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Kabam Co-Founder Holly Liu on Early Startup Failures

Editor14 October 2011

By Cassie Phillipps (Executive Producer, Failcon) Editor's note: In 2006, we met Holly Liu who had just co-founded Kabam, a Google Ventures -funded social gaming startup that today employs over 400 across offices in San Francisco and Redwood City (California), Beijing (China), and Luxembourg.

Holly talks to Cassie at Failcon about turning mistakes and failures into learnings and future growth.

Holly Liu: The funny thing about failure is

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How to Stand Out From The Crowd (Networking 101)

Editor14 October 2011

By Kristin Kaufman (Founder, Alignment) There are too many networking events to attend and not enough time. Plus, everyone wants to meet the same people. How do we stand out among the rest?

I often get asked how to build an effective network. As a general rule, it’s important to build a support system that is not only relevant to you but to the other person as well. It should also be built on solid footing and not on opportunistic shifting sands. For this reason, networking could best be labeled relationship building.

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Kickstarter and the Hardware Startup Ecosystem

Editor13 October 2011

By Renee DiResta (Associate, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) A few weeks ago I attended the Open Hardware Summit in NYC. One of the things I repeatedly heard about was how many people in the space had raised money on Kickstarter. It’s historically been difficult to get a hardware startup off the ground because of the complexities of producing a device.

The success of a software startup rests primarily on the quality of the idea and the execution of the team. Creating a business around hardware requires both of those, but success is also impacted by

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Why Aren't There More Foreign Female Entrepreneurs?

AngieChang13 October 2011

By Priya Alagiri (Founder, The Alagiri Immigration Law Firm) The voice on the other end of the phone caught me off-guard. Young, energetic and slightly accente... Read More...

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Why Aren’t There More Foreign Female Entrepreneurs?

Editor13 October 2011

By Priya Alagiri (Founder, The Alagiri Immigration Law Firm) The voice on the other end of the phone caught me off-guard. Young, energetic and slightly accented, the voice asked whether the recently announced immigration policies could help her to start a company. As an immigration attorney, this was a typical query for me to receive. What wasn’t typical was that the voice belonged to a woman —- a foreign female entrepreneur!

In conjunction with its recent economic plan to spur the U.S. economy, the White House

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Partner event: Tech Cocktail Boulder Fall Mixer

Editor13 October 2011

By Jen Consalvo (Co-Founder & COO, Tech Cocktail) We are excited to be hosting our second Boulder Tech Cocktail startup and entrepreneurial mixer event as we look to help connect, amplify and showcase the local technology scene.

Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, investors, bloggers and entrepreneurs as we showcase local technology companies and take a closer look at their latest achievements.

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Build Your Business Empire by Thinking Big and Starting Small

Editor13 October 2011

By Adelaide Lancaster (Co-Founder, In Good Company) Taking the plunge into entrepreneurship is simultaneously exhilarating and paralyzing. If you’re like most entrepreneurs you’ve been living and breathing your business idea for what feels like forever, growing its potential in your head with each passing moment. And despite the anticipation and excitement, when the time comes for action, you feel stuck. Where do you even begin? How do you go about building an empire, changing an industry, or creating a legendary business?

The key to success for most entrepreneurs is learning to toggle back and forth between thinking big and moving things forward

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Women Entrepreneurs in India: Apply to Quest (ABI-GHC)

Editor12 October 2011

By Sapna Chandiramani (Consulting Director, Anita Borg Institute) Women Entrepreneur Quest, presented by the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, is designed to promote and showcase early-stage technology ventures founded or led by women entrepreneurs in all technologies.

We are looking for talented technical women in the founding or leadership team of early stage startups who have applied technology in innovative ways to solve meaningful business problems. If you are an early stage startup and have at least one woman on your founding or leadership team, apply here

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Do Women in Tech Need to Get Better at Bluster?

