Fun apps, shows and toys are available for kids to learn to code. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) With the success of young programmers like Mark Zuckerberg who started Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, parents are encouraging their kids to learn to code at a younger age. Now parents can encourage [...]
Posts Tagged "Limor Fried"
Female Founders To Watch: Inspiring & Crowdfunding The Next Gen
December 21, 2012 – 8:00 am
Celebrating women entrepreneurs “doing well by doing good”, as microfinancing guru and entrepreneur Candace Klein would say. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) It’s been a good week for the passionate entrepreneurs who work to improve the lives of the next generation – Adafruit CEO and founder Limor Fried was announced as Entrepreneur [...]
PITCH NYC 2012: MAKER Panel Talks About Kickstarter Campaigns, Prototyping, Pricing Product And “What Makes This A Tech Company?”
November 14, 2012 – 1:27 pm
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition – By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, the MAKER panel consists of four women starting companies and shipping hardware products: Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, Alice Brooks of Roominate, Liz Salcedo of Everpurse and Debbie Sterling of GoldieBlox. These [...]
Adafruit Industries Founder Limor Fried Speaking At PITCH NYC Conference On November 14
November 6, 2012 – 6:00 am
November 14′s PITCH Conference speakers include Adafruit Industries founder Limor Fried. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We are just 8 days away Women 2.0′s first PITCH Conference in New York featuring a full day of successful women entrepreneurs as speakers. Meet Limor Fried, founder at Adafruit Industries. Limor will be in the [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Women With Solid Technical Chops – And Own It
August 10, 2012 – 8:48 am
For a thorough list of technical women founding companies (CTOs, CEOs, VPs of engineering and more), check out this list. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Of the five finalists for Entrepreneur Magazine’s ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR award, there is a female founder – Limor Fried. The MIT-educated electrical engineer (pictured) started electronics [...]
Vote For “LEGO For Girls – This Time, Hardware-Hacker Style”
May 23, 2012 – 10:36 am
Ladyada’s workshop is a place to you explore all the cool things you build and use when you’re an engineer! By Limor Fried (Founder & Engineer, Adafruit Industries) Will LEGO produce a hardware hacker’s idea of a set for girls? We are very excited about this experiment. Here is our “Ladyada’s workshop” LEGO page. We [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Startups Catering To Moms
May 11, 2012 – 10:42 am
From subscription services for parents to circuit kits for children, there is plenty of options for Mother’s Day! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week we think about moms – they have their choice of subscription services to products for them and their children. Moms also have daily deals sites catering to [...]
Female Founders To Watch Building Hardware Startups
April 13, 2012 – 4:03 am
Arduinos, circuits, and… robots? Women entrepreneurs push boundaries of devices, hardware startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) There are web startups, mobile startups, consumer electronics startups… Newest yet are the interesting device startups are cropping up at various intersections of previous industries, creating disruptive new technologies and businesses. We watched Square, the [...]
