Meet women entrepreneurs at Founder Friday on January 11. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Last September, the crowd at Founder Friday in San Francisco met Andrea Johnson, CEO and founder of photo site ThisLife. Today, Shutterfly announces acquiring ThisLife to power the next-generation photo solution. ThisLife is a cloud-based solution offering intuitive [...]
Posts Tagged "Palo Alto"
Startup Lesson: Talk To Customers Before Building Anything
December 30, 2012 – 10:00 am
Through her research, Gülin not only isolated the trend toward automation within the industry, but addressed demand by developing a product that would eliminate outages due to human error. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) In our One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global virtual incubator, we always advise entrepreneurs to talk [...]
Join Women 2.0 At Your Local Founder Friday On January 11
December 18, 2012 – 11:00 am
We are hosting Women 2.0 Founder Friday events on January 11. Find one near you to meet women entrepreneurs, aspiring and current! By Sepideh Nasiri (Vice President of All Things Offline, Women 2.0) We are in 10 cities for Founder Friday on January 11. This is a Women 2.0 networking event promoting the creation of [...]
Fasting For Joy
November 21, 2012 – 5:06 pm
The cost of feeding a child in a third world country is relatively small and just fasting or skipping a meal or three can feed so many children. By Grace A. Belangia (Community Manager, Elluva) One of the great privileges of leading a new startup is the ability to set its culture, initiatives and values. [...]
The Minimum Viable Startup (October 10 In Palo Alto)
October 5, 2012 – 3:01 pm
Generate your business model hypothesis and validate your idea on October 10 in Palo Alto – Women 2.0 members save 50% on tickets with discount code “Women20oct”. By Roger Rappoport (Founder, StartUp Info & Partner, Procopio) The startup world has developed a vernacular of its own which, for those of us whose daily lives are [...]
New Team Members Wanted For Women 2.0 Founder Friday Detroit, Sao Paulo And Cities Globally
October 2, 2012 – 7:00 am
Founder Friday is looking for new team members and volunteers! By Sepideh Nasiri (Vice President of All Things Offline, Women 2.0) We are launching Founder Friday in Detroit and Sao Paulo soon, thanks to our recent partnership with Google.
Partner Event: Minimum Viable Startup (October 10 In Palo Alto)
September 21, 2012 – 3:32 pm
Generate your business model hypothesis and validate. The Minimum Viable Startup (MVS) on October 10, 2012 in Palo Alto is a custom all-day event to help entrepreneurs take the leap from viable product to viable startup and, along the way, avoid the most common mistakes made by entrepreneurs, which invariably leads to the same result [...]
Women In The Boardroom: A Discussion On Leadership And Decision-Making
August 27, 2012 – 4:24 pm
Join Box Women’s Network for “Women of the Board” on September 11 in Palo Alto. By Clarissa Meily (Strategic Alliances Manager, Box) Successful corporate decision-making starts with a diversity of perspectives. The more diverse a company’s board of directors, the more likely they are to accurately reflect the employees, shareholders, and customers that their decisions [...]
Start Now: Win A Ticket To Lean Startup Machine In Palo Alto
July 13, 2012 – 9:00 am
An intensive educational workshop, Lean Startup Machine teaches you to build solutions customers want. By Hung Pham (Workshop Coordinator, Lean Startup Machine) Time is money and we’re in the business of saving both. Join the movement that is transforming how new products are being built and launched. Attend a Lean Startup Machine workshop today – [...]
When Looking For New Business Ideas, Don’t Overlook Your Family
June 19, 2012 – 8:00 am
“The more students I talked with, the more I realized a very clear need for the kind of app I had in mind.” By Sallie Severns (Founder, Answer Underground) Women are often thought of as the great communicators, from business to family – and sometimes those two worlds collide with amazing results. For many years, [...]
