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We are kicking off an exciting study on women in entrepreneurship led by Vivek Wadhwa of Duke/Stanford University and Lesa Mitchell of The Kauffman Foundation, with the support of Women 2.0.Women who are founding CEOs, Presidents, CTOs or lead technologists of tech startups founded between 2002 and 2012 are invited to participate!
By Neesha Bapat (Lead Researcher, “Women in Technology” study, Duke/Stanford University)
The good news is that more women have been entering the startup scene in recent years. But it’s no secret that women are underrepresented in the technology industry.
As board members, executives, entrepreneurs, VCs, and STEM employees – women still remain an underrepresented group. Particularly in the entrepreneurial scene, women are not nearly as active as they could be.
... Read More... By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Vivek Wadhwa on Inc.com featured and pictured Shaherose Charania in a story titled "The Face of Success: Women And Venture Capital".
Meanwhile, Women 2.0 PITCH Conference speaker Danielle Fong (pictured, right) is touted in Forbes magazine as a "24-year old wunderkind" and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said he knew within 15 minutes that he wanted to invest, noting her "off-the-charts brilliance". Khosla has invested $15M in Danielle's energy startup.
Asked what the word "success" means on Forbes
... Read More... By Vivek Wadhwa (Contributor, Inc) In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy. That was before I moved to the Valley and learned that this so-called meritocracy is highly imperfect, omitting women, blacks, and Hispanics. When I researched the dearth of women, I could find no explanation.
Women are equally motivated to become entrepreneurs; are equal or more competent at managing businesses; match boys in mathematical achievement; dramatically outnumber
... Read More... By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
TechCrunch contributor Vivek Wadhwa identified a catalyzing moment at the Crunchies, the glittering awards show for the tech set hosted by TechCrunch.
His wife accompanied him to the Crunchies awards show and asked the perennial question, "But where are the women?"
Indeed -- the entire night of announcements, celebrations and awards one stop short of a ticker tape parade -- featured only one woman CEO onstage. That woman was
... Read More... By Sarah Granger (Contributor, San Francisco Chronicle)
It’s no secret that San Francisco and Silicon Valley’s tech demographics skew heavily on the side of men. Rather than continue quietly observing this cultural inequity, over the past few years, more voices have brought attention to the issue.
Through increased publicity, thanks to speeches by leaders like Sheryl Sandberg and articles like this month’s feature in San Francisco magazine, the conversation around women entrepreneurs is beginning to change. Still, some of the discussion is going in the wrong direction – focusing only at those at the very top
... Read More... By Francine Gordon (Co-Organizer, TEDxBayArea TEDWomen) Last year, TED held its first TEDWomen conference in Washington, DC. Recognizing the phenomenal community of women in the San Francisco Bay area, TEDxBayArea decided to organize its own day-long program dedicated to women.
About 175 people heard TED-type talks by more than 20 presenters including Jill Tarter (Center Director, SETI), Debra Bowen (Secretary of State, California), Tara VandDerveer (Coach, Stanford Women’s Basketball Team), Shaherose Charania (CEO & Co-Founder, Women 2.0),
... Read More... By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Last week, Andreessen Horowitz invited women to their Menlo Park office to hear stories from leaders: Padmasree Warrior (CTO, Cisco), Marissa Mayer (VP Location & Local, Google), Freada Kapor Klein (Founder, Level Playing Field Institute), Angela Benton (Founder, NewME), and Sandy Jen (Co-Founder & CTO, Meebo).
Panel moderator and TechCrunch writer Vivek Wadhwa conducted research with NCWIT, finding that the only difference between women and men to become entrepreneurs is that women feel discouraged from starting up.
... Read More... By Tara Chklovski (Founder & CEO, Iridescent) The Technovation Challenge is a technology and entrepreneurship program for high school girls, founded by Dr. Anuranjita Tewary (Sr. Data Scientist, Linkedin) and implemented by Iridescent, a national, science-education nonprofit.
Over the course of ten weeks, girls work with professional women in technology to develop mobile phone apps. The girls learn to use a visual programming language called App Inventor. They present their phone apps and business plans to a panel of VCs at a high visibility “Pitch Night” event.
... Read More... By Swathy Prithivi (Head of Corporate Development, Sonim Technologies) In "Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?" in the Wall Street Journal, Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and venture capitalist extraordinaire, lists two key characteristics of "would-be revolutionaries" -- unbridled confidence and arrogance.
A recent tweet by Silicon Valley scholar Vivek Wadhwa says: "More than 50% of Silicon Valley is foreign born. Less than 5% women... A lot needs to be fixed."
To me, these things are the two sides of the same coin.
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