What marks a great entrepreneur is not necessarily the idea, but how well the idea is executed. By Jennie Lees (Product Manager, Google) The spark of inspiration strikes at the strangest times. Whether it’s a flash of insight in the shower, or a puzzle piece clicking into place, we all know the wonderful moment that [...]
Posts Tagged "Founder Labs"
This Weekend: 48-Hour Application Blitz (First 50 Submitted Free)
August 16, 2012 – 10:00 am
We will be having an Application Blitz for PITCH NYC Startup Competition this weekend. Startups around the world to apply to PITCH –
Join Women 2.0 And Ellas 2.0 On July 13 In Bogotá For Founder Friday Launch In Colombia!
June 20, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Women 2.0 and Ellas 2.0 launch Founder Friday on July 13 in Bogotá, Colombia and July 6 in Mexico City! By Patricia Araque (Co-Founder & Director, Ellas 2.0) With the Women 2.0 partnership with Ellas 2.0, we are expanding Founder Friday to Latin America – identifying the best regional entrepreneurship while inspiring and connecting the [...]
The New Girls Network: Building A Bigger Pie For High-Growth Women-Led Companies
February 29, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Joshua Henderson (Director of Programming, Springboard Enterprises) There are incredible things happening in the startup world for women entrepreneurs. Media platforms like Women 2.0, The Daily Muse, EZebis and The Next Women are showcasing the talents and expertise of women founders and entrepreneurs. Investment firms like BELLE Capital, Golden Seeds, Phenomenelle Angels, KC Women’s [...]
Racism and Meritocracy
November 19, 2011 – 6:00 pm
By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says: “All I see is white men. Therefore, people like Michael Arrington must [...]
Sheryl Sandberg’s GHC 2011 Keynote: More Pearls of Wisdom
November 17, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Baat Enosh (VP Operations, Founder Labs) For the past 4 years, I’ve been living and breathing “Women In Tech” conversations. I’ve been working with Women 2.0, Founder Labs, and the National Center for Women & IT, focusing on getting more women to get into computing and found startups. The conversation is complex and at [...]
How To Get Tweeted By Dave McClure
September 27, 2011 – 5:30 am
By Alicia Liu (Participant, Founder Labs) It all went down exactly a week before demo day. 4:00pm: our team was getting ready to present our progress taking part in Founder Labs to Dave McClure, of 500 Startups, and John Malloy, of Blue Run Ventures. We were 4 weeks in, with only 1 more week to [...]
Help Us Raise Funds To Make The Founder Labs Documentary
September 20, 2011 – 7:15 am
By Resmi Arjunanpillai (VP Marketing, Founder Labs) Sponsor an educational video series from Founder Labs and get one hour of 1:1 time with startup luminaries and VCs like Steve Blank, Eric Ries and Ann Miura-Ko: Details here. Founder Labs is a pre-incubator focused on the first phase of launching a mobile startup. In five weeks, [...]
The Art of Customer Research (Challenges of Qualitative Investigation)
September 14, 2011 – 11:15 pm
By Sheba Najmi (Participant, Founder Labs) Customer research really is an art. I’ve seen fewer than a handful of excellent user experience researchers who have an innate knack for it. Unfortunately, more often than not, qualitative research is muddied by: users wishing to please the researcher unmindful leading questions by researchers, and artificial settings and [...]
Fostering More Female Tech Entrepreneurs
August 25, 2011 – 6:30 am
By Ellen Lee (Contributing Writer, Intuit Blog) When it comes to women working in Silicon Valley technology businesses -— particularly women at the helm — the numbers remain painfully small. Less than 5 percent of tech startups are founded by female entrepreneurs, estimates Shaherose Charania, co-founder and CEO of Women 2.0, an organization that helps [...]
