Published on: May 24, 2013 – 11:00 am
No CS degree? No problem. A Code Fellows insider offers scrappy suggestions on how women interested in getting into tech can teach themselves to code.
By Maris McEdward (Marketing Manager, Code Fellows)
Much ink has been spilled discussing the need for more women in technical roles. Studies by groups like Catalyst and McKinsey have shown that companies with strong representation by women at all levels – and in all departments – perform better than those where women are a tiny minority.
And while it feels good to have mainstream conversations acknowledge what smart and ambitious women have known all along, we also know that recognition is only the first step in creating a solution.
So how do we get more women into jobs where they will thrive and where they’ll make outsized impacts? How do we get more women in tech? Read More »
Published on: October 15, 2012 – 9:52 am
Congrats to CEO Danielle Morrill for raising funding for Referly, an easy way for people to earn affiliate revenue for recommendations.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
“Funding is not actually success. Success is being cash-flow positive, especially if you’re in a transaction-based business,” co-founder and CEO Danielle Morrill said. Today, Referly announced raising a $1 million seed round from investors including New Enterprise Associates, Ignition Partners, 500 Startups, Jeff Lawson, Read More »
Published on: September 30, 2012 – 6:00 am
We pulled off a killer demo during the final presentation for people to turn a normal light bulb on and off through their phones.
By Bogdana Rakova (Computer Science Student, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski)
Everything began last Friday evening when I pitched an idea related to hardware at the local Sofia Startup Weekend event. The first challenge was of course me being a woman, pitching an idea in front of so many people. Read More »
Published on: March 6, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Women 2.0 Startup Weekend… and the rest is history.
By Tricia Rampe (Founder & CEO, GetArtUp)
The idea for GetArtUp was conceived months ago when I pondered whether art was a market ripe for the collaborative consumption model that has worked well for startup companies like Airbnb and Getaround.
After discussing the idea of renting art on a monthly subscription basis with art industry friends, I received great feedback and was suggested to pitch it at a local hack-a-thon. To pursue the project more seriously and seek co-founders, I attended the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend in 2011 and the rest is history. Read More »
Published on: March 2, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Maris McEdward (Community Manager, Startup Weekend)
“If not for Startup Weekend, when I graduated I’d be looking for jobs like my classmates instead of creating them.”
When Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao attended their first Startup Weekend in Los Angeles in February 2011 they didn’t quite know what to expect. With no real understanding of front or backend design and as the only college students at the event, Anna and Fei felt out of their element. Their classes in entrepreneurship at USC had whetted their appetites for the world of startups but they weren’t founders and didn’t know anything about coding. Read More »
Published on: January 16, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Anna Curran (Founder, CookbookCreate)
Startup Weekend is hosting the first ever Startup Weekend Mobile in New York City on January 20-22, 2012.
In just 54 hours, we’ll go from pitches on Friday night to demos of mobile businesses on Sunday afternoon. Our mentors and judges have been carefully selected and include leading mobile experts like Naveen Salvadurai (Founder of Foursquare), Jennifer Byrne (VP of Business Development at Amex) and Theo Skye (Co-Founder of Medialets).
In addition to the fun of working with a team Read More »
Published on: January 6, 2012 – 3:00 pm
By Robin Wauters (Blogger, TechCrunch)
Startup Weekend, whose mission is to kickstart and foster startup communities worldwide through events and networking sessions, had a very lively 2011.
According to internal statistics shared exclusively with TechCrunch, the organization held a total of 260 events in 202 cities, in 67 countries (you can find the obligatory accompanying infographic below).
All in all, the ‘startup weekends’ attracted some 21,316 people, who collectively formed 2,817 teams. Read More »
Published on: December 13, 2011 – 7:40 pm
By Douglas Latimer (Director, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend Documentary)
A year ago, I was in a Digital Video Intensive Class at SFSU and we wanted to do a group film project. Dave Kockbech pitched the idea of documenting Startup Weekend.
At the time, I had never heard of Startup Weekend. Dave proceeded to explain it was a bunch of hackers hunched over laptops writing code… This didn’t exactly inspire notions of a grand film in my mind.
Regardless, I decided to do some research. What I found amazed me and has continued to be a part of my life since that day. Read More »
Published on: December 9, 2011 – 11:00 am
By Franck Nouyrigat (Co-Founder & CTO, Startup Weekend)
In the last couple of years, I have seen more and more incubators growing and more and more “mentors” helping them. My concern is in regard to the drop of quality I see in mentoring — not to mention that most of the entrepreneurs don’t know how to recognize a bad one…
If you want to go to the root of it, I recommend reading the blog posts of Steve Blank and David Cohen about mentors.
I agree with the semantic differences between a teacher, mentor and coach (here to simplify, I just call them mentors as most of the people falsely do). Read More »
Published on: December 8, 2011 – 11:00 am
By Jenn Viane Riese (Founder, Modern Humanity)
I’m no techie. I’m the Executive Director of a non-profit and I own a consulting company. I thought Ruby on Rails was a strip club. Admit it, it’s a great name for one. I didn’t think I had any right to attend Startup Weekend but I did have an idea, my passion project. Seeing it fail before even getting the chance to try — that was scarier than trying to find common ground in a room full of engineers.
Still I felt I’d be an alien, a fish out of water, a dork trying to fit in. Would everyone think my pitch was lame? Yes, I was convinced. I’d have to go home on Friday night because no one would want to help build my team and no one would find me valuable to theirs. Read More »
