Deadline to apply to join Astia’s fall global entrepreneur program is Monday, September 17, 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Wikipedia says “Astia is a genus of jumping spiders” but here in the tech world, we are familiar with Astia as the non-profit that accelerates women starting high-growth high-tech ventures, offering programs [...]
Posts Tagged "Poornima Vijayashanker"
Managing Engineering: How To Keep Your Startup Engineer Sane
September 10, 2012 – 9:00 am
Solving technical issues with your engineer. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) You worked hard to attract that so-called rock star engineer, thinking that they would be the golden goose who could bring your vision to reality, but now things have gotten rocky. Iteration cycles are taking too long, buggy code is being shipped, [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Women With Solid Technical Chops – And Own It
August 10, 2012 – 8:48 am
For a thorough list of technical women founding companies (CTOs, CEOs, VPs of engineering and more), check out this list. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Of the five finalists for Entrepreneur Magazine’s ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR award, there is a female founder – Limor Fried. The MIT-educated electrical engineer (pictured) started electronics [...]
Women 2.0 Discount On San Francisco General Assembly Classes (Taught By Clare Baley, Anna Pereira And Poornima Vijayashanker)
August 2, 2012 – 9:00 am
Save 10% on General Assembly’s classes in San Francisco with discount code “women2″. Women 2.0 has partnered with General Assembly to offer a 10% discount on classes popping up in San Francisco this summer! Mobile apps are hot. If you are interested in learning the basics of Android development, the Writing Your First Android App [...]
Why I Picked Astia In The Jungle Of Startup Accelerators, Incubators
June 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
“I made new friendships with CEOs from around the world building products solving a variety of problems.” By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) When I left Mint.com to start BizeeBee, a number of startup incubators approached me about joining. While I liked the concept of having focused time to think, learn, and mentors who [...]
To Really See Your Startup Vision, Leave The Building.
June 9, 2012 – 11:00 am
“I told her who I was and she announced to the group, ‘This is the woman who came up with BizeeBee, it runs my business!” By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) One day ago I was supposed to get on a plane to Paris for a 3 week vacation in the South of France, [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Helping Small Business Owners
June 8, 2012 – 12:31 pm
Here are useful tools for small business owners built by women entrepreneurs. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Starting your own business comes with a unique set of challenges. Early-stage startup entrepreneurs are no stranger to these challenges. These notable women entrepreneurs, each equipped with a background in computer science and penchant for [...]
How Poornima Vijayashanker Fell In Love with Building Software
May 25, 2012 – 8:00 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Semil Shah (Operations, Votizen) “In the Studio” continues this week with an engineer who began programming at the end high school, double-majored in CS/EE in college, dropped out of Stanford’s graduate CS program to become the second employee at Mint.com, and after spending some time at Intuit [...]
Why Aren’t There More Tech Women?
April 30, 2012 – 10:30 am
Join Poornima Vijayashanker of BizeeBee and Alexa Andrzejewski of Foodspotting on Thursday, May 10 for a Startup Triad event on “Fearless Female Founders” at AirBnB in San Francisco! By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) I usually don’t like to debate issues of gender or race, but the with the tech community buzzing about the [...]
Femgineer Celebrates 5 Years Of Blogging Changes, Starting Up
March 18, 2012 – 6:00 am
A femgineer discusses the Silicon Valley and women in engineering. By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) It’s been five years since I started blogging at Femgineer. I can vividly remember the process I went through when I was deciding on a name for the blog, I wanted something that would capture being feminine and [...]
