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JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp To Spawn Scalable Startups In Asia

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By Meng Weng Wong (Co-Founder & Social Engineer, JFDI.Asia) The JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp is just two months away! We expect 10 to 15 teams to start in January's batch. We've already recruited Startup Weekend winners from around the region, from Manila, Melbourne, Delhi, and Singapore.

JFDI’s mission is to spawn scalable startups in Asia, for Asia. We are interested in solving problems that matter to people in Asia. Companies like Mig33 and Viki are good examples of the kind of businesses we would like to create.

Each team will receive S$15,000 in investment

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Pay Gap Due To Women’s Ineffective Use of Networks

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By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0)  

Marie Lalanne and Paul Seabright of the Toulouse School of Economics measured the effectiveness of executives' networks using a database of board members in Europe and America.

They found that executive directors with larger networks were paid 6% more, and the gap is larger for non-executives (14% more). They found the biggest difference between men and women, however, with women executives paid 17% less than male executives.

There are common explanations for this

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DonationPay on Social Good and How We Got Started (Part 2)

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By Angelina Strosahl (Co-Founder, DonationPay) Being a mission-based business that is in the process of expansion can be a tricky minefield to navigate. Staying true to our vision of the company, product and service is difficult when you’re also weighing all the factors necessary to effectively grow.

Me, Noah and the rest of our powerhouse DonationPay team are all devoted, truly, to helping non-profit organizations reach their fundraising goals. Noah and I founded DonationPay because we happened into a relationship with a banking partner that would offer technical services to our non-profit clients

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Style for Hire Accepted Into the Golden Seeds Portfolio

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By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) Style for Hire was accepted to Golden Seeds' portfolio. Style for Hire is a platform for curated personal wardrobe stylists to assist people with finding their style and keeping it current.

Celebrity stylist Stacy London, the founder of Style for Hire, is best known for her appearance in TLC's What Not To Wear. The fashion powerhouse started her career as a fashion editor at Vogue and has been a stylist for celebrities and designers.

Golden Seeds is a network of angel investors

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WAM: Advancing Women (A NYC Leadership Event on Thursday)

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By Tania Yuki (Founder, Wimlink) Are there three things you’d like to accomplish in your career or business that for some reason or other you haven’t been able to accomplish? What do you think stops you from achieving these things? Not enough time, not enough support, information, opportunity, something else?

That something else may just be a gentle but persistent unwillingness to put yourself out there and pull the trigger. There are many reasons belying this, mostly along the lines of fear of failure and lack of trust. After all, what if you got it wrong?

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Founder Friday Networking Mixers (December 2 in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, NYC, Barcelona and Madrid)

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By Sepideh Nasiri (Corporate Sponsorships & Events Director, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 is hosting four Founder Friday networking mixers for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, December 2, 2011 in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York City, Barcelona and Madrid.

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Google Exec Marissa Mayer: Why There Aren’t More Girl Geeks

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By Bianca Bosker (Technology Editor, The Huffington Post) In 1999, Marissa Mayer, then a recent Stanford University graduate, joined a little-known startup with fewer than 20 employees that she calculated as having a two percent chance of success: Google.

Now, as a senior executive with the search giant, Mayer is one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. Her work at Google influences how hundreds of millions of people access information on the web and she plays a key role in shaping Google's most important products, from the look and feel of its homepage to popular features like Google News and Gmail, as well as

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DonationPay on Social Good and Sustaining Supporters (Part 1)

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By Angelina Strosahl (Co-Founder, DonationPay) I am constantly struck by the parallels that we, as small business owners, have to folks working in the non-profit industry. Much of the ongoing business development required for a new company has to do with legitimizing your presence out in the market and making the consumers in your industry feel comfortable supporting your service or product, rather than putting their money behind established options.

For non-profits, the struggle is much the same -- convincing your donor base to actually move from being generally in favor of your organizations work to being actual sustaining

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Two Weeks Left To Apply: Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition

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By Rebecca Lipon (Application & Judges Coordinator, PITCH Competition 2012) Competitors for PITCH 2012 have two more weeks to submit their applications! If you've been considering applying, read this:

  1. DO IT! This is the time of The Lean Startup -- start early, iterate often. Applying to PITCH is a great way to access investors and get publicity for your service with the Women 2.0 community, but you can't take advantage of this opportunity if you don't apply. First 100 applications to Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition are FREE thanks to Bing!... Read More...
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Learn Ruby with Blazing Cloud in San Francisco (Nov. 22 – Dec. 13)

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Women 2.0 is proud to partner with Blazing Cloud in San Francisco to offer the Women 2.0 community programming class: Ruby for Programmers (November 22 -- December 13, 2011 from 6:30pm to 9pm for a total of 6 Tuesdays. This class is designed for people with programming experience in another language or who have been introduced to Ruby through Rails and want to learn more Ruby. In this class, we will focus on learning the Ruby language through exploratory development and test-first teaching.

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Married Couples Run Sugar, ModCloth and Other Tech Startups

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By Jon Swartz (Contributor, USA TODAY) When Brian Sugar ponders an executive decision at his high-tech startup here, all he has to do for quick advice is instant-message his business partner -— on the other end of the living-room couch.

His wife, Lisa Sugar, agrees that their 5-year-old online women's network, aptly named Sugar, should make a key personnel move. In between shop talk, they comment on the San Francisco Giants game they're watching on TV, after tucking the kids into bed.

Unconventional, yes, but this tech tandem has thrived.

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Acquired by Gilt Group, The Story of Flash-Sale Local Deals Site Bergine From Day 1

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By Patricia Calfee (Founder, Roses & Rye) Seven months after launch, Internet retail pioneer Gilt Groupe bought our flash-sale local deals business, Bergine.

When I first had the idea to create a luxury daily deals site more than one advisor urged us to go mainstream. “Be more like Groupon,” they pushed. Instead, I followed my instinct, holding firm to Coco Channel’s dictum: “To be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”

I had seen this wisdom play out early in my career.

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