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| May 31, 2021 | What’s it really like to fundraise whilst pregnant? Female founders share their stories | The European investment ecosystem is far from inclusive when it comes to gender. No matter how much progress we think we’re making, the gender gap persists.
The fact is, although women represent more than half of the EU population and creat... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | How (And Why) To Make Venture Funding More Equitable | getty |
| Nov 13, 2019 | Girls Who Code is launching coding clubs in 6 Philadelphia public schools | Girls Who Code (GWC), a New York City-based nonprofit seeking to close the gender gap in technology, is set to launch a set of coding clubs in Philadelphia public schools this month: Six schools across the city will now offer the six-week, ... |
| Jun 13, 2019 | $7 billion hedge fund WorldQuant hosted a competition for women quants. Now it's hiring 50 of the contestants as research consultants. | Ray_LAC/Flickr
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Hedge funds have a demonstrated problem hiring women to join their investment teams, leading to a large disparity between men and women in key roles.
Giant hedge fund WorldQuant inaugurated its Women Who Quant c... |
| Mar 8, 2019 | SXSW Kicks Off on International Women’s Day | March is women’s history month and Friday is International Women’s Day, which happens to coincide with opening day of South by Southwest in Austin. |
| Aug 16, 2018 | AI Is Key to Bias-Free VC | Securing venture capital funding is a tricky terrain to travel. It’s hard enough for founders to accrue the capital needed to continue scaling, but it’s even more difficult for entrepreneurs from underrepresented demographics.
In a recent s... |
| Aug 17, 2016 | Change of the Guard as Women 2.0 Deepens Its Ties to the East Coast | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Women 2.0 is on the move, bringing its act in a big way to New York state. The San Francisco-based network and social platform for women technology entrepreneurs is getting a ... |
| Aug 17, 2016 | Women 2.0 has new leadership, and is launching a tech recruiting service | Women 2.0, a for-profit for-good media business that works to bring women into the tech industry and help them succeed there, has appointed Kate Brodock as President and Elisa Miller-Out as COO, according to founder Shaherose Charania.
Char... |
| Aug 27, 2015 | Female Funders Launches, Challenging 1,000 Women To Become Angel Investors | Looking to build a bridge over the technology industry’s (and the technology investment industry more specifically) chasm-sized gender gap, a group of successful women entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate executives have launched Female ... |
| Aug 27, 2015 | Top VC Brian O’Malley On The Next “On Demand” Wave | Brian O’Malley is good at his job. He’s good enough, in fact, that two years, ago, Accel Partners plucked him out of his former firm, Battery Ventures, so he could bat for its team instead.
As venture industry watchers know, these moves are... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | Primal Marketing: 4 Ways to Create an Instant Connection With Customers | March 16, 2015 5 min read
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Scientists have conducted research for years to unlock the secrets of the human mind -- and more and more marketers are starting to take notice. Here, ... |
| Feb 14, 2015 | My response to the podcast that unfairly attacked me | There is a new controversy brewing about whether a man should be allowed to comment on the challenges that women in technology face. A podcast on WNYC’s TLDR blog site raised issue with my being quoted in a cover story in Newsweek about Sil... |
| Feb 13, 2015 | ‘Women in Tech: The Book’ is a Thing, and You Should Support It | Women in Tech: The Book is hoping to inspire more women to enter the tech world. Currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, the book will be a compilation of chapters by leading women in tech – tech veterans who have started ... |
| Feb 8, 2015 | Female Founder Stories: Aarthi Ramamurthy, Founder of Lumoid (YC S13) | Lumoid is a try before you buy service for gadgets and consumer electronics. Instead of going to a physical retailer or paying the full price for a gadget online and then dealing with the hassle of returns and restocking, we make it possibl... |
| Jan 24, 2015 | Prioritizing Diversity In 2015 | Joelle Emerson Contributor
Joelle Emerson is the founder and CEO of Paradigm, a strategy firm that partners with innovative companies to build stronger, more inclusive organizations.
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One barrier to diversity i... |
| Oct 3, 2014 | 07 Resources For Women Entrepreneurs | Reliable statistics on Women entrepreneurship in Asia, especially in technology, are hard to come by. In the United States, for example, just 30% of jobs in technology are held by women and just 10% of founders and investors are female. By ... |
| May 25, 2014 | Women Vs. Women, Or The Ugly Side Of Feminism | With the birth of the new feminist narrative sweeping popular culture, it is bound to enter its awkward teenage phase. And just like a teenage mean girl, the new feminism is growing unwieldy before gracefully settling into something we can ... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | Indiegogo founder Danae Ringelmann: ‘We will never lose sight of our vision to democratize finance’ | For her first company, Danae Ringelmann set off on a mission to “democratize finance.”
