I’ve learned a lot since August 2011, and certainly matured as a person, a woman and an entrepreneur. By Heather Payne (Founder, Ladies Learning Code) In 2011, I wrote a blog post that became the most widely-read thing I’ve ever written. It was a surprise to me – I wrote the thing really quickly, late [...]
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Now I’m Really An Entrepreneur
June 6, 2012 – 10:13 am
My purpose now is to find a repeatable and scalable business model – Steve Blank’s definition of a startup. By Heather Payne (Founder, Ladies Learning Code) I’ve wanted to be an entrepreneur for a long time. Not when I was in university (back then, I wanted to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company), but [...]
Interviews With Women Teaching Women Coding
April 2, 2012 – 7:00 am
Talking with Girl Develop It, Ladies Learning Code, Web Start Women and Startlucks. By Jennifer Lindner (Organizer, RailsBridge & Freelance Open Source Developer) There’s a rapidly growing movement of women teaching women technology skills: all over the Americas, self-starting organizations are running hands-on classes to huge success. Girl Develop It, Ladies Learning Code and Web [...]
Startups (And Angel Investors) Are A Girl’s Best Friend
February 21, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Katherine Hague (Founder, ShopLocket) This is the story of how my startup, ShopLocket, found its first investor, Heather Payne. In startup land, we spend a lot of time thinking about that elusive first dollar. Whether it’s from a customer, a bank, or an investor, they often say that it’s the first dollar that’s the [...]
Girls Learning Code Camp (From Ladies Learning Code)
February 8, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Heather Payne (Founder, Ladies Learning Code) We’re getting ready to send acceptances to the girls who will be receiving scholarships to attend our Girls Learning Code March Break camp. (We’re accepting them on a rolling basis, but the deadline isn’t until February 15th – so there’s still time to get an 11-14 year-old girl [...]
With Programs Like Codecademy, Women Are No Longer Accidentally Excluded From Learning Technology
January 16, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Blake Landau (Blogger, Artemis) “We’re hoping to make everyone literate about the basics of programming while creating a generation of new and talented programmers” Zach Sims, co-Founder of Codecademy told me in an email. Codecademy’s mission is to democratize coding in 2012. The startup has partnered with Girl Develop It, Code Year and was [...]
Tech Industry Needs A Makeover To Attract More Women, Girls
December 13, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Leah Eichler (Contributing Writer, Femme-O-Nomics) Women in technology love to talk about the lack of women in technology, especially those who reside at the top. So on January 1, 2012, when Virginia Rometty takes the helm of IBM Corporation as its first female chief executive officer, joining Meg Whitman as the CEO of HP [...]
Date An Entrepreneur — The Female Edition
August 20, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Heather Payne (Head of Sales and Marketing, Pinpoint Social) (Based on “Date an Entrepreneur” by Bridget Porowski and “Date a Girl Who Reads” by Rosemarie Urquico) Date an entrepreneur. Date a girl who spends her money on iPads and web apps instead of trips to the mall. A girl who doesn’t mind being told [...]
Toronto: Mobilizing Ladies Learning to Code Python
June 27, 2011 – 8:32 pm
By Heather Payne and Melissa Crnić (Organizers, Toronto Ladies Learning to Code) Serious question here. Where are all the female programmers? Despite efforts over the past few years to increase the number of women in tech, the percentage of female Computer Science graduates is dropping. Of developers involved in open source projects, only 1.5% are [...]
