Why Don’t More Women Go Big With Their Business?

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By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Awesome, Tekserve) With few female entrepreneurs to look to, MIT Sloan hosted a panel on how women can go big with their own businesses. The panel included Joanna Rees (Founder of VSP Capital), Katrina Markoff (Founder of Vosges Haut-Chocolat), Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (Founder of Gilt Groupe), and was moderated by Fredricka Whitfield (Anchor, CNN).

What Is Getting In the Way?

Joanna thinks that fear and giving up after set-backs get in women’s way. Some women quit after their first major

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Accelerating Diversity In Startups With StartX (Bridging the Divide)

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By Jessie Arora (Education Consultant, Stellar K12) Demo Days can be pretty exhausting events of information overload as you try to capture the energy of the various pitches and teams (Y Combinator has 65 this round) while connecting with all the impressive folks in the crowd.

However, I was pleasantly surprised by the latest batch of StartX accelerator companies that launched at their Demo Day.

The event began with quick pitches from their 9 startups, followed by dinner and plenty of time to speak with the teams

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Chief Digital Officers: Perry Hewitt, Rachel Sterne And Angela Wei

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By Leslie Bradshaw (Contributor, Forbes) In recent interviews, we’ve talked about the lack of women in the technology world, but we haven’t yet touched on the need for more women in leadership roles in academia.

In 2009, The White House Project found that women hold just 23% of the leadership roles in academia, this despite the fact that for over a decade women have outnumbered men in college enrollment.

My interview today focuses on an individual who is making waves in both pools: tech and academia.

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Friday Roundup: All Things PITCH-Related, And Then Some…

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Thanks to everyone who joined us for the fifth annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on Valentine's Day.

For those who missed it, the PITCH conference rocked the house. Here are 9 lessons learned from the day, as well as a guy's perspective on Women 2.0 moving the needle for women entrepreneurs.

The day was filled with love and startups, as speakers like Facebook's Katie Mitic reminding us that the job is only 1% done - building tech products is a labor of love and passion.

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Women 2.0 PITCH Conference Rocks The House

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By Megan Conley (Founder & Principal, Social Tribe)When I signed up for the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference a few months ago, I wasn’t entirely clear on what I was getting myself into.

I was pretty sure of two things: women + startups = I’m in.

In the Bay Area, startup buzz is omnipresent…pretty much like God (or coffee, whatever your religion). Everyone’s working on a small, stealth, no-name company that’s going to change the world... or how you take notes, which will eventually change the world. With so much noise, it can be hard to separate the talk from the walk.

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For The Men Who Missed It – The Women 2.0 PITCH Conference

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By Jenna Hannon (Writer, TechZulu) Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. So when I heard about Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. I was mistaken.

A 50 car line stacked up the street from the conference entrance filled with women idling, applying mascara, brushing their hair, and finishing early morning conference calls.

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Photos From Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition 2012

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By Erica Kawamoto Hsu (Online Media Producer & Photographer, Kuishimbo) The 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on Valentine's Day was amazing - the agenda and speaker lineup made me realize it was something I had to be at.

I brought my camera to the PITCH Conference on Tuesday to shoot candids at the event. But I kept stopping - to speak to the amazing women entrepreneurs I was meeting.

Each person that I spoke to or I shot for the Sit With Me campaign had their own startup - and would show me what they were working on their smartphones.

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6 Quick Tips On Pitching Your Mobile App

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By Roger Park (Blog Editor, AT&T Interactive) So you’ve got a great mobile app. You worked hard on it and now it’s a reality. Congrats! You’ve made it this far but what about the pitch?

You may have a stellar mobile app but not being able to articulate its value or simply explain what it does and why it’s a fresh idea can lead you, well, nowhere.

No need to worry. We can help you prepare your pitch.

What follows are a few tips when pitching your mobile app:

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The Daily Muse Names Five Startups To Watch From PITCH 2012

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By Adrian Granzella Larssen (Writer, The Daily Muse) When Shaherose Charania came to Silicon Valley from Canada a decade ago, she was shocked to find that the start-up scene was overwhelmingly male. So, she turned her awe into action, and co-founded Women 2.0, a network and media company for female entrepreneurs.

Fast forward to today: What started as a “connector network meeting over cheap Trader Joe’s wine” at her co-founder's house has evolved into a massive international organization. Now, Charania has seen and helped over 300 early-stage

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