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 [...]
Posts Tagged "Starbucks"
Why Your Next Board Member Should Be A Woman
February 20, 2012 – 11:19 am
By Aileen Lee (Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) Good questions have been asked lately of tech companies without gender diversity on their boards of directors. While women comprise 51% of the population, they make up only 15.7% of Fortune 500 boards of directors, less than 10% of California tech company boards, and 9.1% of [...]
Partner event: GeoLoco San Francisco on November 4
October 30, 2011 – 2:01 pm
On November 3, 2011 in San Francisco, the GeoLoco conference will dive into the brand, advertiser and location convergence in the context of the Social, Local and Mobile (SoLoMo) marketplace — and explore what it means for big brands, consumers, SMBs and the location industry. Executives from Starbucks, Google, Waze, Facebook, Foursquare and leading investors [...]
