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| Sep 26, 2012 | Startup News: Barry Diller Brings Back the Big Dog and Lauren Conrad’s Site Is Sold | (Photo: flickr.com/classicchanelhandbags)
Healthy Hills? Everyday Health, the SoHo-based and more successful version of WebMd, has acquired EQAL, the creators of Lonelygirl15 and the owners of LaurenConrad.com. Everyday Health’s ad revenue ... |
| 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... |
| May 16, 2012 | Why Developers Work At Early-Stage Startups | Michael Jackson's lyrics decoded to the tune of entrepreneurship. |
| Apr 23, 2012 | Want FounderDating In Your City? Now You Can “Unlock” It | FounderDating, which helps entrepreneurs with co-founders through online networking and offline events, announced a big geographic expansion earlier this year. But what if you don’t live in a traditionally startup-heavy city like San Franci... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Judges for Tech Cocktail’s SXSW Startup Celebration Announced | We are a cocktail of tech people for sure. There are 33 amazing startups that are part of our startup showcase on Saturday night at SXSW. And we are happy to announce a distinguished group of investors, entrepreneurs, writers and tech lumin... |
| Feb 8, 2012 | Valentine’s Day for entrepreneurs: Mingle with 800+ at PITCH Conference | 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 sponsored post is produced by Women 2.0.
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| Feb 8, 2012 | Valentine’s Day for entrepreneurs: Mingle with 800+ at PITCH Conference | This sponsored post is produced by Women 2.0.
On February 14, 2012, at the Computer History Museum, Women 2.0 will be hosting the fifth annual PITCH Conference & Competition focusing on product innovation leadership.
Attendees can learn... |
| Feb 5, 2012 | What Feminists Are Saying About the Facebook IPO | Facebook has announced what will likely be the tech industry’s biggest Initial Public Offering of stock ever. What do practitioners of feminism, a philosophy centered in the experiences of women, have to say about the political economy of t... |
| Jan 26, 2012 | Bringing A Startup Together: FounderDating Launches Matching Site, Expands To NY, Boston, LA | Finding the right cofounder is often the hardest part of doing a startup, as most anyone with experience will tell you. As a personal example: the cofounder of my first company, Phil Kast, was an old high school buddy employed as a whitewat... |
| Jan 16, 2012 | Women 2.0 unveils finalists for PITCH Startup Comp | Entrepreneurial network Women 2.0 has unveiled this year’s finalists of the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition, including a shopping Q&A platform and a social app for college students.
Women 2.0, founded by Shaherose Charania and Angie... |
| Dec 23, 2011 | Why women have a hard time raising money for startups, part 1 (video) | 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!
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| Dec 7, 2011 | This Russian Model Is Headed To Y Combinator | Redeem now
While Mark Zuckerberg's little sister did not get into Y Combinator, at least two other New York companies will be joining Daily Muse on the west coast.
Two Dogpatch Labs NYC companies are on their way to Y Combinator. Authy alre... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Why women have to work harder to do startups | 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!
Startups are not too hard for women. Women just h... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Why women have to work harder to do startups | Startups are not too hard for women. Women just have to work way harder to create a startup.
In the midst of my life as a fundraising CEO, I am going to posit one thing: That the ramen-eating, asocial women entrepreneurs have it harder in s... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Female-led tech start-ups urged to enter PITCH competition | Female-led tech start-ups are being encouraged to enter PITCH, a start-up competition run by global network Women 2.0, with the event expected to attract up to 500 attendants.
Women 2.0, founded by Shaherose Charania and Angie Chang, is a U... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Women 2.0: Number Of Women Founders Doubled Over Past Three Years | Women 2.0, an organization whose goal is to increase the number of female founders in technology startups, is sharing some good news today: the number of women starting companies has doubled over the past three years. The new data comes fro... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Goooood Morning, Silicon Alley! Gary Sharma’s Picks for the Week of September 19: The Billionaires & Supermodels Edition | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (a.k.a. “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder of GarysGuide, mentor at ER Accelerator and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over forty red ties. You can reach ... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | Startup Weekend refocuses on community, practical entrepreneurship | If you thought Startup Weekend was a hackathon, you’d be about half right. According to a recent report, the event’s focus has shifted from executing clever tech tricks to solving problems in a community. It’s an exercise in practical entre... |
| Jul 24, 2011 | Rebuttal: Make Room In the Bubble For Everyone | Editor’s note: Guest author Freada Kapor Klein, Ph.D. is a Venture Partner at Kapor Capital and the Founder of the Level Playing Field Institute. Her entire professional career has been devoted to understanding and removing hurdles to creat... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Meet the female tech pioneers | Peruse images of the founders of the world’s leading tech start-ups and you’ll probably notice a few common features – youth, casual attire and, tellingly, male.
From Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook to more locally Mark Harbottle at 99designs, ... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Bring On the Pre-Incubators | Joanne Wilson, Founder Labs mentor.
