As gatekeepers of venture capital, where are the women in venture capital who blog? By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Thought leadership in technology, entrepreneurship and business is established by blogging and tweeting. Unfortunately, the blog rolls of venture capitalists are filled with mostly, well, men ranging from the partners at Andreesseen Horowitz, [...]
Posts Tagged "Caterina Fake"
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 [...]
Why Redpoint Ventures Invested $7.5M In Caterina Fake’s Pinwheel
February 27, 2012 – 10:54 am
By Boonsri Dickinson (West Coast Reporter, Silicon Alley Insider) Redpoint founding partner Geoff Yang invested $7.5 million into Caterina Fake‘s new startup, Pinwheel. Fake was the cofounder of Flickr and Hunch, and announced Pinwheel last week. Yang said Redpoint is interested in the convergence of mobile, social, and local, so Fake’s startup, which lets you [...]
Caterina Fake: Fast Growth For A New Social App A Bad Thing
February 27, 2012 – 10:45 am
By Liz Gannes (Writer, AllThingsD) Social Web entrepreneurs with successful careers just can’t seem to find their way to a happy and boring retirement. Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake just announced Pinwheel, joining Ev Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter and now Obvious, Joshua Schachter of Delicious and now Jig, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
You Can’t Just Listen, You Have To Feel (PITCH Sketchnotes)
February 21, 2012 – 3:56 pm
By Alexis Finch (Pencil, GraphiteMind) 1000 women in one room, and every one of them ready to start something. PITCH was enough to leave you gasping, at the pure potential, at the achievements, at the wisdom you could pick up from eavesdropping alone. How do you capture an experience like this so you can look [...]
Why Your Next Board Member Should Be A Woman
February 20, 2012 – 11:19 am
By Aileen Lee (Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) Good questions have been asked lately of tech companies without gender diversity on their boards of directors. While women comprise 51% of the population, they make up only 15.7% of Fortune 500 boards of directors, less than 10% of California tech company boards, and 9.1% of [...]
Women 2.0 PITCH Conference Rocks The House
February 17, 2012 – 5:22 pm
By Megan Conley (Founder & Principal, Social Tribe) When I signed up for the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference a few months ago, I wasn’t entirely clear on what I was getting myself into. I was pretty sure of two things: women + startups = I’m in. In the Bay Area, startup buzz is omnipresent…pretty much [...]
For The Men Who Missed It – The Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
February 17, 2012 – 4:45 pm
By Jenna Hannon (Writer, TechZulu) Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. So when I heard about Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition at the Computer History Museum [...]
