Education is ripe for disruption, and women entrepreneurs are at the forefront of the movement. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) From the educational aspect of gamifying the improvement and education of people, the possibilities are endless – many apps and companies are popping up looking to educate people (kids, second/third career adults, [...]
Posts Tagged "Women 2.0"
Record Number of Women Give Tech Talks at PyCon 2013
April 9, 2013 – 7:00 am
PyCon is more than where Donglegate began. This year, PyCon boasted a record number of talks delivered by women. As always, they provided a generous financial aid program promoted by many diversity-minded groups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) An inclusive developer conference in March for the community using and developing the open-source [...]
Nominations Open for “40 Women to Watch Over 40″
April 5, 2013 – 8:00 am
Nominations for “40 Women over 40 to Watch” list open thru April 30. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Celebrate women over 40 who are successful movers and shakers! Role models are in demand for women, because there are a limited number of Sheryl Sandbergs and Marissa Mayers in the world. I am [...]
How to Get Kids Interested in Technology with Activities, Games and More
April 3, 2013 – 9:00 am
Fun apps, shows and toys are available for kids to learn to code. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) With the success of young programmers like Mark Zuckerberg who started Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, parents are encouraging their kids to learn to code at a younger age. Now parents can encourage [...]
The Well-Funded Aerospace Startup You Never Heard of
April 3, 2013 – 8:00 am
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) [...]
This Friday, Citizen Made CTO and Co-Founder Bryn McCoy to Host Launch of Founder Friday Chicago
April 2, 2013 – 2:00 pm
PITCH NY 2012 Startup Competition finalist and L’Oreal prize winner Citizen Made co-founder and CTO Bryn McCoy (pictured, right) to host Founder Friday Chicago Launch this Friday! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Join Women 2.0 at Founder Friday Chicago Launch this Friday. Hosted by Citizen Made‘s co-founder and CTO Bryn McCoy, who [...]
Founder Friday Seattle Launches April 12
April 2, 2013 – 8:00 am
We are thrilled to announce an addition to our Founder Friday cities – welcome Seattle! By Sepideh Nasiri (Vice President of All Things Offline, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 in partnership with Microsoft is thrilled to announce the launch of Founder Friday Seattle on April 12, 2013 at Microsoft’s Seattle campus. Recently named the #2 top [...]
April Fool’s Jokes from Female-Founded Companies
April 1, 2013 – 4:28 pm
What’s your favorite Internet April Fool’s joke this year? By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) From a handful of Easter Eggs hidden in Google today, to Twitter’s nixing of vowels, today is a day of Internet jokery. Food subscription service Love with Food announced venturing into a new market today and launched Love [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Game Developers Conference Edition (GDC 2013)
March 29, 2013 – 8:17 am
Celebrate the women in gaming – female founders edition! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, GDC (Game Developers Conference) was held in San Francisco and brought with it thousands of gaming enthusiasts and designers/producers/artists – the whole gaming ecosystem! Women in gaming came out to represent as speakers and attendees. Special [...]
6 Tips to a Successful Kickstarter Crowdfunding Project
March 28, 2013 – 10:07 am
After successful fundings for female-founded products like GoldieBlox, Roominate, Everpurse and OUYA, we wonder what are the reasons behind rocketship successes and quiet failures. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Recently, a Kauffman Foundation dissertation fellow released a paper titled “The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Determinants of Success and Failure” examined almost 47,000 projects [...]
