Get inspired by these women leaders sharing stories of fundraising, team building and more. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The sound bytes that were tweeted from February’s PITCH 2012 conference were golden. “Know what you have to prove,” said ZipCar co-founder Robin Chase on building a minimum viable product. Just the minimum [...]
Posts Tagged "2012 PITCH Conference"
Learn From Successful Women Entrepreneurs In Tech (Premium Videos From February’s PITCH 2012 Conference)
August 14, 2012 – 7:16 am
Learn From Leaders Of Product Innovation: Women 2.0 PITCH 2012 Videos Now Available Online
August 7, 2012 – 9:00 am
For $30, get full access to Women 2.0 premium videos for the next 30 days online. By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) We have exclusive videos from PITCH 2012, our 1000 person conference last February in Silicon Valley. We recorded all the conference talks, panels and pitches for you so you can pop [...]
4 Myths About Female-Founded Startups Debunked By 2012 PITCH Competition Finalists
March 1, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Rebecca Lipon (Application & Judges Coordinator, PITCH Competition 2012) Women 2.0 PITCH Conference culminated in a PITCH Startup Competition five months in the making. Online applications were judged by representatives from 20 VC firms to select our finalists. Our finalists demonstrated exactly what we at Women 2.0 have been saying for a while – [...]
Why Women Leave Tech And How We Can Get Them To Stay
February 29, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Heather McGough (Founder, Urbanity Events) Where do you sit when you enter the boardroom and why? This topic came up recently with a dozen women at Women 2.0 headquarters in San Francisco. Many of us hadn’t thought about why we subconsciously choose to sit at the head of the table versus the sidelines. [...]
Groupon Blog: Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
February 27, 2012 – 2:19 pm
By Emily Moss & Kathleen Meil (Product, Groupon) Last week, we visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for the fifth annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference. PITCH is a conference for women in tech to gather and mingle and learn from one another. As Groupon employees we were excited to spend the day schmoozing [...]
Serial Entrepreneur Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Gives Advice (Video)
February 23, 2012 – 5:47 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) 2012 PITCH competition judge Sukhinder Singh Cassidy talks about her own experience and lessons learned in raising venture funding. She co-founded Yodlee in 1999 and raised $200M+ in venture capital for her venture, then worked as VP at Google and CEO at Polyvore. Today, she runs JOYUS. [...]
TaskRabbit Founder Leah Busque On Finding Mentors (Video)
February 23, 2012 – 5:19 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit and current Chief Product Officer, talks about the power of networks like Women 2.0. She encourages early-stage entrepreneurs to reach out and acquire great mentors and advisors right away. A former software engineer, Leah was not on the business side but her [...]
Microsoft Bing’s Betsy Aoki At PITCH 2012 (Video)
February 23, 2012 – 4:59 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In an interview at the 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference, Betsy Aoki, former Xbox product manager now runs startup outreach for Microsoft Bing, talks about previously working at a startup in Seattle, the need for women-focused events in a male-dominated industry, and appreciating the networking opportunities at [...]
Care.com CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo At PITCH 2012 (Video)
February 23, 2012 – 4:39 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder and CEO of Care.com, talks about Women 2.0 and female entrepreneurship. She admits it is a challenging and lonely road, and supports Women 2.0′s goal of cultivating a support network for early-stage entrepreneurs. Marcelo advises entrepreneurs not let challenges in one’s head overcome [...]
Lessons Learned From The 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
February 23, 2012 – 3:20 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Thanks everybody for joining us at our fifth annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on February 14, 2012 at the Computer History Museum on Valentine’s Day. It was a sold-out success with 1000 women (and a few good men) strong. Special thanks to Tropo, Bing, [...]
