Not only are Wetherell and Bilotta founders, of course, but they’re also users — and the app has helped them get through the process of a major house renovation. By Ryan Lawler (Writer, TechCrunch) There’s a growing market for mobile apps designed to help couples stay closer. The phenomenon first came to my attention with [...]
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Yapp Founder Maria Seidman On The Rise Of App Creation And Being A Pregnant Founder
June 18, 2012 – 11:00 am
Seidman said she never felt any hesitation from her co-founder or investors, but that she believes it may be an issue for some female founders, and that it’s important to have a conversation around the issue as women begin to found more and more companies. By Jordan Crook (Writer, TechCrunch) Yapp has been around for [...]
Got 99 Competitors And Bit.ly Is One
June 13, 2012 – 6:00 am
“You refer stuff, you earn rewards. No shenanigans (Hat tip: Twilio).” By Danielle Morrill (Co-Founder & CEO, Referly) When you launch a company, suddenly everyone is a competitor, or so it feels. Then you realize everyone you thought was a competitor might also be a partner at best, and a distraction at worst. Next you [...]
Kleiner Perkins Adds Megan Quinn As Newest Investment Partner
May 31, 2012 – 11:06 am
Appointment adds weight to KPCB’s stated focus on pioneering gender diversity and equality. By Colleen Taylor (Writer, TechCrunch) Megan Quinn, the web exec who most recently served as the Director of Products at credit card processing tech firm Square, has joined Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as an investment [...]
True&Co Takes $2M Seed Funding From First Round, SoftTech, Others To Shake Up The Bra Industry
May 31, 2012 – 5:00 am
True&Co co-founders Aarthi Ramamurthy and Michelle secure funding from investors for bra shopping. By Ingrid Lunden (Writer, TechCrunch) The women’s liberation movement once taught ladies to cast off their bras in solidarity and empowerment; now a new startup, founded by two women, is inverting that formula to make sure that when you put it back [...]
How Poornima Vijayashanker Fell In Love with Building Software
May 25, 2012 – 8:00 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Semil Shah (Operations, Votizen) “In the Studio” continues this week with an engineer who began programming at the end high school, double-majored in CS/EE in college, dropped out of Stanford’s graduate CS program to become the second employee at Mint.com, and after spending some time at Intuit [...]
Gender In Tech: No Longer A Silent Issue
May 23, 2012 – 7:00 am
Ellen Pao’s lawsuit allows our community to discuss these “women in tech” issues as real problems. By Cristina Cordova (Business Development, Pulse) TechCrunch reported that Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao sued her firm for gender and sexual discrimination. A friend immediately told me “Well that’s career suicide” and I can’t say I didn’t think the [...]
New Project, Roominate, Offers A Fully-Wired Dollhouse For Kids
May 20, 2012 – 12:35 pm
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By John Biggs (Writer, TechCrunch) Teaching kids – especially little girls – about electronics is a hard job. First, there’s the electricity. Then there’s the sense that soldering, wiring, and lining up LEDs is considerably less fun than watching Tangled. This project, called Roominate, aims to change the [...]
Wendy Tan White’s Moonfruit Acquired For $29M By Yell
May 16, 2012 – 10:49 am
Moonfruit took £1.57M in funding in 2010 from Silicon Valley angels including Dave McClure of 500 Startups. By Mike Butcher (Writer, TechCrunch) In the white heat of the current tech market it’s sometimes easy to forget that some companies, although taking their time, simply become viable businesses – instead of waiting for a call from [...]
Refer.ly Lets Regular Folks Earn Affiliate Revenue For Recommending Products They Love
May 14, 2012 – 9:57 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Kim-Mai Cutler (Writer, TechCrunch) Danielle Morrill’s been thinking about this idea for at least three years. I know this because it was almost all she could talk for an hour straight at a dinner party several years ago. If you’re an entrepreneur and you get bit with [...]
