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Bringing Together Women Who Code in the Bay Area

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By Sasha Laundy (Founder, Women Who Code) I love startups and the vibrant technical community in the Bay Area. While many men were friendly and helpful to me, I grew tired of being the only technical woman at event after event. I craved a space -— just one night a month! —- where I wasn’t the only one. Where I didn’t constantly have to prove myself with every introduction, and where I could see what other technical women were accomplishing. So I launched Women Who Code.

Two months later, I have been overwhelmed by the community response. More than 300 women have joined

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Can Product “Disruption” Become a New Paradigm?

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By Sarah Tavel (Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners) Facebook is an incredible company, and it’s incredible for many, many reasons. But one of the things that most impresses and amazes me is Facebook’s relentless reinvention. The company has disrupted its product, and therefore its users, on multiple occasions. I’m sure everyone remembers the backlash Facebook weathered when it launched its newsfeed. And of course, we’re still less than a month into Facebook’s newest disruption, this time to its profile page.

Facebook is in rare company. Microsoft, to its credit, disrupted its Office product suite by introducing the ribbon (which was probably a great change for my mom, but drives me

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How to Get Out of Your Own Way: Get Inspired at Women Rock It

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By Evan Bailyn (Bestselling Author & Co-Producer, Women Rock It) We all have a sneaking suspicion somewhere deep inside of us that maybe we just can’t do it. Maybe we will fail. And we really don’t want to fail. So if something seems risky to us, we think “Better to avoid it. It probably wouldn’t have worked out anyway.”

Ignoring all the logic -– the fact that we learn more from failures than from successes, the fact that failure actually breeds success –- we plod along absolutely terrified of some faceless embarrassment.

We all feel this way. The insecure teenager, the first-time entrepreneur, the placid-faced CEO, the seasoned

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Founder Friday Mixer (November 4 in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, Madrid and Barcelona)

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By Sepideh Nasiri (Corporate Sponsorships & Events Director, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 is hosting six global Founder Friday networking mixers for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, November 4, 2011 in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, Madrid and Barcelona. Thanks to our sponsors AOL, Ellas 2.0, Press Club and Pourtal for helping make this possible!

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Bing Boosts Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition 2012

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By Betsy Aoki (Senior Program/Product Manager, Bing) Bing is honored to sponsor the Women 2.0 PITCH competition and conference for female entrepreneurs as part of its Bing Booster program for startups this year. We have seen the shortage and lack of visibility for female startup entrepreneurs in the tech world and we’d like to give them a boost -– in this case, by sponsoring the first 100 applicants to the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition!

The Bing Booster for Startups program takes on three cities with strong or emerging startup ecosystems -– San Francisco, Boston, New York –- and makes resource

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It’s Not Too Late to Learn How to Code (Get Started)

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By Jean Hsu (Android Developer, Pulse) Coding is sort of like a superpower; with it you can create things that millions of people see. You can change the way people behave, the way they think, and the way they interact with others. This is beyond awesome, but I’ve also met a lot of people that think that this ability is inaccessible to them.

I’ve met a lot of “non-technical” people who seem to think that this superpower is only bestowed on those fortunate enough to have it come easily to them at a very early age.

I took two Computer Science courses in high school, and I’m fairly confident that had it not been for those classes, I would have been way way too intimidated

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Startup America Partnership: The Best First Date Ever!

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By Heddi Cundle (Founder & CEO, myTab) It’s tough being a startup, putting yourself out there and hoping someone will love you back. So when I asked if myTab.co could be considered to join the Startup America Partnership, it felt slightly like asking the cool boy at school if he’d let us be in with his ‘in’ crowd. We know he’s popular, achingly good looking, and his IQ is off the charts.

Then a miracle happened -– he said yes! He not only said yes immediately but he also offered to introduce us to all his friends -– the business friends who have deals that we can utilize

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What Makes Women Entrepreneurs Festival So Good

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By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal) Last year's Women Entrepreneurs Festival was a big success. I have thought a lot about what made that event so intimate and powerful so we could replicate it again. I am a big believer in having an event and then doing it again the next year with just a few tweaks of course if the event is successful. Our line up this year is amazing and the theme is Makers.

So what is it that made the WEF so good? I think there are a few things. The audience really wanted to be there. Every person who attended had to submit their bio and picture

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10 Tips For Rising to the Top and Being Influential (Dare to Dream)

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By Simone Brummelhuis (Founder, TheNextWomen) TheNextWomen met up with rising talents at the Women's Forum and talked with them about their ambitions and aspirations. Rising talents know what they want. They breed one-liners on life, such as:

"You have to dare to dream", says Suchi Mukherjee, who will start a new venture in India after a corporate carreer with Lehman Brothers, Skype, and GumTree and eBay.

"I used to plan, I used to communicate my plans, get allies and sponsors for them, and I always ended up at a better place than the plan", says Cindy Lin, 39, Taiwanese

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Grown Women, Not Just Girls, Need More Tech Role Models

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By Jolie O'Dell (Writer, VentureBeat) This week, we had Meebo CTO and co-founder Sandy Jen come into the VentureBeat studio to talk about women and tech.

We’ve featured a few strong and opinionated women CEOs and CTOs in our videos lately, because we think it’s important to show the female faces and voices in the tech industry. And in this interview, Jen said that’s one of the most important things for encouraging more female entrepreneurship.

After we chatted about Jen’s background

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Do We Need to Add Narcissism, Arrogance to Job Descriptions?

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By Christina Vuleta (Founder, 40:20) There has been a lot of ink lately on “Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?” from an article in the Wall Street Journal to a myriad of other articles and blog posts. It’s part of a larger discussion on why there aren’t more women starting high-growth companies and in leadership positions across the board.

It’s a good discussion. But that’s not what I am writing about today. Today I’m talking about hiring.

The qualities The Wall Street Journal suggests

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Female Founders of Snapette Not Your Typical Geek Entrepreneurs

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By Tomio Geron (Writer, Forbes) The founders of Snapette are not your prototypical start-up entrepreneurs. At least in the minds of some Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

The two founders, Jinhee Anh Kim and Sarah Paiji, are not prototypical young, male engineers from Silicon Valley. They’re women with business backgrounds from the East Coast and other parts outside the Valley. But that’s a plus according to those who did invest in the company’s $1.3 million seed round. Investors include Brian Lee, founder and CEO of Shoedazzle.

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