Entrepreneur Thuy Truong flew in from Ho Chi Minh City to officially release her Smartboard app on Valentine’s Day and pitch her company at the Women 2.0 Conference in front of a thousand people! By Thuy Truong (Co-Founder & CEO, Greengar) I learned more about entrepreneurship in the last two weeks than I have my [...]
Posts Tagged "Pinterest"
The Social Media Model And What It Means For Tokii (Presence And Patience)
November 12, 2012 – 7:00 am
It might not be your social media presence that will sink or float your boat, but rather your absence. By Karla Stephens-Tolstoy (Founder & CEO, Tokii) Tokii has been in business for more than 18 months now, and we’ve been running a social media campaign since its inception. It didn’t take a rocket scientist on [...]
Designing For Passion
September 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
Some have argued that successful apps cater to at least one of the seven deadly sins By Lauren Bacon (Author, The Boss of You) In recent years, I’ve been asking the people and organizations I work with a critical question: What are people going to love about your product1? I chose the word “love” carefully. [...]
Pinterest: An Amazing Place For Female Engineers
August 13, 2012 – 9:00 am
Software engineer Tracy Chou answers the Quora question “What are some particularly female engineer-friendly companies to work for in San Francisco?” By Tracy Chou (Software Engineer, Pinterest) At Pinterest, we have a great company culture (read my breathless rant here). Women are as integral and respected a part of our diverse team as anyone else, [...]
Wantworthy, Co-Founded By CEO Lauren McDevitt, Raises $1M Seed Funding
August 10, 2012 – 11:00 am
NYC-based Wantworthy graduates from TechStars, raises seed funding to accelerate product development. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Wantworthy announced raising $1M in seed funding, led by RRE Ventures, Google Ventures, Quotidian Ventures, and several NYC-area angels also participated. 2011 NYC TechStars graduate Wantworthy aims to help you keep track of everything you [...]
Dear Marissa: Think Different. (Pink Is The New Purple)
July 30, 2012 – 11:00 am
By narrowing its focus to women, Yahoo can beat the pants off its competitors. By Dave McClure (Founder & Partner, 500 Startups) I’d like to write a different open letter to Marissa Mayer that plays to both her strengths, as well as those of Yahoo. It’s a bit off the wall, but if you think [...]
Google I/O Session “Designing for the Other Half: Sexy Isn’t Always Pink” (Video)
July 10, 2012 – 10:03 am
Watch a panel of women in technology and entrepreneurship talk about building products for inclusion. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) After the powerhouse Women Techmakers panel of Googlers kicked off Google I/O festivities in San Francisco, a panel of women in technology and entrepreneurship were featured at Google I/O talking about “Designing [...]
Don’t Miss Google I/O Session “Sexy Isn’t Always Pink” Featuring Women 2.0 On Friday, June 29 @ 9AM (PST)
June 28, 2012 – 3:24 pm
On Friday, June 29 at 9AM (PST), don’t miss the panel on designing for inclusion at Google I/O. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Aside from the unveiling of Google’s new 7-inch Asus-made Nexus tablet and Project Glass‘s skydiving demo at Google I/O yesterday – don’t miss Women 2.0′s own Director of All [...]
Lover.ly Founder & CEO Kellee Khalil On Partnerships, Revenue (Video)
June 24, 2012 – 6:00 am
Founder Kellee Khalil has big plans for the company, hoping to eventually follow a woman through all the big life stages, like wedding, pregnancy, moving into a new homes, and being a newlywed. By Jordan Crook (Writer, TechCrunch) In a world where Pinterest is filled with wedding gear and the economic downturn has scratched “wedding [...]
The Science Of Marketing
June 5, 2012 – 9:00 am
Marketing in Silicon Valley requires a scientific approach. By Julie Zhou (Growthmaster, Hipmunk) Math was my favorite subject in high school. After college, I was primed for the well-trodden path to investment banking where I could play with numbers all day. Instead, when Google came calling in search of marketers, my career took an unexpected [...]
