Lean In offers great advice if you’re an employed mother with a supportive spouse. But what about female founders who are still looking for that understanding partner? “Bitterness can be felt by single founders getting preached at by corporate married women,” writes Ellie Cachette. By Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell) Sheryl Sandberg’s recently released [...]
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Get Mentored At Lunchtime At The Women 2.0 Conference – Learn From A Baker’s Dozen Of Experienced Entrepreneurs On Feb. 14
January 25, 2013 – 1:28 pm
Meet the female founders joining us as lunchtime mentors at the Women 2.0 Conference on February 14 in San Francisco. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Calling all early-stage entrepreneurs – and aspiring entrepreneurs! Join us at lunchtime mentoring on Valentine’s Day! Dozens of experienced entrepreneurs will be joining us at lunchtime on [...]
Happy Birthday, Founder Friday! Meet Our New York Team
August 21, 2012 – 5:00 am
We would like to take the opportunity to thank every single member of our Founder Friday teams around the world for their efforts and support of creating communities. By Sepideh Nasiri (Director of All Things Offline, Women 2.0) Happy Birthday to Founder Friday! It’s been exactly one year since Women 2.0 started building teams for [...]
How Did Your Dad Influence You To Become An Entrepreneur?
June 19, 2012 – 6:00 am
For Father’s Day, we asked women entrepreneurs about their dads’ influence. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Alice Brooks, one of the co-founders of Kickstarter project Roominate, grew up visiting her father’s robotics lab and when she was young, she had her own saw so that they could work side-by-side. She built her [...]
Startup Fundraising (West Coast vs. East Coast)
May 15, 2012 – 5:00 am
Investors in the Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley ask different questions, evaluate deals on different criteria. By Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell) The interesting thing about fundraising, in general, is that it’s very complex and there are many things that can affect your chances or strategy around funding. Each ecosystem is different as to [...]
5 Tips For Bootstrapping Your Startup
May 2, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Bootstrapping means managing your time as closely as your money. Here’s how to do it. By Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell) While venture-backed tech startups seem to get all the press, there are many, many ways to start your company. Some entrepreneurs do it while hanging onto their day job full-time. Some use the [...]
For The 99% – Online Engagement As The New Democracy
March 29, 2012 – 8:00 am
PopVox CEO Marci Harris talks about increased political engagement via the Internet. By Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell) While the female entrepreneur momentum brews within the community, I had a chance to sit down with Marci Harris of PopVox to talk shop about her startups focused on political transparency. Marci agreed not all female [...]
Notes From CEO Joanne Lang: Presenting At Founder Friday
March 2, 2012 – 4:58 pm
By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne) A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a friend Ellie Cachette, CEO of ConsumerBell (one of AboutOne’s strategic partners) asking me if I was interested in being a presenter at the Women 2.0 Founder Friday in New York. I am very proud to be a [...]
Women Entrepreneurs In New York City Find Investment, Network (Ellie Cachette And Deborah Jackson Interviewed On ABC TV)
January 30, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) From New York City, ConsumerBell Founder & CEO Ellie Cachette along with JumpThru Founder & CEO Deborah Jackson talk with Diana Williams of ABC 7 about women entrepreneurs, finding funding and the ecosystem for women entrepreneurs. When asked about venture-funded startups, Deborah Jackson said: “The statistics will [...]
Female Entrepreneurs Find Funding Community In NYC
January 23, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Rich Schapiro (Reporter, New York Daily News) When Ellie Cachette started pitching her tech startuup to West Coast investors two years ago, she expected to raise big bucks. Instead, all she got from the roughly 25 all-male investors she met with were dismissive looks and patronizing advice. “I wouldn’t even finish my sentence, and [...]