No pressure or anything.
Astonishingly, Ringelmann is well on her way to achieving that goal as one of the most influential members of the crowdfunding m... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | Indiegogo founder Danae Ringelmann: ‘We will never lose sight of our vision to democratize finance’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
For her first company, Danae Ringelmann set off o... |
| Feb 13, 2014 | 500 Startups Launches Its First Two AngelList Syndicates, Including One Just For Female Founders | Since being founded in 2010, 500 Startups has been pushing the limits of what you might expect from a seed-stage investment fund. In just a few short years, it has invested in more than 600 startups (!!!), launched its own accelerator progr... |
| Jan 4, 2014 | Obamacare Removes Barriers For Women, Latino Entrepreneurs | Two months ago Luz Rivas walked away from her job to work full-time on her startup, DIY Girls. As the founder and executive director of the group that is teaching girls about engineering and technology, Rivas had to solve for many variables... |
| Dec 20, 2013 | When to quit your job and become an entrepreneur | This post is presented by OPEN Forum(R).
If you surveyed the recent success stories in Silicon Valley, and looked at where their founders hailed from, you’d see a common thread emerge:
Kevin Systrom of Instagram came from the Google Gmail t... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | Why It's Harder For Women to Raise VC Funds | November 19, 2013 5 min read
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There is gender bias in the startup community. There is no doubt about it. Women currently hold only 4.2 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions and 4.... |
| Nov 2, 2013 | Women 2.0, A Media Company Built Around Female Entrepreneurship, Gears Up For Las Vegas | Over the past few years, Women 2.0 has become one of the most reliable places to find stories from female entrepreneurs, successful and otherwise. It has also, according to co-founder and CEO Shaherose Charania, become a profitable business... |
| Sep 12, 2013 | How to succeed in the 'old boys club' of venture capital | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This story originally ran in the Daily Telegraph‘... |
| Sep 12, 2013 | How to succeed in the 'old boys club' of venture capital | This story originally ran in the Daily Telegraph‘s Wonder Women section.
As a tech reporter, I hear from female founders in Silicon Valley and its British equivalent, “Silicon Roundabout,” that it’s an ongoing challenge to fund a business, ... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Square To Host Coding Camp for Girls | Editor’s note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.
Square’s pocketable plastic accessory changed the game for mobile payments, and now the company is hoping to make the same waves in the development of women... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | Latino Startup Accelerator Partners with Google For Entrepreneurs To Launch In Fall | Manos Accelerator, a program to support Latinos involved in the startup community, has announced a partnership with Google For Entrepreneurs and will launch its first session for five to six startups in September.
Based in San Jose, Manos A... |
| Apr 11, 2013 | Roundup: AudienceScience, Treehouse, Donuts, EveryMove and More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Northwest companies AudienceScience, Treehouse, Donuts, and EveryMove were among those raising significant capital in early April, while business travel companies Egencia and ... |
| Mar 5, 2013 | Rails Girls event called ‘largest gathering of female coders’ in Baltimore city’s history | Rails Girls, the popular event in more than 40 cities worldwide that serves as an introductory crash course in the programming language Ruby on Rails, hit Baltimore for the first time Saturday, when a crowd of 70 — mostly women — gathered a... |
| Mar 2, 2013 | Where will Silicon Hills News be at SXSW Interactive? | It’s almost time for South by Southwest Interactive and that means you should prepare for information and sensory overload.
A blog once termed SXSW as TED.com’s crazy cousin from the South. It’s also been called Spring Break for Geeks. But ... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | Maker’s Row Grows As A Matchmaker Between Fashion Designers & Domestic Manufacturers | Emily Goligoski Contributor
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With #HonorYourMom, Samahope Wants To Fund Medical Treatments For Women In Need Around The World
Gift Platform NewlyWish Looks to Disrupt $19 Billion Annual Wedding Registry Industr... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Bizarro world, and how women are helping each other | Vivek Wadhwa is vice president of innovation and research at Singularity University and Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University.
At the Women 2.0 “The Next Billion” conference last week, I started... |
| Jan 24, 2013 | Let the boys have their social media while women save the world | This guest post is written by Vivek Wadhwa, VP of innovation and research at Singularity University.
