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Women In Healthcare Technology: “We Need A Healthcare Revolution!”

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The commonality between these four female CEOs of health tech companies is easy - play a role in the revolution of the healthcare technology industry. By Radostina Stoycheva (Business Development, SweetWater Health)

The healthcare system is broken and we all know it. So what are we doing about it? Or more specifically, what are women doing about?

Most recently, Rock Health has been rounding up women in health with their “xx in health” week. The statistics speak for themselves - women make up 73% of medical and health services managers, but only 14% of healthcare VC partners and 4% of healthcare CEOs.

We spoke with four women in charge of health technology companies. We raised some questions

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To Start Up Or To SU-Up?

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Our upcoming Kickstarter campaign will provide us with the promotional push and funding needed to take our social enterprise to the next level. By Melissa McCoy (Partner & Vice President of Engineering, TOHL)

After graduating in May, I had two choices: I could head down to Chile and join my three partners in developing TOHL, our water social enterprise, or I could travel to Silicon Valley to participate in Singularity University’s 10-week Graduate Studies summer program.

Both were attractive choices, but choosing either could mean giving up the opportunity of a lifetime.

My TOHL partners, Ben Cohen, Travis Horsley, and Apoorv Sinha, and I had been working for over a year on developing TOHL’s technology: a low-cost water pipeline installation method that has the potential to connect the nearly 1 billion people without clean water

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This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Joanne Wilson

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Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our "This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like" series. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Prominent NYC angel investor Joanne Wilson will be meeting with the winner of the "People's Choice Award" at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on November 14, 2012 in New York City. Deadline to apply to PITCH is August 31, 2012.

Joanne started her career as a buyer at Macy's and ran a company in the rag trade. She dabbled in a friends' businesses, spearheaded sales at a magazine/e-zine/events startup in Silicon Alley, chaired a non-profit focused on technology in inner city schools (that she is still involved with), sat on her kids' school board/exec board

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How To Stay Focused While Being A Visible, Active Member Of The Female Tech Community

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There are always interesting engineering events on the weekends in Silicon Valley, such as hackathons. By Julia Grace (Co-Founder & CTO, WeddingLovely)

As the CTO of a small startup, my days are almost always spent head down, focused on our business and building our technical infrastructure. I'm writing code, fixing bugs, building features, thinking about what's next on our product roadmap and figuring out how we'll get there.

The adage is that most startups fail because they lose focus. The problem is that it can be difficult to focus when you also have to ensure that potential investors, future employees, and the tech community know that you exist.

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A Founder’s Tale: The Kickstarter Kraze

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Writer's Bloq just launched a Kickstarter campaign introducing themselves to the world. (Golden quills if you support!) Here's a piece on what the experience has been like far for the Founder. By Nayia Moysidis (Founder, Writer's Bloq)

Every time you support, I tear up. I know I'm not supposed to say that. Founders shouldn't show a soft side. Because we've been told that showing emotion is equivalent to being weak. That admitting to feeling pain is a shade of cowardice. I disagree.

We're not supposed to tell you that business is personal, to share the secret we all know is true: we care. If we didn't care - obsessively so - we wouldn't be spending every waking moment and rare sleeping moments researching and thinking and perfecting a product that's invisible to a judgmental world.

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The New Girls’ Network: The Science Of Office Politics

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Mothers are 79% less likely to be hired, only half as likely to be promoted, offered an average of $11,000 less in salary and held to higher performance and punctuality standards than an identical woman without children. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls' Network)

Advice literature for women is a crowded field and a predictable one. Most advice falls into one of two woefully inadequate camps:

1. Man up! The most common advice assumes that the problem is that women need to act more like men. Men tend to negotiate harder, act with more confidence and go after plum assignments that will require them to stretch and swagger. All this is good advice - sometimes, for some women. It will work for you if you tend to act in traditionally feminine ways: modest, happy to play support roles and attuned to the comfort of others

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Entrepreneurs’ Economic Confidence Slipping While Older Entrepreneurs Maintain Optimism, Says Kauffman/LegalZoom

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Optimism for the economy exists between older entrepreneurs and those between 18 and 40 years of age. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

According to the third-quarter Kauffman/LegalZoom Startup Confidence Index released last month, expectations for the U.S. economy declined overall while significant optimism emerged between older entrepreneurs and those between the ages of 18 and 40.

The study found that almost 40% of startup founders believe the economy will deteriorate over the next year, an increase from 36% in the second-quarter survey and 31% in the first-quarter survey. Entrepreneurs who were somewhat confident in future profitability fell from 43% in second quarter to 40% in the third-quarter

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“Women Unfiltered” – 2013 SXSW Panel Picker Submission

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Living the dream and sharing the reality - get unfiltered advice from women in charge. By Rudina Seseri (Partner, Fairhaven Capital)

I am looking forward to a substantive panel and to a healthy discussion, which addresses not only the issue of how women in the tech ecosystem approach their careers, but also how the evolution of digital media has created new opportunities for the advancement of women in traditionally male-dominated fields.

The panel is titled "Women Unfiltered" and provides unfiltered advice from women in charge - exploring topics ranging from career advice to personal stories of challenge and achievement from these three female executives (a Fortune 500 Vice President, a Partner in a Venture Capital firm, and an Agency President) who

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