Published on: May 9, 2013 – 3:00 pm
Hackathons are air-and-light deprived environments, where time and space are continually closing in. I can’t overstate the effect that having a great team had on my psyche.
By Anne Gordon (Founder, Kinderloop)
I am not your typical hackathon attendee. I am a woman, over 30, with kids, and not even two months ago, I was a criminal lawyer. Yes, I felt a bit out of place at a two-day festival of booze, computers, and testosterone. But I knew that as a non-technical startup founder, a win at a hackathon would give my nascent kid-tech company some credibility. I knew I’d need 1) a great team, and 2) support from some big players to make it to the grand prize: entrance to the AngelHack startup accelerator. Read More »
Published on: May 8, 2013 – 1:17 pm
The reason that so many top brands agreed to work with Mika, says Fenseko, is that most of the on-line retail world is about discounting and Mika is actually selling clothes at their full price photographed as if they appeared in Vogue or W.
By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (Editor, Women 2.0)
You know what it’s like when you’re getting ready for a board meeting and you just don’t have the mojo to pull together a great outfit. Elena Fesenko, the founder of the new startup Mika just raised $1.7M to solve this dilemma for women, according to Tech Crunch. Read More »
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: May 1, 2013 – 7:00 am
Accelerators are plentiful. Seed stage funding, not so much, writes the founder of Canopi.me, which means a slow and agonizing death for many startups.
By Erin Flynn (Co-Founder, Canopi.me)
After twiddling my thumbs for quite some time, in other words reading blogs and drinking abnormal amounts of coffee, I was finally inspired to write about what has been weighing on my mind for quite some time now. Fundraising is hard. Period. Fundraising as a woman in a women-driven market is even harder. I’m not going to preach around the difficulties of how hard it is to fundraise. I’m pretty sure that boat has sailed. Instead, I’d like to preach on the problem that seems to be somewhat silent. This problem that is otherwise known as the “big ass HOLE.” Read More »
Published on: April 29, 2013 – 7:00 am
Freelance writer Justine Lee talks to female angels and founders about how to get more women to invest in startups.
By Justine Lee (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0)
In a room full of 100 angel investors, 85 of them are men, and 15 are women.
While this proportion is already shifting, there is work to be done to get that number closer to 50. I spoke with three women entrepreneurs and three women angel investors about their ideas on how we can get there. Read More »
Published on: April 24, 2013 – 7:00 am
Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our weekly “This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like” series.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Los Angeles-based angel investor Eva Ho is currently a VP of Marketing and Operations at Factual. A tech founder herself, she co-founded Navigating Cancer in 2008 to empower cancer patients in navigating their best care options.
Eva has been angel investing and serving as an advisor for startups the past few years. She serves as an advisor for WebFWD, Mucker Lab, Common Crawl and newMe Accelerator. Read More »
Published on: April 12, 2013 – 8:00 am
Fresh numbers show that while things may be tough for those looking for Series A funding, earlier and later-stage startups are doing just fine.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
If you follow the news from startup land at all, you no doubt know that things are rough out there at the moment for founders looking to raise Series A funding, a phenomenon dubbed ‘the Series A crunch.‘ But according to a recently released report the gloom is highly concentrated – overall investment is at its highest since the dot-com days and the volume of funding flowing to earlier and later-stage startups is up. Read More »
Published on: April 1, 2013 – 9:00 am
Legal uncertainty has hung over crowdfunding but now letters from the SEC have lifted this cloud of doubt from several platforms.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
Crowdfunding may have been exciting entrepreneurs for awhile, but whether the idea would be as appealing to regulators has been an open question. Now the SEC has given the green light to two platforms, lifting doubt and firing the starting gun on further crowdfunding innovation. Read More »
Published on: March 21, 2013 – 12:08 pm
While the issues facing female entrepreneurs are complex, a key obstacle lies in that the gatekeepers to capital are predominantly and were historically men.
By Jane Wang (Software Engineer, Etsy)
Funding is a tough nut to crack for many first-time entrepreneurs, and even a tougher nut for those from atypical backgrounds, such as minorities, women, LGBT members.
In a restaurant in south Austin, a group of powerful women Read More »
Published on: March 20, 2013 – 6:00 am
Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our weekly “This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like” series.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
A recovering i-banker, Angela Raitzin is now an angel investor in New York. She is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds in New York, and a Managing Principal at Morton Capital.
Still deeply rooted in the finance industry, Angela is interested in the demographic effect baby boomers will have (and are already having) on the financial industry. Read More »
