Multiple times, we discovered the value of real, external deadlines, despite the added stress and workload they bring. By Michelle Norgan (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Kismet) A year and a half ago I founded Kismet, a social discovery app that connects you to your existing friends in the real world by simplifying getting together [...]
Posts Tagged "Kismet"
Learn To Pitch Your Startup: Previous PITCH Startup Competition Finalists Show You How (Videos)
August 28, 2012 – 9:00 am
Deadline to apply to pitch your startup onstage at the next PITCH conference is August 31, 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) On Valentine’s Day earlier this year, I had the privilege of participating in the 1000-women-strong PITCH conference where industry leaders like Caterina Fake (Flickr) and Robin Chase (ZipCar) talked onstage [...]
Female Founders To Watch: PITCH Finalists (Where Are They Now?)
August 24, 2012 – 8:00 am
Women 2.0 PITCH startup competitions finalists continue to impress over the years. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) After the years ago by, we wonder “Where are they now?” The finalists for the last 5 years of PITCH startup competition have gone to impress us with their mettle and ability to adapt and [...]
Roundup: Female Founder Successes To Celebrate This Week
March 9, 2012 – 6:00 am
March 8 may be International Women’s Day but we are celebrating women all week, year long! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, we highly respect Sara Blakely for joining Forbes’ World Billionaire’s list thanks to her company Spanx. The 41 year old is the youngest person on the list – and [...]
2012 PITCH Startup Competition Finalist Kismet Announces Funding, New Features For SXSW
March 9, 2012 – 5:00 am
PITCH Competition finalist secures seed funding. By Michelle Norgan (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Kismet) I’m excited to announce that Kismet, featured last month as a finalist of the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition, has raised our seed round with investments from Triple Point Ventures, NEA, and an incredible list of angels including Shiva Rajaraman [...]
4 Myths About Female-Founded Startups Debunked By 2012 PITCH Competition Finalists
March 1, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Rebecca Lipon (Application & Judges Coordinator, PITCH Competition 2012) Women 2.0 PITCH Conference culminated in a PITCH Startup Competition five months in the making. Online applications were judged by representatives from 20 VC firms to select our finalists. Our finalists demonstrated exactly what we at Women 2.0 have been saying for a while – [...]
Women Founders’ Valentine’s Day PITCH
February 16, 2012 – 5:03 pm
By Chitra Rakesh (Writer, Mountain View Patch) Some of the smartest women in Silicon Valley – and beyond – celebrated women entrepreneurs on Valentine’s Day at the in Mountain View. Women 2.0, an organization committed to increase the number of female founders of tech startups, held its fifth annual PITCH Conference & Competition on Tuesday, [...]
2012 PITCH Startup Competition Finalists Announced
January 12, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The run-up to Women 2.0 PITCH Conference on February 14, 2012 is defined by Women 2.0′s fifth annual Startup Competition for early-stage tech startups. Watch the finalists of the 2012 Women 2.0 Startup Competition pitch live on February 14. Hear first-hand feedback from panels of real investors [...]
Female Startup Founders, Female CTOs And Technical Co-Founders (Oh My!)
May 24, 2011 – 1:28 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Julia Hu (Co-Founder & CEO of Lark) got engaged while presenting her startup onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC — her boyfriend inserted a proposal slide into her deck. Meanwhile, attendees at the National Center for Women in Technology annual summit were [...]
