Check out these five women-powered productivity app companies that boost your productivity! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Who doesn’t love a good list, especially a list of to-do’s? Now add the power of new technology to the traditional to-do list and productivity guidelines – and some women entrepreneurs – and you have [...]
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Meet Four Women Who Taught Themselves To Code
April 30, 2013 – 9:00 am
Meet four women in California and New York who learned to code for very different reasons – and results! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder, Women 2.0) People learn to code for all sorts of reasons, from building their own startup to building on top of their partner’s startup. In the case of a San Francisco-based marketing [...]
PITCH SF 2013 Finalist Wendy Nguyen, CEO and Co-Founder of HealthyOut, Raises $1.2 Million Seed Funding
April 29, 2013 – 3:56 pm
HealthyOut was a finalist at the PITCH SF 2013 Startup Competition. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) With two-thirds of American adults struggling with overweight and obesity issues, developing solutions to help people eat healthier has never been more important. Mobile app HealthyOut, co-founded by CEO Wendy Nguyen raised a $1.2 million round [...]
McKinsey Shares 4 Principles to Getting More Women to the Top
April 29, 2013 – 9:48 am
If someone is going to be held accountable for the lack of female representation, outcomes are bound to be more evident. By Nicel Jane (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics) There is no secret formula to getting women into leadership positions after all. Joanna Barsh, Sandra Nudelman, and Lareina Yee report in the McKinsey Quarterly April 2013 issue [...]
Entefy Co-Founder Brienne Ghafourifar, 18, Raises $1 Milllion In Funding
April 29, 2013 – 6:00 am
18 year old Entefy co-founder Brienne Ghafourifar raises $1 million in funding for startup based in Palo Alto. By Insiyah Saeed (Founder, TheLipGloss) Brienne Ghafourifar, 18, and co-founder brother Alston, 20, are not targeting a market of billions with their startup Entefy, but a “market of trillions.” Brienne, who graduated with a B.A. in Economics from [...]
4 Women Present and Accounted for SIlicon Valley Movers & Shakers List
April 27, 2013 – 8:00 am
High-flying entrepreneurs Clara Shih, Gina Bianchini, Priya Haji and Rebecca Woodcock recognized as Silicon Valley Movers & Shakers. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the Silicon Valley, venture capital firms and high-tech management teams are often a sea of men. So it’s nice when the women movers & shakers are not filtered [...]
5 Ways Men Can Advocate for Women in Technology and the Workplace
April 26, 2013 – 7:00 am
We’ve cherry-picked the top 5 tips and tricks for male advocates for women in tech, educated by NCWIT’s 45 in-depth interviews with male employees in technology organizations or departments. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The LGBT community have many allies. Conferences produced by an organization named Black Founders are incredibly ethnically and [...]
6 Days Left for Life Science and Healthcare Startups to Apply to Springboard
April 26, 2013 – 6:00 am
Springboard boasts a 13-year track record of catalyzing scalable, women-led startups with its accelerator program for healthcare and life science companies. By Joshua Henderson (Director of Programming, Springboard Enterprises) At Springboard, we run an annual accelerator program for high-growth, women-led companies in the life sciences and healthcare space. Each year we induct a highly-vetted class [...]
Little Girls Are Better at Designing Superheroes Than You
April 25, 2013 – 11:56 am
Invent your future! Encourage kids to imagine their strongest, wildest selves regularly with superhero costumes and power poses. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Over spring break, undergraduate biology student and artist Alexandria Law started a mini art project. Her new blog Little Girls Are Better at Designing Superheroes Than You features pictures [...]
Customer Acquisition for Your Freemium Product Launch
April 24, 2013 – 9:00 am
For WeddingCakeLove, I spent about four hours on this pre-launch process to acquire customers. After launch, my process is a lot different — more on that in part two, coming soon. By Tracy Osborn (Founder, WeddingLovely) This week, WeddingLovely launched our newest wedding vendor directory for wedding bakeries, WeddingCakeLove.com. I’ve launched five other directories so [...]
