This week more than 100 Silicon Valley heavyweights participated in an in-flight hackathon. Here are seven amazing female founders who were on the plane. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) This week Women 2.0 co-founder and CEO Shaherose Charania took part in BA’s UnGrounded, an innovative hackathon conducted on a plane from San Francisco to [...]
Posts Tagged "Shaherose Charania"
Innovation Has Landed!
June 13, 2013 – 12:19 pm
Last night Women 2.0 CEO Shaherose Charania participated in BA’s UnGrounded flight, a transatlantic hackathon en route from San Francisco to London. This morning she reports in on the experience, shares some pics and explains what her team came up with. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) As we reported earlier today, our CEO is [...]
BA’s UnGrounded Hackathon Unleashes Creative Chaos… on a Plane
June 13, 2013 – 4:30 am
And Women 2.0 CEO Shaherose Charania is there to fill us in on every detail. Here she explains the idea behind the innovative experiment. By Shaherose Charania (Co-founder & CEO, Women 2.0) These next few days are a whirlwind of activity as myself, along with 130 other Silicon Valley movers-and-shakers solve the world’s problems in [...]
Who Needs a Y Chromosome? New Documentary Encourages Girls to Get Into Tech
April 3, 2013 – 12:00 pm
A new short documentary fighting back against the decline in the number of young women considering studying computer science premieres tonight at Stanford. By Ayna Agarwal & Ellora Israni (Co-Directors, she++ Women in Technology Conference) Between 2000 and 2009, there was a 79% drop in the number of first-year undergraduate women considering computer science, even as the likes [...]
Got Big Goals? Female Founders on How to Maintain Big Motivation
March 21, 2013 – 10:00 am
Big dreams equal epic to-do lists, so how can you keep going even when there’s so much ground to cover? By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) If you’re running a mile or checking a handful of items off your daily to-do list, keeping your motivation up is simple. The finish line is right there in [...]
Ever Wondered What It’s Like Backstage at the Women 2.0 Conference?
March 16, 2013 – 3:00 pm
Sony Entertainment Television pulls back the curtain on the recent Women 2.0 conference, interviewing speakers backstage and talking with Women 2.0 co-founder Shaherose Charania about her story. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) What goes on backstage at a tech conference? If you’ve ever wondered what the speakers were talking about after they left the [...]
This Isn’t a Girl Thing
March 15, 2013 – 8:00 am
Marissa Mayer’s decision to bring all Yahoo! employees back to the office has nothing to do with gender — it’s all about business and reinvigorating a stumbling behemoth. By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) I had a chat with my friends at Bloomberg last week. They were perplexed that the media was still [...]
Sneak Peek: Backstage at the Women 2.0 Conference
March 14, 2013 – 8:55 am
Sony Entertainment Television was at the recent Women 2.0 conference interviewing speakers backstage and talking with Women 2.0 co-founder Shaherose Charania – the resulting show airs Saturday (but a sneak preview is out now). By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) What goes on backstage at a tech conference? If you’ve ever wondered what the speakers [...]
Women 2.0 Hosts Panel At SXSW 2013 (Startup America LIVE)
March 5, 2013 – 8:00 am
Join Women 2.0 at SXSW Interactive this March 8-12 in Austin, Texas! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) On Friday, March 8, Women 2.0 will be at Startup America LIVE in the Startup Village located in downtown Austin’s Hilton (4th Floor). Join us for a conversation with female founders Alice Taylor (Founder & [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Founder Friday Austin @ SXSW 2013
March 1, 2013 – 2:53 pm
Join Women 2.0 at SXSW (March 8-12 in Austin, Texas)! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 will be going to SXSW next week – join us for Founder Friday Austin on March 8 at Startup America LIVE in the Downtown Austin Hilton! We will be joined by Kauffman Foundation VP Lesa [...]
