These female founders involved in startups geared toward improving urban living are well worth keeping an eye on. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Living in a bustling city can be amazing, but it can also have its annoyances from traffic snarls and lunatic parking rules to crummy, distant supermarkets and less than fresh air. [...]
Posts Tagged "TaskRabbit"
5 Productivity Apps You Need to Try Today
April 30, 2013 – 12:17 pm
Check out these five women-powered productivity app companies that boost your productivity! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Who doesn’t love a good list, especially a list of to-do’s? Now add the power of new technology to the traditional to-do list and productivity guidelines – and some women entrepreneurs – and you have [...]
Got Big Goals? Female Founders on How to Maintain Big Motivation
March 21, 2013 – 10:00 am
Big dreams equal epic to-do lists, so how can you keep going even when there’s so much ground to cover? By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) If you’re running a mile or checking a handful of items off your daily to-do list, keeping your motivation up is simple. The finish line is right there in [...]
Women At The 2012 Crunchies Awards, Tech’s Academy Awards
February 1, 2013 – 12:30 pm
Women took the 2012 Crunchies Awards stage as presenters, winners. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Attended by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (accepting the award for “Best CEO of 2012″) and kicked off by presenter and sponsor Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, the 2012 Crunchies Awards in San Francisco last night did not disappoint. [...]
Get Mentored At Lunchtime At The Women 2.0 Conference – Learn From A Baker’s Dozen Of Experienced Entrepreneurs On Feb. 14
January 25, 2013 – 1:28 pm
Meet the female founders joining us as lunchtime mentors at the Women 2.0 Conference on February 14 in San Francisco. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Calling all early-stage entrepreneurs – and aspiring entrepreneurs! Join us at lunchtime mentoring on Valentine’s Day! Dozens of experienced entrepreneurs will be joining us at lunchtime on [...]
Crowdsourced Children’s Apparel Startup One Jackson, Founded By CEO Anne Raimondi, Acquired By TaskRabbit
November 15, 2012 – 8:00 am
Children’s clothing startup to shut down as team joins TaskRabbit. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Former SurveyMonkey VP of Marketing Anne Raimondi launched One Jackson earlier this year to disrupt the $1.5 billion kids clothing market by enabling independent designers to produce lines of clothes through design challenges and consumer voting contests. [...]
Female Founders To Watch Creating Noteworthy iPhone Apps
September 21, 2012 – 9:23 am
Meet 5 women who created amazing apps for the Apple app store. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) As Leah Busque reminds us, you can skip the line at the Apple store by using her TaskRabbit iPhone app to summon a TaskRabbit to stand in line for your new iPhone 5. Here at [...]
FLOODGATE Raises $75M Fund, Managed By Partner Ann Miura-Ko
August 1, 2012 – 7:00 am
Under Ann Miura-Ko’s management, FLOODGATE has invested in many women-led startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) VC fund FLOODGATE announced today closing a $75M fund for investment in early-stage high-growth ventures using technology to accelerate business. At FLOODGATE, Ann Miura-Ko led the investment in ModCloth (co-founded by CCO Susan Gregg Koger) and [...]
Female Founders To Watch: This Week’s Successful Fund-Raisers
July 27, 2012 – 6:00 am
We celebrated a flurry of venture funding announcements for women-founded startups this week. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We celebrate women securing investment for business ventures because raising a round of venture capital is a public, measurable milestone for a startup. When an early-stage company receives investment, either VC or angel, we [...]
Google I/O Session “Designing for the Other Half: Sexy Isn’t Always Pink” (Video)
July 10, 2012 – 10:03 am
Watch a panel of women in technology and entrepreneurship talk about building products for inclusion. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) After the powerhouse Women Techmakers panel of Googlers kicked off Google I/O festivities in San Francisco, a panel of women in technology and entrepreneurship were featured at Google I/O talking about “Designing [...]
