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Attend A Reception With First Lady Michelle Obama In My Place!

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Contest rules updated on March 26, 2012. By Shelly Kapoor Collins (CEO, Enscient Corporation)

I’m issuing a challenge today that is about the power in numbers that the grassroots community brings to any campaign. Attend First Lady Michelle Obama’s reception to be held in San Francisco (3/30) in my place....all in support of the Re-Election campaign.

Well, the rules have changed a bit to give everyone a chance to attend and the amount to raise is more easily attainable.

Here are three easy steps to get started, once you click on the link below:

  • Set a goal that you want to raise. $500 gets a General Reception ticket and $1000 gets a VIP ticket.... Read More...
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4 Ways Female Entrepreneurs Can #FixYoungAmerica Together

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Sharing brilliance to be better young entrepreneurs. By Kelly Azevedo (Contributing Blogger, Young Entrepreneurs Council)

When the Young Entrepreneur Council (of which I am a member) and its partners unveiled the #FixYoungAmerica campaign, a solutions-based movement that aims to end youth unemployment, one particular phrase from the video convinced me that women entrepreneurs in particular need get involved and lend our voices to this important endeavor. Says YEC's founder Scott Gerber: "We've seen what works and now we're all coming together to fix young America, to highlight the solutions that are rarely talked about."

As women, we often approach business and persuasion differently than men. We tend to work collaboratively

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Building Trust in the Digital Age: Privacy Identity Innovation 2012

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There’s been a lot of buzz lately about data being the “new oil”. At the same time, businesses from small startups to Fortune 500 companies are under pressure to improve their privacy practices, especially following the White House’s recent release of a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. So what does it mean for you and your business? How can you make the most of data while building trust with users? Find out at the 3rd annual Privacy Identity Innovation conference (pii2012), taking place May 14 in downtown Seattle.

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Do You Cry Like Steve Jobs?

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By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women's Capital Connection) The news about the latest iPad and Apple’s dividend payout these past few days has gotten me thinking again about the genius of Steve Jobs.

When I read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson last fall, I was struck by three aspects of his life that seemed to me to hold valuable career advice and lessons for women professionals and entrepreneurs.

  1. Steve Jobs cried a lot! Apparently he cried when he was happy, mad, sad, or frustrated. Now, crying is not (in and of itself) a thing of which to be proud, and tears... Read More...
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Finding The Right Accelerator Program For Women Entrepreneurs

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Learnings from the "Exploring the Top Startup Accelerator Programs" panel at SXSW. By Dana Rosenberg (Startup Enthusiast, Self)

It’s no secret that technology startups is a male-dominated field. As a woman in tech, and with the recent rise of accelerator programs, I wanted to hear about startup accelerators that have proven benefits to female entrepreneurs.

At a panel at SXSW on finding the right accelerator program for you, I took advantage of the opportunity to ask the panelists about their approach to female founders. I wanted to know what percent of their companies are female founded, whether they take gender into account when selecting their classes and whether

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Partner Event: MIT Sloan Hi-Tech Conference

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MIT Sloan Hi-Tech Conference (April 13, 2012 in Cambridge, MA). Come and hear leading speakers that together represent many of the most influential figures in the global technology sector, including both established leaders and entrepreneurs driving fundamental disruptions in internet, media, and mobile markets.

Women 2.0 members save 10% with discount code "WOMEN20" when you register here.

Keynotes from Jeff Nick (CTO, EMC), Stephanie

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Ambient Social Is Dependent On Interests, Except Maybe Grindr…

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By Renee DiResta (Associate, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) There have been lots of interesting posts lately about how Highlight, Glancee and Sonar performed at SXSW. As a SXSW n00b, I installed all three.

Unfortunately, the battery drain made continued use impossible, but I did notice that there was almost no overlap in the connections they suggested. This could be because smarter people only installed one of the three, but the lack of consistency got me thinking that the way the app parses your social and interest graphs is critical - and that no one really owns the interest graph.

