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Build The Next Big Mobile Game In 2 Days With Chartboost!

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Coming up: 2-day hackathon focused solely on making great new games for iOS and Android. By Maria Alegre (Co-Founder & CEO, Chartboost)

Ever seen a game on the App Store and thought, “I could do better”? Well now is your chance!

Join us for a 2-day hackathon next weekend focused on making great new games for the iOS and Android platform. Developers and designers can team up and brainstorm during our Friday night launch party, then come back Saturday to start working your magic. Competitors will be hacking away in the brand new workspace of Startup HQ in the tech-centered SOMA district of San Francisco.

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At Age 17, Sara Naseri And Emilie Kjeldsen Invent New Sun-Protective Technology

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The founders of BUCKY'o'ZUN participated in Blackbox Connect, which brings global startups into the Silicon Valley ecosystem for a 2 week immersion experience, meeting local venture capitalists and startup founders. Deadline to apply for the next group is June 15, 2012 - apply here. By Sara Naseri & Emilie Kjeldsen (Co-Founders, BUCKY’o’ZUN)

Most 17 year olds go to school, play sports and spend time with their friends, others invent pioneering technologies within the sun protection industry, discuss their project with Nobel Prize Winners, win national as well as international prizes, and travel the world to develop their project. This is what happened to us a few years ago. All of this started out as a school project.

We were walking on the beach one day, wondering why it is impossible to be outside and enjoy the sun without having to fear getting a sunburn, or even worse, developing skin cancer. This was definitely something we wanted to change.

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Founder Friday OC: “Founding A Startup Is Like A Gambling Addiction”

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While Founder Friday isn't a 'support group', it's like a gamblers-anonymous meeting. By Yaneth Acosta (Co-Founder & President, SKINMETRO™)

Last week, SKINMETRO™ co-founder, Lisa O'rrell, and I had the honor of co-hosting the launch of Women 2.0's Founder Friday in Orange County, California. We were amused because we have tons of advice about what not to do, but we're still not sure exactly what to do - it's been four years. Lisa equates founding a startup to a gambling addiction - you throw everything on the table every day believing you're going to beat the odds and win the jackpot.

While Founder Friday isn't a 'support group' - it's an appropriate substitution for a gamblers-anonymous meeting.

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Founder Friday Launches In Orange County, San Diego

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Women 2.0 director Sepideh Nasiri attended Founder Friday Orange County and San Diego last week. By Sepideh Nasiri (Director of All Things Offline, Women 2.0)

Last Thursday night's Founder Friday Orange County was a success. You would not think of Orange County as a hotbed of startups. There were many interesting and successful female entrepreneurs in the room and filled it with great energy. In addition, many organizations were excited and reached out to help make Founder Friday bigger and better.

There were two startup founders who spoke at the Founder Friday Orange County. Fight Class founder and host Kristen Nedopak (pictured above) has a background in user experience

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Partner Event: Founders’ Series Event With VC Jeff Clavier (May 22)

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Apply for your seat at this invite-only event with SofTech VC Founder and Managing Director Jeff Clavier. Join MIT/Stanford VLAB for the Founders' Series: Startup Office Hours With SoftTechVC's Jeff Clavier on May 22 in Palo Alto, CA.

Founder of startup? Not in an incubator? Have questions or need advice from an experienced Silicon Valley luminary like an exited startup founder, high profile CEO or VC?

Apply for your seat at this invite-only event with SofTech VC's Jeff Clavier (you may recognize him as the afternoon panel moderator at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference on Valentine's Day.

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Almost $20k Cash – AT&T Hackathon Recap (Engineers Don’t Blog)

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This is my story of how I almost won $20k. By Hadiyah Mujhid (Co-Founder, Black Founders)

This weekend I participated in the AT&T Mobile HTML5 Hackathon. I had very mixed feelings in the beginning about my participation for multiple reasons.

The first reason in which I was against participating is because I have a number of uncompleted apps from previous hackathons that I have yet to complete, and I didn’t want another incomplete project. But the top prize was $20k.

The second reason in which I was against participating

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Starting Up In Los Angeles – A Video Site For Dancers

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Developing the site was easy, but getting users, not so much. By Raychel Espiritu (Founder, Realdancers)

"My name is Raychel Espiritu and I am the founder of Realdancers." And let me be honest – that sentence frightens and excites me all at once. It’s frightening because now that it’s out in the universe, I am accountable for it. But it’s exciting because it holds a world of possibilities. My journey in becoming an entrepreneur hasn’t been an easy one. It’s been filled with lots of disappointments, setbacks, and reality checks.

I used to be a professional dancer. I went on tour with an up and coming hip hop artist, did live performances, few music videos, and other gigs that were starting to propel my career forward.

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How To Get Measurable Results With Pinterest

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Pinterest has taken an old concept - “vision boarding” - and made it new. By Erica Nicole (Founder & CEO, YFS Magazine)

It’s quite likely that your customers (depending on the audience demographic) are addicted to it. While it may appear irrelevant for your business, I wouldn’t discount the social media darling quite yet.

I’m referring to the Palo Alto-based social networking and visual bookmarking site, Pinterest. Co-founded by Ben Silberman, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, relatively unknown entrepreneurs (until recently), the three founders managed to secure financial backing from Silicon Valley and $37.5 million in venture capital to propel their growth.

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Story Of The Hackfest – Bacon Unicorn!

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During the hackathon, we’re constantly evaluating whether “it’s worth it” on any given problem. By Anna Billstrom (iOS & Facebook App Developer, Self)

The AT&T Hackfest was in Palo Alto. Sleepy, beautiful, affluent, diverse and yet economically not-diverse, Palo Alto, at the AT&T Foundry, a neat space with lots of power, sunlight, and (oddly, but great) random doors onto the street. I kind of love that place.

We slowly formed a team - my teammate from other hackathons, Stacie Hibino, and Estelle Weyl, whom I’d admired her from a JavaScript class a few months ago, and Stacie had worked with her at another hackfest. Two friends joined and left, graphic designers lured elsewhere. A friend Kris was with us the first day.

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More Women Are Trading On Global Stage (Doing It All)

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Women entrepreneurs are building successful e-commerce businesses. By Annie Xu (General Manager, Alibaba U.S.)

Recently, some data crossed my radar that makes me think American businesswomen are embracing global online trading.

Alibaba research shows that the number of U.S.-based women registering on the site for e-commerce increased by 72% between 2008 and 2011.

U.S female users were the biggest constituency across 12 key markets studied. More than 4.2 million women in the U.S. used Alibaba in December 2011, compared to 2.6M in India and 1.3M in the U.K.

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Win A Free Ticket To OPEN Silicon Valley!

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Keynote from Salman Khan, the CEO of Khan Academy, at the OPEN Silicon Valley conference on June 2. OPEN Silicon Valley is offering us two (2) free tickets to the OPEN Forum 2012 on June 2, 2012 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

This one-day conference will give the Women 2.0 community a unique opportunity to network with and learn from seasoned CEOs, VCs, financial market experts, government policy makers and professionals from the Silicon Valley.

To apply for one of these tickets, tell us in 200 words

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