Geeks and fashionistas are teaming up to upend the fashion industry and improve the lives of shoppers. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Geeks generally aren’t known for their fashion sense, nor fashionistas for their tech prowess, but what happens when these two very different worlds meet and mingle? Interesting things, it turns out, a [...]
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Female Founders To Follow In Fashion Tech Entrepreneurship
June 1, 2012 – 7:00 am
From ModCloth to Moda Operandi, these tech startups in the fashion space are founded by women to watch. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Democratizing fashion has never been so venture-fundable. With successes like Gilt Group and Ideeli, “a lot of women go to Harvard with the intent of working on the business [...]
Startups Pass On Silicon Valley To Find Their Fortunes In New York
February 6, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Ryan Kim (Writer, GigaOm) Though Silicon Valley has lured away plenty of startups, (cough: Facebook), New York is becoming a magnet of its own, attracting companies that want to build their businesses amid the bright lights of the big city. In the last couple months, New York has drawn former San Francisco startup Qwiki, [...]
Female Founders of Snapette Not Your Typical Geek Entrepreneurs
October 14, 2011 – 9:18 pm
By Tomio Geron (Writer, Forbes) The founders of Snapette are not your prototypical start-up entrepreneurs. At least in the minds of some Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The two founders, Jinhee Anh Kim and Sarah Paiji, are not prototypical young, male engineers from Silicon Valley. They’re women with business backgrounds from the East Coast and other [...]
How to Build Collaborative Relationships with a Startup
September 19, 2011 – 6:30 am
By Mika Herrera (Founder, Apparel Dream) Two months ago, I came to the Silicon Valley without knowing anyone and eager to start my 99designs project for fashion called Apparel Dream. Right from the start, I believed that one of the most important things was to start building relationships with entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Shortly after [...]
500 Startups Announces New Accelerator Batch with 20% Women Founders
June 9, 2011 – 9:02 am
By Christine Tsai (Partner, 500 Startups) 500 Startups has a new Accelerator batch that kicked off May 23. We have 20 startups in the program from May to September. Among the companies in this batch are: 20% women founders: LaunchBit, Snapette, Vayable, Cardinal Blue, Culture Kitchen and DailyAisle have women founders. In particular, 100% of [...]
