Hackbright Academy in San Francisco trains women to be developers. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Andree Brazeau moved to San Francisco from Canada and began teaching herself to code. A year later, she still wasn’t able to find a job as a developer, so she applied for Hackbright Academy. The Python training [...]
Posts Tagged "Leah Culver"
After 10-Week Python Training Program, Women Engineers Receive Job Offers From Silicon Valley Startups
September 7, 2012 – 9:00 am
Learn From Successful Women Entrepreneurs In Tech (Premium Videos From February’s PITCH 2012 Conference)
August 14, 2012 – 7:16 am
Get inspired by these women leaders sharing stories of fundraising, team building and more. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The sound bytes that were tweeted from February’s PITCH 2012 conference were golden. “Know what you have to prove,” said ZipCar co-founder Robin Chase on building a minimum viable product. Just the minimum [...]
Learn From Leaders Of Product Innovation: Women 2.0 PITCH 2012 Videos Now Available Online
August 7, 2012 – 9:00 am
For $30, get full access to Women 2.0 premium videos for the next 30 days online. By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) We have exclusive videos from PITCH 2012, our 1000 person conference last February in Silicon Valley. We recorded all the conference talks, panels and pitches for you so you can pop [...]
Female Founders Who Celebrated A Startup Acquisition
May 18, 2012 – 11:52 am
Startup acquisitions make news! Celebrate the women starting and exiting companies in technology. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We at Women 2.0 are often asked for names of notable women for magazines (lists), newspaper articles (press), conferences (speakers), etc. We catalog lists of women entrepreneurs to watch each Friday, putting out a [...]
Lessons Learned From The 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
February 23, 2012 – 3:20 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Thanks everybody for joining us at our fifth annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on February 14, 2012 at the Computer History Museum on Valentine’s Day. It was a sold-out success with 1000 women (and a few good men) strong. Special thanks to Tropo, Bing, [...]
9 Lessons Learned From Women 2.0 PITCH Conference 2012
February 15, 2012 – 11:55 am
By Emily Gonzales (CTO, Bookigee) As I sat in the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference yesterday surrounded by close to a thousand female tech entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, investors and supporters, I couldn’t help but feel like we were making history. As a tech entrepreneur flying in from Miami to learn as much as possible from the [...]
Jezebel Names Innovators For Best Buy’s Super Bowl Ad
February 7, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Jezebel nominates “lady innovators Best Buy could’ve put in its Super Bowl ad” on Sunday. Jezebel blogger Anna North points out that this ad showcased a bunch of male tech innovators. She writes: “Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt — maybe those poor ad execs [...]
How To Be The Next Marissa Mayer (A Great Product Manager)
November 30, 2011 – 7:40 am
By Mollie Vandor (Product Manager, BetterWorks) Think of building a website like building a house. There’s the engineers, who are akin to construction workers, actually putting the nuts and bolts of the structure together. The site’s designers are like decorators, making sure the house looks and feels put together and polished. And, the marketing team [...]
Startup Quote: Leah Culver on Building an MVP (Lean Startup)
July 20, 2011 – 8:47 pm
“Learn not to add too many features right away, and get the core idea built and tested.” — Leah Culver (Co-Founder & CEO, Convore) Leah Culver is a Django developer and serial entrepreneur in San Francisco. Her first venture Pownce was acquired in 2008 by Six Apart. Currently, she is now working on her [...]
3 Startup Lessons Learned from Convore’s Leah Culver
July 19, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Leah Culver (Founder & CEO, Convore) For my second startup Convore, I applied to Y Combinator because I wanted to be part of their alumni network. It’s a great way to test out a product — with thousands of Y Combinator alumni. Convore was accepted and part of the Winter 2011 group. My motivations [...]
