After successful fundings for female-founded products like GoldieBlox, Roominate, Everpurse and OUYA, we wonder what are the reasons behind rocketship successes and quiet failures. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Recently, a Kauffman Foundation dissertation fellow released a paper titled “The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Determinants of Success and Failure” examined almost 47,000 projects [...]
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Female Founders To Watch Shipping Products (With Discounts!) This Holiday Season
November 30, 2012 – 1:58 pm
Celebrating women entrepreneurs building businesses online! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Support your favorite women entrepreneurs who have launched high-growth high-tech ventures while shopping for yourself and loved ones this holiday season! From subscriptions to monthly goods delivered to doorstops to the exquisite, unique pieces of jewelry and lingerie, you can save [...]
Get Gifts To Encourage Little Girls To Be Geeky! (Cyber Monday)
November 26, 2012 – 9:00 am
We need more girls to be interested in science, technology and math. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Alice Brooks grew up playing visiting her dad’s robotics lab. When she asked for a Barbie, he gave her a mini saw. So, she made her own doll! Today, Alice holds Mechanical Engineering degrees from [...]
PITCH NYC 2012: MAKER Panel Talks About Kickstarter Campaigns, Prototyping, Pricing Product And “What Makes This A Tech Company?”
November 14, 2012 – 1:27 pm
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition – By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, the MAKER panel consists of four women starting companies and shipping hardware products: Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, Alice Brooks of Roominate, Liz Salcedo of Everpurse and Debbie Sterling of GoldieBlox. These [...]
Roominate Founder Alice Brooks Joins MAKER Panel At Women 2.0 PITCH Conference In November
October 11, 2012 – 3:18 pm
PITCH Conference speakers include Roominate co-founder Alice Brooks on the November 14 MAKER panel. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today is the first International Day of the Girl, sanctioned by the United Nations. Coincidentally, we’re one month away from Women 2.0′s first PITCH Conference in New York featuring a full day of [...]
One Vision, Three Stanford Students And A Thousand Iterations On “Chocolate-Covered-Broccoli” – Roominate Customer Development
July 10, 2012 – 6:00 am
Girls wanted to be able to construct anything they could imagine, and our testing enabled us to create a toy that equipped them with the perfect tools. By Alice Brooks, Bettina Chen & Jennifer Kessler (Founders, Maykah) In January, we set out to design a toy that would inspire young girls to pursue science, technology, [...]
How Did Your Dad Influence You To Become An Entrepreneur?
June 19, 2012 – 6:00 am
For Father’s Day, we asked women entrepreneurs about their dads’ influence. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Alice Brooks, one of the co-founders of Kickstarter project Roominate, grew up visiting her father’s robotics lab and when she was young, she had her own saw so that they could work side-by-side. She built her [...]
Maykah Builds Toys To Inspire The Next Generation Of Female Technology Innovators
June 11, 2012 – 2:54 pm
“For all three of us, our favorite childhood toys developed the kind of the thinking that we ultimately used in STEM subjects later on.” By Alice Brooks, Bettina Chen & Jennifer Kessler (Founders, Maykah) We all had favorite toys growing up. But did you ever think about how those toys influenced who you are today? [...]
Kickstarter Project “Roominate” Gets Girls Excited About STEM (Meet The Dollhouse With Working Circuits)
June 1, 2012 – 5:00 am
Where every young girl is an artist, engineer, architect & visionary! By Amy-Willard Cross (Editor, Vitamin W) While doing master degrees at Stanford, three young women started a business. Before receiving their graduate degrees, they’ve already got revenue. They’ve accomplished this feat using Kickstarter. The company Maykah’s first product called Roominate is a building kit [...]
New Project, Roominate, Offers A Fully-Wired Dollhouse For Kids
May 20, 2012 – 12:35 pm
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By John Biggs (Writer, TechCrunch) Teaching kids – especially little girls – about electronics is a hard job. First, there’s the electricity. Then there’s the sense that soldering, wiring, and lining up LEDs is considerably less fun than watching Tangled. This project, called Roominate, aims to change the [...]
