A treasure trove of tips, predictions and insight from the conference’s keynote speaker, Marc Andreessen, in conversation with Ruchi Sanghvi, co-founder of Cove and first female engineer at Facebook. by Salem Kimble (Manager, Online Strategies, BetterWorld Telecom) Women 2.0 is leading the charge in the world of technology for connecting women with opportunity and each other. But [...]
Posts Tagged "Stanford"
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 [...]
The Well-Funded Aerospace Startup You Never Heard of
April 3, 2013 – 8:00 am
Ching-Yu Hu, co-founder of Skybox Imaging, talks about building and scaling a company with a bold vision. Her talk begins at minute 30 of the hour-long video. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Four years after Skybox Imaging started at Stanford University, Skybox’s founders (Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick and Ching-Yu Hu) [...]
How Do VCs See Women? A New Study Weighs In
March 29, 2013 – 7:00 am
Only 4.2% of venture capitalist funding goes to women. Why so little? A new study out of Stanford offers aggravating but enlightening answers. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) The amount of VC funding that goes to women is low, pathetically low, at just 4.2%. Sure, tech and entrepreneurship skews male but not that male, [...]
Evite Founder Selina Tobaccowala Will Talk About Going From Dorm Room To Billions On February 14 At Women 2.0 Conference
January 22, 2013 – 7:00 am
From Evite founder to SurveyMonkey Senior VP, Selina Tobaccowala will be speaking and sharing her story at Women 2.0 Conference on February 14 in San Francisco – get your ticket now to join! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 welcomes SurveyMonkey’s SVP of Product & Engineering Selina Tobaccowala as a speaker [...]
Technical Project Management, Self-Learning Software Engineering And iOS Applications, Oh My
January 6, 2013 – 10:00 am
I went into this class with some preconceptions about how an ideal project manager should act. I learned that the reality was more complicated. By Veronica Ray (Senior, Duke University) This semester, I took a Computer Science course at Duke called Apps: From Concept to Client. My three-member team worked on a native iPad application [...]
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? [...]
Words Of Advice From Women Entrepreneurs At DEMO Asia
March 15, 2012 – 10:37 am
By Sharon Lourdes Paul (Contributing Writer, SGEntrepreneurs) Let’s face it. There is still a dearth of female entrepreneurs in startup land. As I walked around the booths at DEMO Asia 2012, only about 10% of startups had female founders. But what does this mean for all of us aspiring, or current, female founders? I was [...]
4 Ways To Get Serious With Extracurricular Learning On A Budget
January 11, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Awesome, Tekserve) “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer Read A New Book Every Month John Spence says that the average business person reads one business book every 5 years. [...]
Why The Web And Global Financial Systems Need Female X Factor
January 5, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Twain Liu (Founder, Senseus) The global financial crisis is causing $100+ trillion of effects to our households, communities and economies, and its root causes go beyond the behaviors of a few dozen bankers and the responses of regulators and politicians. The system’s failings are actually also in the code and mathematical models underpinning the [...]
