Could the way to make startups more female friendly be to make them more father friendly? Songkick thinks so.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
The notion that work norms and corporate culture need to change in order for more women to rise to the top is an old idea. But lately a newer take on this long-discussed truism has been doing the rounds: perhaps the way to change attitudes toward women and mothers is to change policies surrounding fathers. Read More »
Every year PayPal founder Peter Thiel pays 20 young people $100,000 to drop out of school and start companies. Here are the young women he’s handing checks to this year.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
The Thiel Foundation, started by PayPal founder’s Peter Thiel, has just announced its 2013 class of its 20 Under 20 Fellows, a group of impressive young achievers who Thiel pays $100,000 to drop out of school and work on starting a company under the mentorship of the foundation. Meet the young women packing up their dorm rooms or childhood bedrooms to pursue their intellectual and entrepreneurial passions this year. Read More »
“Why San Francisco?” Why not start a company in a place where the cost of living is lower and real estate prices make you feel like an extra zero was left out.
By Dr. Danielle Applestone (CEO, Otherfab)
I love to be in the factory. I love thinking about what can be made via which method, in what quantity, at what cost, and how fast? I am CEO of a hardware company that makes desktop CNC machines, and I am frighteningly close to having a fully staffed and humming production line in the Mission District of San Francisco. My team is amazing, our Kickstarter campaign is going swimmingly, but yesterday I was asked: “Why San Francisco?” Why not start a company in a place where the cost of living is lower and real estate prices make you feel like an extra zero was left out. Read More »
A black female founder suggests ways entrepreneurs can help make space for more diversity in the tech world.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
Men may make up a disproportionate percentage of the tech community, but women aren’t vanishingly rare. Black women in tech, however, “are perceived as ‘unicorns,’” according to one CEO quoted recently on Inc.com.
“Although we exist, and there are more of us than ever before, I think that we’re not seen because it’s a perception problem,” Sian Morson, the CEO and founder of Kollective Mobile, explains in the article written by Lisa Nicole Bell, founder and CEO of Inspired Life Media Group. Read More »
Bootstrapping your products business by offering services is a controversial move, but Sramana Mitra believes she has good evidence that it’s often a successful strategy.
By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million by One Million)
Because it’s often so difficult for entrepreneurs to obtain seed funding for their startups, bootstrapping is one of the best methods to self-fund their projects. If outside investment capital is for whatever reason undesirable or unobtainable, bootstrapping a product by offering a service is one of the best ways to go. This, by the way, remains a controversial point-of-view, and most industry observers will take the position that companies get distracted if they try to bootstrap a product with a service. At 1M/1M, we take a pragmatic and contrarian position, and back it up with numerous case studies. From where we sit, bootstrapping products with services is a tried and true method. Read More »
The Santa Monica-Venice area has now been dubbed “Silicon Beach” because hundreds of startups are capitalizing on L.A’s fashion and entertainment industries.
By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (Editor, Women 2.0)
A story in the LA Times today reports a surge of startups in LA headed by tech savvy women. They are forming a community to support one another and encouraging other women who want to launch a startup through regular meet-ups. Read More »
The visionary founder of USA Network explains why she’s thrilled to be an Ambassador for Innovating Women.
Kay Koplovitz (Founder, USA Network)
I am so gratified to read all the activity around the Innovating Women project created by Vivek Wadhwa as a part of the Singularity University initiative together with Google For Entrepreneurs. Not only am I a devotee of Singularity, I have been pursuing the success of women in science and technology for the last 13 years, ever since I stepped down as the founder and CEO of USA Network and the SyFy Channels. Read More »
A founder shares the wisdom that’s gotten her through the process of starting up thus far.
By Katherine Hanson (Founder & CEO, SheTrusts.com)
I was excited to write a guest blog for Women 2.0, but was struggling as to how I could humorously tell the story of what led me to found my fashion startup SheTrusts.com and what I’ve learned in developing it thus far in a way that would be refreshing and inspiring. The more I thought about it, the more I kept thinking about four quotes (some with unknown origins, others by quite famous and inspirational people), and how they’ve inspired me in this process.
So here is the story of SheTrusts.com through the words of wisdom that have caused me to bring it to life and nurture it through is infancy. Read More »
A founder takes a close look at the pages of Inc. and doesn’t exactly like what she sees when it comes to diversity.
By Liza Kindred (Founder & CEO, Third Wave Fashion)
Dear Mr. Eric Schurenberg,
Please don’t forget that it’s not only white men who matter in today’s entrepreneurial landscape.
I’m sure you know that it’s nothing new to publish a business magazine with a white man on the cover; most of them do. But your Editor’s Letter in this month’s Inc. Magazine really got me hot under the collar… and then I started paying more attention to what I was seeing in your magazine. It was, in a word, shameful. Read More »
A female founder shares the lessons she’s picked up after being in the startup game for a couple of years.
By Lou Donnelly-Davey (Founder & CEO, Scrattch)
While there are a myriad of reasons as to why some companies achieve great success and others seemingly struggle to get out of the starting gate, I wanted to share a few of the lessons I have learned thus far. This is by no means an exhaustive list but more of a small collection of some of the less obvious and sometimes surprising things I have picked up on over the past few years. Read More »
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