Published on: May 2, 2013 – 6:00 am
The Women 2.0 PITCH SF 2013 finalist is the only female-led startup to make it to the finals of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
Female-founded healthy eating startup HealthyOut is on a roll.
First, the team behind the app that lets you find healthy meals when you eat out was selected as a finalist at Women 2.0′s PITCH SF 2013 Startup Competition. Then, HealthyOut managed to raise a $1.2 million round led by 500 Startups, Blueprint Health, 37 Angels, Jan Brandt (AOL Vice Chair Emeritus), Peter Horan (Answers.com President/COO), BHV, partners at TSG Consumer Partners, NY restaurateur Dave Kassling and other angels. And now, CEO Wendy Nguyen and her team have another accomplishment to tout: making it to the finals of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. Read More »
Published on: May 1, 2013 – 8:00 am
A treasure trove of tips, predictions and insight from the conference’s keynote speaker, Marc Andreessen, in conversation with Ruchi Sanghvi, co-founder of Cove and first female engineer at Facebook.
by Salem Kimble (Manager, Online Strategies, BetterWorld Telecom)
Women 2.0 is leading the charge in the world of technology for connecting women with opportunity and each other. But the timing is ripe for this conversation everywhere; including at the Stanford Computer Science department, where two female undergrads, Ellora Israni and Ayna Agarwal looked around and thought – where are all the women in engineering and computer science majors? How do we connect female high school students and undergraduates in college with the inspiration and encouragement to go for a career in this field? Read More »
Published on: April 25, 2013 – 7:00 am
Today is Take Your Daughter to Work Day. If your kids are less than excited by this worthy but dated occasion, how about introducing them to technology instead, suggests one female CEO.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
Today is the 20th anniversary of Take Your Daughter to Work Day. A pioneering idea to enlarge the experiences and ambitions of girls in its day, the yearly occasion for parent-child bonding is–let’s admit it–starting to feel a bit dated. Unless you’re an astronaut or a cowgirl, a one-day immersion in your work life is probably not going to light up the imagination of your kids.
You might be doing awesome things at your computer or in your cube but visually observed from the outside, it doesn’t really seem that interesting, is it?
So female CEO Adrian Ott offered a fabulous update building on the original, worthy idea Read More »
Published on: April 17, 2013 – 10:00 am
At the Women 2.0 Conference Bing’s Duane Forrester answered startups’ most pressing search-related queries. Here’s the most common questions they asked.
By Duane Forrester (Senior Product Marketing Manager, Bing Webmaster Tools)
Let’s take a look at the most common questions we saw from startups when we had open office hours, as we did last February 14th during the Women 2.0 event in San Francisco. These five questions popped up in most of the sessions we held throughout the afternoon, and also in hallway conversations during the day and into the evening. The questions might seem simple enough, but as usual, the answers are a bit more detailed. Read More »
Published on: April 16, 2013 – 10:00 am
Another conference, another male-dominated lineup. Why doesn’t the TechCrunch Disrupt NY speaker lineup include more women?
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
Back in 2077 Kottke noted the regularity with which the web erupts with complaints about conferences with male-dominated speaker lineups, pulling together a long list of events at which a shamefully low number of speakers were female as evidence. It’s now six years later and apparently not all that much has changed because controversy is roiling the Internet once again. Read More »
Published on: April 11, 2013 – 11:00 am
Google’s SVP of advertising shared five key insights into the future of advertising this week.
By Lauren Jisoo Kim (Events Coordinator, Women 2.0)
Earlier this year, Adweek ran this piece on Susan Wojcicki, SVP of Advertising at Google, asking: “Is This the Most Important Person in Advertising? Hint: she runs a $43.7 billion ad business.” Judging by the way she diverted journalist Tim Peterson’s line of questioning on being “the most powerful woman at Google” and who her mentors were (her answer: “Actually, one thing I should mention, just back to me as an executive at Google. I’ve managed Adsense since the beginning…”), this woman means all business, so I’ll refrain from waxing poetic on her many merits as a role model to professional women.
Delivering her keynote yesterday morning to a packed house at Ad:Tech SF 2013, Wojcicki spoke about the “Future of Advertising.” Read More »
Published on: April 9, 2013 – 11:00 am
Equal pay for equal work sounds so obvious it’s hard to believe it merits a holiday. But it does. Here’s why.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
When it comes to things that are blindingly obvious, the fact that women should get equal pay for equal work ranks right up there with the health benefits of regular tooth brushing and the astronomical reality that the earth revolves around the sun. So why do we need today, an annual day to focus our collective attention on the glaringly unfair fact that a woman still must work this far into the year to earn the same amount made by a man in the previous year?
Here’s why. Read More »
The We Own It Collaboration announces its fourth annual Summit and Global Pitch Competition, June 27th & 28th in London, UK.
The We Own It Summit convenes visionaries, thought-leaders, idea generators, game-changers and disrupters to identify paths of success for women high-growth entrepreneurs: from women’s access to capital, to women’s participation on boards, to the full participation of women as investors. The summit is open to men and women, entrepreneurs, investors, academics, policy-makers. Tickets range from Premier All-Access Passes at GBP 370 ($550), to a la carte tickets, to a limited number of donate-what-you-can options. Registration is currently open: www.weownitsummit.org. Read More »
Sponsored by: Lean Startup Conference 2013, December 9 – 11, San Francisco. 
