These female founders involved in startups geared toward improving urban living are well worth keeping an eye on. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Living in a bustling city can be amazing, but it can also have its annoyances from traffic snarls and lunatic parking rules to crummy, distant supermarkets and less than fresh air. [...]
Posts Tagged "Robin Chase"
Avis To Acquire Female-Founded ZipCar For $491.2 Million
January 2, 2013 – 2:44 pm
Previous Women 2.0 Conference speaker Robin Chase founded ZipCar, which went public in April 2011 and announced plans today to be acquired by car rental giant Avis. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The 1000+ Women 2.0 Conference attendees last Valentine’s Day remember Robin Chase’s story of going from concept to customers – [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Grace Hopper Celebration Attendees Celebrating Startup Acquisitions And IPOs
October 5, 2012 – 9:17 am
Celebrating GHC attendees and women entrepreneurs who exit! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Women 2.0 has been attending the Grace Hopper Celebration in Baltimore, Maryland alongside literally thousands of women engineers, ranging from college students and academics to working professionals. Amidst the throngs of tech-savvy women, we’ve spied a few [...]
Learn From Successful Women Entrepreneurs In Tech (Premium Videos From February’s PITCH 2012 Conference)
August 14, 2012 – 7:16 am
Get inspired by these women leaders sharing stories of fundraising, team building and more. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The sound bytes that were tweeted from February’s PITCH 2012 conference were golden. “Know what you have to prove,” said ZipCar co-founder Robin Chase on building a minimum viable product. Just the minimum [...]
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 [...]
Getaround, Founded By Jessica Scorpio, Raises $13.9M Series A
August 2, 2012 – 3:44 pm
Jessica Scorpio’s cleantech startup raises funding to solve car overpopulation and change the world. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) “Like Airbnb for cars” – social carsharing marketplace Getaround announced raising $13.9M in Series A funding today led by Menlo Ventures. In the list of investors includes Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. Getaround was [...]
Groupon Blog: Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
February 27, 2012 – 2:19 pm
By Emily Moss & Kathleen Meil (Product, Groupon) Last week, we visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for the fifth annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference. PITCH is a conference for women in tech to gather and mingle and learn from one another. As Groupon employees we were excited to spend the day schmoozing [...]
Lessons Learned From The 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
February 23, 2012 – 3:20 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Thanks everybody for joining us at our fifth annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on February 14, 2012 at the Computer History Museum on Valentine’s Day. It was a sold-out success with 1000 women (and a few good men) strong. Special thanks to Tropo, Bing, [...]
The Huffington Post: Women Entrepreneurs On The Rise
February 22, 2012 – 3:47 pm
By Jack D. Hidary (Co-Founder, Dice) What do Gilt, Foodspotting and TaskRabbit all have in common? They were all co-founded by women. This is an encouraging sign in a field that has too few female entrepreneurs. A recent article in San Francisco Magazine highlights a new crop of women-led startups in the Bay Area. These [...]
You Can’t Just Listen, You Have To Feel (PITCH Sketchnotes)
February 21, 2012 – 3:56 pm
By Alexis Finch (Pencil, GraphiteMind) 1000 women in one room, and every one of them ready to start something. PITCH was enough to leave you gasping, at the pure potential, at the achievements, at the wisdom you could pick up from eavesdropping alone. How do you capture an experience like this so you can look [...]