You often hear Silicon Valley moguls say, “We wanted flying cars; instead, we got 140 characters.” They believe we’ve run out of ideas and ... |
| Dec 22, 2012 | In Latin America, Women Are Breaking Barriers To Entrepreneurship | Editor’s note: Maria Rocio Paniagua currently works as a project manager at Innku, one of the top mobile and web workshops in Mexico. She is very passionate about all things technology, entrepreneurship and innovation. Follow her on Twitter... |
| Dec 3, 2012 | Gift Platform NewlyWish Looks to Disrupt $19 Billion Annual Wedding Registry Industry | In a world of customizable coffees and individualized experiences, the wedding industry is just recently starting to break from its historical lack of options. Pre-nuptials, many couples still face lists of venue-required caterers and fight... |
| Nov 20, 2012 | Women 2.0, Google Partner to Launch Detroit Founder Friday | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A popular networking series for female tech entrepreneurs that began in the Bay Area has now launched in Detroit. Called Founder Friday, it’s the product of the San Francisco-... |
| Nov 13, 2012 | Austin-based Whit.Li’s Andi Gillentine to Pitch at Women 2.0 NYC 2012 | Andi Gillentine is the co-founder and COO of Austin-based Whit.Li, the site analyzes words people post on social media sites like Facebook to determine their personality traits.
Whit.Li is the only Austin company selected to pitch at the hi... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Despite Gains on the Business Side, Women Lag in Computer Science | Where’s their tea? Ladies love tea. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)
Things are looking better for the ladies of the tech business, but we’ve still got a long way to go on the computer science front. That’s the conclusion the panelists ... |
| Sep 29, 2012 | The Search For Minority Entrepreneurs Is Over — Now They Need To Be Ready For Investors | Editor’s note: Wayne Sutton is the founder and CEO of PitchTo, a mobile development lab that builds tools for investors to make smarter decisions and help entrepreneurs deliver exceptional pitches. This article is inspired by Dave McClure’s... |
| Sep 24, 2012 | Google Partners With Startup Weekend, Women 2.0 And Others To Launch Google For Entrepreneurs | Google today announced the launch of Google For Entrepreneurs, the company’s new umbrella for all of its programs that support startups and entrepreneurs around the world. The program’s focus, says Google, will be to partner with strong org... |
| Sep 24, 2012 | Google partners with Women 2.0 to support female entrepreneurs around the world | Spotlighting women in tech has become such a pervasive theme in the media, but we rarely hear about female business leaders in emerging nations.
In an effort to ignite female entrepreneurship on a global level, Google has announced a partne... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Khushboo Shah of latest DreamIt class called ‘Female Founder to Watch’ [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Sep 3, 2012 | Mexico Is Happening At TechCrunch Disrupt | With the focus of many in the startup community shifting towards emerging markets, Mexico is a prime target for VCs looking to support a new group of entrepreneurs. Ideally situated a quick flight away from Silicon Valley lies a growing com... |
| Aug 31, 2012 | Mayor Michael Nutter uses a Zune [LINKS] | Blogger’s cop-killer support page removed from Facebook [Philadelphia Daily News] The blogger in question is Joshua Scott Albert, who used to run a Philly food gossip blog called StaphMeal.
D.A.: Anti-police blogger to face charges [Philade... |
| Aug 29, 2012 | Whoosh Traffic Helps Businesses Improve SEO Rankings | By Susan Lahey
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| Aug 13, 2012 | Best Tech Events This Week (NY TimesOpen, GA Demo Night, Ben Lerer at Pando Monthly, MusicTech, Eyebeam ArtsTech, gdgt) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| Jul 26, 2012 | 30+ Organizations for Women in Technology | Being a woman in technology has its challenges, but feeling alone shouldn’t be one of them. Whether you’re a girl, a woman, or a grrl, the 20 organizations below can help you get connected with other entrepreneurs, designers, and developers... |
| Jul 18, 2012 | Women in Tech: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is. | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Dave McClure, Founding Partner & TroubleMaker, 500 Startups.
Apologies in advance to everyone I’m going to offend with this post, men and women included. If I appear to be moronic, self-centered, o... |
| May 16, 2012 | Why Developers Work At Early-Stage Startups | Michael Jackson's lyrics decoded to the tune of entrepreneurship. |
| A Big Shout Out To All The Founder Ladies Looking For VC Investments | A team of female founders, decided to break the traditional stereotypes in the VC community and have created a kickass theme for all the founder ladies out there.
FounderLadies.com has come out with a video inspired by Dybzz.ly.io pitch to ... |
