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Be Part Of Global Entrepreneurship Week 50 (“GEW 50”) – Apply For Startup Open By September 15 (Win A Trip To Rio de Janeiro!)

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Global Entrepreneurship Week hosts Startup Open, a competition offering prizes to help startups succeed - apply by September 15 for recognition of your high-growth potential. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Get recognized as one of the 50 of the most promising ventures from around the world for Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). The 2012 class of the "GEW 50" will be announced October 15, 2012 and then competes for a handful of prizes.

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Startup America Optimism Survey Finds 85% Of Startups Plan To Hire Employees In The Next Year

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Kauffman Foundation data show that young companies (those less than five years old) accounted for nearly all net job growth in the U.S., creating three million new jobs annually. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

The Startup America Partnership recently released the results of an optimism survey gauging startups' confidence about their businesses and the overall U.S. economy, with its 8.1% unemployment rate. An encouraging finding is that 85% of survey participants plan on hiring in the next year. 11% of those reported planning on hiring

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Back To Work, With Cigars

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Criticism of fathers who sought leave was harsh and very much in the open. This needs improvement. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls' Network)

The Labor Day op-ed I co-authored with Anne-Marie Slaughter was written before I read a stupendous, and sobering, article by Erin Kelly, a sociologist at The University of Minnesota, who is one of the foremost work-family researchers in the country. (All data and quotes in this article are from her study.)

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After 10-Week Python Training Program, Women Engineers Receive Job Offers From Silicon Valley Startups

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Hackbright Academy in San Francisco trains women to be developers. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Andree Brazeau moved to San Francisco from Canada and began teaching herself to code. A year later, she still wasn’t able to find a job as a developer, so she applied for Hackbright Academy. The Python training program was already full, but Andree persisted. Thanks to a last-minute dropout, Andree was admitted to the all-female software training program in June.

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Women Entrepreneurs At Fashion’s Night Out In New York City

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Meet enterprising female founders at the Plum Alley event. By Leena Sukumar (Vice President, mySkin)

I attended a Fashion's Night Out event in New York co-hosted by Plum Alley, a new venture by Deborah Jackson. Deborah, a champion of women-owned companies, seeks to provide exposure to curated emerging brands founded by women, via limited sales.

The event was packed with high-energy women dressed fashionably in true New York City style.

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An Entrepreneur’s Brain Dump

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Meebo co-founder and CTO Sandy Jen will be speaking at PITCH NYC on November 14, 2012. By Sandy Jen (Co-Founder & CTO, Meebo)

I helped found Meebo in 2005. It's now 2012. I heard somewhere that the average lifespan of a startup is 7 years. I have no idea if that's still true, but somehow Meebo hit that statistic right on the dot.

Growing Meebo to almost 200 people was

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Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson In Sharing

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Pairing is finding fans at technology companies... By Joseph Walker (Writer, Wall Street Journal)

Virginia Woolf argued that a woman writer needs a room of her own. In Silicon Valley, some companies are questioning whether software programmers even need their own cubicles.

Their method is "pair programming" — where two people share one desk and one computer.

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Girls Who Code Graduates First Inaugural Class In NYC

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Girls paired up to complete their final projects, from mobile apps to computer games. By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest)

The first inaugural class of Girls Who Code graduated last Thursday after the 8-week summer crash course in technology and computer science. From about 100 applicants, 20 girls from underserved high schools across New York were chosen to participate in the summer program supported by big-name backers

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Solving Signal:Noise Through Adversity And Diversity

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There’s a persistent signal:noise problem across the Web and women can do a lot to help solve this issue. We can do it because we’re great at contextualizing info and evaluating it in a way that’s different from what currently exists. By Twain Liu (Founder, Senseus)

They say entrepreneurs are irrational optimists so I must be one. Who else but an irrational optimist is developing technology that might enable them to discern why consumers are buying their products and not just an app that teaches us how to apply lipstick

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Two House Moms Call A Strike!

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Producing an interactive book app is a lot like making a film. By Rania Ajami (Founder & Director, Jumping Pages)

As a mom, sometimes I just want to go on strike!

All moms, working and stay-at-home, can sometimes feel underpaid, under-appreciated and misused. Yet one day, as I looked around my own home, it occurred to me that I was probably not the only one who felt this way. TV blaring, lights burning, washer and dryer continually spinning, a kitchen resembling a 24-hour diner.

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