If you have an idea and you’re passionate about it, don’t wait. By Molly Cain (Contributor, ForbesWoman) There are some common things you should expect when you first go into business for yourself. On the first day, you create your business plan. That night you go to bed at a regular hour and then wake [...]
Posts Tagged "PITCH 2012"
Helping Luck Find You
September 19, 2012 – 7:00 am
The great thing about being the CEO of my company is that I can define the CEO role any way I want. By Miki Johnson (Co-Founder, Parsecco) Lucky. That’s the word we use more than any other when describing how our Parsecco team came together. Jackson and I were lucky to be put on a [...]
Learn To Pitch Your Startup: Previous PITCH Startup Competition Finalists Show You How (Videos)
August 28, 2012 – 9:00 am
Deadline to apply to pitch your startup onstage at the next PITCH conference is August 31, 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) On Valentine’s Day earlier this year, I had the privilege of participating in the 1000-women-strong PITCH conference where industry leaders like Caterina Fake (Flickr) and Robin Chase (ZipCar) talked onstage [...]
From Actor To CEO – To Pitch Contest!
August 24, 2012 – 1:00 pm
To prepare, we watched all the pitches from the last Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition and noted not only the questions the judges asked, but also which pitches we liked the best and why. By Kathryn Velvel Jones (Founder & CEO, VirtualArtsTV) After 16 years as a professional actor/producer, I took a job as Vice [...]
Learn From Leaders Of Product Innovation: Women 2.0 PITCH 2012 Videos Now Available Online
August 7, 2012 – 9:00 am
For $30, get full access to Women 2.0 premium videos for the next 30 days online. By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) We have exclusive videos from PITCH 2012, our 1000 person conference last February in Silicon Valley. We recorded all the conference talks, panels and pitches for you so you can pop [...]
International Applicants Encouarged To Apply To PITCH NYC By August 31
July 10, 2012 – 7:00 am
Deadline to apply for $25k and more prizes for PITCH NYC Startup Competition is August 31, 2012. By Rebecca Lipon (Application & Judges Coordinator, PITCH Competition 2012) Women 2.0 is actively accepting applications for our PITCH NYC 2012 competition, and we have received many questions from applicants. Below I’ve answered the most common ones. Please [...]
Advice For First-Time Entrepreneurs From A Serial Entrepreneur
June 26, 2012 – 8:00 am
“For a first-time entrepreneur, what people really look at and measure is your ability to make progress.” By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) 2012 PITCH competition judge Sukhinder Singh Cassidy talks about her own experience and lessons learned in raising venture funding. She co-founded Yodlee in 1999 and raised $200M+ in venture capital [...]
2012 PITCH Finalist Daisy Jing, Founder Of Perfect Beauty, Talks About Confidence And Pitching Your Startup
June 12, 2012 – 5:00 am
Women 2.0 is bringing PITCH to New York this fall – apply for PITCH NYC by August 31, 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) “Startup Weekend changed my life,” exclaimed Daisy Jing. Daisy took her passion for beauty products to the hackathon, formed a team and built an early prototype. She wrote [...]
Man (And Then Procopio) Gets Women (2.0)
April 23, 2012 – 7:19 pm
Women 2.0 supporter Procopio in San Diego sponsors and hosts the May 4 Founder Friday Launch! By Roger Rappoport (Founder, StartUp Info & Partner, Procopio) Although not scheduled to be in Silicon Valley on Valentine’s Day 2012, a confluence of events prompted me to rearrange my schedule and fly to the Bay Area for the [...]
A First Date With The Valley – Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
April 2, 2012 – 12:56 pm
The first thing PITCH reminded me was how lucky I am to live near the Silicon Valley. By Miki Johnson (Co-Founder, PassionSync) I had been on the Women 2.0 mailing list only a few weeks when a message about the fast-approaching PITCH Conference hit my inbox. Sometimes the universe delivers just what you need, just [...]
