Women took the 2012 Crunchies Awards stage as presenters, winners. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Attended by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (accepting the award for “Best CEO of 2012″) and kicked off by presenter and sponsor Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, the 2012 Crunchies Awards in San Francisco last night did not disappoint. [...]
Posts Tagged "Maris McEdward"
When You Lack Experience, Sometimes Simply Participating Is Enough To Get Started
March 2, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Maris McEdward (Community Manager, Startup Weekend) “If not for Startup Weekend, when I graduated I’d be looking for jobs like my classmates instead of creating them.” When Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao attended their first Startup Weekend in Los Angeles in February 2011 they didn’t quite know what to expect. With no real understanding [...]
Preparation is Half the Battle: What Startup Weekend’s Partnership with Google Means For You
November 11, 2011 – 4:30 am
By Maris McEdward (Community Manager, Startup Weekend) Entrepreneurs are always asking “what’s next?” — What’s the next step? What’s the one connection I can’t afford not to make? What tweak can I make to make my product stronger/better/faster? But an equally important question is “what can I do to prepare?” At Startup Weekend, we encourage [...]
3 Big Ways Women Leverage Their Strengths at Startup Weekend
October 25, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Maris McEdward (Community Manager, Startup Weekend) Taking the plunge into entrepreneurship is daunting, to say the least. It can be even more daunting for women since tech entrepreneurship is still a man’s world in many ways. For example, women are outnumbered by men 4:1 at the average Startup Weekend event. Fortunately, Women 2.0 Startup [...]
Women 2.0 Save 20% on Tickets to Mega Startup Weekend (September 9-11 in Mountain View)
August 11, 2011 – 7:05 am
By Maris McEdward (Community Manager, Startup Weekend) The Internet is full of articles describing, lamenting, and diagnosing the fact that there aren’t enough women in tech. And it’s true — women are under-represented in technology and as entrepreneurs. But talking about the problem doesn’t do a whole lot to change the situation. If women want [...]
