Facilitating the development of innovative, fully-functional and market-ready mobile apps to increase consumers’ access to safe and fairly-priced financial products and services and help them make smarter financial choices By Preeti Mehta (Director, Doorways to Dreams Fund) Can a mobile app development competition change the way we manage our money? We think so, and we’re [...]
Posts Tagged "Competition"
Got 99 Competitors And Bit.ly Is One
June 13, 2012 – 6:00 am
“You refer stuff, you earn rewards. No shenanigans (Hat tip: Twilio).” By Danielle Morrill (Co-Founder & CEO, Referly) When you launch a company, suddenly everyone is a competitor, or so it feels. Then you realize everyone you thought was a competitor might also be a partner at best, and a distraction at worst. Next you [...]
Moneyball And Finding The Real, Ongoing Competitive Edge
April 18, 2012 – 11:52 am
If you are a geek, you can get excited about the new math Billy Beane put into play. By Nan Hickman (Author, Open Strategy) “I mean, this is why I’m here. This is why you hired me. And I gotta ask you… what are we doing here if it’s not to win a championship? That’s [...]
Are Women Competitive Enough? Competition: It’s Good For You
November 23, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Blake Landau (Blogger, What’s Your Story) Editor’s note: Apply to the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition for early-stage startups with at least 1 female on the founding team. Deadline to apply is November 30, 2011. When I was a kid, I was your average millennial — by which I mean I was on a [...]
Interview with Author Naomi Fine of Positively Confidential
October 25, 2011 – 11:30 am
By Pemo Theodore (Founder, EZebis) Showcase your startup in the Positively Confidential competition — The 3 best video pitches (no longer than 1 mnute) by women entrepreneurs showcasing your startup and why you would benefit from a complementary copy of “Positively Confidential”. Get cracking and post your video pitch on YouTube, tag it with “Positively [...]
Startup Open Names “GEW 50” for Global Entrepreneurship Week
October 20, 2011 – 5:30 am
By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) In the search to find tomorrow’s job creators, Startup Open, a competition that searches for startups with the greatest growth potential, unveiled the “GEW 50.” The GEW 50 is a list of the world’s 50 most innovative new companies who will now vie for a host of prizes [...]
Frenemies: Why Competition is Good for your Startup
May 25, 2011 – 7:45 am
By Rebecca Woodcock (Co-Founder, Cake Health) Two weeks ago, my startup co-founder and I launched Cake Health’s private beta on TechCrunch. Around that time, Cake Health’s competition in the healthcare space led us to have a conversation about why such competition was a good thing. Learning about a competitor can initially feel like impending doom, [...]
Partner event: Kauffman Lab’s Women in Science and Engineering Business Idea Competition
December 11, 2010 – 4:22 pm
This week, Kauffman Foundation announced the launch of “Women in Science and Engineering Business Idea Competition” — designed to recruit highly educated and creative women with world-changing ideas consider entrepreneurship and commercialization of those ideas.
