“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 [...]
Posts Tagged "Mentorship"
Rashmi Sinha, CEO And Co-Founder Of SlideShare (Acquired By LinkedIn) Speaking At Women 2.0 Conference February 14
January 24, 2013 – 8:00 am
Entrepreneur and angel investor Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare fame coming to Women 2.0 Conference on February 14 – join us! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 is excited to welcome entrepreneur Rashmi Sinha, CEO and co-founder of SlideShare, to 2013 Women 2.0 Conference on February 14. She will be speaking on [...]
Investor, Be Mine
January 22, 2013 – 8:00 am
On Valentine’s Day, entrepreneurs are encouraged to rub elbows with investors at the Women 2.0 Conference in San Francisco! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Mentorship is a popular topic of discussion, and more difficult to do. Instead of fretting about how to find the perfect mentor and establishing a lifetime bond to [...]
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 [...]
Investors Are The Nucleus Of Entrepreneurship – Meet Dozens Of Them At The Women 2.0 Conference
January 5, 2013 – 6:00 am
Women 2.0 encourages me to build a healthy nucleus for a cell that aspires to thrive. By Katrina Salas-Padilla (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) To a budding entrepreneur what could be sexier than intimate contact with the coveted almighty power of a willing investor? One might argue that a computer engineer and UX designer duo might [...]
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – A Mentor Will
December 20, 2012 – 9:00 am
Sometimes asking for help is the most important thing a person can do in their career. By Wendy Lea (CEO, Get Satisfaction) You need to know that what got you here won’t get you there. At a certain point, you must recognize that you can’t go the entrepreneurial journey alone. Let’s talk about relationship building [...]
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 [...]
(Video) 60 Seconds Of Inspiration In Technovation Challenge PSA
November 30, 2012 – 10:00 am
We have teams of girls from Alaska to Yemen signing up to learn to code apps and launch companies – and they need mentors! By Dara Olmsted (Director of Development, Iridescent) Technovation Challenge, a 12-week program that teaches high school girls to create phone apps and start businesses, just released an inspiring, short public service [...]
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 [...]
