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Serial Entrepreneur Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Gives Advice (Video)

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) 2012 PITCH competition judge Sukhinder Singh Cassidy talks about her own experience and lessons learned in raising venture funding.

She co-founded Yodlee in 1999 and raised $200M+ in venture capital for her venture, then worked as VP at Google and CEO at Polyvore. Today, she runs JOYUS.

This is her advice for early-stage entrepreneurs:

"When you want a company, the best thing

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TaskRabbit Founder Leah Busque On Finding Mentors (Video)

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit and current Chief Product Officer, talks about the power of networks like Women 2.0.

She encourages early-stage entrepreneurs to reach out and acquire great mentors and advisors right away. A former software engineer, Leah was not on the business side but her advisors and mentors helped her grow her company.

Today, TaskRabbit employs over 40 and has expanded service to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York

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Microsoft Bing’s Betsy Aoki At PITCH 2012 (Video)

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In an interview at the 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference, Betsy Aoki, former Xbox product manager now runs startup outreach for Microsoft Bing, talks about previously working at a startup in Seattle, the need for women-focused events in a male-dominated industry, and appreciating the networking opportunities at Women 2.0 events.

For more sage advice from the speakers at Women 2.0 PITCH Conference, click here.

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Care.com CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo At PITCH 2012 (Video)

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder and CEO of Care.com, talks about Women 2.0 and female entrepreneurship. She admits it is a challenging and lonely road, and supports Women 2.0's goal of cultivating a support network for early-stage entrepreneurs.

Marcelo advises entrepreneurs not let challenges in one's head overcome them - for example, you don't have to have clean dishes at home. She believes having the wrong vision in one's head - one of perfection - will prevent you from moving forward and taking risks.

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Success For The 99%

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By Carla Rover (Content Curator, The Advertising Technology Review) Most women, even very smart women, don't attend Harvard, Yale or New York University. Most of us don't have billionaire mentors steering us around career pitfalls and making introductions to their own powerful networks. Most of us, even the most daring entrepreneurs among us, don't have image consultants helping us "brand" ourselves around an appealing concept, in order to seduce capital and influential tastemakers.

If you are an ambitious would-be tech star but cash or Ivy league-credential poor, what can you do?

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5 Lessons From Zuck: Make Stuff. Lots Of Stuff.

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By Christina Pan (Social/Mobile Games Product Manager, Self) I found Mark Zuckerberg’s class Product Development at Facebook. As someone who has long drank the Facebook kool-aid, I had to see what he had to say - especially if it was about product.

The class is an interesting peek into his mind back in 2005 when he was 21 and Facebook was still only open to college students. Facebook had just launched the Photos application, and keep in mind that this was before Zuck famously turned down Yahoo’s $1 billion acquisition offer in the summer of 2006 with less than 7 million users (it’s amazing to think that Facebook has grown

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4 Tips On Building Your Business By Increasing Your Confidence

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By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Dareth Colburn always thought men were smarter than she was. It was what she’d been taught as a child. Her brothers were told to be their own boss; she was told that if she went to the right school, she could be an executive secretary and to forget about design school in New York; it was too far away for a girl from Harvard, MA.

Eight years ago, as a single mother with $30,000 in debt, Colburn started USABride, an online store that sells bridal accessories - jewelry, veils and tiaras. “I was always a girly girl,” she says, so when faced with destitution and a desire to avoid a return

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The Huffington Post: Women Entrepreneurs On The Rise

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By Jack D. Hidary (Co-Founder, Dice) What do Gilt, Foodspotting and TaskRabbit all have in common? They were all co-founded by women. This is an encouraging sign in a field that has too few female entrepreneurs.

A recent article in San Francisco Magazine highlights a new crop of women-led startups in the Bay Area.

These include: One Kings Lane, Silver Tail, Modcloth, Slideshare and Allvoices. We are seeing more startups co-founded by women on the east coast as well such as Birchbox, Clothia,

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6 Ways To Beat The Solo-Preneur Blues

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By Mandy Gresh (Consultant, Six Months Off) The freedom in your career to do what you want, when you want, has a lot of perks: No one to answer to, no set schedule, the ability to choose your projects, nap or take a last-minute day off… The list could go on and on.

One thing you don’t hear much about is the transition from working in an office surrounded by colleagues to working in your home surrounded by no one. While my initial months of “solopreneurship” brought a steady stream of work that kept me busy, I longed for the “water cooler” chatter and intermittent banter

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Big Data & Analytics: Opportunities For Informed Decision-Making

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By Nusrat Rabbee (Statistician & Analytics Consultant, Rabbee Analytics) Big data consists of datasets that have grown so large that it is not feasible to use regular database management tools or desktop packages to make any sense out of them.

Since the beginning of the computer era, the fields of astronomy, physical sciences, biological sciences, genomics, classified research and many other areas have been using sophisticated techniques to analyze large amounts of data.

However the explosion of data generated by

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4 Rules For Managing A Software Startup’s First 90 Days

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By Connie Kwan (Writer, TriplePundit) “I moved from Australia to the Silicon Valley to learn the ways of startups,” said Cathy Edwards, Founder and CTO of Chomp, and speaker at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference and Competition this past Valentine’s Day. Her startup, Chomp, is a mobile application database. Before founding Chomp, Edwards worked at Friendster and 3jam.

What she learned was the following four rules in the first 90 days of a software business:

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