Celebrating GHC attendees and women entrepreneurs who exit! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Women 2.0 has been attending the Grace Hopper Celebration in Baltimore, Maryland alongside literally thousands of women engineers, ranging from college students and academics to working professionals. Amidst the throngs of tech-savvy women, we’ve spied a few [...]
Posts Tagged "Cathy Edwards"
Female Founders To Watch: Grace Hopper Celebration Attendees Celebrating Startup Acquisitions And IPOs
October 5, 2012 – 9:17 am
Women Executives Drive Successful Startups (Dow Jones Study)
October 4, 2012 – 10:44 am
Dow Jones study released today measures success of companies with more women in executive positions. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A study released today, “Women At The Wheel: Do Female Executives Drive Start-Up Success?”, examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and 167,556 executives, of which 11,193 were female. Results show that venture-backed startups [...]
Female Founders To Watch Creating Noteworthy iPhone Apps
September 21, 2012 – 9:23 am
Meet 5 women who created amazing apps for the Apple app store. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) As Leah Busque reminds us, you can skip the line at the Apple store by using her TaskRabbit iPhone app to summon a TaskRabbit to stand in line for your new iPhone 5. Here at [...]
Learn From Successful Women Entrepreneurs In Tech (Premium Videos From February’s PITCH 2012 Conference)
August 14, 2012 – 7:16 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
11 Female Founders To Watch Running Successful Mobile Companies
July 6, 2012 – 6:00 am
From IPOs to acquisitions, these women entrepreneurs launched and grew successful mobile startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A few women pointed out that the upcoming MobileBeat 2012 conference has practically no women on the speaking page. Well, we think there are plenty of successful women running mobile startups. Here are successful [...]
Facebook Is Missing Something Obvious
May 22, 2012 – 1:15 pm
Companies with women on their boards have been proven to lead to a higher ROI. By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) To continue its explosive growth, Facebook needs to innately understand and cater to their most lucrative user: women. The best way to do that is to add a woman to their board. [...]
Female Founders Who Celebrated A Startup Acquisition
May 18, 2012 – 11:52 am
Startup acquisitions make news! Celebrate the women starting and exiting companies in technology. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We at Women 2.0 are often asked for names of notable women for magazines (lists), newspaper articles (press), conferences (speakers), etc. We catalog lists of women entrepreneurs to watch each Friday, putting out a [...]
Apple Acquires Chomp, App Search Engine Startup Co-Founded By CTO Cathy Edwards, For $50 Million
February 24, 2012 – 10:11 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Apple confirmed the acquisition of app search engine startup Chomp for $50 million. Chomp was co-founded by Cathy Edwards. She is the CTO of Chomp, leading the engineering team to build the “proprietary algorithm [that] learns the functions and topic of apps”. She spoke at [...]
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, [...]
