Girls may still make up a smaller percentage of women in tech than they should, but these up-and-coming female coders are aiming to ensure women have an outsized impact on the industry. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Young women may be dominating on college campuses and out-earning men in some cities but in the [...]
Posts Tagged "Piggybackr"
Female Fellowship Program Spurs 62% Increase In Female Founder Institute Graduates, New Fellowships Available
January 15, 2013 – 6:00 am
We are now looking for the next batch of Female Fellows, and there are over 10 Fellowships available for the upcoming Spring 2013 semesters across the globe. By Jonathan Greechan (Partner, The Founder Institute) As you may or may not know, we introduced the Female Founder Fellowship program two years ago in an effort to [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Inspiring & Crowdfunding The Next Gen
December 21, 2012 – 8:00 am
Celebrating women entrepreneurs “doing well by doing good”, as microfinancing guru and entrepreneur Candace Klein would say. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) It’s been a good week for the passionate entrepreneurs who work to improve the lives of the next generation – Adafruit CEO and founder Limor Fried was announced as Entrepreneur [...]
5 Inspirational Stories Of Girls In STEM – Or “STEEM” – Fundraising For Good
December 14, 2012 – 6:00 am
It’s exciting to see the movement to support girls in STEM steadily growing across the country. Being a female founder from the Silicon Valley, I hope the emphasis on “STEM” one day becomes “STEEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Math). By Andrea Lo (Co-Founder & CEO, Piggybackr) I started my own company, Piggybackr, in late [...]
The Founder Institute Seeks Female Founders, Offers Fellowships
May 4, 2012 – 11:01 am
Founder Institute’s Female Founder Fellowship program increased 30% female graduates globally. By Jonathan Greechan (Partner, The Founder Institute) Last year, we unveiled a new program – Female Founder Fellowship (FFF) – in an effort to grow the number of female technology founders by providing free course fees for our best female applicants. At the time, [...]
How To Build Prototypes Without Technical Chops
February 2, 2012 – 10:00 am
The best part about prototyping with paper, Post-Its, and PowerPoint, was that not a single line of code had to be written, yet I get feedback for my minimal viable product. By Andrea Lo (Founder, Piggybackr) The purpose of a prototype is to cut down on the time spent building out a product so you can [...]
Starting A Startup From Scratch With Founder Institute
July 7, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Andrea Lo (Founder, Piggybackr) A year ago, I was working in a corporate consulting job crunching numbers and pushing papers, struggling to find a larger sense of purpose. Today, I am busier and happier than ever, founder of my own early stage startup with the help of the Founder Institute, a part-time startup incubator. [...]
