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By Whitney Johnson (Founding Partner, Rose Park Advisors)
"There's a woman you have to meet," said a male CEO during a recent meeting.
"She sounds terrific. I love meeting interesting people. ...Any men you'd like me to meet?"
"Aren't you married?"
"Sure am... Happily."
We both chuckled. I then clarified, "In my experience, men have more power than women."
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Every year, Women 2.0 makes a list of the year's landmark successes for women...
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Every year, Women 2.0 makes a list of the year's landmark successes for women entrepreneurs. We celebrated the milestones and accomplishments of 130 women entrepreneurs in 2010 successes, and 125 women entrepreneurs in 2009.
You will want to watch these women grow and their startups evolve. Looking back to 2009, we recognize a handful of female founders from their early days -- and now nearing the end of 2011, we recognize these same founders and startups as more refined over time and LOTS of grueling, hard work.
By CV Harquail (Blogger, Authentic Organizations)
What is the best, purest way to get more girls interested in tech (and more women employed in tech)?
Get them deeply interested in what tech can do and what problems tech can help us solve.
When girls (and boys) become genuinely interested and genuinely curious, they will pursue careers in tech not because ‘that’s where the jobs are” or because “that’s what smart people do”, but because that’s what they *want* to do.
By Tara Hunt (Co-Founder & CEO, Buyosphere) As a follow up to my previous presentations on startup life being a challenge and the challenges...
By Tara Hunt (Co-Founder & CEO, Buyosphere)
As a follow up to my previous presentations on startup life being a challenge and the challenges it presents, I wanted to share what I've actually learned since then.
This presentation is a little more "Whew! I got through that and have grown smarter because of it!" than "I'm in the middle of helllll!"
There are probably 150+ things I've learned because I am stumbling my way through this, but these are the top 10 for me.
By Tara Hunt (Co-Founder & CEO, Buyosphere)
Jolie O’Dell, who is one of my favorite people in the world tweeted something yesterday that got the women of the tech world (and many men) up in arms.
It also ignited quite a lively backchannel conversation amongst the various women in tech groups I’m part of. The reactions (including mine) ranged from “I can see her point, but ‘embarrassment’ is a harsh way to put it,” to “OMFG &*#(&#)@#*@!” Mine was somewhere in between, but the biggest thing that struck me was how familiar it sounded.
By Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams (Founders, In Good Company)
The blank canvas. When you start your own business you have the opportunity to do, create and decide whatever you want. That’s the most exciting (although sometimes scary) part of entrepreneurship.
This all leads to a tremendous and inspiring amount of diversity in the world of business. Not only does each entrepreneur have unique motivations but they also have different desired purposes, outcomes and goals. Each of us approaches entrepreneurship with a distinct philosophy and idea of what we must get
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Yesterday on the Huffington Post, this time the readers picked "27 Women in Tech You Need to Follow on Twitter."
These names are a response to the previous list of best women in tech to follow on Twitter that was posted by the Huffington Post a few days ago.
Here is the list of top women, chosen by the readers:
#1 -- Padmasree Warrior is the chief technology
By Tara Hunt (Co-Founder & CEO, Buyosphere)
I was asked to speak at a conference in Toronto about my startup experience in Canada. But I didn't just want to talk about Canada. I wanted to highlight a bigger issue with being a startup entrepreneur: the frothiness of this moment.
All I was reading in every tech blog, magazine and newspaper was how easy it was to get funding, how much funding everyone is getting and how millions were signed up here and everyone is partying like it's 1999 again. Yet after almost a year of looking (and 6 months of seriously looking), Buyosphere is still unfunded.
By Kaitlin Pike (Marketing & Community Manager, Web 2.0 Expo)
Since it was released just two weeks ago, the Startup Genome report has inspired hundreds of blog posts, articles and discussions about the “science” behind successful startups and the causes of business failure here in Silicon Valley.
While the team behind the Startup Genome still has miles of analysis to wade through (including information from their new updated survey), they’ve already put together a number of summaries about the data including their post on VentureBeat -- The 7 signs of failure for internet startups and 14 key findings on their own blog. Here is a quick flavor of what the report authors are saying:
As startup business folks, we’ve learned to rely on data, data, and more data to test, plot, and move forward with our ideas, so it’s only natural a report of this nature has sparked such fervent interest. It’s also generated a significant amount of (hopefully helpful) criticism.
By Tara Hunt (Co-Founder & CEO, Buyosphere)
Hi, I'm Tara Hunt, co-founder and CEO of Buyosphere, a Montreal-based bootstrapped startup that is aiming to positively impact the world by giving consumers access to their buying history. All sorts of revolutionary stuff is going to come of it and we're just getting started, but we've already gotten lots of people excited!
Earlier this year, me and my company applied to be part of the prestigious Astia program in NYC. It's a really great program for first time women CEO's of which I'm one. From their website:
"Astia is a unique, global not-for-profit organization. We provide innovative programs that ensure companies gain access to capital, achieve and sustain high-growth, and develop the executive leadership of the founding team."
When we applied, I thought we'd have raised some seed money by now... and because of the high number of applications and great candidates, it was a long shot to get into the program at all. I applied, then waited. Then found out we were short-listed and had to get to New York to present in front of a panel of judges. When I found out we got through the screening and were one of the chosen few accepted to the program, I was elated... yet saddened.
Entry to the program costs $5000. And we just don't have that kind of money. We're so bootstrapped we are sandal-strapped (see my TEDxConcordia talk)! And though we do what we can to keep paying the awesome people building Buyosphere, I can't justify paying for this program out of our teensy bits of bootstrapped money left because it would mean not paying a developer or designer.
So... I've come here to see if I can micro-fund my participation in this program!
Inspiring female founder successes from 2010. We celebrated an impressive number of female founder successes in 2009. While 2010 has remained...
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