Women entrepreneurs speak at Google I/O 2012 about hackathons and designing for inclusion. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Google’s developer conference, Google I/O, wraps up today, culminating 3 days of fly-in demos and $847 worth of free schwag for the attendees. I am putting it on my list to get a press [...]
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Don’t Miss Google I/O Session “Sexy Isn’t Always Pink” Featuring Women 2.0 On Friday, June 29 @ 9AM (PST)
June 28, 2012 – 3:24 pm
On Friday, June 29 at 9AM (PST), don’t miss the panel on designing for inclusion at Google I/O. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Aside from the unveiling of Google’s new 7-inch Asus-made Nexus tablet and Project Glass‘s skydiving demo at Google I/O yesterday – don’t miss Women 2.0′s own Director of All [...]
How Did Your Dad Influence You To Become An Entrepreneur?
June 19, 2012 – 6:00 am
For Father’s Day, we asked women entrepreneurs about their dads’ influence. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Alice Brooks, one of the co-founders of Kickstarter project Roominate, grew up visiting her father’s robotics lab and when she was young, she had her own saw so that they could work side-by-side. She built her [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Helping Small Business Owners
June 8, 2012 – 12:31 pm
Here are useful tools for small business owners built by women entrepreneurs. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Starting your own business comes with a unique set of challenges. Early-stage startup entrepreneurs are no stranger to these challenges. These notable women entrepreneurs, each equipped with a background in computer science and penchant for [...]
Leah Busque: How To Market To Women Without Losing Men
May 14, 2012 – 12:04 pm
Revamping the TaskRabbit site to cater to women but continue to court men. By E.B. Boyd (Silicon Valley Reporter, Fast Company) Whenever TaskRabbit got press, lots of young, professional men signed up. But regular users of the site – which connects members with people willing to do their chores for a small fee – were [...]
5 Ways To Achieve Work-Life Balance (Hint: Outsource Errands)
April 17, 2012 – 3:04 pm
From Laundry Locker to TaskRabbit, you can outsource as many trivial tasks as possible. By Becky Cruze (Co-Founder, BeCouply) Today, women have the opportunity to have it all: a high-powered career, fulfilling relationship, children and the HGTV-worthy home. So what’s the problem? “Having it all” is much easier said than done. Sure, it might be [...]
Young CEOs Of Startups Find Benefits, Challenges By Hiring Employees 40 And Older
March 11, 2012 – 11:00 am
Young startups tend to hire younger workers. By Nate C. Hindman (Writer, Huffington Post) Eric Grosse’s rite of passage at TaskRabbit, a San Francisco-based web startup, came late last year at the company’s annual holiday party. It was just one month after TaskRabbit hired Grosse, who was previously a senior executive at Expedia, the online [...]
Female Founders To Watch: 2012 SXSWi Speakers Edition
March 2, 2012 – 12:59 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) SXSW Interactive (SXSWi) will be taking place in downtown Austin from March 9-13, 2012. We at Women 2.0 will be there co-hosting meetups and parties, details TBA. Influential women in new tech, from former CMO of Mint.com and now CEO of online training platform Mindflash Donna Wells, [...]
TaskRabbit Founder Leah Busque On Finding Mentors (Video)
February 23, 2012 – 5:19 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Leah Busque, founder of TaskRabbit and current Chief Product Officer, talks about the power of networks like Women 2.0. She encourages early-stage entrepreneurs to reach out and acquire great mentors and advisors right away. A former software engineer, Leah was not on the business side but her [...]
The Huffington Post: Women Entrepreneurs On The Rise
February 22, 2012 – 3:47 pm
By Jack D. Hidary (Co-Founder, Dice) What do Gilt, Foodspotting and TaskRabbit all have in common? They were all co-founded by women. This is an encouraging sign in a field that has too few female entrepreneurs. A recent article in San Francisco Magazine highlights a new crop of women-led startups in the Bay Area. These [...]
