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Women 2.0 save 50% on tickets to the Large Scale Machine Learning workshop (July 9 in San Francisco).
By Courtney Burton (Assistant Producer, Sessions Events)
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Female Founders To Watch: Startups Catering To Moms
From subscription services for parents to circuit kits for children, there is plenty of options for Mother's Day!
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Wanted: A Few (More) Good Women For WeWork Labs SF
Help us build the tech world's first startup residency space with gender parity.
By Kaitlin Pike (Director, WeWork Labs SF)
I have a not-so-secret agenda for ... Read More...
Free Tickets To Lean Startup Machine (May 25-27 In San Francisco)
Learn how you can win a free ticket to the Lean Startup Machine below! By Angeline Tan (Coordinator, Lean Startup Machine)
An intensive educational workshop, Lean Startup Machine (May 25-27, 2012 in San Francisco, CA) is where entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to build solutions customers want. You’ll learn and experience more in 3 days than most do in 6 months.
Your ultimate success is not contingent on your original “idea”. Groupon started as a platform for group social activism, YouTube started as a dating site, PayPal started for Palm Pilot payments. It’s not as important where you start, only that you start now.
... Read More... In War For Talent, “Brogrammers” Will Be Losers
"The rise of the brogrammer joke and its ensuing backlash has some benefits: It helps talented women choose worthy employers, it gives a name and face to a prob... Read More...
In War For Talent, "Brogrammers" Will Be Losers
"The rise of the brogrammer joke and its ensuing backlash has some benefits: It helps talented women choose worthy employers, it gives a name and face to a prob... Read More...
Operation Liberation: Tearing Down The Pink Ghetto
When it comes to women and technology, misconceptions abound.
By Leslie Bradshaw (Co-Founder & President, JESS3)
If the chatter on the internet is to be bel... Read More...
Minimizing Risk In Entrepreneurship: Pattern Recognition, Iteration
Risk minimization leverages pattern recognition, pattern iteration and pattern replication. By Larry Chiang (CEO, Duck9 & Stanford University EIR)
I have this theory that risk can be nearly eliminated.
I mentor academically smart female engineers to also be street smart. Street smart used to imply shady.
In this Women 2.0 blog post, it means compression of massive experience via pattern recognition that leads to pattern replication and pattern iteration.
Every street smart maneuver you have heard me do
... Read More... Women Make Friends, Men Make Business
Business networking interactions are intended to result in business! By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women's Capital Connection)
One of the most cited and real barriers to women’s professional and business success relates to networking: not enough, not the right type, and not enough access. The other problem some women have is how they interact at networking events.
When I observe women (myself included) at networking events globally and coach women about networking, I most often see and hear women exhibit almost a singular focus on connecting with people and building relationships, practically at the expense of getting referrals and doing business.
... Read More... Partner Event: Vator Splash (June 7 In Los Angeles)
Splash is a single-track evening event and startup competition.
Join hundreds of high-tech influencers for Vator Splash LA on June 7, 2012 in Los Angeles, CA. ... Read More...
Can Tech Companies Continue To Innovate With No Women At The Table?
Having women at the boardroom table or as executives can significantly increase companies' profits. By Allyson Kapin (Founder, Women Who Tech)
Women dominate social networks, according to the latest Nielsen report. This is not news. Women have been ruling social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and social gaming platforms for the past few years. Women also bring in half or more of the income in 55% of U.S. households. And women ages 50 and older control a net worth of $19 trillion and own more than three-fourths of the nation’s financial wealth, according to MassMutual Financial Group. Simply put, women are influential and drive the economy.
Yet when it comes to the boards of directors
... Read More... Kleiner Perkins And Sequoia Fund $6.5M Round For Cross-Device Ad Targeter Drawbridge
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Anthony Ha (Writer, TechCrunch)
When two of the biggest names in venture capital (arguably still the biggest) both invest in a startup, you know it’s probably time to take notice. So yes, take notice: A cross-device ad targeting startup called Drawbridge has raised a $6.5 million Series A from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.
The company was founded in November 2010 by Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, a scientist at AdMob and then, after the acquisition, at Google. Sivaramakrishnan says she started the company because she saw the proliferation
... Read More... Technovation Challenge's Emilie Robert Wong Encourages Girls To "Hammer Up!"
"Technovation recognizes that technology needs the talents of both men and women."
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Emilie is curr... Read More...
Technovation Challenge’s Emilie Robert Wong Encourages Girls To “Hammer Up!”
"Technovation recognizes that technology needs the talents of both men and women." By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Emilie is currently a high school junior in San Francisco. Since winning the first Technovation Challenge, Emilie Robert Wong has developed three more apps (two for Michelle Obama's Healthy Kids initiative and one with an ecology theme), interned at two tech startups and is currently working for LocAid.
She was a Technovation TA and is the founding president of the Technovation Club at her high school in San Francisco. Emilie received the Bay Area "Aspirations in Computing" award this year.
... Read More... Why Would A Geek Girl Want To Attend TiECon?
Entrepreneurship is perfect for women - whether single or married, with or without children! Here's why. By Gargi Nalawade (Founder & CEO, Sepalz)
Successes such as Instagram have the whole developer community up in restless excitement. At least 2 developers approached me the day the Instagram acquisition was announced.
"I'd like to talk to you about becoming an entrepreneur," one said.
"I'd like to know how exactly to become an entrepreneur and what it takes," said another.
Looking at Instagram and the 12 people team that made millions in a few months is giving them a rush.
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