This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Janet Hanson
Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our weekly "This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like" series.
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Save 25% On Your Ticket To PITCH NYC – Early Bird Ticket Sales End This Sunday Night
Get your ticket this week for PITCH NYC to save 25%! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Join 800+ men and women in tech on November 14 for PITCH NYC Conference & Competition. Speakers include Sandy Jen (Co-Founder & CTO, Meebo), Limor Fried (Founder & CEO, Adafruit) and Amanda Steinberg (Founder & CEO, DailyWorth). Watch 10 hot startups - finalists from the startup competition - pitch onstage for prizes.
... Read More... Y Combinator's Alexis Ohanian Joining November's PITCH NYC Conference As Judge For The Startup Competition
Meet the startup guy who launched Reddit, Breadpig and Hipmunk!
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
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Y Combinator’s Alexis Ohanian Joining November’s PITCH NYC Conference As Judge For The Startup Competition
Meet the startup guy who launched Reddit, Breadpig and Hipmunk! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Women 2.0 is excited to announce that Y Combinator ambassador Alexis Ohanian will be joining the judging panel at PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition on November 14, 2012.
Alexis is an investor with over 50 tech startups in his portfolio. He currently sits on the board of Reddit, which he co-founded in 2005. Reddit was acquired by Condé Nast
... Read More... What To Expect When You Are Founding
Giving birth, like the first days of a company, is often remembered through rose-colored glasses. By Jessica Voytek (Co-Founder & CTO, Kizoom)
My business partner jokes that our company is her first baby. As the mother of a 1-year old baby human and an 8-month old baby company, I can tell you there are more parallels than you might think.
The decision to start your first company, much like
... Read More... This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Janet Hanson
Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our weekly "This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like" series. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Janet was recently recognized on Forbes for changing the world of business. In the profile, she states -
"When somebody says, 'Well, what do you invest in?' I could say, 'I own stocks or bonds or mutual funds,' but I say that I have invested in other women."
... Read More... Women In Business Challenge Finalist: Stela Maris Da Silva
Stela sees the opportunity for women to forge a dominant position in the evolution to a sustainable economy and urges female entrepreneurs to share their ideas ... Read More...
Linda Liukas: What Every Girl Needs To Know About Programming
Girls need more inclusion and more role models. How many female Mark Zuckerbergs can you think of? By Martha Kelly Girdler (Alumnus, Hacker School)
Right now (in technology) girls are rewarded when they fit in with the boys, but what about the girls that don’t and just want to be themselves? The outlets for them are few and far between.
There are many girls and women
... Read More... On Average, New Firms Create Three MILLION New Jobs A Year (Kauffman Video)
Entrepreneurs drive job creation in the United States. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
In today's economy, we worry about jobs. But here at Women 2.0, we celebrate women entrepreneurs for their role in job creation.
Entrepreneurs, not large companies, create three million new jobs annually, as the Kauffman Foundation reminds us in the Sketchbook video
... Read More... The Good Mommy's Rule Book For Entrepreneurs
The "good mommy" laurel isn't bestowed based on some arbitrary quality time measurement, it's based on what works for you and your kids.
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The Good Mommy’s Rule Book For Entrepreneurs
The "good mommy" laurel isn't bestowed based on some arbitrary quality time measurement, it's based on what works for you and your kids. By Carla Rover (Editor, The Advertising Technology Review)
The guilt is palpable. Looking into a child's sad face as you tell him that you can't play with him because you have to talk to the impatient man on the phone "about money for Mommy's business" is a gut-wrenching exercise that I wouldn't wish on the most heartless creature.
... Read More... Women In Business Challenge Finalist: Stela Maris Da Silva
Stela sees the opportunity for women to forge a dominant position in the evolution to a sustainable economy and urges female entrepreneurs to share their ideas and ideals, because if a woman doesn’t share an idea, that’s all it will remain. An idea. By Joëlle Payet (Marketing & Communications, BiD Network)
This week’s finalist is Professor Stela Maris da Silva, a doctor of biotechnology, came up with an organic method to combat a plague that has ravaged Argentinian farming in recent years.
... Read More... Working Women On Labor Day
I invest in women because I believe in their ideas. I get their ideas. By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal)
I am taking this Monday off to write on the weekly Woman Entrepreneur of the week. Figuring it is Labor Day and most of us are taking the day off so I am going to too. Instead I am going to write about why we should support women entrepreneurs.
I have written about my career before. The dots have connected as I have learned from each and every step I have taken particularly the steps where I have failed. My career has not been your classic slow move up the ladder. As most women that I have talked to over the past few years, and the many of them
... Read More... Win A Free Ticket To Attend PITCH 2012 Conference In New York!
Enter the Women 2.0 Inspiration Contest on Chitsie to win a free ticket to November's conference! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Women 2.0 partnered with Chitsie to offer a contest for a free PITCH Conference & Competition ticket (valued at $600).
To enter the contest, just answer this question on Chitsie here -
"Which woman entrepreneur inspires you the most and why?" Tell us on Chitsie - in 30 words or less - for a chance to win!
Last day to submit an answer for a chance to win a FREE ticket to PITCH Conference & Competition on November 14
... Read More... In The World Of Tech, Women Can Have It All
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Michal Tsur (Co-Founder & President, Kaltura) & Leah Belsky (VP of Strategy, Kaltura)
The blossoming tech startup generation, and the new wave of professional women seeking success in the workplace and at home don’t always cross paths. Tech industries suffer from a noticeable lack of strong female leadership at the top, while powerful women have mostly flocked to traditional industries. Although the concept of “having it all” might itself be elusive, it’s time that women who value both a rich home life and a fulfilling career explore the tech startup world.
In July/August 2012 the Atlantic Monthly featured an article that soon became the publication’s most popular piece
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