Published on: May 3, 2013 – 9:00 am
Founder Institute CEO Adeo Ressi shares his thoughts on the recent changes in the funding landscape, and the risks he sees for the future.
by Adeo Ressi (Founder & CEO, Founder Institute & TheFunded.com)
Since 2008, I believe there has been more innovation in the field of funding entrepreneurs than in any other short period in history. Recently, I have been asked by many entrepreneurs, investors, and journalists to provide my thoughts on the last five years, and on where we are headed in the future. Here’s my opinion.
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Published on: April 25, 2013 – 11:00 am
Because she’s a female CEO, everyone focused on the fact that she was being “anti-feminist.” If Mayer were a man, the narrative would be about the business strategy to bring Yahoo back to life.
By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (Editor, Women 2.0)
Marissa Mayer jokingly broke her silence about the Yahoo! work from home policy at the Great Place to Work conference last week by displaying a slide with a big purple elephant emblazoned with WFH during a closing keynote speech.
“It’s not what’s right for Yahoo! right now,” she said. “It was wrongly perceived as an industry narrative.”
If Mayer were a man, this would not have been the case. Because she’s a female CEO, everyone focused on the fact that she was hurting working mothers, being “anti-feminist,” and hypocritical because she had recently built a nursery for her newborn baby at her office. If Mayer were a man, the narrative would be about the decision as a key business strategy to bring Yahoo! back to life and that’s all.
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Published on: April 19, 2013 – 10:00 am
That’s according to ReadWrite, which ballparks the purchase price at $120-$180 million.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
Last July we highlighted Mashery’s Kirsten Spoljaric as a female founder to watch due to her contribution to raising an additional $10M in venture funding for the San Francisco-based API management company. Now Spoljaric and her co-founders have more good news to celebrate – Intel is buying Mashery, ReadWrite is reporting. Read More »
Published on: April 4, 2013 – 8:00 am
Serial entrepreneur Joyce Kim celebrates her second startup acquisition!
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Joyce Kim co-founded Korean entertainment community website Soompi in 2006, which was acquired by Seoul-based company Enswers in 2011.
This week, Joyce’s current company SimpleHoney was acquired by payment company OpenCoin for an undisclosed amount. SimpleHoney built a mobile app to help you keep track of things you love.
In their blog post explaining the acquisition, Joyce explains SimpleHoney co-founders’ interest in alternative currency (ie. Bitcoin). Read More »
Published on: March 30, 2013 – 6:00 am
This week, Amazon.com acquires female-founded book ratings-and-recommendations engine Goodreads.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Freelance journalist Elizabeth (Khuri) Chandler co-founded Goodreads with her husband in 2007. The San Francisco-based GoodReads is a free “social cataloging” website for book lovers. The ratings and recommendations site for books rivaled Amazon.
So it can’t be much of a surprise when this week, Amazon announced acquiring the reviews-and-ratings startup for an undisclosed amount of money. Read More »
Published on: March 22, 2013 – 1:06 pm
PITCH SF 2012 Startup Competition winners are acquired by TripAdvisor this week.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Tiny Post, the winner of PITCH SF 2012 Startup Competition, was acquired by TripAdvisor this week. Tiny Post is a mobile app that lets users write over photos and turn them into stories.
The Tiny Post founders are Dick Brouwer and Melissa Miranda, who blogged recently about being the secret pregnant founder. Read More »
Published on: March 7, 2013 – 11:00 am
Is your startup almost out of money? Exitround aims to match startups open to being acquired with willing buyers.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
If your startup is almost out of money and more funding doesn’t seem to be just over the horizon, what are your options? You can keep grinding away at raising another round (despite the widely discussed crunch), cut the burn and bootstrap, close up shop or get acquired. But exactly how do you go about pursuing this last option? Read More »
Published on: February 12, 2013 – 12:21 pm
Yahoo! snaps up female-founded mobile startup Alike today for an undisclosed sum – the team will be joining Yahoo! mobile in California.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Today Yahoo! acquired Alike, a mobile company founded by CEO Maria Renhui Zhang. The app focused on personalization by using the restaurants and places you like to find the ones you’ll love. In a statement, Yahoo! was “very impressed by the team and their approach to building personalized experiences.” Read More »
Published on: January 29, 2013 – 9:20 am
Congrats to Alexa Andrzejewski and her 10-person team at Foodspotting on the OpenTable acquisition!
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Mobile app Foodspotting announced today an acquisition by OpenTable. Foodspotting CEO and co-founder Alexa Andrzejewski explains on the blog: “We’ve already been working closely with the OpenTable team as partners: In addition to making restaurant reservations via Foodspotting, you may have seen Foodspotting photos from select restaurants popping up on OpenTable.” Read More »
Published on: January 7, 2013 – 1:42 pm
Meet women entrepreneurs at Founder Friday on January 11.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Last September, the crowd at Founder Friday in San Francisco met Andrea Johnson, CEO and founder of photo site ThisLife.
Today, Shutterfly announces acquiring ThisLife to power the next-generation photo solution. ThisLife is a cloud-based solution offering intuitive photo and video organization, storing and sharing, founded by Palo Alto-based ThisLife founder and CEO Andrea Johnson. Read More »
