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Pipeline Fellows Increasing Financing For Women-Led Businesses

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By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Your startup may be doomed to failure if you under-capitalize it from the get-go, but friends and family can only do so much and venture capitalists are looking for businesses that are more established with huge growth potential. Bridging that financing gap has been especially difficult for women-led businesses and for social enterprises.

But Natalia Oberti Noguera has found a new recipe for financing women-led startups focused on social good.

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Cross-Cultural Communication In The Global Marketplace

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By Irene Tieh (Founder, Cross-Cultural Connector) After hearing several frustrating accounts of friends working in China or having difficulty engaging with their Asian employees and students, I was inspired to launch my cross-cultural communications startup due to my experience in dealing with clients from China, engineers from Germany, programmers from India, and partners from all over the United States with diverse backgrounds

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Partner Event: ElggCamp San Francisco (March 24)

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ElggCamp San Francisco (March 24, 2012 in San Francisco, CA) is a one day event that bring together leaders in innovative technologies and experts in social media to discuss how Elgg.org fits into current social media trends, and how it has an important part as an open source project in helping to shape future technology. Women 2.0 members save 33% with the code “women2" when you register here.

Elgg.org is an award-winning social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build

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Notes From CEO Joanne Lang: Presenting At Founder Friday

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By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne)

A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a friend Ellie Cachette, CEO of ConsumerBell (one of AboutOne’s strategic partners) asking me if I was interested in being a presenter at the Women 2.0 Founder Friday in New York. I am very proud to be a member of Women 2.0 and the work they do, so I changed my schedule to be there.

Women 2.0 hosted six global Founder Friday networking mixers for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, February 3, 2012 in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York

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Female-Focused Accelerator “Women Innovate Mobile” Announces First Participants: Appguppy, Loudly, Twain, Whadyathink

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This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch.

By Sarah Perez (Writer, TechCrunch)

 

Women Innovate Mobile (WIM), the new accelerator aimed to help promote companies started by female entrepreneurs, is ready to debut its first class. Like other incubators, WIM provides mentoring, support, free office space, and seed funding. Participants in the program receive $18,000 to help get their companies get off the ground.

Except unlike the majority of other programs, WIM requires not only that the companies focus on mobile, but also that one of the co-founders must be a woman.

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Good CEOs Ask The Most Questions Of Anyone

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By Debra Benton (President, Benton Management Resources) Asking questions seems to be very basic advice. Yet it is shocking the number of times a day you chose to “tell” instead of “ask”. The most successful leaders ask more then they tell.

People like you better if you ask them things rather than tell them things.

You don’t ask to impress, interrogate, intimidate, dominate, embarrass, put people in the corner, ‘nail’ others on something, catch people off guard, be nosy, or verbally stalk.

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Ernst & Young Winning Women The “Most Unknown, Underrated & Undersubscribed – But Brilliant – Growth Accelerator Program For Women Entrepreneurs”

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Nominate a dynamic woman entrepreneur for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to a top program accelerating high-growth entrepreneurs. Deadline for nominations is April 30, 2012.

To qualify, the entrepreneurs must be women CEOs who have founded their privately-held US companies within the past 10 years and have reported at least US$1 million in revenue during each of the past two. Typical applicant company revenue ranges from US$1 million to approximately US$20 million annually.

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When You Lack Experience, Sometimes Simply Participating Is Enough To Get Started

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By Maris McEdward (Community Manager, Startup Weekend) “If not for Startup Weekend, when I graduated I’d be looking for jobs like my classmates instead of creating them.”

When Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao attended their first Startup Weekend in Los Angeles in February 2011 they didn’t quite know what to expect. With no real understanding of front or backend design and as the only college students at the event, Anna and Fei felt out of their element. Their classes in entrepreneurship at USC had whetted their appetites for the world of startups but they weren’t founders and didn’t know anything about coding.

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Tips For Female-Dominated Startups In A Male-Dominated Industry

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By Erin Flynn (Founder, Righting Style) As soon as people hear the “F-word,” it’s as if the sentences that follow turn into a foreign language unknown to man. I’m not talking about the F-word that rhymes with a certain feathery, orange-billed animal. In fact, that potty-mouth version is probably more socially accepted than the “F-word” I’m imagining.

I am talking about the F-word that ironically rhymes with passion: Fashion.

Anytime I mention the word fashion, I’ve found that I must immediately defend my intelligence and throw

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Where Are Women Founding Tech Companies?

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By Deborah Jackson (Co-Founder, Women Innovate Mobile) Editor's note: Check out this network map for Women Innovate Mobile (WIM), inspired by Fast Company's infographic of Y Combinator's network.

Since the Women Innovate Mobile launch on December 21, 2011, we've received inquiries from entrepreneurs across the U.S. and across the globe.

Thanks to JumpThru's designer, Tina Gong, we've got clearer picture of who's applying to WIM:

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4 Myths About Female-Founded Startups Debunked By 2012 PITCH Competition Finalists

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By Rebecca Lipon (Application & Judges Coordinator, PITCH Competition 2012) Women 2.0 PITCH Conference culminated in a PITCH Startup Competition five months in the making. Online applications were judged by representatives from 20 VC firms to select our finalists.

Our finalists demonstrated exactly what we at Women 2.0 have been saying for a while - women are starting companies outside the "pink-collar" space with varied backgrounds at different life stages targeting every phase of the investment cycle.

Here are 4 myths our finalists annihilated:

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