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Adafruit Industries Founder Limor Fried Speaking At PITCH NYC Conference On November 14

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November 14's PITCH Conference speakers include Adafruit Industries founder Limor Fried. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We are just 8 days away Women 2.0's first PITCH Conference in New York featuring a full day of successful women entrepreneurs as speakers. Meet Limor Fried, founder at Adafruit Industries.

Limor will be in the MAKER panel with Roominate's Alice Brooks, GoldieBlox's Debbie Sterling and Everpurse's Liz Salcedo.

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Company Culture Trumps Title And Pay

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Increasingly, the issue of finding a company that fits your values ranks high for many candidates. By Leah Eichler (Founder, Femme-O-Nomics)

When a recruiter contacted me over a year ago about a role at a prestigious media company, with an impressive job title and above average paycheque, I felt obligated to explore the opportunity. The process took several, exhausting weeks and multiple interviews, once on a weekend and another time on a statutory holiday.

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From Individual Contributors To The COO, Women Make An Impact At Salesforce’s Girl Geek Dinner

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Women represent nearly every level of leadership at Salesforce, from business to technical roles, inspiring others to strive towards that goal. By Courtney Mayeda (MBA, UCLA Anderson)

Upon entering the expansive One Spear Street, we were greeted by the many smiling faces of Salesforce’s Women in Technology group, sporting their nifty red t-shirts. The space offered not only drinks and delicious food, but also the opportunity to experience demos of the expansive Salesforce product offerings.

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PITCH 2012 Speaker Danielle Fong, Chief Scientist And Co-Founder Of LightSail Energy, Raises $37.3 Million Series D Venture Funding

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PITCH 2012 speaker Danielle Fong announced raising Series D from investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Today, news broke that 25-year old chief scientist and LightSail co-founder Danielle Fong closed Series D funding with investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates. The round of venture funding took LightSail Energy a year to close, after the very public failure of solar energy giant Solyndra spooked investors in the energy sector.

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Is This What A Business Woman Looks Like? (Hint: There Is No Cookie Cutter)

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Successful women ask for what they want, and more importantly, give themselves what they need. By Blake Landau (Founder, Artemis)

If you would have asked me to create what I thought a successful business woman looked like when I was 15 years old, I would have drawn something similar to what we see in the stock photo images we see on websites.

She would be angular and slim, in a tight fitting black suit, high heels, pearls and stockings. She’d be standing, hunched

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Take Charge: Tara Sophia Mohr Helps Women Play Bigger

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Take your vision to the next level and turn it into reality. By Grace Ng (Director of Product Experience, Lean Startup Machine)

"Most of the time, women don’t know their brilliance. They are certain they 'aren’t ready' to take on that next bigger role. They are more attuned to the ways they aren’t qualified than to the ways that they are. They are waiting for someone to validate, promote or discover them."

Sound familiar?

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How To Pitch To A Venture Capitalist (From The Trenches)

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Venture capitalist Anna Khan will be at PITCH NYC Conference as a lunchtime mentor. Get your $300 ticket to join us on November 14! By Anna Khan (Investor, Bessemer Venture Partners)

I've had a lot of female entrepreneurs ask me the secret to successfully pitch a venture capitalist. Male entrepreneurs (in part through trial and error, and in part by better access to resources) appear to do a better job convincing investors. In reality, there is no secret ingredient for a successful pitch. Instead, there are a number of factors at play.

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Meet The Women Entrepreneurs In Astia’s Fall 2012 Global Entrepreneurs Program

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Astia’s startup teams have a healthy mix of men and women, but clearly have a woman on the Founding/Executive team. By Catherine Berman (Senior Vice President, Astia)

Throw a rock in Silicon Valley and you’ll find a group of startups convening. But woman-led startups? And high-growth woman-led startups that have the potential to transform the business world entirely? Welcome to the Astia Global Entrepreneur Program, a competitive international program that brings the sharpest, hottest woman-led companies from around the world

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The Impact Of Women On The Gaming Industry (And Why Developers Should Take Note)

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It is not about making games for women or for men, it is about making games that we can all embrace. By Jeannette Weinstein (CEO, iQU)

The video game industry has transformed from a niche market into a billion dollar global power industry throughout the past 30 years, and with serious growth comes serious change.

Change is necessary, if not crucial, for an evolving industry, and this industry is particularly open to trying new tactics and strategies, which I believe explains much of the success it has achieved.

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Songkick Co-Founder Busts Your Anxieties

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Planning and skepticism certainly have their place, but don't let too much thinking hold you back. By Jessica Stillman (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0)

Michelle You has simple advice for founders - just go for it. Founding companies is second only to, perhaps, sky diving when it comes to terror, which is why Michelle You, co-founder of Songkick, offers advice to those starting up that's also remarkably applicable to those jumping out of airplanes - close your eyes and leap.

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SFMade And Over 400 Local Manufacturers Support Proposition E

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Proposition E has the support of Mayor Lee and all eleven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. By Kate Sofis (Founding Executive Director, SFMade)

On this Tuesday, November 6 not only will the entire Nation go to the polls election day, but San Franciscans will be uniquely positioned to vote for a once in a lifetime opportunity to support a fundamentally more equitable business tax system and to grow job-creating local businesses.

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Get Mentored During Lunch At PITCH NYC Conference On November 14

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November 14's PITCH Conference will hold mentoring over lunch. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We have over two dozen mentors joining us on November 14 at PITCH NYC Conference - have face time with them over lunch!

From investors to entrepreneurs, from product experts to marketing gurus, our mentors will cover topics from funding to growth, idea generation to lean startup practices, from product marketing to product design, these mentors will be coming

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