Join us at a Bay Area mixer to learn about mentorship opportunities. By Abby Bobé (Marketing, BlackGirlsCODE) Have you ever listened to an eight year old share her excitement and passion for technology and computer programming? Thankfully we have over 750 underrepresented young girls who can share their amazing experiences with you. Ranging from ages [...]
Posts Tagged "Mentor"
Mentors Wanted For Black Girls CODE To Work With Young Women Interested in Technology
February 10, 2013 – 9:00 am
Calling All Women 2.0 – We Need YOU To Be A Mentor
January 28, 2013 – 9:00 am
“You should have had more women on that panel” By Heather Harde (Vice Chairman, sf.citi) “You didn’t have enough female-founder companies competing in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt”… “You didn’t have enough women nominees for the Crunchies Awards”… “Your blog is not doing enough to advance women in technology”… These were all regular refrains I [...]
Square Code Camp: From A Camper’s Perspective
January 16, 2013 – 6:00 am
In the past, writing iPhone apps were a stretch for me, and now I was creating one. Code Camp removed my fear and surrounded me with encouragement. By Monica Starr Feldman (Junior, Wellesley College) This past week, 16 talented women engineering students and myself attended Square’s inaugural Code Camp in San Francisco. Square is a [...]
A Strong Support Network For Your Entrepreneurial Toolbox
December 3, 2012 – 10:00 am
Do you have a support network? That is, do you have a group of people that you rely on, who are there to provide you the encouragement you need as an entrepreneur? By Alana Muller (President, Kauffman FastTrac) You may already know that being an entrepreneur can be both lonely and frightening. An individual with [...]
Get Mentored During Lunch At PITCH NYC Conference On November 14
November 2, 2012 – 9:00 am
November 14′s PITCH Conference will hold mentoring over lunch. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We have over two dozen mentors joining us on November 14 at PITCH NYC Conference – have face time with them over lunch! From investors to entrepreneurs, from product experts to marketing gurus, our mentors will cover topics [...]
Women In Tech Like Working For Other Women In Tech
October 25, 2012 – 9:30 am
Research shows that women gravitate toward women-led companies. By Blake Landau (Founder, Artemis) Get Satisfaction Vice President of Marketing Azita Martin never realized she was the only woman in the room, until she wasn’t. “Now that I’m here at Get Satisfaction, I realize how refreshing it is. You don’t realize how weird being the only [...]
Mentor A Teenage Girl At Technovation And Give Back!
October 10, 2012 – 9:00 am
When you were a teenager, did you have a female mentor or role model who showed you that girls can grow up to be programmers, entrepreneurs, and leaders? By Dara Olmsted (Director of Development, Iridescent) Help the next generation of girls learn to code and start companies – sign up to be a Technovation Challenge [...]
To Close the Gender Gap, Focus on Assignments
May 24, 2012 – 11:00 am
Mentors and mentees should heed the sacrosanct 70-20-10 rule. By Herminia Ibarra (Contributor, Harvard Business Review) A new McKinsey study reports statistically what we already knew from personal experience: that mid-career and senior women tend to be found disproportionally in staff jobs, or “pink ghettos,” relative to men. The report tells us that 50% to [...]
Five Lessons Learned From Raising Series A For My Startup
January 10, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Joanne Lang (Founder & CEO, AboutOne) It’s been an amazing journey to get AboutOne where it is today. Through the process of developing an award winning app and raising an over-subscribed Series A with lead investors Golden Seeds, I’ve navigated quite a few hurdles and learned many lessons while juggling my roles as tech [...]
Would You Like To Mentor And Inspire A Team Of High School Girls?
December 20, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Jennifer Arguello (Product Manager, Mozilla & Mentor, Technovation Challenge) Are your successes in life due to other people helping you? Do you wish you had more role models growing up to show you what you know now? Would you like to inspire the next generation of female high-tech leaders? If you answered yes to [...]
