PITCH 2012 speaker Danielle Fong announced raising Series D from investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today, news broke that 25-year old chief scientist and LightSail co-founder Danielle Fong closed Series D funding with investors including Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla and Bill Gates. The [...]
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PITCH 2012 Speaker Danielle Fong, Chief Scientist And Co-Founder Of LightSail Energy, Raises $37.3 Million Series D Venture Funding
November 5, 2012 – 10:00 am
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 [...]
Danielle Fong: Perfecting Green Energy Storage
May 17, 2012 – 5:38 pm
She entered college at age 12 and enrolled in a Ph.D. program at 17. Now, Danielle Fong wants to solve the ‘holy grail’ of green energy issues. By Sarah F. Berkowitz (Contributor, Mother Nature Network) Danielle Fong was only 19 years old when she founded a technology company with the goal of perfecting green energy [...]
Bootstrapping The Subversive Big Idea
April 24, 2012 – 5:00 am
Make sure that you build in adequate time for market validation if you are bootstrapping. By Yan Heim (Co-Founder & CEO, Froomz) How far can passion take you without the fuel of money? Technology has driven down the start up costs, social media also offers extremely cost effective marketing channel. Why the need for external [...]
Trade Trade Secrets: Revolutionary Ideas
April 12, 2012 – 8:00 am
Startups are in a race against time, not others. By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Lightsail Energy) Your revolution will not be stolen. Great ideas can’t change the world by themselves. They need people. There are two kinds of revolutionary ideas. The explosive, and the subversive. The explosive ideas seem to spread like wildfire. [...]
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, [...]
9 Lessons Learned From Women 2.0 PITCH Conference 2012
February 15, 2012 – 11:55 am
By Emily Gonzales (CTO, Bookigee) As I sat in the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference yesterday surrounded by close to a thousand female tech entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, investors and supporters, I couldn’t help but feel like we were making history. As a tech entrepreneur flying in from Miami to learn as much as possible from the [...]
Friday Roundup: Women Entrepreneurs Make News This Week
January 27, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Vivek Wadhwa on Inc.com featured and pictured Shaherose Charania in a story titled “The Face of Success: Women And Venture Capital”. Meanwhile, Women 2.0 PITCH Conference speaker Danielle Fong (pictured, right) is touted in Forbes magazine as a “24-year old wunderkind” and venture capitalist Vinod [...]
A Year Of Green (Energy) Dreams: Life In The Year Of The Rabbit
January 23, 2012 – 11:34 am
By Danielle Fong (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, LightSail Energy) Editor’s note: LightSail Energy’s Danielle Fong will be speaking on February 14 at Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Get your ticket here! I’ve lived a lifetime this year. It sometimes feels as if so much is [...]
