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Female Founders To Watch From Springboard Attending SXSWi

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By Katie Gage (Programming Manager, Springboard Enterprises) Melinda Wittstock (Founder & CEO, NewsiT) is launching her new mobile app at SXSW, demoing on Friday, and pitching at Hatchpitch on Sunday. NewsiT is a crowd-reporting platform and a social network for news.

Here are a list of Springboard companies that will be at SXSW: Bettina Hein (Founder & CEO, Pixability) Serial entrepreneur Bettina founded Pixability. Follow her company at @pixability.

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Roundup: Female Founder Successes To Celebrate This Week

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March 8 may be International Women's Day but we are celebrating women all week, year long! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

This week, we highly respect Sara Blakely for joining Forbes' World Billionaire's list thanks to her company Spanx. The 41 year old is the youngest person on the list - and worth ten figures without the aid of a husband or an inheritance, and she still owns 100% of the company she founded in 2000.

This Week: Female-Founded Startup Fundraising

Songkick raised $10M Series B from Sequoia Capital, the firm's first UK investment reported TechCrunch. Songkick was founded in 2007 by Michelle You as a Y Combinator company.

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2012 PITCH Startup Competition Finalist Kismet Announces Funding, New Features For SXSW

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PITCH Competition finalist secures seed funding. By Michelle Norgan (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Kismet)

I'm excited to announce that Kismet, featured last month as a finalist of the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition, has raised our seed round with investments from Triple Point Ventures, NEA, and an incredible list of angels including Shiva Rajaraman (Head of Consumer at YouTube), Steph Hannon (an early PM on Gmail), Roham Gharegozlou, and several others.

Kismet helps you meet new people in the real world. We've just unveiled some features that will make meeting new people even easier, especially this coming week at SXSW.

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Women 2.0 Commits To International Growth, Enters Latin America With Ellas 2.0

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Women 2.0 goes global with Ellas 2.0 on International Women's Day. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

On International Women's Day this March 8, 2012, Women 2.0 is announcing our partnership with Ellas 2.0, a Spain-based non-profit supporting female founders of tech startups, to reach a broader community of women entrepreneurs in Spanish-speaking communities in the United States and Latin America.

We will be expanding Founder Friday to Latin America and providing educational content, previously available only in English, in Spanish.

“Women are an important and powerful contributor to economic growth, innovation and job creation in the global

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Women’s Capital Connection: Changing The Face Of Angel Investing (Women Angel Investors)

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By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women's Capital Connection) At a time when media coverage and conversations about angel investing revolve around how few women-led businesses have access to capital and on expiring tax credits for angel investors, I am reminded of a question posed by Barbara Stanny in her book, Secrets of Six-Figure Women:

“What if we turned our attention from what’s wrong with the system and instead analyzed what’s working for those who are succeeding? We would not be ignoring the problems, we would be merely shifting our perspective.”

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BestBuzz To Celebrate Friday “APPY” Hour At SXSW Interactive

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Female-founded startup hosts "APPY" hour at SXSW Interactive. By Caitlin Miller (Marketing Director, BestBuzz)

BestBuzz will be celebrating their annual SXSW Interactive ‘APPY’ Hour party on Friday, March 9 at 5pm in Austin, TX at the 512 Bar on 6th Street.

Founder and CEO of BestBuzz Carrie Layne says, "We spend months planning our ‘APPY’ Hour party, and we look forward to this event every year. SXSW is all about networking and this event is the perfect kickoff to an exciting Interactive week. We’ve met so many great people in the industry, and we look forward to seeing our old ‘appy’ friends and meeting new ones

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For International Women’s Day, Give To Girls Around The World

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March 8 is International Women's Day! By Zanoon Nissar (Fundraising & Partnerships, Jolkona)

It's crazy what a difference 101 years can make. When International Women's Day started back in 1911, over a million men and women attended IWD rallies to stand up for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination.

Now it's 2012, and we're joining each other on bridges in solidarity - proud of the advancements made.

We now have female astronauts and heads of state, school girls are welcomed into university, women can work

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Startup Lessons Learned From A Four-Time Bridesmaid

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Men can rent tuxedos, why can't women rent bridesmaid dresses? By Corie Hardee (Founder & CEO, Little Borrowed Dress)

The idea behind Little Borrowed Dress came where I do most of my best thinking: in front of my closet. Rather than deciding what to wear, I had the less glamorous task of choosing what not to wear, specifically what to toss. The main offenders: bridesmaid dresses.

The four bridesmaid dresses were the most expensive items in my closet, yet each had been worn exactly once. That’s when I thought, this is nuts, men can rent tuxedos, why can’t women RENT bridesmaid dresses? I started Little Borrowed Dress to make that a possibility.

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Why You Should Participate In Hackathons, Startup Weekends

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Hacking on StartupBus en route to SXSW Interactive 2012. By Esther Crawford (Co-Founder, glmps)

I'm writing this from a bus that's traveling from Las Vegas to Austin with 30 guys and 4 women who are working round-the-clock to launch companies on this year's StartupBus. My team is building Open Wallet, an app that lets you get cash from people nearby instead of having to go to an ATM.

It's an invitation-only community of hackers, hustlers and hipsters passionate about startups that started in 2010 and has become an annual hackathon-style competition on buses traveling across America

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Manage Your Career And Don’t Let Others Do It For You

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By Debra Benton (President, Benton Management Resources) You, not human resources, your boss, a sponsor, parents, or search firms control your career.

The biggest, costliest, and most avoidable mistake you can make in your life is not managing your own destiny from the start of your career – and continuing throughout.

It’s not just about doing good work and having a ready resume.

If you chose to do this (because it is your choice), you manage your career

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Surfing And Entrepreneurship: Women Making Waves

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By Amy Schrier (Founder & CEO, MISSION.tv) Many years ago as a young girl, I wanted to go surfing. The beach that I frequented in Long Island was then very male-dominated. If you don't know much about surfing, you might think... a girl who wants to learn to surf! Why, wouldn't she be welcomed? Well... no. At that time and in my experience, many surfers (interestingly, not unlike many venture capitalists) tended to be territorial and gender biased.

I quickly learned that unless you really know what you are doing, you will do best to stay out of the way. Instead of fighting the tide, I took my surf desire to Indonesia

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