When you have more trust in yourself, it leads to more confidence. Confidence leads to conviction and conviction can lead to funding. By Ellen Ercolini (Founder, The Creative Giraffe) As a young woman and business owner, it took me about a year to stop second-guessing every decision I made. I wanted to consult my girlfriends, [...]
Posts Tagged "Confidence"
Girls, Repeat After Me: “I’m Great”
January 23, 2013 – 8:00 am
Editor’s note: Joy will be a judge at the Women 2.0 Conference on February 14, evaluating the 10 women-led startups pitching live onstage for PITCH SF Startup Competition! By Joy Marcus (Partner, DFJ Gotham Ventures) Recently, my 12 year old daughter suffered her first real crisis of confidence. She did badly on a math test [...]
Do You Sabotage Your Own Success?
November 28, 2012 – 8:00 am
You are scared because you want it. You are scared because you know you have the chance to be amazing. You are scared because it means something to you. This is your brain weighing risk and reward. Take the reward. By Kelly Studer (Career Stylist, Kelly Studer Consulting) Not that long ago, I was lined [...]
Get The Tech Job Without The “Chest-Thumping”
October 30, 2012 – 8:00 am
The founders of coding school Hackbright Academy explain why they went with an all-female format and how it’s working out for graduates. By Jessica Stillman (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Startup fever may be raging like never before, but the number of women graduating from computer science programs is actually falling. Christian Fernandez, co-founder of Hackbright [...]
Watch The Women Techmakers Panel At Google I/O 2012 (Video)
July 3, 2012 – 8:00 am
“Get out of the mode of what you do day-to-day and what is important today, and get a new perspective.” By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the days leading up to the Google developer confeerence – Google I/O 2012 – a Women Techmakers event at Google’s San Francisco office was the hottest [...]
To Get More Confidence: Do Confidence-Building Things
March 15, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Debra Benton (President, Benton Management Resources) If there are ten traits to being a leader, the first seven – no, the first eight – would be confidence. With confidence, you hire and develop the right people because you aren’t jealous of the abilities of others. Differing opinions get voiced because folks aren’t apprehensive of [...]
4 Tips On Building Your Business By Increasing Your Confidence
February 23, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Dareth Colburn always thought men were smarter than she was. It was what she’d been taught as a child. Her brothers were told to be their own boss; she was told that if she went to the right school, she could be an executive secretary and to forget about design [...]
Why Don’t More Women Go Big With Their Business?
February 19, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Awesome, Tekserve) With few female entrepreneurs to look to, MIT Sloan hosted a panel on how women can go big with their own businesses. The panel included Joanna Rees (Founder of VSP Capital), Katrina Markoff (Founder of Vosges Haut-Chocolat), Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (Founder of Gilt Groupe), and was moderated by [...]
Why Women Leaders Need Self-Confidence
November 29, 2011 – 9:13 pm
By Leslie Pratch (Contributor, Harvard Business Review) On January 1, Virginia Rometty will become the first female CEO of International Business Machines Corp. Articles about her have lauded her ability to blend enthusiasm, charisma, clear communication, strategic thinking, and “cool-minded” decision making. But one New York Times story placed the emphasis on the role self-confidence [...]
Mentorship and Networking Especially Important for Women Entrepreneurs (Stories of Leadership)
November 7, 2011 – 7:15 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Last week, Andreessen Horowitz invited women to their Menlo Park office to hear stories from leaders: Padmasree Warrior (CTO, Cisco), Marissa Mayer (VP Location & Local, Google), Freada Kapor Klein (Founder, Level Playing Field Institute), Angela Benton (Founder, NewME), and Sandy Jen (Co-Founder & CTO, Meebo). Panel [...]
