“Fortune does favor the bold. I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.” – Sheryl Sandberg By Janet Choi (Chief Creative Officer, iDoneThis) Women who promote themselves experience greater career advancement, compensation and career satisfaction. So I say “amen!” to Oprah’s advice that “in order to get people’s attention [...]
Posts Tagged "Sandy Jen"
PITCH NYC 2012: Meebo CTO Sandy Jen Talks About Rethinking The Startup Exit
November 14, 2012 – 9:15 am
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition – By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, Meebo CTO and co-founder Sandy Jen talks about hearing the words “What is your exit?” over and over again. She now hears instead the question, “What kind of company are you building?” [...]
Meebo Co-Founder And CTO Sandy Jen Speaking At PITCH NYC Conference (November 14)
October 16, 2012 – 2:35 pm
PITCH Conference speakers include Meebo co-founder and CTO Sandy Jen – Google acquired her startup earlier this year! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in STEM who are role models. Coincidentally, we’re one month away from Women 2.0′s first PITCH Conference in New York [...]
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 [...]
Women Executives Drive Successful Startups (Dow Jones Study)
October 4, 2012 – 10:44 am
Dow Jones study released today measures success of companies with more women in executive positions. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A study released today, “Women At The Wheel: Do Female Executives Drive Start-Up Success?”, examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and 167,556 executives, of which 11,193 were female. Results show that venture-backed startups [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Google Acquisitions
September 28, 2012 – 8:00 am
Celebrating Google’s birthday – and the female founders acquired by Google over the last 14 years. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Google announced partnering with Women 2.0 with the launch of the new Google for Entrepreneurs program. We celebrated Google’s 14th birthday and reflected on the 118 mergers and acquisitions [...]
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 [...]
Meebo, Founded By CTO Sandy Jen And Developer Elaine Wherry, Acquired By Google For A Rumored $100M
June 4, 2012 – 3:21 pm
Congratulations to co-founders Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry for the acquisition of Meebo by Google today! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Six years ago, we invited Meebo co-founders Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry as speakers for the first Women 2.0 conference in April 2006. I remember how excited the Women 2.0 team [...]
Jezebel Names Innovators For Best Buy’s Super Bowl Ad
February 7, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Jezebel nominates “lady innovators Best Buy could’ve put in its Super Bowl ad” on Sunday. Jezebel blogger Anna North points out that this ad showcased a bunch of male tech innovators. She writes: “Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt — maybe those poor ad execs [...]
The Giving Season: Stories Of Leadership, Mentorship (Videos)
December 16, 2011 – 1:00 pm
By Dara Olmsted (Grant Writer & Ethnographer, Iridescent) Did you miss the Technovation Challenge’s Women in Leadership panel at Andreessen Horowitz last month? The science education non-profit that runs the Technovation Challenge, Iridescent, teaches high school girls how to design a mobile phone app prototype, write a business plan, and pitch their plan to a [...]
