By narrowing its focus to women, Yahoo can beat the pants off its competitors. By Dave McClure (Founder & Partner, 500 Startups) I’d like to write a different open letter to Marissa Mayer that plays to both her strengths, as well as those of Yahoo. It’s a bit off the wall, but if you think [...]
Posts Tagged "Flickr"
Caterina Fake: Fast Growth For A New Social App A Bad Thing
February 27, 2012 – 10:45 am
By Liz Gannes (Writer, AllThingsD) Social Web entrepreneurs with successful careers just can’t seem to find their way to a happy and boring retirement. Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake just announced Pinwheel, joining Ev Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter and now Obvious, Joshua Schachter of Delicious and now Jig, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of [...]
A Labor Of Love & Passion (Entrepreneurship And Women 2.0)
February 15, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Sonya Lee (User Experience Design Consultant, Mowie Media) Being amongst hundreds of women at Women 2.0 PITCH Conference has been the most exciting opportunity for me in 2012. Not only has it been an honor to attend, it has also been a personal opportunity to instill a sense of pride and validation in my [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Chief Product Officers
February 3, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Do you remember when serial tech entrepreneur Caterina Fake graced the cover of Newsweek magazine for founding Flickr? Women are often identified as consumers of market goods, but seldom recognized for their ability to create products – from consumer goods like Giddy Snacks in Whole Foods stores [...]
Women-Founded Businesses That Make Technology Simple
November 1, 2011 – 1:00 pm
By Cheryl Isaac (Contributor, Forbes) Some have addressed the “lack of women in tech startups,” or mentioned that women should stop blaming men for the lack of women startups. Recently, I read a post from three-time-start-upper Penelope Trunk, founder of Brazeen Careerist, about why she stepped down from her startup. Interestingly enough, Penelope also thinks that women don’t [...]
Women’s Startups Lack Access to Capital (Women Don’t Ask)
October 18, 2011 – 5:30 am
By Jessica Naziri (Reporter, CNBC) When Alexa von Tobel found herself frustrated with the lack of personal finance resources and tools available to her, she took a leave of absence from Harvard Business School in 2008 to pursue her dream of creating a way for women to gain control of their finances. “When I was [...]
Tech is Really a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
August 11, 2011 – 11:30 am
By Linda Forrest (Associate, Francis Moran & Associates) Reading a recent post about the role formal education plays in entrepreneurship, I was reminded of an article I read a few months ago about the “real reason women quit engineering.” In Stemming The Tide: Why Women Leave Engineering, two University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professors report on their [...]
That’s What She Said: Women 2.0 and Startup Quote Partner Up for Women 2.0 Wednesdays!
June 8, 2011 – 9:53 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Fortune cookies aside, there has to be a better way to deliver quotable quotes. Startup Quote delivers you a juicy morsel of wisdom from the floating head of a tech entrepreneur! Today, Women 2.0 begins a partnership with Startup Quote to bring you women entrepreneurs every Wednesday [...]
