3rd Annual Womens Entrepreneur Festival Ready For Applications
We are happy to announce 3rd Women Entrepreneurs Festival.
By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal)
I am thrilled to announce the 3rd annua... Read More...
The Case For Investing In Gender Diversity
By supporting these undercapitalized companies, the Women’s Venture Capital Fund aims to provide meaningful exits.
By Monica Dodi (Founder & Managing Direc... Read More...
Are Startup Founders Able To Really Listen To User Research?
The problem is not so much whether entrepreneurs do the work themselves or have someone else do it for them: it's whether they're really, truly capable of liste... Read More...
Global Entrepreneurship Week: Celebrating Spanish-Speaking Female Entrepreneurs Across the Globe
Hundreds of women across the globe will have an opportunity to network with other entrepreneurs in their own language in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
... Read More... A Bath For Your Business Brain
I have found that podcasts that I listen to while running or exercising tend to affect and stick with me much more effectively than those that I listen to while working at a computer. By Courtney Powell (Founder & CEO, PublikDemand)
A good friend once told me that running is like a “bath for your business brain”. It’s absolutely true.
My co-founders and I took up running as a team about four months ago as a way to relieve stress, keep focused and counterbalance our startup diet.
... Read More... Crowdsourced Children's Apparel Startup One Jackson, Founded By CEO Anne Raimondi, Acquired By TaskRabbit
Children's clothing startup to shut down as team joins TaskRabbit.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
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Crowdsourced Children’s Apparel Startup One Jackson, Founded By CEO Anne Raimondi, Acquired By TaskRabbit
Children's clothing startup to shut down as team joins TaskRabbit. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Former SurveyMonkey VP of Marketing Anne Raimondi launched One Jackson earlier this year to disrupt the $1.5 billion kids clothing market by enabling independent designers to produce lines of clothes through design challenges and consumer voting contests.
The early-stage children's clothing startup had raised a $2 million in seed capital. These investors include four high-profile women investors who also happen to be moms - Aileen Lee (Kleiner Perkins
... Read More... PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition: ActivityHero, CitizenMade, NewlyWish Nab Awards At PITCH Conference
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, the 10 finalists presented live to a panel of investors serving as judges for the PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition. These finalists were selected from over 260 applications for PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition. Over 30 investors as judges evaluated the applications and selected these 10 finalists to present live during Global Entrepreneurship Week for prizes.
... Read More... Women In Engineering: Why A Co-Ed Dev Team Is Good For Business
The problem isn’t that women are unable to complete the requirements associated with these jobs — the problem is that women simply aren’t making the decision to. By Maria Renhui Zhang (Founder & CEO, Alike)
It’s undeniable — there are simply fewer women than men in the various fields of engineering. In the software/technology industry particularly, there exists between a 5:1 and 10:1 ratio of men to women. This disparity is made worse by the fact that female engineers have double the chance of men to leave
... Read More... PITCH NYC 2012: Women Entrepreneurs Talk Disruption In Cleantech, Music And Healthcare With High-Growth Startups
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, serial entrepreneur David Weekly moderated a panel of women entrepreneurs who have started ventures in a variety of interesting sectors, from music to health and cleantech.
Vanessa Stewart (Co-Founder & COO, Soltage) started a renewable energy provider for commercial and industrial clients, putting solar panels on warehouses and manufacturing facilities.
... Read More... PITCH NYC 2012: Geraldine Laybourne (Founder, Oxygen Media) Talks About Starting Up Oxygen And Its Vision
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, Oxygen Media founder Geraldine Laybourne talks about working out of the "Wild West". "I built it the way a woman would build it. I built it with partnerships with cable operators."
Instead of trying to climb the corporate ladder, Geraldine describes herself as mission-driven. She went to Disney because she thought she could make a difference.
... Read More... PITCH NYC 2012: MAKER Panel Talks About Kickstarter Campaigns, Prototyping, Pricing Product And "What Makes This A Tech Company?"
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition -
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, the MA... Read More...
PITCH NYC 2012: MAKER Panel Talks About Kickstarter Campaigns, Prototyping, Pricing Product And “What Makes This A Tech Company?”
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, the MAKER panel consists of four women starting companies and shipping hardware products: Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, Alice Brooks of Roominate, Liz Salcedo of Everpurse and Debbie Sterling of GoldieBlox.
These hardware startup founders and CEOs have experience producing products, building prototypes and raising capital for their initiatives.
... Read More... PITCH NYC 2012: Facebook Director Sarah Personette Talks About Failing Hard And Iterating Faster
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, Facebook director Sarah Personette talks about Facebook being smaller and leaner than most other large companies. "In an environment where you are super constrained in terms of human resources, you think about how to scale your message - to create ambassadors in your audience," said Sarah Personette.
... Read More... PITCH NYC 2012: Meebo CTO Sandy Jen Talks About Rethinking The Startup Exit
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition - By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, Meebo CTO and co-founder Sandy Jen talks about hearing the words "What is your exit?" over and over again. She now hears instead the question, "What kind of company are you building?"
Sandy told the story of being courted to join Yahoo! at age 22 - right after Meebo launched without venture capital. That is the first time the idea of an exit came into play - the moment where
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