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The Label Or The Characteristic: CEOs And Marriage (Stereotypes)

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The problem with looking at a demographic label rather than a person’s individual characteristics. By Laura Yecies (CEO, SugarSync)

This headline caught my eye last week: “The Marriage Plot: Single CEOs Make for Riskier Investments”.

The CNNMoney article summarized a study conducted by two Wharton professors and released by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The study tracked 1500 public companies and found that the stocks of companies headed by executives who are single are riskier than shares of companies run by married CEOs:

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From Hackathon To Market: New App Teaches Chinese Calligraphy

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Watch the video for Chiu-Ki's developer story of starting up Monkey Write at a hackathon. By Chiu-Ki Chan (Founder & Developer, Monkey Write)

AT&T recently interviewed me on how I built Monkey Write from a hackathon prototype to a full business. This got me thinking about the wonderful adventure I've been having in the past few months.

When I left Google to go to startups, I did so because I wanted to grow beyond coding, to get a holistic understanding of how products are built. Great products need more than just technology. What is the secret sauce? It took me a year and a half as a startup employee to realize the truth - there is no secret sauce.

There are theories and conjectures, but the only way

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4 Ways To Drive Innovation In The Startup Workplace

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Techniques for inviting ideas and innovation to your workplace. By Sarah Wood (Co-Founder & COO, Unruly Media)

Within a busy startup environment it’s not always easy to give people the space they need to clear their heads. When there are so many immediate needs to be met - integrating new staff, delighting new clients and incorporating new product developments - it can be hard for staff get into a creative mindset.

At Unruly, we’ve developed several very simple, but extremely effective techniques that any startup can implement to help encourage creativity without slowing down productivity. So, how do we do it?

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From Startup To Successful: Building A Profitable Business In A Competitive Industry

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Six tips for establishing revenue for your business success. By Barbara Grant (Founder & President, Retrofit Pilates)

Being a successful entrepreneur takes more than just talent.

These days, the key to a business’ profitability is based on a number of factors, many of which, though obvious, are often overlooked by those starting out. With a precarious economy and less dollars available from consumers, potential customers and suppliers, small business owners need to be even more strategic than ever in order to build their business into a profitable and viable enterprise.

Following are six key strategies

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Starting A Women-Led Healthcare Or Life Science Startup?

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By Joshua Henderson (Director of Programming, Springboard Enterprises) Several weeks ago, I wrote about resources available to high-growth, women-led companies.

Besides missing a few important organizations like SmartGirlsWay, NewME Accelerator, Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs, BlogHer Entrepreneurs and ACTiVATE, I said that we wanted to partner with non women-focused groups/events to champion more women through the funnel from idea to startup to exit.

So when I saw that six companies in the latest TechStars NY batch are led by women, including Springboard

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5 Reasons Why Knowing How To Code Is Good For Entrepreneurs

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By Alicia Liu (Co-Founder, RivalMetrics) This is a version of the lightning talk I gave at the Women Who Code Meet Up last month. It’s in the context of why startup founders should code, but can be applied to anyone on a small tech startup team.

#1 - Understand what is actually going on.

So you have validated your business idea, now you need to build it. When you code, you learn how long things take to implement. You know what’s hard to do, what’s not, what can be done with the team you have, what skills you lack and need to hire for.

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For Financial Independence, Keep Talking About Money

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Ask for compensation. Discuss salary. Negotiate. Be financially independent. By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics)

My first job in journalism, as an intern at a magazine in Jerusalem, paid approximately $500 a month. At the time I felt thrilled by the opportunity and promptly found a part-time job in retail to support my full-time job as a journalist but I think the consequences may have haunted me throughout my career.

Looking back, this wasn’t the only time I downplayed the importance of proper payment for work. Like many others, the topic of compensation makes me uncomfortable, especially when it relates to work I love.

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