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CEO Notes From Presenting At The Women Entrepreneur’s Festival

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Notes from the Womens Entrepreneurship Festival. By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne)

Did you know that women invented the cooking stove, refrigerator, dishwasher and ironing board? As well as the Apgar test, the circular saw, Scotchgard, fire escapes, liquid paper, the windshield wiper, the life raft, and the first software for computing? Women have always been change makers.

The festival started with a keynote from Arianna Huffington. She was tall and extremely funny – much more than I expected. Her speech was incredibly motivating with a focus on real life issues and the personal obstacles women face.

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Interview With Karen Tanenbaum, Inventor Of The Wearable RFID-Enabled “Reading Glove”

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Karen Tanenbaum uses wearable tech and sensors to explore the boundaries of storytelling. By Suzanne Axtell (Technology Evangelist, O'Reilly)

I encountered Karen Tanenbaum (@ktanenbaum) through friends over on the Make side of O'Reilly Media. Thinking she might be a potential speaker for an upcoming edition of our Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, I contacted her for more information about the cool stuff she's working on, particularly her Reading Glove project.

"The Reading Glove is a collaboration between myself and my husband, Josh Tanenbaum," said Karen. "I have an interest in adaptive and intelligent systems, his research looks at storytelling and video games, and we both like to explore alternative interfaces: tangible, wearable, and ubiquitous computing environments."

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Gust And Astia Partner To Provide A International Women’s Day Scholarship For A Deserving Woman Entrepreneur To Attend Astia

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Awarding entrance into Astia’s Fall 2012 Global Entrepreneur Program in Silicon Valley. By Ilana Grossman (VP Marketing, Gust)

In the competitive and bustling world of startups, the right mentor or support network is key in determining whether a startup makes it or breaks it. While true in most cases, this statement is particularly relevant in the case of under-represented groups, such as female entrepreneurs.

That’s why I’m so proud Gust, the global platform for startup funding and early stage investments, has partnered with Astia, a not-for-profit dedicated to the success of women-led, high-growth ventures, for the International Women’s Day Scholarship.

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Women Funding Women Opens The Door To Responsible Investing

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WIN-WIN is the Women Investing In Women Initiative created by the Calvert Foundation. By Alex Goldmark (Writer, Good Business)

Most people who want to change the world and make a profit don’t have the money to buy into the growing number of investment funds that focus on social impact. But what if you only need $20 to get involved?

That's the idea behind WIN-WIN, the Women Investing In Women Initiative, which was created by the Calvert Foundation to fund businesses that improve womens’ lives by targeting women investors.

“We are trying to popularize impact investing to make it accessible to everyone,” says Lisa Hall, the Calvert Foundation's CEO. “There is power in the purse.

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3 Steps To Starting A mHealth Business: Meet Ronda Collier, Founder And CEO Of SweetWater Health

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From clinical need to research, how one medical professional created a team and build a product. By Radostina Stoycheva (Business Development, SweetWater Health)

After years of wanting to start a medical technology company, Ronda finally conceived and implemented a 3-step formula to get things moving:

Step 1: Clinical Need

Step 2: Research

Step 3: Create a Team/Build a Product

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In A Room Of 25 Engineers, Only 3 Will Be Women. Let’s Change This.

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20% of women with math and science degrees work in a related field. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Girls are smarter than boys, the infographic below states. Studies show that at an early age, girls are smarter than boys.

But girls question their ability, losing confidence and self-esteem from elementary years to their teens - even into college.

20% of female computer science students question whether they should be there. Then - only 20% of women with a degree in math or science even work in a related field. So when we ask, "Where are the women in the maths and sciences?" - now

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YouNoodle Co-Founder And CEO Rebeca Hwang On Meritocracy

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Rebeca addresses the advantages of gender diversity in a startup. By Beth Pitts (Editor, TheNextWomen)

Rebeca Hwang is a co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based startup, YouNoodle, which focuses on helping companies and governments engage with communities of entrepreneurs and innovators for open innovation and co-creation processes.

Currently, YouNoodle’s technology platform, Podium, helps power entrepreneurship initiatives by the governments of Chile, Malaysia and Korea as well as by NASA and 7 out of the top 10 universities in the world. YouNoodle is also working with companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM to facilitate

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Dispelling 4 Myths Of User Experience Research At Startups

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Research doesn’t have to be expensive or time-consuming. Here are ways to do it cheaply and efficiently. By Beth Lingard (User Experience Research Manager, ModCloth)

About 7 years ago, the CEO of a small startup I was working for dropped Steve Krug’s book “Don’t Make Me Think” on my desk and said, “Beth, you’re going to start doing usability testing for us.”

“Sure... What’s usability testing?” I cautiously responded.

“Read the book,” he said. And thus, started my career in user experience research.

In the 5+ years at this startup, I held many positions

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Antisocial Social Media Stocks – Are Women In The Boardroom?

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Women board members of social media companies: LinkedIn, Yelp, Groupon. By Alyce Lomax (Writer, The Motley Fool)

Social media brings to mind our uber-connected world, breaking down communication barriers of all kinds and helping spread information and share our lives. However, there's one way this sector may be antisocial, and that's from a tendency to neglect an entire gender from boards of directors. Forget Web 2.0; welcome to Boys Club 2.0.

Women Shouldn't "Like" This

Facebook is expected to go public in May, following many other social media stocks that have already hit the public markets. Although there's quite a bit to ponder before buying shares of Facebook

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Greylock-Backed Citrus Lane Helps Parents Discover “Best Of” Products For Little Ones

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This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Leena Rao (Writer, TechCrunch)

The dawn of subscription commerce has spawned a number of startups in technology including Birchbox, Kiwi Crate, Babbaco and many others.

Citrus Lane is one of the latest startups to tackle the model, which sends a box of kiddie goodies to members each month. The startup is focused on parents as the client, and aims to help moms and dads discover interesting and ‘Best Of’ products for those expecting babies, as well as for newborns to three-year-olds.

Each month, Citrus Lane will send parents a box

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