By Judy Tuan (Participant, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) What do video games, language, bears, and #changetheratio have to do with each other? The answer lies in this video. Here’s the story of how an idea turned into the startup Words With Bears at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend. I’d never been to a Startup Weekend [...]
Posts Tagged "Women 2.0 Startup Weekend"
Confessions of a Female Entrepreneur: My Women 2.0 Startup Weekend Experience
November 27, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Karen Song (Developer, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) My name is Karen Song and I am a female entrepreneur living in Silicon Valley. This past weekend was my first Women 2.0 Startup Weekend experience — and it was so powerful that I am starting a blog just to talk about it. Let me start [...]
Are Women Competitive Enough? Competition: It’s Good For You
November 23, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Blake Landau (Blogger, What’s Your Story) Editor’s note: Apply to the Women 2.0 PITCH Startup Competition for early-stage startups with at least 1 female on the founding team. Deadline to apply is November 30, 2011. When I was a kid, I was your average millennial — by which I mean I was on a [...]
Day 2: Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011 (Meet The Teams)
November 21, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Salem Kimble (Volunteer, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) It’s edging on towards late evening on Saturday, November 19, 2011 with a good number of the 22 teams still going strong. This year’s startups will be pitching everything from fashion to language learning. The size of the startup team varies greatly with several teams of [...]
Day 1: Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011 in San Francisco
November 20, 2011 – 1:15 am
By Christina Gunarto & Angie Chang (Co-Organizers, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011) Things got crazy at the Hatchery in San Francisco on Friday night at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011. The soldout crowd of over 150 was a diverse mix of people by any count: gender (65% female), ethnicity, age (at least 3 youths), location [...]
Female Founders to Follow (Women 2.0 Startup Weekend Mentors)
November 4, 2011 – 7:05 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 Startup Weekend (November 18-20, 2011 in San Francisco, CA) will host 150 hackers, designers, business and marketing people to build early-stage startups in 54 hours. Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011 MENTORS and their ventures: Sasha Laundy (Founder, Women Who Code) Sasha loves helping others learn [...]
3 Big Ways Women Leverage Their Strengths at Startup Weekend
October 25, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Maris McEdward (Community Manager, Startup Weekend) Taking the plunge into entrepreneurship is daunting, to say the least. It can be even more daunting for women since tech entrepreneurship is still a man’s world in many ways. For example, women are outnumbered by men 4:1 at the average Startup Weekend event. Fortunately, Women 2.0 Startup [...]
What is High-Growth Entrepreneurship’s Secret Sauce? (Video)
October 19, 2011 – 8:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The Kauffman Foundation released an animated sketchbook video illustrating the importance of finding the “magic sauce” for startup success. The video points out that “nearly 700,000 new businesses start every year, but the failure rate is high and many of them are not creating jobs,” and asks, [...]
Women 2.0 Startup Weekend (November 18-20 in San Francisco)
October 18, 2011 – 3:15 am
By Angie Chang & Christina Gunarto (Organizers, Women 2.0 Startup Weekend) Women 2.0 and Startup Weekend are partnering on November 18 – 20, 2011 at The Hatchery in San Francisco, CA for Women 2.0 Startup Weekend! We provide the co-working space and brain fuel, and you bring the energy and innovation to build something big [...]
I Didn’t Choose Startups. Startups Chose Me.
June 7, 2011 – 7:30 am
By Sue Kim (Founder, Dress Me Sue) I was a happy cog for 10 years – plugging away in my little corner of the old school Chicagoland e-commerce and digital scene. I had begun my IT career late (age 28), but managed to work my way up successfully. I was an overachiever, a manager’s dream. [...]