New York has plenty of accelerators–TechStars! DreamIt! Entrepreneurs Roundtable! TechStars, again! But incubators have gotten so selective that companies need to be more and more mature in order to get i... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Founder Labs NYC | One of the best things to happen to startupland in the past five years is the emergence of the startup accelerator. Programs like Y Combinator, Techstars, and many others have made the difficult phase of going from a founding team and an id... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Women 2.0’s Founder Labs Expands to New York City | Women 2.0 announced today that, thanks to its success, its Founder Labs pre-incubator program will become its own, separate organization. Moreover, the program will expand from its current San Francisco location to New York City, with the f... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Founder Labs NYC | Redeem now
One of the best things to happen to startupland in the past five years is the emergence of the startup accelerator. Programs like Y Combinator, Techstars, and many others have made the difficult phase of going from a founding tea... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Women 2.0 Spins Out, Expands Founder Labs Program To New York | An organization that aims to diversify and strengthen the pool of successful startup founders in tech, Women 2.0, today announced that it will spin out its mobile focused Founder Labs pre-incubator program as a standalone entity, and expand... |
| Nov 8, 2010 | Diane Greene’s Advice to Female Entrepreneurs: You Too Could Start a VMware | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected, see below] Female technologists and CEOs are still rare in Silicon Valley, but Diane Greene has been both—and she’s been far more successful at it than most males.... |
| Nov 5, 2010 | Women 2.0 CEO On 2010 Competition Winners: They're Not Like Facebook (In A Good Way) | This is a guest post from Shaherose Charania, founder and chief executive of Women 2.0, a social venture that aims to increase the number of female founders of technology startups. Ms. Charania previously served as the director of product m... |
| Oct 27, 2010 | Don’t miss Women 2.0 Pitch Night on November 4 | Women 2.0 PITCH Night on November 4, 2010 brings together hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers, and technologists in San Francisco.
Both men and women are invited to join Women 2.0’s biggest event of the year — featur... |
| Aug 19, 2010 | Tereza's Op Ed | The following is a guest post by our friend and AVC community member Tereza Nemessanyi, founder and CEO of Honestly Now Inc., a web and mobile social media platform which will release its beta product to the market in September. It was init... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Breaking Up The Boys Club: Inside Women 2.0 Labs [video] | Women 2.0 Labs, a 5-week crash course in entrepreneurship, is somewhat of a misnomer.
Although it is indeed a lab where professionals work in teams of four to develop a startup (or at least the prototype of a startup), it is far from a wome... |
| Jul 25, 2010 | Women at OSCON: Did You Notice? | I spent much of the week at OSCON, which served in part as a very visual reminder for something that is always on the back of my mind: the absence of women in tech. While women make up 25% of those who work in the tech industry, they compri... |
| Jul 22, 2010 | Incubating Women Entrepreneurs | A story last week in the San Jose Mercury News highlights, as the title suggests, “the dearth of women in tech.” The article begins with a description of InDinero founder and Y Combinator alum Jessica Mah: “I just wasn’t sure if Jessica Mah... |
| Feb 21, 2010 | A Fix for Discrimination: Follow the Indian Trails | Women, Hispanics and blacks have always been underrepresented in the ranks of the Valley’s tech companies. A new analysis by the Mercury News shows that from 2000 to 2008, the proportion of women tech workers in Silicon Valley dropped from ... |
| Feb 7, 2010 | Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC's have a Gender Problem | “People in technology businesses are drawn to places known for diversity of thought and open-mindedness”, is what Professor Richard Florida concluded after studying the growth and success of 50 metropolitan areas in the U.S. The most succes... |
| Jan 27, 2010 | Why We Need Tech Events for Women | At the last Twiistup event, on a panel with diehard Los Angeles entrepreneurs and investors Yammer CEO David Sacks explained that Southern Californians wouldn’t need to have a panel on Los Angeles startups if it really did receive the same ... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | 48 semi-finalists selected for Mobile Premier Awards | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Mobile Premier Awards, perhaps the most prestigious startup competition in the mobile business, has named 48 companies to participa... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | 48 semi-finalists selected for Mobile Premier Awards | The Mobile Premier Awards, perhaps the most prestigious startup competition in the mobile business, has named 48 companies to participate in its semi-final round. They were each nominated by their local MobileMonday chapters (groups that me... |
| 2010 | Twitter and Me! Why It's The Only Social Media Tool I Use. | With all the excitement about the Crunchies awards, I thought I should cast my ballot: Twitter. No, not because it’s the best product (I think Android is), but because it has impacted me the most. To young TechCrunch readers, this post will... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Speaking at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend | Women 2.0 joins forces with Startup Weekend this August 28th – 30th, 2009! We provide the space and brain fuel — you bring the energy and innovation to build something big over the weekend. Sign up now for your spot at Startup Weekend!
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| Jun 26, 2009 | Want to get funding? It’s all about research | Video interview: Wendy Lea has worked as a bootstrap entrepreneur, corporate executive, and angel investor over the last 25 years. She joined GetSatisfaction.com as CEO in February. Lea is also the founder of The Chatham Group and an angel ... |
| May 29, 2009 | Funding and numbers – young entrepreneur’s best advice | Video interview: Erica Douglass sold her million dollar web hosting company at the age of 26. She speaks about finding funding, knowing your limitations, and how to get started in technology and also describes how important it is to keep in... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | Six reasons to base your business in the Bay Area | Editor's Note: Is the Valley still tops for entrepreneurs? Rebecca Weeks sure thinks so.
ANYONE OUT THERE WANT TO DISAGREE?
You’ve got a ground-breaking idea, a solid business plan, encouragement from friends and family, and enough cash to ... |
| May 10, 2008 | Women Entrepreneurs Pitch Their Companies at Stanford | Women 2.0 held its second pitch event today on the kempt grounds of the Stanford Golf Course Grill. It was a chance for five private tech companies with at least 50% female ownership to compete for a prize suite of business services collect... |
| Women 2.0 Summer Labs Program Hosted at True Ventures’ San Francisco Pier 38 Office | Have an idea that you are looking to start or validate? Curious about starting a new venture?
Our friends at Women 2.0 have started a new initiative called Women 2.0 Labs, which is a 5-week program (July 6 – August 5, 2010) for engineers, ... |
| Steve Blank is Right About the Need for Lean VCs | I met Steve Blank for the first time a few weeks ago when he came to visit the Women 2.0 group at Pier 38. As someone who has long believed in the value of engaging one on one with customers, I have long respected and admired his work in cu... |