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 [...]
Posts Tagged "LOLapps"
6waves-Lolapps Launches First Mobiles Game: Yeti Town
December 29, 2011 – 10:00 am
By Annie Chang (Co-Founder & Head of UX, Lolapps) Last Tuesday, 6waves-Lolapps “quietly” launched its first two mobile games, Yeti Town and Splode. Both games are developed by Escalation Studios in Dallas. Splode is a relaxing musical game and Yeti Town is an adorable matching game. So much for “quiet”. Within less than 24 hours, [...]
What Pink Ghetto? Women Start Technology Companies
December 6, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Marian Mangoubi (Founder & CEO, Sassy CEO) There’s an image of entrepreneurial women focusing on their startups on beauty, shopping, and fashion (“Pink Ghetto“). However, after a year of studying tech companies founded by women, I can say emphatically that this is a misrepresentation. Last year around this time there was a lot of [...]
Naturally Gifted Female Founders to Watch In Tech
November 18, 2011 – 4:07 pm
By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) This week at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, there was a panel titled “What if you could create a startup?” The panel was made up of women, one of which was a Partner at the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. She said, as paraphrased by Forbes, [...]
Interview with LOLapps Co-Founder and Head of UX Annie Chang
October 19, 2011 – 5:00 am
Editor’s note: LOLapps co-founder and head of user experience Annie Chang talks to Women 2.0 about her startup, one of the fastest growing social companies with over 1MM user generated applications and 4 very large social games. Women 2.0: How did you get started on LOLapps? Annie Chang: I sat in the audience as Mark [...]
Founder Friday Mixer (November 4 in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, Madrid and Barcelona)
October 17, 2011 – 9:00 am
By Sepideh Nasiri (Corporate Sponsorships & Events Director, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 is hosting six global Founder Friday networking mixers for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, November 4, 2011 in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, Madrid and Barcelona. Thanks to our sponsors AOL, Ellas 2.0, Press Club and Pourtal for [...]
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 [...]
Female Founders to Watch in the Facebook Ecosystem
May 6, 2011 – 9:13 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder, Women 2.0) Who doesn’t have a love and hate relationship with Facebook? Love it because it can be a source of business and new job creation by female founders! Here are 5 female founders of tech startups making money off Facebook: Annie Chang (Co-Founder & Head of Products, LOLapps) “Don’t be [...]
