Learn To Pitch Your Startup: Previous PITCH Startup Competition Finalists Show You How (Videos)
Deadline to apply to pitch your startup onstage at the next PITCH conference is August 31, 2012.
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Meet The Woman In Tech Who Sold Her Company To Dell For $1.4 Billion
Dell acquired co-founder Paula Long's storage area networking company EqualLogic for $1.4 billion in 2007 - history’s largest cash payout for a venture-bac... Read More...
Women In Business Challenge Finalist: Lois Gicheru Of Solafrique
"Everything worth having is worth working for, so never give up." - Lois Gicheru (Founder, Solafrique) By Joëlle Payet (Marketing & Communications Coordinator, BiD Network)
Lois Gicheru, this week’s Women in Business Challenge finalist, was born and raised in Kenya, and through her business endeavors is starting to resolve issues regarding access to clean, sustainable and consistent energy in Kenya.
With little proven reserves of oil or gas and an erratic supply of hydro-electric power, advances in consistent renewable energy are highly advantageous for Kenya, allowing it self-reliance. It was these inconsistencies in the supply of electricity which prompted Lois Gicheru to form Solafrique.
... Read More... L'Oréal Supports Women Entrepreneurs, Offers $25k Cash Prize
L'Oréal will award one finalist team at the PITCH NYC Conference & Competition a $25,000 cash prize!
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L’Oréal Supports Women Entrepreneurs, Offers $25k Cash Prize
L'Oréal will award one finalist team at the PITCH NYC Conference & Competition a $25,000 cash prize! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
This year, we've seen an energetic new wave of businesses focused on the female market, thanks to the L’Oréal Women In Digital Program which put a stake in the ground, focusing on women working in technology and digital marketing by providing recognition, testing opportunities and recruitment opportunities from the beauty industry.
Recently, the L’Oréal Women in Digital Program awarded five women entrepreneurs identified as pioneers in the new beauty industry: Bettina Hein (Founder & CEO, Pixibility), Doreen Bloch (Founder & CEO, Poshly), Kathryn Minshew (Founder, The Daily Muse), Sarah McIlroy (Founder & CEO, FashionPlaytes) and
... Read More... Why AboutOne Uses Gamification
Gamification technology was something we could harness to benefit our users; adding a game element instantly brought the fun! By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne)
The Deloitte annual Tech Trends 2012 study reported the latest figures on who plays social games online. Their results were surprising to some, but validating to the rest of us.
The average online gamer is a 37 year old woman. The articles that came out after the study portrayed this gamer as compulsively tending to an imaginary Farmville crop on Facebook.
What they missed was what I saw – these gamers are Moms.
When I created AboutOne, my goal was to help moms
... Read More... Serial Entrepreneur Shares Key Lessons From Three Startups
Meet serial entrepreneur Dr. Maha Achour at Founder Friday San Diego on September 7, 2012 at Procopio's office - Free RSVP here.
... Read More... Meet PITCH 2012 Online Judge Fab COO Beth Ferreira – Apply To The Startup Competition By This Friday Night!
Meet one of 30+ judges reviewing applications for PITCH 2012 Startup Competition - Fab COO Beth Ferreira.
... Read More... Creating A Comfortable Co-Working Space
Founder Friday San Francisco will be held at net.workspace in San Francisco on September 7, 2012.
... Read More... Being Comfortable In Your Skin
I’m not sure where this road will lead, but I am excited to find out. By Mili Mittal (Co-Founder & CEO, mor.sl)
I was on the phone with my 13-year old niece today. She recently launched her own jewelry website and 4 days post-launch was deflated by the fact that she had no customers. I’d been dreading this call.
She’d had hopes of instant success. And it’s no wonder — with all the hype about entrepreneurship these days, it seems that anyone can get customers, get bought, or get funded “overnight”. The hype is false. The media tends to leave out the arduous tale of toiling and pivoting that most startup founders go through before they “make it.”
Here’s my tale (still in progress!) and some of the big
... Read More... Sophia Amoruso's Los Angeles-Based Fashion Retail Website Nasty Gal Raises $40M Series B From Index Ventures
From eBay store to major online retail destination, CEO Sophia Amoruso goes big with Nasty Gal.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
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Sophia Amoruso’s Los Angeles-Based Fashion Retail Website Nasty Gal Raises $40M Series B From Index Ventures
From eBay store to major online retail destination, CEO Sophia Amoruso goes big with Nasty Gal. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Los Angeles-based shopping site Nasty Gal raises $40M Series B from Index Ventures.
In 2006, Nasty Gal started as an eBay store "Nasty Gal Vintage" curated and painstakingly grown by founder and CEO Sophia Amoruso, who hired friends as employees to grow Nasty Gal into its own web domain and major online retail destination. Forbes reports that without outside financing or marketing, Nasty Gal took in $28M in revenue in 2011, up from $10M in 2010.
Index Ventures' portfolio companies include UK-based
... Read More... Partner Event: FailCon (September 22 In San Francisco)
FailCon helps entrepreneurs overcome failure.FailCon is a one-day conference on October 22, 2012 in San Francisco for 500+ technology entrepreneurs, invest... Read More...
Democratizing Entrepreneurship: The Next Generation Of Networks
Online connections give entrepreneurs access to a global network of founders, mentors and advisors. By Lesa Mitchell (Vice President, Kauffman Foundation)
In 1950, Ewing Kauffman launched his pharmaceutical company, Marion Laboratories Inc., in the basement of his modest home in Kansas City. During his first year in business, he had sales of $36,000 and a net profit of $1,000. By the time he sold his company to Merrell Dow in 1989, it had become a global diversified healthcare giant with nearly $1 billion in sales.
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launched Apple. The first world headquarters for their world-changing venture was Jobs’ family garage.
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