Join Women 2.0 at SXSW (March 8-12 in Austin, Texas)! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 will be going to SXSW next week – join us for Founder Friday Austin on March 8 at Startup America LIVE in the Downtown Austin Hilton! We will be joined by Kauffman Foundation VP Lesa [...]
Posts Tagged "Lesa Mitchell"
Chicago Engaging Women in Tech: Startup Communities
February 20, 2013 – 6:00 am
My advice is simple – learn from Zach and Brian’s work. Before and during the event, they took what I would call extraordinary measures to make sure women not only attended but were fully engaged in leading. By Lesa Mitchell (Vice President, Kauffman Foundation) The book Startup Communities clearly states the need for inclusiveness as [...]
Global Entrepreneurship Week Kicks Off Today!
November 12, 2012 – 9:00 am
PITCH NYC Conference & Competition is held in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Every year Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) features a wide range of events, activities and competitions designed to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystems that are responsible for job creation and economic growth. To this end, Women [...]
Democratizing Entrepreneurship: The Next Generation Of Networks
August 27, 2012 – 7:00 am
Online connections give entrepreneurs access to a global network of founders, mentors and advisors. By Lesa Mitchell (Vice President, Kauffman Foundation) In 1950, Ewing Kauffman launched his pharmaceutical company, Marion Laboratories Inc., in the basement of his modest home in Kansas City. During his first year in business, he had sales of $36,000 and a [...]
Men Need To Sponsor Women In STEM Industries For Job Creation, Economic Recovery
July 9, 2012 – 6:00 am
Encourage male peers and colleagues to sponsor women for opportunities, from job promotions to nominations to boards. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Buck the trend and go big. 88% of women-owned firms in the U.S. are sole-proprietorships, according to an female entrepreneurship report by public radio reporter Ashley Milne-Tyte. She talks with [...]
New Kauffman, Stanford And Women 2.0 Study On Women Entrepreneurs Seeks Survey Participants
February 4, 2012 – 8:00 am
We are kicking off an exciting study on women in entrepreneurship led by Vivek Wadhwa of Duke/Stanford University and Lesa Mitchell of The Kauffman Foundation, with the support of Women 2.0. Women who are founding CEOs, Presidents, CTOs or lead technologists of tech startups founded between 2002 and 2012 are invited to participate! By Neesha [...]
Women 2.0 Receives Corporate Sponsorship from Kauffman Foundation to Fuel Growth of Female-Led Innovation
October 19, 2011 – 1:10 pm
Sponsorship will support blog network, educational resources, programs and events to launch successful, scalable, innovative ventures for female entrepreneurs Media Contact: Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 today announced that the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the world’s largest organizations devoted to entrepreneurship, has provided corporate sponsorship to support Women 2.0 [...]
Women 2.0 Celebrates 5 Years of Growth and Inspiration
October 19, 2011 – 12:59 pm
By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) I moved to Silicon Valley in 2005 and almost always was the only woman in the room at business, technology or entrepreneurship networking events. Then one day, I met a guy named Noah Kagan who introduced me to a few awesome women he knew. He said, “I [...]
Women’s Startups Lack Access to Capital (Women Don’t Ask)
October 18, 2011 – 5:30 am
By Jessica Naziri (Reporter, CNBC) When Alexa von Tobel found herself frustrated with the lack of personal finance resources and tools available to her, she took a leave of absence from Harvard Business School in 2008 to pursue her dream of creating a way for women to gain control of their finances. “When I was [...]
Support Women Running Growth Businesses
October 2, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Karen E. Klein (Contributing Writer, Businessweek) Women represent only 35 percent of startup owners in the U.S., even though 50 percent of college students and 46 percent of the U.S. workforce is female. Women’s startup businesses also “tend to experience less growth and prosperity than do firms started by men,” according to a paper [...]
