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VC-Funded Gobble Holds Recipe For Team Success

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By Ooshma Garg (Founder & CEO, Gobble) Building Gobble has been the ride of a lifetime. In just six months, we have enjoyed a number of early successes: fundraising $1.2M from top Silicon Valley investors, launching on the front page of The San Francisco Chronicle, and seeing happy repeat use of the service from families and companies around the Bay Area. So what's in our secret startup recipe?

We live and die by 5 core values that have helped us get this far and will now keep us charging into the future.

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5 Startup Lessons Learned from EcoBold

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By Steffany Boldrini (Founder, Ecobold) My startup Ecobold is the “etsy” for natural, non-toxic and sustainable products. We highlight one seller a day with a large discount.

I always wanted to build a marketplace where people could find the best products for their health. It shocks me that so many things in our shelves have ingredients that can cause cancer, autism, ADD, developmental toxicity, in between other things. I knew that there were sellers out there making fantastic products that are safe for our health and our families, so here we are.

I’ll share five tips that I’ve learned while building Ecobold

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Technical Learning Styles For Shy, Practical People

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By Sumana Harihareswara (Contributing Writer, Geek Feminism) I just ran across Karen Rustad’s “How to teach programming: shy, practical people edition”.

She cared more about making practical things than about what she perceived as “coding,” so her early technical life centered on HyperCard and making webpages, rather than boring faffing about with “mathematical curiosities.” Finally she came across a project she wanted to help, and scratching that itch meant learning more programming:

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Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup

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Wendy Tan White quote"Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work, and staying hungry is half the battle."-- Wendy Tan White (Founder & CEO, Moonfruit)

Wendy Tan White founded the design-led DIY website builder Moonfruit for total design control.

She is on the frontpage of StartupQuote today!

Wendy also serves as a Mentor at 500 Startups and Astia, and was a Contributing Writer for Women 2.0.

Wendy wrote the popular post Never Been a Better Time for Women Entrepreneurs for Women 2.0 earlier this year.

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FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced) After quitting my job and starting Sorced, I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. However, I needed to actually build it!

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it.

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Help Crowdfund a Multiplayer iOS Game for Girls

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By Elizabeth Boylan (Game Artist, iOS Developer and Founder, VectorBloom) My indie game development startup VectorBloom Technologies has been designing and developing apps for iOS since November of 2009. I've personally designed, developed, co-developed, and released some dozen iPhone Apps over the past 2 years.

When I decide on a game concept that I want to embark upon, it's a game that I feel will inspire others through its beauty and game play. It also has to be fun enough to play with my biggest critic, my daughter, while hopefully I mirror to her that she can be and do anything her heart desires by following the conviction of her dreams.

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Meet Australia’s Female Tech Pioneers Sonja Bernhardt, Kate Kendall and Magda Walczak

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By Michelle Hammond (Contributing Writer, StartupSmart) Peruse images of the founders of the world’s leading tech start-ups and you’ll probably notice a few common features -– youth, casual attire and, tellingly, male. From Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook to more locally Mark Harbottle at 99designs, the web space remains a sea of testosterone. But is that dominance beginning to change?

When it comes to Australian start-ups in all sectors, female entrepreneurs are in the lead, with research revealing women launched almost twice as many new firms as men in the past 12 months.

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Budding Techies Spend Their Summer at App Camp

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By Ellen Lee (Contributing Writer, San Francisco Chronicle) Samantha Johnson won't have a sunburn or mosquito bites to show for her time at camp this summer.

But the 11-year-old will take home something else - an iPhone app called "Cupcakes vs. Bunnies" that she developed herself. Samantha spent last week on the Stanford campus sitting at a flat-screen computer, shoulder to shoulder with her fellow campers, learning the fundamentals of designing a game app for the iPhone and iPad.

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Patents, Pivots, (Good) People: DNA Guide’s Evolution

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By Alice Rathjen (Founder & President, DNA Guide) My latest company DNA Guide is a physician/patient engagement tool for personal genetic data. We’ve built a full genome browser for the iPad and eventually want to offer an electronic medical record (EMR) solution that uses a person’s DNA for their user account and has a map of both their genome and their body.

Most Health 2.0 entrepreneurs have a similar story as mine. They or someone they cared about suffered from a disease and they want to change the world. We’re on a mission to create companies that force those responsible for our current health care system to change the way they do business or find themselves out of a job.

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Entrepreneurs Should Say No to Silicon Valley’s Bully

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By Vanessa Camones (Founder & Principal, theMIX agency) As the head of a public relations firm that represents tech startups, I’m well aware of the pressure that entrepreneurs face to get attention for their young companies. There’s no question the goal of hundreds, if not thousands, of startups is a profile in TechCrunch. It can make a company -- or at least that’s the commonly held view.

But it’s also a gamble that’s often not worth taking because TechCrunch founder and editor Michael Arrington has proven he’s willing to use TechCrunch as his personal vehicle for settling scores. It’s why I advise my clients to steer clear of him.

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UX Methods and Prototyping Tools to Communicate Your Startup Vision

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By Alexa Andrzejewski (Founder & CEO, Foodspotting) When people ask me for advice on how to take an idea and make it real, my number one tip is to share your idea with anyone who will listen. This was also lesson one in the Women 2.0 workshop I took when I was first considering turning Foodspotting into a startup: The value of sharing your idea far outweighs the risk that someone is just sitting around with nothing better to do than steal it!

In fact, in building Foodspotting, I've realized that taking an idea and making it concrete is the most important thing you can do as a startup founder. Can you picture that?

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