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The 5 Silent Career Killers For Women

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Women fail to sell themselves, to the disadvantage of their careers. By Lauren Carlson (CRM Analyst, Software Advice)

A recent Harvard Business Review post explores certain behaviors of women that can hold them back in the professional arena. The article cites studies which show that only half of women display high self-confidence while the other half admit to feelings of self-doubt regarding their performance. As a result of this self-doubt and reduced confidence, women can end up inadvertently sabotaging themselves.

Inspired by this post, I decided to write a post for my site, digging deeper and looking specifically at a field that has been traditionally dominated by men: sales. There are studies that show that women are

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Help Legalize Crowdfunding – Sign Petition By Monday, March 19

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Legalize crowdfunding for startups by supporting the JOBS Act today! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Help legalize crowdfunding for startups! Current law forbids startups to raise crowdfund and publicly discuss raising money. The passage of H.R. 3606, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, will ease these regulations. The House passed the bill and needs your support to get it through the Senate.

Please join us in supporting the JOBS act by signing the online form here. Deadline to show your support is Monday, March 19 at 9am PST - The Senate vote is Tuesday, March 20, 2012.

As the folks at AngelList said in an appeal

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Female Founders To Watch: From Mexican.VC Demo Day – And More Mexican Entrepreneurs!

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In collaboration with Ellas 2.0, Women 2.0 explores entrepreneurs in Latin America. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Today was the eagerly anticipated Mexican.VC demo day in San Francisco. The first Silicon Valley seed program for Mexican Internet startups, Mexican.VC invests in Mexican technology companies attacking both local and global markets.

With Women 2.0's partnership with Ellas 2.0, we will be distributing more content from and to Latin America, including Mexico. We aim to identify and promote the best in Latin American ad Mexican entrepreneurship - inspiring and connecting the next generation.

Here are five Mexican women entrepreneurs to watch:

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Roundup: This Week In Women, New Technology And Startups

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Y Combinator, TechStars, StyleSeat, Milk, Strata, Where 2.0, Berkeley Mixer and more. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Big news came from Y Combinator this week. For the first time, teams can apply for the prestigious Palo Alto-based incubator program without a startup idea. The team, not the particular idea, is what power a startup's success. The deadline to apply is March 28, 2012 for the June - August program. Y Combinator application here.

Another startup accelerator program, Boulder-based TechStars, is currently accepting applications for the Boulder class of startups through today (March 16). The TechStars program in New York announced a class of 14 startups, 6 of which are female founded. That's almost half!

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Win A Ticket To O’Reilly “Where 2.0” (April 2-4 in San Francisco)

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Where 2.0 investigates the business of location, location technologies and ideas that matter. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

We have a free ticket to the O'Reilly conference Where 2.0 (April 2-4, 2012 in San Francisco) to raffle off.

Let us know why you should win the ticket in the comments below for a chance to win a free ticket to Where 2.0!

We will message a randomly selected winner on Facebook by EOD Monday, March 19, 2012.

Where 2.0 speakers include Leah Busque (Founder & Chief Product Officer, TaskRabbit), Kate Chapman

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Founder Friday Mixers (May 4 in SF, Silicon Valley, NYC, LA, San Diego, Austin, Madrid & Barcelona)

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By Sepideh Nasiri (Corporate Sponsorships & Events Director, Women 2.0) Get ready for a new set of Founder Fridays for 2012! Next month, April, we are taking a break as there is too much to do after the PITCH and SXSW - plus some other secret stuff we are planning!

We are excited for the eight global Founder Friday networking mixers for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, May 4, 2012 in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, San

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10 Rules For Brilliant Women – Ready For It?

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Principles for owning your brilliance as women. By Tara Sophia Mohr (Founder & Principal, Wise Living)

I coach brilliant women, lots of them. Dedicated, talented, brilliant women.

Most of the time, they don’t know their brilliance. They are certain they “aren’t ready” to take on that next bigger role. They are more attuned to the ways they aren’t qualified than to the ways that they are. They are waiting for someone to validate, promote or discover them.

Sound familiar? It’s time to step up, brilliant women.

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Choose Investors Thoughtfully: The Levo League Founders

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Video interview with Levo League founders Caroline Ghosn and Amanda Pouchot. By Pemo Theodore (Founder, Ezebis)

Founded in 2011, Levo League’s mission is to help young professional women to thrive in the workplace without compromising their identities as women.

Caroline Ghosn is co-founder and CEO who spent over three years at McKinsey, where Caroline met co-founder and CIO Amanda Pouchot on the first day of the job. The two were the youngest in their respective assignments and frequently the only women. They have raised $1.25M in their initial round of funding.

Below is a partial transcript of the video interview

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Words Of Advice From Women Entrepreneurs At DEMO Asia

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By Sharon Lourdes Paul (Contributing Writer, SGEntrepreneurs) Let’s face it. There is still a dearth of female entrepreneurs in startup land. As I walked around the booths at DEMO Asia 2012, only about 10% of startups had female founders. But what does this mean for all of us aspiring, or current, female founders?

I was fortunate to interview three inspiring women and capture their words of advice for us.

#1 - Being female does not handicap you.

Rebeca Hwang, co-founder and CEO of YouNoodle, expressed that gender-bias is not as rampant as perceived by some.

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To Get More Confidence: Do Confidence-Building Things

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By Debra Benton (President, Benton Management Resources) If there are ten traits to being a leader, the first seven – no, the first eight – would be confidence.

With confidence, you hire and develop the right people because you aren’t jealous of the abilities of others. Differing opinions get voiced because folks aren’t apprehensive of your insecurities.

You’ll make decisions sooner because advancement, not fear of failure, is the driving force behind your actions. Communication improves because

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Creating A Valuable Business Concept (March 22 In Oakland)

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Explore how an idea becomes a validated business concept. By Darlene Crane (Executive Director, Alliance for Community Development)

Women have many more opportunities to pitch their ventures, thanks to Women 2.0. Based on conversations with women CEOs, investors, and supporters of women entrepreneurs, more is needed to get through successful deal negotiations and grow a business. To fill this gap, I have added CEO Forums to our Bay Area Capital Connections program with smaller groups and higher engagement.

We want to do our part to get more entrepreneurs into signed deals, and are kicking off these CEO Forums on March 22. Sign up for all four forums for only $25 by March 22 here.

The first forum is "Creating a Valuable Business Concept", exploring how an idea becomes

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