High school girls have prototyped game-changing mobile apps for the Technovation Challenge. The best teams will be flying in from all over the world – New York, Texas, Nigeria, Brazil and England – to compete on May 2 at the World Pitch 2013 event in San Francisco. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) [...]
Posts Tagged "Twitter"
Top 10 Technovation Challenge World Pitch Teams Announced, Will Pitch Next Week at Twitter HQ in SF
April 24, 2013 – 9:00 am
18 Year-Old Gets Investment from Richard Branson: On Dropping Out and Leaning In
March 18, 2013 – 11:00 am
I quickly realized that the best use of my time wasn’t in the classroom and that the “college experience” most people got from college apparently wasn’t in my life plans. By Stacey Ferreira (Co-Founder & VP, MySocialCloud) Just one day after I graduated high school, I packed my bags and moved from Phoenix, Arizona to [...]
Calling All Women 2.0 – We Need YOU To Be A Mentor
January 28, 2013 – 9:00 am
“You should have had more women on that panel” By Heather Harde (Vice Chairman, sf.citi) “You didn’t have enough female-founder companies competing in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt”… “You didn’t have enough women nominees for the Crunchies Awards”… “Your blog is not doing enough to advance women in technology”… These were all regular refrains I [...]
The Mommy Shift: A Tech-Savvy Re-Entry Strategy
December 5, 2012 – 8:00 am
Lists of resources for busy moms to investigating what things have changed post-hiatus. By Melissa Llarena (CEO & Founder, Career Outcomes Matter) Any mom’s return to work can be successful and lasting. To accomplish these goals, a mom has to evaluate, prepare, and adjust her reentry plans based on market changes, role expectations and, of [...]
Tech Talk: Frontend Vs. Backend
August 14, 2012 – 1:35 pm
The frontend is the part of a web site that you can see and interact with, while the backend is all the rest. By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder, Balance Media & Skillcrush) The frontend is the part of a web site that you can see and interact with, while the backend is all the rest. You [...]
Join The Changemakers #SocEntChat On Women And Technology (August 1)
July 31, 2012 – 11:14 am
Bridge the technology divide on August 1 in a discussion about social entrepreneurship. By Dani Matielo (Community Manager, Ashoka Changemakers) Life for women and girls in the 21st century can be a challenge. Every day, millions of women worldwide deal with a gender and technology divide that leaves them underrepresented at every level of the [...]
Think You Have What It Takes To Start A Business? (Triptrotting)
March 22, 2012 – 11:58 am
How to convince a software engineer to join your early-stage tech startup. By Edward Kim (Senior Engineer, Triptrotting) Almost once a week, I get a random phone call, email, message, etc. It goes something like this: “Hey Eddie, I’ve got this million dollar idea. I just need a programmer to make it.” Before I go [...]
Ambient Social Is Dependent On Interests, Except Maybe Grindr…
March 20, 2012 – 1:00 pm
By Renee DiResta (Associate, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) There have been lots of interesting posts lately about how Highlight, Glancee and Sonar performed at SXSW. As a SXSW n00b, I installed all three. Unfortunately, the battery drain made continued use impossible, but I did notice that there was almost no overlap in the connections they suggested. [...]
How To Increase Your Business Without Networking
March 14, 2012 – 12:32 pm
By Steph Auteri (Founder, Word Nerd Pro) I’m an introvert. Extended social interactions exhaust me and, after awhile, I hit a wall. There are so many things that terrify me about networking. Where I struggle in person, I shine on paper. Instead of small talk, I tweet. Instead of appearing on panels, I blog out [...]
Woodstock For Geeks: SXSW Interactive
March 12, 2012 – 12:21 pm
Opportunities for SXSW and HIMSS. By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) At HIMSS a few weeks ago, I was feeling semi-hip among the healthcare uber-nerd crowd that worries about how to make big hospital and healthcare enterprises function with big data. Fast forward two weeks and I found myself, too uncool for [...]
