weeSpring’s co-founder explains what it took to get into über-competitive TechStars. By Allyson Downey (CEO & Co-founder, weeSpring) A year ago, when weeSpring was just an idea sketched out on a couple PowerPoint slides, a friend suggested we apply to this thing called TechStars – a world-class accelerator that helps startups get their rocketship off [...]
Posts Tagged "Birchbox"
New York’s Top Lady-Led Startups
March 8, 2013 – 10:00 am
Cindy Gallop’s site “If We Ran The World” encourages members to tap into great intentions and get help to follow through. Breaking down big goals into “microactions” that members can accomplish to chip away at audacious goals. By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Marketing, Tekserve) In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, here are [...]
Thinking Of Becoming An Entrepreneur? Read This First
May 29, 2012 – 5:00 am
By 2018, women-owned businesses in the U.S. will generate a third of new jobs. By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics) When I decided to leave the world of the gainfully employed to launch my own company, I may have suffered from a selective attention span. To this day, I struggle to see anything but entrepreneurial [...]
Fashion And Feminism – Sitting In A Tree…
May 16, 2012 – 6:00 am
Empowering women in business, startups mixing fashion and feminism are celebrating a renaissance. By Tara Hunt (Co-Founder & CEO, Buyosphere) Many of those not in the know think of fashion as a trap for women. Uncomfortable shoes. Impossible body images. Shallow spendy status symbols. Magazine layouts of size zero 6 foot tall women juxtaposed with [...]
Greylock-Backed Citrus Lane Helps Parents Discover “Best Of” Products For Little Ones
April 2, 2012 – 9:25 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Leena Rao (Writer, TechCrunch) The dawn of subscription commerce has spawned a number of startups in technology including Birchbox, Kiwi Crate, Babbaco and many others. Citrus Lane is one of the latest startups to tackle the model, which sends a box of kiddie goodies to members each [...]
The Huffington Post: Women Entrepreneurs On The Rise
February 22, 2012 – 3:47 pm
By Jack D. Hidary (Co-Founder, Dice) What do Gilt, Foodspotting and TaskRabbit all have in common? They were all co-founded by women. This is an encouraging sign in a field that has too few female entrepreneurs. A recent article in San Francisco Magazine highlights a new crop of women-led startups in the Bay Area. These [...]
Alice Wang’s Spark Box: Toys For A Child’s Developmental Benefit
February 20, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A former investment banker, entrepreneur Alice Wang watched her extended family grow in size with the arrival of three babies. She found it inspiring to see how the families experienced parenthood, and subsequently, how quickly the children got sick of toys. She thought there had to be [...]
Need A Last Minute Gift? There’s A Subscription For That
December 26, 2011 – 11:57 am
By Brit Morin (Founder & CEO, Brit) Subscription services have been around for more than a century. Generations before us were the first to enjoy subscriptions to magazines, newspapers, and more. As a kid, I even remember being forced to go door-to-door to sell subscriptions for wrapping paper. (Side note: Who really needs a monthly [...]
Harvard Business School: An Incubator for Female Entrepreneurs?
December 6, 2011 – 1:30 pm
By Jess Bloomgarden (Founder & CEO, AfterSteps) Gilt Group. BirchBox. LearnVest. Rent the Runway. Care.com. Angie’s List. Fashionstake. Baublebar. These are just a few of the high-profile, high-growth startups that have been started by Harvard Business School women. Despite the widespread belief in today’s tech monoculture that MBAs do not make good entrepreneurs, I’ve heard [...]
NYC Startups: 400 Companies From Central Park To Broadway
November 21, 2011 – 2:34 pm
By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) What do Tumblr and Gilt Groupe have in common? How about Kickstarter and Foursquare? They are a few of 400 tech startups, many of which have been funded in New York City in the last two years. 31 health care companies, 37 finance startups, and 145 shopping and [...]
