“When you run a business, summarizing “how things are going” is more or less impossible. But the secret to answering this question is realizing that your goal isn’t to summarize — it’s to set the conversation in motion along a productive path that generally relates to how you’re doing and what you’re working on.” By [...]
Posts Tagged "Kathryn Minshew"
PITCH NYC 2013 Startup Competition Finalist The Muse (Formerly The Daily Muse) Raises $1.2M Seed Funding
January 23, 2013 – 6:00 am
For career advice and a better job search, The Muse raises seed funding for the female-founded startup. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Congrats to The Muse and female founders Kathryn Minshew, Melissa McCreery and Alex Cavoulacos on raising $1.2 million in seed funding for the career website! Backed by Y Combinator, the [...]
This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Susan McPherson
December 19, 2012 – 1:27 pm
Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our weekly “This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like” series. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Angel investor and cause marketer Susan McPherson wears many hats – as speaker, writer, philanthropist, activist, volunteer and marketer. Susan is the SVP/Director of global marketing at Fenton, where [...]
4 Marketing Mistakes Startup Founders Make
December 1, 2012 – 11:00 am
Learn what *not* to do from entrepreneurs in the startup trenches. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A recently list of Startup Marketing Mistakes held some useful tips and advice for startup marketing, tried-and-true from entrepreneurs in the trenches. They asked sage entrepreneurs – “What is the #1 marketing mistake startups make and [...]
My Experience At Women 2.0 PITCH NYC 2012
November 19, 2012 – 1:55 pm
So many impressive women from different backgrounds showed up to the conference and I’m really glad I met them. By Audrey Tan (Founder, Waggit) I volunteered at the Women 2.0 PITCH NYC conference this week and I’m really glad I did. The conference was a mix of keynote speakers, panelists, pitches and of course – [...]
Female Founders To Follow: 9 CEOs From PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition Finalists
November 9, 2012 – 2:23 pm
Out of the 10 finalists for PITCH NYC Startup Competition, 9 of the startups have women CEOs. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) On November 14 in New York, PITCH NYC Conference & Competition is expecting 15 conference speakers – 95% of them women. 100% of the speakers have founded successful startup companies, [...]
Top 10 Finalists Announced: PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition, Competition Culminates November 14!
October 2, 2012 – 9:00 am
Join us for PITCH NYC Conference & Competition on November 14. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition received 275+ applications from over 24 countries. Today, we announce the 10 women-led startups selected by 30 seasoned VCs and angel investors to compete on November 14, 2012 at PITCH [...]
L’Oréal Supports Women Entrepreneurs, Offers $25k Cash Prize
August 28, 2012 – 6:30 am
L’Oréal will award one finalist team at the PITCH NYC Conference & Competition a $25,000 cash prize! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This year, we’ve seen an energetic new wave of businesses focused on the female market, thanks to the L’Oréal Women In Digital Program which put a stake in the ground, [...]
Why Women Continue to Lag Behind Men In The Startup Community – And What We Can Do About It
April 6, 2012 – 11:00 am
Interviews reveal five common themes contributing to the fewer number of women starting up. By Beverly Tam (Student, University of California San Diego) Over the past few decades, women have overcome tremendous obstacles and have made a lot of progress in the area of gender equality in America. We now make up 46% of the [...]
The Women Of Y Combinator – And They Are Awesome
April 2, 2012 – 5:00 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Kim-Mai Cutler (Writer, TechCrunch) I would normally rather have a root canal instead of write about the issue of women in technology. I just find most essays on this really tedious and obvious. (Sorry Alexia.) But I do want to point one thing out. When I went [...]
