Congrats to Alexa Andrzejewski and her 10-person team at Foodspotting on the OpenTable acquisition! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Mobile app Foodspotting announced today an acquisition by OpenTable. Foodspotting CEO and co-founder Alexa Andrzejewski explains on the blog: “We’ve already been working closely with the OpenTable team as partners: In addition to [...]
Posts Tagged "Alexa Andrzejewski"
Mobile Startup Foodspotting, Founded By CEO Alexa Andrzejewski, Acquired by OpenTable For $10 Million Today
January 29, 2013 – 9:20 am
How To Win A Hackathon (iOSDevCamp 2012)
July 31, 2012 – 8:00 am
Foodspotting, the leading app for rating dishes at restaurants, made its first public debut at iPhoneDevCamp 2009 when Alexa Andrzejewski pitched the idea in search of co-founders and won Best Social App. This year, Alexa returned and led her team, including Foodspotting’s own IOS developers, to win “Best Open Source,” a top honor at iOSDevCamp [...]
12 Female Founders Cooking Up Innovative Food-Related Startups
July 13, 2012 – 5:00 am
Meet the women entrepreneurs of Thryve, Foodily, Local Dirt, Cookooree, Revolution Foods and more. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In addition to the growing army of food trucks and lasting local/sustainable food movement, there are plenty of interesting startups in the food space to watch. Women-led ventures take fooding to the next [...]
Get Thee To A Hackathon!
June 5, 2012 – 11:40 am
A high-pressure cooker for startup ideas, many women have attended – and won – hackathons. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) When I visit New York next weekend, I will be attending the Hack’n Jill hackathon where there is one woman for every man. And while I am a web designer/developer, non-technical entrepreneurs [...]
Design And The Mobile Startup: Advice From Foodspotting’s Alexa Andrzejewski
March 13, 2012 – 10:56 am
UX Designer and Foodspotting Founding CEO Alexa gives advice on building beautiful mobile designs. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The SXSW panel on the importance of design in the mobile startup hosted Alexa Andrzejewski of Foodspotting. The UX designer found her first angel investor with mockups on a deck she presented at [...]
Female Founders To Watch: 2012 SXSWi Speakers Edition
March 2, 2012 – 12:59 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) SXSW Interactive (SXSWi) will be taking place in downtown Austin from March 9-13, 2012. We at Women 2.0 will be there co-hosting meetups and parties, details TBA. Influential women in new tech, from former CMO of Mint.com and now CEO of online training platform Mindflash Donna Wells, [...]
Photos From Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition 2012
February 17, 2012 – 2:11 pm
By Erica Kawamoto Hsu (Online Media Producer & Photographer, Kuishimbo) The 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on Valentine’s Day was amazing – the agenda and speaker lineup made me realize it was something I had to be at. I brought my camera to the PITCH Conference on Tuesday to shoot candids at the [...]
The Changing Workplace: Women Entrepreneurs
January 23, 2012 – 5:30 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) San Francisco is teaming with women who have the technological know-how to solve daily problems. These innovative solutions apply to all fronts and industries, ranging from: Finding new dishes instead of restaurants (Foodspotting) Getting kid-friendly entertainment delivered to your door (Kiwi Crate) Leveraging the quantified self for [...]
Millennial Women Are Burning Out At Work By 30… And It’s Great For Business And Entrepreneurship
January 13, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Meghan Casserly (Writer, Forbes) A recent Kauffman poll shows that Gen-Y may be poised to be the most entrepreneurial bunch the world has seen. “54% of the nation’s Millennials either want to start a business or already have started one,” says Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. Paired with data on [...]
Meet Companies Created in 3 Days (Startup Weekend)
November 17, 2011 – 5:30 am
By April Joyner (Senior Reporter, Inc.) We’ve heard it before: You have a great idea, but you just don’t have the time to build it into a sustainable company. Startup Weekend proves that notion false. The three-day event, which has been held in more than 120 cities, has spawned hundreds of businesses —- each in [...]
