This unique environment of midnight sandwich runs, unending games of ping pong, impromptu social media study halls, and Ruby on Rails power hours has served to concentrate our community and expose us to the next generation of visionaries and entrepreneurs. By Katie Warner Johnson (Co-Founder, Carbon38) My team and I all looked up from our [...]
Posts Tagged "Startup Weekend"
Carbon38 Launches Today, A Year After Attending Women 2.0 Startup Weekend (Surfing The Wave)
January 14, 2013 – 11:59 am
5 Startup Lessons Learned In 2012 – From Idea To Launch
December 17, 2012 – 11:00 am
As a young company, we faced incredible challenges in the journey from idea to launch; we lost an early potential co-founder, found a replacement, we started building a site only to have to scrap it and build in a new language, we won a demo competition without a real demo, we recruited several to work [...]
Get Introduced To Startup Ecosystem Leaders At PITCH NYC 2012 – NY Tech Meetup, 85 Broads, Girl Develop It, Springboard Enterprises, Pipeline Fellowship, Startup Weekend, Girls Who Code, Golden Seeds
November 6, 2012 – 7:00 am
Representatives from organizations will be attending PITCH NYC 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We are a little more than a week away from Women 2.0′s first PITCH Conference in New York – a full day of successful women entrepreneurs speaking about starting up and going big! Along with mentoring at lunchtime, [...]
Turning An Idea Into A Viable Product: The Founder’s Journey
October 31, 2012 – 9:00 am
What marks a great entrepreneur is not necessarily the idea, but how well the idea is executed. By Jennie Lees (Product Manager, Google) The spark of inspiration strikes at the strangest times. Whether it’s a flash of insight in the shower, or a puzzle piece clicking into place, we all know the wonderful moment that [...]
CEO Danielle Morrill Raises $1 Million In Seed Funding For Referly
October 15, 2012 – 9:52 am
Congrats to CEO Danielle Morrill for raising funding for Referly, an easy way for people to earn affiliate revenue for recommendations. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) “Funding is not actually success. Success is being cash-flow positive, especially if you’re in a transaction-based business,” co-founder and CEO Danielle Morrill said. Today, Referly announced [...]
Winning Startup Weekend Sofia With A Raspberry Pi
September 30, 2012 – 6:00 am
We pulled off a killer demo during the final presentation for people to turn a normal light bulb on and off through their phones. By Bogdana Rakova (Computer Science Student, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski) Everything began last Friday evening when I pitched an idea related to hardware at the local Sofia Startup Weekend [...]
Helping Luck Find You
September 19, 2012 – 7:00 am
The great thing about being the CEO of my company is that I can define the CEO role any way I want. By Miki Johnson (Co-Founder, Parsecco) Lucky. That’s the word we use more than any other when describing how our Parsecco team came together. Jackson and I were lucky to be put on a [...]
Founder Friday Mexico City Successfully Launches: A Perfect Storm
July 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
“(…) The poorest and most backward-going societies in the world, tend to be those who diminish their women and yet, this blatantly obvious truth is usually ignored, all the same, by governments and philanthropists… Women represent 51% of the human race, supporting them will change everything; even more so than technology, design or entertainment. Women [...]
2012 PITCH Finalist Daisy Jing, Founder Of Perfect Beauty, Talks About Confidence And Pitching Your Startup
June 12, 2012 – 5:00 am
Women 2.0 is bringing PITCH to New York this fall – apply for PITCH NYC by August 31, 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) “Startup Weekend changed my life,” exclaimed Daisy Jing. Daisy took her passion for beauty products to the hackathon, formed a team and built an early prototype. She wrote [...]
Get Thee To A Hackathon!
June 5, 2012 – 11:40 am
A high-pressure cooker for startup ideas, many women have attended – and won – hackathons. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) When I visit New York next weekend, I will be attending the Hack’n Jill hackathon where there is one woman for every man. And while I am a web designer/developer, non-technical entrepreneurs [...]