Editor12 October 2011

By Ki Mae Heussner (Writer, AdWeek) Women in technology don’t lack smarts, solid ideas, sharp management skills, or any of the other ingredients needed to succeed in a competitive industry.

But here’s one talent that might be helpful to hone: self-promotion.

At a Glamour magazine-sponsored panel Tuesday, moderated by longtime tech reporter and co-executive editor of AllThingsD, Kara Swisher, leading women from Google, Microsoft, Zynga, and bitly talked about why they don’t have more company

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How to Build a Business that Resonates with Purpose

Editor12 October 2011

By Amanda Aitken (Creator, The Girl's Guide to Web Design) The biggest lesson I’ve learned in my career is that the moment you decide to challenge convention, everything changes. The usual perception is that different is dangerous. But the opposite is really true: When you dare to be different, everything flows. Your “right people” notice you -- and want to work with you. Opportunities present themselves. Doors swing open, and struggle bites the dust.

It may seem strange and mysterious, but there’s a distinct reason this happens, and it has to do with resonance

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Women in the Workplace: Over-Mentored and Under-Sponsored

Editor11 October 2011

By Phyllis Korkki (Contributing Writer, The New York Times) A rich source of female talent exists just below top management, says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy, a research organization.

But women have become stuck in this layer because they tend to lack a sponsor at the top to advocate for them. Sponsors are different from mentors, who lend friendly advice and allow workers to share their quandaries and challenges. Sponsors make a direct bet on the promotion

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Women Empowered Globally Through Mobile Technology

Editor11 October 2011

By Trina DasGupta (Program Director, GSMA mWomen) Mobile phone adoption in the developing world is growing at a rapid rate; today four out of five mobile connections are in developing countries.¹

The mobile phone is one of many pieces of tech in our lives in the US, while for some in South Asia or Africa for example, it is the first and only communication tool -- making the distribution of mobile phones at scale not only disruptive, but potentially life changing.

41% of women in low- to middle-income countries

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Hilary DeCesare (Founder, CEO, Mom) Shares 3 Keys for Success

Editor11 October 2011

Women 2.0 talks to Hilary DeCesare, co-founder and CEO of Everloop about being an entrepreneur and having it all. Hilary won the 2010 DEMOgod Award, AlwaysON Global 250 and ONHollywood for Digital Media. Hilary was also a finalist for the 2010 Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition.

Women 2.0: How did you know Everloop was an idea worth exploring? Was their early user or family feedback that encouraged you in creating the product? Hilary DeCesare: I am a mom of two 14-year-old twins and a tween daughter. As my twins began to use the internet, I saw first-hand that they had nowhere to safely call their "home base" and connect with their friends online. I saw the lack of security and information for children on how to stay safe online and disturbing online trends including teen suicide (attributable to the internet), predators and cyber-bullying.

Rather than wait for someone else to solve these

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Women, Arrogance and The Next Steve Jobs

Editor11 October 2011

By Swathy Prithivi (Head of Corporate Development, Sonim Technologies) In "Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?" in the Wall Street Journal, Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and venture capitalist extraordinaire, lists two key characteristics of "would-be revolutionaries" -- unbridled confidence and arrogance.

A recent tweet by Silicon Valley scholar Vivek Wadhwa says: "More than 50% of Silicon Valley is foreign born. Less than 5% women... A lot needs to be fixed."

To me, these things are the two sides of the same coin.

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12 Cases of Revolutionary Cloud Adoption (CloudBeat)

Editor11 October 2011

CloudBeat 2011 on November 30 - December 1, 2011 in Redwood City, CA will be unlike all other cloud events. Using a customer-centric approach (rather than vendor-centric), the event will hone in on revolutionary instances of enterprise adoption of the cloud. The focus will be on 12 case studies, where we’ll dissect the most disruptive examples in each of three layers of the cloud: 1) web applications (SaaS), 2) middleware (PaaS) and 3) back-end infrastructure (IaaS). These customer case studies will highlight the core components of the cloud revolution:

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