Published on: May 14, 2013 – 8:00 am
Women 2.0 is a proud partner in Innovating Women, a groundbreaking project aimed at crowdsourcing a book detailing women’s contributions to STEM and innovation.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
Women’s contributions to entrepreneurship, innovation and science and engineering are impressive, but their voices are often muted and their stories fade into the background. Innovating Women, a new project by Singularity University aims to change that.
Created in partnership with noted author and VP of Innovation at Singularity University, Vivek Wadhwa, the project will surface the stories of women in startups and STEM and give them voice through an Indiegogo campaign to crowd-create a book featuring research and perspectives about women’s participation in the innovation economy worldwide. Read More »
Published on: May 1, 2013 – 6:00 am
Companies may be complaining that they can’t find folks with the skills they need, but some policy wonks insist America is producing more than enough tech-savvy grads. What’s going on?
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
For founders, the tech talent shortage is a constant headache. For some policy makers, it’s a reason to revamp the immigration system to allow in more highly skilled foreigners. But for some analysts the tech talent shortage is something else: a total myth. Read More »
Published on: April 30, 2013 – 12:17 pm
Check out these five women-powered productivity app companies that boost your productivity!
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Who doesn’t love a good list, especially a list of to-do’s?
Now add the power of new technology to the traditional to-do list and productivity guidelines – and some women entrepreneurs – and you have some real productivity apps! Read More »
Published on: April 30, 2013 – 9:00 am
Meet four women in California and New York who learned to code for very different reasons – and results!
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder, Women 2.0)
People learn to code for all sorts of reasons, from building their own startup to building on top of their partner’s startup. In the case of a San Francisco-based marketing manager, Kaitlyn Trigger learned to code Python so she could build Lovestagram for her boyfriend – who happens to be one of the co-founders of Instagram. Kaitlyn was a political science major from Yale working in marketing, but wanted to get more technical. Read More »
Published on: April 29, 2013 – 3:56 pm
HealthyOut was a finalist at the PITCH SF 2013 Startup Competition.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
With two-thirds of American adults struggling with overweight and obesity issues, developing solutions to help people eat healthier has never been more important.
Mobile app HealthyOut, co-founded by CEO Wendy Nguyen raised 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. Read More »
Published on: April 29, 2013 – 9:48 am
If someone is going to be held accountable for the lack of female representation, outcomes are bound to be more evident.
By Nicel Jane (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics)
There is no secret formula to getting women into leadership positions after all. Joanna Barsh, Sandra Nudelman, and Lareina Yee report in the McKinsey Quarterly April 2013 issue that companies only need to follow four principles if they want to advance women to the top. These insights were gleaned from the interviews they had with chief executive officers, human resource heads, and high-performing female executives in 22 U.S. companies that have been successful in its gender diversity efforts. Read More »
Published on: April 29, 2013 – 6:00 am
18 year old Entefy co-founder Brienne Ghafourifar raises $1 million in funding for startup based in Palo Alto.
By Insiyah Saeed (Founder, TheLipGloss)
Brienne Ghafourifar, 18, and co-founder brother Alston, 20, are not targeting a market of billions with their startup Entefy, but a “market of trillions.”
Brienne, who graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Santa Clara University, said it has taken a year to reach this momentum; but things have moved very, very fast. She and her team closed on funding commitments from private angels last week. Read More »
Published on: April 27, 2013 – 8:00 am
High-flying entrepreneurs Clara Shih, Gina Bianchini, Priya Haji and Rebecca Woodcock recognized as Silicon Valley Movers & Shakers.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
In the Silicon Valley, venture capital firms and high-tech management teams are often a sea of men. So it’s nice when the women movers & shakers are not filtered out by writers and curators of lists.
Here are the women that “10 Silicon Valley Movers & Shakers” did not miss out on – and they are real powerhouses! Read More »
Published on: April 26, 2013 – 7:00 am
We’ve cherry-picked the top 5 tips and tricks for male advocates for women in tech, educated by NCWIT’s 45 in-depth interviews with male employees in technology organizations or departments.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
The LGBT community have many allies. Conferences produced by an organization named Black Founders are incredibly ethnically and gender diverse. So how can men working in technology and business support their female coworkers and future colleagues?
The resourceful National Center for Women in Technology has drawn up 10 ways to be a male advocate for technical women. Here are the top 5 tips: Read More »
Published on: April 26, 2013 – 6:00 am
Springboard boasts a 13-year track record of catalyzing scalable, women-led startups with its accelerator program for healthcare and life science companies.By Joshua Henderson (Director of Programming, Springboard Enterprises)
At Springboard, we run an annual accelerator program for high-growth, women-led companies in the life sciences and healthcare space.
Each year we induct a highly-vetted class of 10 promising biotech, medical device and healthcare IT companies and surround them with our network of experts through a four-month community-driven accelerator. The Springboard portfolio has raised $5.5 billion including 10 IPOs and legions of successful M&A transactions. Read More »
