Published on: April 15, 2013 – 9:00 am
PITCH SF 2013 Startup Competition finalist company Greengar, based in Vietnam, lands in Mountain View to begin the 500 Startups accelerator program today!
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Most know her as “the girl in the white dress” at the Women 2.0 Conference a few months ago. Greengar CEO and co-founder Thuy Truong flew in from Ho Chi Minh City to pitch her startup in front of a thousand people on Valentine’s Day, and today she lands in Mountain View with her team to join the 500 Startups accelerator program in Mountain View, California! Read More »
Published on: March 28, 2013 – 9:00 am
The fact that 10% of founders presenting at this week’s YC Demo Day are women might not sound like a victory, but it’s actually more than double the percentage in previous classes.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
This week 47 startups presented at Y Combinator Demo Day. How many of the founders up there in front of investors were women? Nope, not half, not even close. Try one in ten. We have a way to go, but 10% female is still an improvement given that previous classes managed only a measly 4%.
Y Combinator partner Jessica Livingston told TechCrunch the increase wasn’t down to any particular effort on the part of the accelerator, but simply reflects the fact that more talented women are applying. Read More »
Published on: March 13, 2013 – 10:00 am
Delivering a winning tech conference pitch is akin to cutting the perfect diamond — the planning, cleaving, sawing, brute polishing and final inspection all add up to the ultimate sum of all your preparation….
By Sam Frons (Founder & CEO, Addicaid)
Such was my moment at last week’s 2013 LAUNCH Festival, where I demoed Addicaid, a social good app whose mission is to help addicts and alcoholics in recovery develop a personal treatment program. Read More »
Published on: February 21, 2013 – 10:10 am
Though venture capitalists in Silicon Valley shun women entrepreneurs — who are usually modest and trying to build socially and financially responsible startups — women are forming their own support networks. Women 2.0 is the best of these.
By Vivek Wadhwa (VP, Singularity University)
At the Women 2.0 “The Next Billion” conference last week, I started my talk by saying that the event reminded me of the Seinfeld episode Bizarro World. That is the chapter of my favorite TV series in which everything is the opposite of what you expect Read More »
Published on: February 21, 2013 – 9:00 am
The site was so successful without outside capital that it didn’t really make sense to accept it. But today, lynda.com is a 400 person company with plans to expand its content and platform (Weinman won’t say more than that just yet). It can use the funding.
By Ariel Schwartz (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0)
If you’ve been tracking the Silicon Valley startup world over the past few years, you can be forgiven for thinking that online education is only now beginning to take off. But Lynda Weinman, the co-founder of video learning library lynda.com and a speaker Read More »
Published on: February 21, 2013 – 7:00 am
Exchanging information, celebrating each other’s successes, the act of learning as a group – all this collective experience feels like a powerful counteraction to the plain-as-day fact that startup culture is not exactly women-friendly.
By Angelina Strosahl (Co-Founder, DonationPay)
I was lucky enough to attend the Women 2.0 “The Next Billion” Conference last Thursday and it was a profound, fun, energizing, endlessly fascinating experience.
Some personal highlights include Lynda Weinman (yes, that Lynda!) name-checking our shared alma mater Read More »
Published on: February 19, 2013 – 6:00 am
Entrepreneur Thuy Truong flew in from Ho Chi Minh City to officially release her Smartboard app on Valentine’s Day and pitch her company at the Women 2.0 Conference in front of a thousand people!
By Thuy Truong (Co-Founder & CEO, Greengar)
I learned more about entrepreneurship in the last two weeks than I have my entire life, and I learned the most from one compacted day at the 2013 Women 2.0 Conference.
My trip started with a visit to Google Read More »
Published on: February 18, 2013 – 9:00 am
“The Next Billion”: Consumers, Markets & Products – The 2013 Women 2.0 Conference had superstar pitches and the presents REALLY knocked our socks off!
By Megan Conley (Founder & CEO, Social Tribe)
Tatiana and I attended the Women 2.0 Conference 2013, entitled “The Next Billion.” We were totally blown away by the quality of presenters, panelists, and pitches! This conference makes our must-attend list every year, and once again we were not disappointed. Read More »
Published on: February 18, 2013 – 6:00 am
When your company growth doubles every week, there’s plenty of room for error. Michelle Zatlyn explains how to survive it.
By Francesca Fenzi (Staff Writer, Inc.)
CloudFlare, a service that protects websites from security threats and speeds up online performance, has been growing at lightning-speed since its creation in 2009. The company saw more than 720 million unique IP addresses and an estimated 1.3 billion page views in the last year alone. Read More »
Published on: February 14, 2013 – 8:39 pm
Today’s Women 2.0 Conference on February 14, 2013 is being livestreamed here today and video will be available post-event.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
With 290 applicants from 28 countries and 27 different states in the United States, 30 investor judges selected 10 finalists to present onstage today at the Women 2.0 Conference. After the closest race to date, PITCH Competition Director Rebecca Lipon announced that the winner of the 2013 PITCH SF Startup Competition Read More »
