By Meghan Casserly (Writer, Forbes) A recent Kauffman poll shows that Gen-Y may be poised to be the most entrepreneurial bunch the world has seen. “54% of the nation’s Millennials either want to start a business or already have started one,” says Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. Paired with data on [...]
Posts Tagged "Foodspotting"
Millennial Women Are Burning Out At Work By 30… And It’s Great For Business And Entrepreneurship
January 13, 2012 – 10:00 am
Startup Weekend’s Eventful Year: 260 Hackathons In 202 Cities WIth Startups Raising $30M+
January 6, 2012 – 3:00 pm
By Robin Wauters (Blogger, TechCrunch) Startup Weekend, whose mission is to kickstart and foster startup communities worldwide through events and networking sessions, had a very lively 2011. According to internal statistics shared exclusively with TechCrunch, the organization held a total of 260 events in 202 cities, in 67 countries (you can find the obligatory accompanying [...]
Meet Companies Created in 3 Days (Startup Weekend)
November 17, 2011 – 5:30 am
By April Joyner (Senior Reporter, Inc.) We’ve heard it before: You have a great idea, but you just don’t have the time to build it into a sustainable company. Startup Weekend proves that notion false. The three-day event, which has been held in more than 120 cities, has spawned hundreds of businesses —- each in [...]
Foodspotting Founder and CEO Alexa Andrzejewski Virtually Only Woman Onstage at Facebook Developer Conference
September 23, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the space recently occupied by TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook developer and press conference f8 featured a keynote by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the new Facebook Timeline. Foodspotting, founded by Alexa Andrzejewski, was prominently featured in Zuckerberg’s keynote onstage at f8. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tweets no [...]
UX Methods and Prototyping Tools to Communicate Your Startup Vision
July 12, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Alexa Andrzejewski (Founder & CEO, Foodspotting) When people ask me for advice on how to take an idea and make it real, my number one tip is to share your idea with anyone who will listen. This was also lesson one in the Women 2.0 workshop I took when I was first considering turning [...]
Cracking The Glass Ceiling: Female Leaders Alexa Andrzejewski, Shaherose Charania and Julia Hu Making Strides at Start-Ups
July 5, 2011 – 8:42 am
By Emily Glazer (Writer, Wall Street Journal) Women represent just over 15% of angel investors, and only 5% to 7% of partners at high-tech VC investor firms in the U.S., according to a recent study by Illuminate Ventures, an early-stage venture firm. In an attempt to close the gap, a number of mentoring and investing [...]
500 Startups’ Dave McClure: Women Co-Founders and CEOs an Advantage
June 5, 2011 – 6:30 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Last week, Pemo Theodore interviewed 500 Startups Dave McClure along with several women co-founders in his portfolio: Prerna Gupta (CEO, khu.sh), Elizabeth Yin and Jennifer Chin (Co-Founders, LaunchBit). “Women founders or co-founders are probably 20-25% of the [500 Startups] portfolio. I think there is probably some bias [...]
