Meet four women in California and New York who learned to code for very different reasons – and results! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder, Women 2.0) People learn to code for all sorts of reasons, from building their own startup to building on top of their partner’s startup. In the case of a San Francisco-based marketing [...]
Posts Tagged "Skillcrush"
April Fool’s Jokes from Female-Founded Companies
April 1, 2013 – 4:28 pm
What’s your favorite Internet April Fool’s joke this year? By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) From a handful of Easter Eggs hidden in Google today, to Twitter’s nixing of vowels, today is a day of Internet jokery. Food subscription service Love with Food announced venturing into a new market today and launched Love [...]
Women: 5 Tips To Be A Standout
March 3, 2013 – 9:27 pm
Whether it be picking up new skills, throwing away your fear of the unknown, or just betting on the right person or plan, here are a few tips to get your started. By Jane Wang (Hacker, Etsy) We all know that women outperform men academically, but for whatever reasons our professional careers seem to be [...]
Unpacking Male Tech Privilege (Infographic)
January 11, 2013 – 5:07 pm
On January 6, designer Andy Rutledge launched a satirical website, Conference Quotas, poking fun at the discussion around increasing diversity at tech and design conferences. By Jess Gartner (Founder, Allovue) There’s that word again: privileged. The word is frequently misused and is now commonly interpreted to mean “born with a silver spoon in your mouth” [...]
We Need More Women In Tech, Here’s Why
November 21, 2012 – 6:00 am
By being examples of tech savvy women who are generous with their talents and relentlessly hard working, we’re setting the stage for women who will come after us, building a legacy of real impact. By Audrey Tan (Founder, Waggit) Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg have recently made headlines for their high profile jobs at top [...]
(Infographic) Ada Lovelace Day Celebrates Women Leaders In Tech
October 16, 2012 – 3:00 am
The goal of Ada Lovelace Day is to create new role models for girls and women in these male-dominated fields by raising the profile of other women in STEM. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today is Ada Lovelace Day – October 16, 2012 is about blogging and sharing stories of women, from [...]
Tech Talk Thursday: What Is Twitter Bootstrap?
September 20, 2012 – 7:00 am
A collection of CSS, JavaScript, and image files that help you to quickly build great looking web applications. By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder, Balance Media & Skillcrush) Twitter Bootstrap is a collection of CSS, JavaScript and image files that help you to quickly build great looking web applications. You might remember from our HTML Week that [...]
Tech Talk: Frontend Vs. Backend
August 14, 2012 – 1:35 pm
The frontend is the part of a web site that you can see and interact with, while the backend is all the rest. By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder, Balance Media & Skillcrush) The frontend is the part of a web site that you can see and interact with, while the backend is all the rest. You [...]
Confusion Is Your Friend
August 10, 2012 – 1:00 pm
The most important life lesson my mathematician father taught me. By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder, Balance Media & Skillcrush) My dad defies every stereotype of an absent minded math professor – except for the absent minded part, he is that. Otherwise he bears little resemblance to the stereotype: he is good-looking, funny, an avid surfer, and [...]
Marissa Mayer For President
July 20, 2012 – 11:42 am
Isn’t it funny how that “How do they do it?” question is never really “How does HE do it?” This is particularly frustrating to those women, like myself, who ARE doing it. By Jennifer McFadden (Co-Founder, Skillcrush) We, at Skillcrush, salute the inimitable Marissa Mayer as she takes on her new role as CEO of [...]
