Ching-Yu Hu, co-founder of Skybox Imaging, talks about building and scaling a company with a bold vision. Her talk begins at minute 30 of the hour-long video. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Four years after Skybox Imaging started at Stanford University, Skybox’s founders (Dan Berkenstock, Julian Mann, John Fenwick and Ching-Yu Hu) [...]
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An Enterprising Approach to Investment: Cindy Padnos
March 13, 2013 – 6:00 am
“Most venture capital investors assess a founder… ‘are they able to attract the best people, surround themselves with the most talented individuals, are they willing to be challenged by other people…” By Sarah Cone (Venture Associate, Illuminate Ventures) Cindy Padnos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures, a Micro VC fund focused on [...]
A City Of Doers: San Francisco – Where The World Changes (Video)
February 4, 2013 – 10:00 am
We are a city of doers and dreamers, where change is the only constant – where we rewrite the rules of business. By Heather Hiles (Founder & CEO, Pathbrite) The City of San Francisco has joined with several partners to develop a short film designed to drive business attraction and growth in San Francisco, increase [...]
TechStars: Movin’ On Up!
November 29, 2012 – 5:03 pm
The last three months has condensed a very sharp learning curve into an incredibly short amount of time. By Paige Brown (Co-Founder & CEO, Dashbell) Where do I even begin? The last three months has been the most challenging, rewarding and of my life. It’s been almost four years since I decided to step off [...]
The Social Media Model And What It Means For Tokii (Presence And Patience)
November 12, 2012 – 7:00 am
It might not be your social media presence that will sink or float your boat, but rather your absence. By Karla Stephens-Tolstoy (Founder & CEO, Tokii) Tokii has been in business for more than 18 months now, and we’ve been running a social media campaign since its inception. It didn’t take a rocket scientist on [...]
On Average, New Firms Create Three MILLION New Jobs A Year (Kauffman Video)
September 4, 2012 – 7:00 am
Entrepreneurs drive job creation in the United States. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In today’s economy, we worry about jobs. But here at Women 2.0, we celebrate women entrepreneurs for their role in job creation. Entrepreneurs, not large companies, create three million new jobs annually, as the Kauffman Foundation reminds us in [...]
Learn To Pitch Your Startup: Previous PITCH Startup Competition Finalists Show You How (Videos)
August 28, 2012 – 9:00 am
Deadline to apply to pitch your startup onstage at the next PITCH conference is August 31, 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) On Valentine’s Day earlier this year, I had the privilege of participating in the 1000-women-strong PITCH conference where industry leaders like Caterina Fake (Flickr) and Robin Chase (ZipCar) talked onstage [...]
From Actor To CEO – To Pitch Contest!
August 24, 2012 – 1:00 pm
To prepare, we watched all the pitches from the last Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition and noted not only the questions the judges asked, but also which pitches we liked the best and why. By Kathryn Velvel Jones (Founder & CEO, VirtualArtsTV) After 16 years as a professional actor/producer, I took a job as Vice [...]
The Sad Reality Of Women-Owned Businesses (Video)
July 23, 2012 – 9:00 am
We have a lot of untapped human capital and potential in women in this country and we need to do more to encourage that. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Senior Research Fellow Alicia Robb spells out the unfortunate reality of women-led businesses today in the latest animated Sketchbook video produced by the [...]
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 [...]
