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5 Tips For Bootstrapping Your Startup

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Bootstrapping means managing your time as closely as your money. Here's how to do it. By Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell)

While venture-backed tech startups seem to get all the press, there are many, many ways to start your company.

Some entrepreneurs do it while hanging onto their day job full-time.

Some use the money they’ve saved to give themselves a defined runway (i.e., I get six months to accomplish these three things, otherwise, I move on).

Others seem to rely exclusively on hustle and luck. Here’s what I’ve learned about one of the less glamorous forms of funding:

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VC Ben Horowitz: “The Future Of Humankind Is Dependent On Technovation Girls” (The Girl Effect)

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What's going to happen if software eats the world and all the programmers are boys? By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz talks about the importance of women in technology during a Technovation Challenge pitch event, the culminating National Technovation Pitch Night happening this Thursday night in Santa Clara.

The program inspires high school girls to be inventors, builders and entrepreneurs. Over a 10 week course, they develop a phone app and pitch their business plans to a panel of VCs and industry experts.

Starting at minute 7 of the Ben Horowitz Keynote: The future of humankind is dependent on Technovation girls:

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Women CEOs Share 4 Secrets To Fast Growth

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Supercharged growth is all in your mind. Changing your mindset can change your growth potential. By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer)

If you want to be a winner, watch the moves of big winners.

To find winning women entrepreneurs, a good place to start is Ernst & Young's Entrepreneurial Winning Women. These women entrepreneurs had already reached the $1 million revenue mark and had the potential to ratchet that up even further.

Revenues of the participating companies have grown almost 50% each year on average, with a corresponding average annual job growth rate of more than 25%, according to

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3 Keys To Financial Success For The Female Entrepreneur

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A good saving and investing plan will scale like a startup. By Hilary Martin (Certified Financial Planner, Family Wealth Consulting Group)

My philosophy is simple, but ground breaking - you can dramatically improve your financial situation through consistent application of healthy practices.

Add these key concepts to an informed collection of personal finance best practices, and you’re definitely on your way to achieving financial freedom!

1. You’re not just starting a company, you’re already running one.

What I’m suggesting here is a powerful mindset shift

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From Conception To Launch – Whoa, What A Journey!

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Early-stage startup founder shares learnings as she reflects on what it took to finally ship it out. By Chitra Rakesh (Founder, Chitsie)

It took me over a year, some patience and a lot of conviction to bring my website, Chitsie, to life. Yes, you may consider that insane in a land where startups are churned out over weekends. I do agree that is “forever time” in startup dictionary.

But if you’re looking to go live with clients and advisors; if you’re not an ex-Google employee or through an incubator program; if you’re not from Stanford; and if you haven’t even attended school in this part of the world – it is freaking hard. It was, for me!

And if I could do it, so can you.

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Facebook, Under Fire For Lack Of Female Directors On The Board, Maybe Needs A List

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There are plenty of options for adding women directors to Facebook's board. By Connie Guglielmo (Contributing Writer, Forbes)

Facebook, preparing an initial public offering that could value the social network as high as $100 billion, has plenty of options for adding women directors to its board, say women tech executives who have offered up candidates CEO Mark Zuckerberg might consider.

At the top of the list: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s own chief operating officer. Facebook, which filed for its IPO in February, has since been criticized by activist groups and shareholders for the lack of diversity on its board - most notably, the lack of a single women among its all male, all white directors.

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Fundraising From The Hinterlands: Does Location Really Matter In The Digital Universe?

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Good ideas and the ability to execute them aren’t confined to a geographic location. By Antonia Chappell (Co-Founder, Social Good Network)

Okay. Boise, Idaho isn’t really the Hinterlands. In fact, most people are surprised by the arts and culture available here.

But, for local web startups trying to raise capital, Boise might as well be on the moon. It’s not that I don’t get the bias. I’ve spent the majority of my career at startups in Los Angeles, Seattle, and the Bay area.

Even after we moved to Boise, I continued to work outside the area, in part because my professional network was elsewhere and, in part, I admit, because I didn’t feel there was much of an entrepreneurial culture here.

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Opportunity: Interns Sought For Women 2.0 Editorial Department

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Writing, research, copy editing and strategy help needed! Join us as an editorial intern at Women 2.0. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Join Women 2.0 in inspiring, educating and connecting women entrepreneurs in high-growth, high-tech ventures! Women 2.0 is working hard to increase the number of female founders of tech startups, and we need your help!

We are currently accepting applications for internships. You will be working in the Women 2.0 editorial department supporting the editor-in-chief (that's me!), writers/bloggers and content creators. You must have a passion for women's advancement in technology, business and entrepreneurship.

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Letters To A Young Engineer: How To Decide Where To Work

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Here is advice a startup CTO would writes to herself - in hopes that other young people may find benefit. By Niniane Wang (CTO, Minted)

Oftentimes throughout my life, I wished that I could time-travel and ask my future self for advice. I felt sure that in five or ten years, I would know exactly how to handle the thorny situation facing me. Usually, it was true. A handful of years later, I knew precisely how to address the issue, but I could not tell my younger self.

What a tragedy that this supply and demand could not be connected between my past and older self! Instead I will write out the advice I would've given myself, in hopes that other young people may find some benefit.

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Women Entrepreneurs: Turning Chaos Into Productivity

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As chaos theory suggests, small investments in women – to help advance their entrepreneurial aspirations – can result in significant positive global economic implications. By Alana Muller (President, Kauffman FastTrac)

As an undergraduate math major, one of my favorite areas of study was chaos theory. That is, the notion that a small, seemingly inconsequential action in one location can have a major effect in another, very distant location.

This concept is often illustrated through what is known as “the butterfly effect,” whereby the beating of a butterfly’s wings is the catalyst for a major hurricane on another part of the planet weeks later. Recently, I was reminded of this notion in the context of entrepreneurship and, in particular, women in entrepreneurship.

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Bay Area Capital Connections Conference (May 10 In San Francisco)

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Get the real story from investors and successful entrepreneurs as they share their paths to success. By Darlene Crane (Executive Director, Alliance for Community Development)

The Alliance for Community Development has made a decision to eliminate any cost constraints to attending the Fifth Annual Bay Area Capital Connections Conference.

Women 2.0 members are invited to register for the Bay Area Capital Connections Conference here for FREE. The event, will be held at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco from 8:30am to 6pm. The program prepares entrepreneurs to acquire funding and build successful businesses.

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8 Tips For Connecting With Female Founders In Your Community

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YEC Women share their answers for how to find fellow women entrepreneurs to meet. By Natalie MacNeil (Co-Founder, YEC Women)

The following answers are provided by YEC Women. Co-Founded by Natalie MacNeil and Scott Gerber, YEC Women is an initiative of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the country’s most promising young entrepreneurs.

Q: What's one tip for connecting with other founders, especially other female founders, in your community?

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