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Owning Your Education (Hungry For Life)

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While it is easy to read and read about certain theories, it is important to apply the learnings to a tangible output. For programming, the best way is to make a project, be it a mobile app, a website or a patch to an open source project, which leads to the next step. By Michelle Sun (Recent Graduate, Hackbright Academy)

After a summer of intense, guided learning, I feel empowered and very blessed to be equipped with the right skills to pick up new skills along the way. Learning to program

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From “n00b” To Engineer In One Year

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I am joining Red Hat as a Associate Software Engineer. By Lynn Root (Founder, PyLadies San Francisco)

It is my great pleasure (and squee!) to share with my friends, family, PyLadies, Twitter nerds, Women Who Code’rs, DevChixen, Systers, and everyone else that I can now say: I am an Engineer.

Yes, the same person that once did not know the difference between a compiler and an interpreter, couldn’t explain

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What I Learned Building ParentSquare

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I have always been full of ideas... By Anu Vaid (Founder, ParentSquare)

I have over 15 years of hands-on experience in the software industry. This experience includes requirements analysis, software design, implementation and testing to leading teams, process management and even quality optimization.

I enjoy turning vague requirements into products

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Lisa And The 30-Pin Adventure, Or “Why I Built A Hardware Startup”

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Here I am, over two and a half years later, and to date, Revel has built not one, but two pieces of proprietary hardware! By Lisa Falzone (Founder & CEO, Revel Systems)

When I finally took the leap into Silicon Valley entrepreneur-dom, hardware was certainly the last thing on my mind. I had started a software company, after all — the award-winning leader in the iPad point of sale space, Revel Systems. Sure, hardware was a necessary component, but we could just buy all that. Right? Why venture into the unknown?

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Women On The Verge: Day 1 At Hackbright Academy

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16 of us filed into an office in San Francisco's Mission District today - among our ranks were physicists, teachers, mech and electrical engineers, sys admins, women fresh out of college, mothers, MIG welders, professors, biologists. By Margaret Morris (Student, Hackbright Academy)

We're the newest batch of Bene Gesserit Hackbright women, here to learn the entire Python-based dev stack, one layer at a time. We all hail from vastly different backgrounds and found this path through multiple routes, each with our own

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Top 10 Finalists Announced: PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition, Competition Culminates November 14!

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Join us for PITCH NYC Conference & Competition on November 14. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

The PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition received 275+ applications from over 24 countries. Today, we announce the 10 women-led startups selected by 30 seasoned VCs and angel investors to compete on November 14, 2012 at PITCH NYC for prizes.

We are excited to introduce the finalists of the 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH NYC Startup Competition (in alphabetical order):

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Kapor Capital Providing 5 Scholarships For Women Of Color To Attend PITCH NYC Conference (November 14, 2012)

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Five (5) scholarships available to women of color to attend PITCH NYC, thanks to sponsorship from Kapor Capital! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Kapor Capital is sponsoring five (5) scholarships for women of color who are otherwise financially unable to attend Women 2.0 PITCH NYC Conference & Competition on November 14, 2012. Learn from talks by successful women executives and founders of startups and tech companies, and network with 800+ men and women in tech.

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Keynote Speakers Announced For PITCH NYC 2012 Conference In November: Sandy Lerner (Cisco, Urban Decay), Geraldine Laybourne (Oxygen) And Fran Maier (Match.com, TRUSTe)

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  By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We are excited to announce our three keynote speakers for PITCH NYC Conference & Competition on November 14, 2012.

We are thrilled that Sandy Lerner, co-founder of tech giant Cisco and cosmetics company Urban Decay will be joining us and presenting the morning keynote at PITCH NYC Conference.

Founder of Oxygen Media, Geraldine Laybourne, will be presenting the afternoon keynote at PITCH NYC Conference.

As we've announced earlier, Match.com and TRUSTe founder Fran Maier is a keynote speaker at PITCH NYC Conference as well, along with a full roster of successful women startup founders like Sandy Jen (CTO of Meebo, acquired by Google), Michelle You (CPO of Songkick, funded by Sequoia) and Limor Fried (CEO of Adafruit Industries, up for Entrepreneur.com Entrepreneur of the Year). Full speaker roster and agenda at pitch.women2.com.

Learn more about our three impactful keynote speakers

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