A growing high tech startup industry trend has little to do with tech, and a lot to do with togetherness. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) There was a time in Silicon Valley when VCs did not like the idea of funding couples. Nonetheless, Cisco and 3Com – two legendary Valley startups [...]
Posts Tagged "Wendy Tan White"
Female Founders To Watch: Celebrating International Women’s Day On March 8
March 8, 2013 – 7:00 am
Join Women 2.0 in our celebration of International Women’s Day! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today is March 8 – Happy International Women’s Day! Women 2.0 celebrates women in 17 cities around the world tonight at Founder Friday networking mixers – come join us! Aspiring and current entrepreneurs are welcome to connect, [...]
Five Mompreneurs Say You Can Do It All
February 27, 2013 – 6:00 am
Here are five “mompreneurs” who are charting their own ways in business while still raising a family. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) I frequently facilitate discussions of female entrepreneurs, and the company vs. children question, and I would like to do so again. We’ve seen through conversations with entrepreneurial women like [...]
What Will 2013 Hold For Women In Business?
February 12, 2013 – 11:39 am
Join Moonfruit founder Wendy Tan White for Founder Friday at Google’s London campus on Friday, February 15! By Wendy Tan White (Founder & CEO, Moonfruit) In 2011, I wrote an article about how it had never been a better time to be a woman in business. At that time, women led-firms were the fastest growing [...]
2013: The Year Of The Female Entrepreneur?
December 13, 2012 – 6:00 am
It is no surprise then that four of the major global consumer tech businesses – Facebook, Groupon, Zynga and Twitter – have more female customers than male. However, each suffers from a lack of female representation at board level, and this is true throughout the business world. By Wendy Tan White (Founder & CEO, Moonfruit) [...]
10 Female Founders To Watch In London
October 12, 2012 – 8:00 am
Join us for Founder Friday London launch on October 26! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, we feature the women entrepreneurs that put London on the technology innovation map. East London (or “Silicon Roundabout”) has established a reputation for itself, touting recently that the number of startups has jumped from 15 [...]
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 [...]
Female Founders Who Celebrated A Startup Acquisition
May 18, 2012 – 11:52 am
Startup acquisitions make news! Celebrate the women starting and exiting companies in technology. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We at Women 2.0 are often asked for names of notable women for magazines (lists), newspaper articles (press), conferences (speakers), etc. We catalog lists of women entrepreneurs to watch each Friday, putting out a [...]
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 [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Literally Married To Your Co-Founder
May 4, 2012 – 9:54 am
From tech giants Cisco and VMware to startups ModCloth and Lynda, married co-founders are everywhere. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We often joke about our “work husbands” and “work wives” but realized this week that we know a flurry of married startup co-founders. Both Founder Friday hosts (Julia Hartz of Eventbrite and [...]
