“Diversity isn’t defined as having more women, diversity is defined as having more voices at the table.” By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Marketing, Tekserve) Jessica Lawrence spoke about There’s No Ambition Gap: Truth About Women in Tech at SXSW Interactive today. The first question poised is why do we still need to have this “feminist” [...]
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New York’s Top Lady-Led Startups
March 8, 2013 – 10:00 am
Cindy Gallop’s site “If We Ran The World” encourages members to tap into great intentions and get help to follow through. Breaking down big goals into “microactions” that members can accomplish to chip away at audacious goals. By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Marketing, Tekserve) In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, here are [...]
Learn Product Development For Technology And Physical Products November 14 In Oakland
November 8, 2012 – 8:00 am
Turn your product into a business – think through product development! By Darlene Crane (Executive Director, Alliance for Community Development) The Alliance for Community Development is in program mode again. We always want to encourage a climate of forward progress and growth, so we’ve renamed the series Propel Business Growth Forums. Starting on November 14, the first forum in [...]
How to Get TechCrunched (And Much More Press) In One Week
December 16, 2011 – 2:00 pm
By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) I met Lindsay Eyink on a scenic ride back to the Bay Area on the California Zephyr train. We connected about our experiences in the startup world over drip coffee and dining car food. She launched Drinkify, a Boston Music Hack Day project that pairs music with drinks. [...]
Study Shows Gender Diversity In Company Leadership Still Lagging
December 16, 2011 – 10:00 am
By Blake Landau (Blogger, What’s Your Story) It’s official, the tech industry is a major laggard in gender diversity at the highest levels of the corporate ladder, at least according to an extensive study produced by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management pioneered by Research Specialist Amanda Kimball. I attended a panel of senior [...]
Female Founders To Watch In Forbes “Impact 30″
December 16, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) Forbes has created their Impact 30, a list of social entrepreneurs, defined by Forbes as “people who use business to solve social issues.” They have chosen their 30 entrepreneurs, nine of whom are women, with a panel of diverse experts. These are the people using business and non-profits [...]
The Silent Killers: Entrepreneurs That Just Do It
December 16, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Brad Feld (Managing Director, Foundry Group) On my run yesterday in Central Park, I was thinking about the characteristics of some of my favorite companies. Suddenly a phrase popped into my head about what ties all of these companies together – they are the silent killers. When I look at the Foundry Group portfolio, we’ve got [...]
9 Things To Consider When You Name A Startup
December 15, 2011 – 11:00 am
By Bernadette Jiwa (Brand Consultant, The Story of Telling) Everyone can agree that there’s nothing really objectionable about calling your business ‘Bargain World’. It’s an innocuous name and most people won’t hate it. That’s the problem. If you’re going to name your startup, product or service something that people won’t hate, then you’re giving yourself [...]
A Chilean Startup Founder Takes On Penelope Trunk
December 14, 2011 – 11:24 am
By Michelle Veronese (Co-Founder, Novelo) In her latest guest post for TechCrunch, Penelope Trunk, the co-founder of Brazen Careerist, argues that there are so few women in tech because women are inherently interested in raising a family, particularly those in their 30’s. Unfortunately, Trunk’s article fully misses the heart of the problem facing women in technology today, and [...]
Siri Demonstrates High-Tech Gender Gap
December 14, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Sady Doyle (Staff Writer, In These Times) Last week, tech and feminist blogs erupted with a startling story: Siri, the iPhone 4 app that responds to voice queries with pre-programmed or search-engine-based replies, refused to direct its users to abortion clinics. Not only that: Apple’s Siri seems programmed to respond to sexual or sex-related questions [...]
