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Retreat For Entrepreneurial Women In March At Monterey Bay

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By Oscia Wilson (Founder & CEO, Boiled Architecture) Five months ago, I became an entrepreneur. After pulling the trigger on my dream, I wanted to learn from and bond with other women who had made their own leaps of faith. Strangely enough, I had a hard time finding a conference or retreat in California that wasn't specifically for tech startups or venture capital funded structures. This didn't seem right to me. Don't the rest of us also need to round out our skills, find mentors, and get support?

So I took it upon myself to organize just such an event. The Retreat for Entrepreneurial Women is a three-day event

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WeFestival Blog Post From The Young Man Behind The Camera

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By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal) I love this post because it was sent to me from a young man who was behind the camera, not an attendee and not a woman. It is a great read...and I thank Dekunle for sending this to me:

I’m a 22 year-old male and the women’s entrepreneurship festival that took place at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program last Wednesday turned out to be a huge source of inspiration for me. I hope I don’t lose an street credibility for that statement but let me preface my thoughts on the event by explaining exactly why

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Female Founders To Watch: Health Innovation

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Rock Health hosted the 2012 Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco this week, showcasing a remarkably gender-balanced set of interdisciplinary innovators in the burgeoning health/tech space.

As keynote speaker Mitch Kapor stated, "It is possible to go up the learning curve yourself without the basics of the domain you're in." The health tech space is still very new, he reminded the audience, and recommended for early entrepreneurs to educate yourself of the ecosystem, overcome your fears and find a way to "dive in" - find advisors that know about the space, can help you learn, and figure out how to build the right partnerships.

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2012 Grace Hopper Celebration Of Women In Computing (Call For Participation)

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By BJ Wishinsky (Community Manager, Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology) The 12th annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) has opened its Call for Participation.

The annual conference, presented by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, is the world’s largest gathering of women in computing.

The Grace Hopper Celebration will take place from October 3 - 6, 2012 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

This year’s theme “Are We There Yet?”

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Startup Lessons Learned At The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show

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By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne) I spent the last week in Las Vegas, promoting the announcement of AboutOne’s latest release at the Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

We chose to attend CES for our announcement because it’s the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow and attracts the “who’s who” of the technology industry. This conference provided us with myriad opportunities to connect with traditional and new media, potential partners, and prospective customers. As I wait for my red-eye flight home, I want to share my lessons learned about being an exhibitor at this amazing event.

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Friday Roundup: SOPA, WEFestival, CES & Social Entrepreneurs

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By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, we watched SOPA protests literally black out the Internet while the #wefestival tweets allowed a glimpse into a powerhouese event in New York. Meanwhile in San Francisco, the Health Innovation Summit demonstrated that a gender-balanced tech conference speaker rosters can be done - without women objectified as booth babes - ahem, CES. Moving forward - please nominate your favorite social entrepreneur for BusinessWeek's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs. Catch Women 2.0 on February 3 at a Founder Friday near you, and on Valentine's Day for the PITCH Conference at the Computer History Museum!

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Juggling A Full-Time Job And A Startup (Hint – It’s Not Easy)

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By Brittany Haas (Co-Founder, Something Borrowed NY) I am miserable since I'm missing out on the #wefestival going on right now. I was accepted...and elated! What a wonderful opportunity to learn from my idols and meet with other aspiring entrepreneurs.

Unfortunately, I'm heading off to Paris on Friday with my full-time company for market. We've been swamped here (...we're talking 9am-1am days swamped) and it would be totally irresponsible of me to take off a day, just two days before we jump on a plane and have 2 full on crazy, busy weeks.

Enter the boo/hisses here... I know... nobody feels bad

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Surround Yourself With Great People, No Matter What

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By Sonia Kapadia (Founder & CEO, Taste Savant) While I’ve been working on my startup, I’ve received a lot of advice, some good, and some bad. One of the pieces of advice most people mention is to “move fast.”

Time is of the essence and everyday that you haven’t launched is an opportunity for your competition to get stronger, and a lost opportunity to learn from your users. And so, that’s what I’ve been doing — moving fast.

Here is the downside to moving fast, you make a lot of mistakes. Here is the upside, you learn from those mistakes quickly and move

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The Best $750 I Ever Spent Bootstrapping My Startup: One Plane Ticket West

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By Leah Busque (Founder, TaskRabbit) Editor's note: Vote Leah Busque for TechCrunch's Founder of the Year!

It was Friday and it had been a long week. I was back in Boston after spending the last two weeks in Palo Alto, participating in the Facebook Fund program (fbFund).

Over the past 12 weeks, in fact, I was flying back and forth between Boston and San Francisco, alternating weeks on each coast. My company TaskRabbit (RunMyErrand.com at the time) was up and running in Boston, and I was splitting my time between the two cities in order to get the most out of the fbFund incubator program while continuing to grow my business in Boston.

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An iPhone Developer Learns Android: Some Thoughts On Code

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Here are basics to coding in Java/Android for Eclipse. By Anna Billstrom (Developer, Momentus Media)

At first, doing a “Hello World” was quite easy.

The hardest part was learning Eclipse (for Mac):

  • Open Eclipse and don’t worry about opening a project, on the left hand side will be all of your “workspace” projects.
  • Running (the play button) does an automatic build.
  • Mouseover red squiggly underlines to find build errors.

I lost one of my panes, and that took forever to learn how to open again.

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As If You Needed Another Reason To Hate Big Media Today

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By Alicia Liu (Product Manager/Mobile Developer, Select Start) You’re probably frustrated by Stop SOPA Day today, your work is going slow because Wikipedia is blacked out, and you can’t amuse yourself because Reddit is out too, and you’ve already signed Google’s petition, what’s left to do? You can read about another reason to despise the big media companies (if trying to censor the Internet wasn’t reason enough).

I finally watched the Sundance documentary Miss Representation. Everyone should watch this. Girls, boys, women, and men.

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