Freelance writer Justine Lee talks to female angels and founders about how to get more women to invest in startups. By Justine Lee (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) In a room full of 100 angel investors, 85 of them are men, and 15 are women. While this proportion is already shifting, there is work to be [...]
Posts Tagged "Love With Food"
April Fool’s Jokes from Female-Founded Companies
April 1, 2013 – 4:28 pm
What’s your favorite Internet April Fool’s joke this year? By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) From a handful of Easter Eggs hidden in Google today, to Twitter’s nixing of vowels, today is a day of Internet jokery. Food subscription service Love with Food announced venturing into a new market today and launched Love [...]
How I Met 75 Investors and Raised $650,000 For My Startup
March 18, 2013 – 8:00 am
There is no cookie cutter formula to fundraising but I believe the common denominator in fundraising is perseverance. By Aihui Ong (Founder & CEO, Love With Food) Love With Food graduated from 500 Startups accelerator program about a year ago and we raised $650,000 in June of 2012. It was 3 painful months of fundraising. [...]
Female Founders To Watch Shipping Products (With Discounts!) This Holiday Season
November 30, 2012 – 1:58 pm
Celebrating women entrepreneurs building businesses online! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Support your favorite women entrepreneurs who have launched high-growth high-tech ventures while shopping for yourself and loved ones this holiday season! From subscriptions to monthly goods delivered to doorstops to the exquisite, unique pieces of jewelry and lingerie, you can save [...]
Top 10 Ways 500 Startups Open Doors For Love With Food
August 22, 2012 – 1:00 pm
The 500 experience has definitely helped us grow in many unimaginable ways, more than I can list… By Aihui Ong (Founder & CEO, Love With Food) There are so many incubator/accelerator programs in Silicon Valley (e.g. AngelPad, 500 Startups, YC) and each has a different application process, providing different levels of investment in exchange for [...]
12 Female Founders Cooking Up Innovative Food-Related Startups
July 13, 2012 – 5:00 am
Meet the women entrepreneurs of Thryve, Foodily, Local Dirt, Cookooree, Revolution Foods and more. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In addition to the growing army of food trucks and lasting local/sustainable food movement, there are plenty of interesting startups in the food space to watch. Women-led ventures take fooding to the next [...]
Women Entrepreneurs Fundraise For Products, Companies (Ubeam, Love With Food, OUYA…)
July 11, 2012 – 7:00 am
Good news: women raise funding for companies, and women entrepreneurs make waves on Kickstarter. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) FUNDS RAISED: 22 year old Meredith Perry raising $1M from Founders Fund and other angels for her startup. The Ubeam founder and CEO gave a popular TEDx talk earlier this year on “how [...]
Love With Food Launches Monthly Subscription Service
January 21, 2012 – 1:40 pm
By Leena Rao (Reporter, TechCrunch) The subscription commerce market is heating up with Birch Box, Kiwi Crate, and others all offering various takes on the monthly box model. Today, 500 Startups company Love With Food is launching its subscription model, which offers a monthly box to users with tasty, gourmet samples of food. Here’s how [...]
Zombies Invade 500 Accelerator, Hungry For BRAAAAAAAAINS
October 31, 2011 – 2:21 pm
By Christine Tsai (Partner, 500 Startups) In recent weeks, residents of this quiet suburb have reported strange activity concentrated in the downtown area of Castro Street. There have been numerous sightings of zombies lumbering up and down Castro, mouths agape, in search of three things. Noted by many Castro St business owners, they hear only [...]
10 Usability Takeaways for Web Developers (Don’t Make Me Think)
July 25, 2011 – 6:10 am
By Aihui Ong (Founding CEO & CTO, Love With Food) As a web developer, I can easily write code and whip up new features. But are they usable? Would my users understand how to use them? I’ve built features that none of my users like or use and I have to painfully demolish my code [...]
