, Tools for Change, O'Reilly Media) Every year, the greatest minds in the publishing and tech industries converge at O'Reilly's Tools of Change Conference (TOC) to map out the future of publishing, and to share their experiences and expertise. We're in the planning stages of TOC 2012, and if you've got a great proposal for a presentation you'd like to make, we'd love to hear from you.

We're not looking for talking heads to deliberate on the state of the industry as it is; we're looking for original people with great ideas, mad skills, and real-world experience who can explore

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The Importance of Off-the-Record Conversations with Engineers

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By Cindy Alvarez (Head of Products and Customer Development, KISSmetrics) Do you talk to the engineers you work with?

I mean, outside of specs, user stories, and meetings to review specs or user stories?

If you aren’t, you’re leaving a lot of untapped potential on the table and your company is losing a competitive advantage because of it.

I mean, you’re probably pretty smart.

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Tech is Really a Man’s Man’s Man’s World

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By Linda Forrest (Associate, Francis Moran & Associates)  

Reading a recent post about the role formal education plays in entrepreneurship, I was reminded of an article I read a few months ago about the "real reason women quit engineering."

In Stemming The Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering, two University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors report on their survey of over 3,700 women with engineering degrees. They found that just one in four women who had left the field reported doing so to spend more time with family.

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