This week more than 100 Silicon Valley heavyweights participated in an in-flight hackathon. Here are seven amazing female founders who were on the plane. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) This week Women 2.0 co-founder and CEO Shaherose Charania took part in BA’s UnGrounded, an innovative hackathon conducted on a plane from San Francisco to [...]
Posts Tagged "Women Innovate Mobile"
Meet Lori Cheek, The CEO And Founder Of Reverse Engineered Dating Site Cheek’d
January 18, 2013 – 6:00 am
Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) interviews female founders about success stories, inspirations and motivations as women entrepreneurs. By Kelly Hoey (Co-Founder & Managing Director, WIM) Meet Lori Cheek – architect turned entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Cheek’d, the reverse engineered dating site coined by the New York Times as “the next generation of online dating.” Women [...]
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) [...]
Focus100: Black Women Entrepreneurs Share Startup Tips And Resources
October 15, 2012 – 8:00 am
The women discussed the cultural pressures and myths that hold black women in business back. By Sian Morson (Founder & CEO, Kollective Mobile) The first Focus100 conference and symposium, created by Kathryn Finney, convened with the goal of ensuring that 100 tech companies founded by black women receive funding by the year 2015. Day one [...]
Interview With Corie Hardee, Little Borrowed Dress CEO
September 9, 2012 – 11:38 am
Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) interviews female founders about success stories, inspirations and motivations as women entrepreneurs. By Kelly Hoey (Co-Founder & Managing Director, WIM) Corie Hardee is the Founder and CEO of Little Borrowed Dress, the first online dress rental company to focus exclusively on bridal, offering bridesmaids dresses for rent at a quarter of [...]
Women-Led Startups Compete With “Bro-grammers” For Funding
July 27, 2012 – 5:00 am
Gender stereotypes die hard as females make tech gains. By Christopher Heine (Staff Writer, Adweek) Sophia Chou is president of Loudly, a new text-and-call phone app that just finished a 12-week accelerator program called Woman Innovate Mobile (WIM). Every morning, Chou and Loudly co-founder Foy Savas leave a tiny apartment they share in Bay Ridge [...]
This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Kelly Hoey
June 29, 2012 – 9:45 am
Women 2.0 profiles women (from angel investors to venture capitalists) who invest in women. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The numbers are bleak – 11% of investment partners at venture capital firms are women and 15% of angel investors are women. And according to this handy infographic on investing in women, women [...]
Pipeline Fellows Increasing Financing For Women-Led Businesses
March 3, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Your startup may be doomed to failure if you under-capitalize it from the get-go, but friends and family can only do so much and venture capitalists are looking for businesses that are more established with huge growth potential. Bridging that financing gap has been especially difficult for women-led businesses and [...]
Where Are Women Founding Tech Companies?
March 1, 2012 – 11:33 am
By Deborah Jackson (Co-Founder, Women Innovate Mobile) Editor’s note: Check out this network map for Women Innovate Mobile (WIM), inspired by Fast Company’s infographic of Y Combinator’s network. Since the Women Innovate Mobile launch on December 21, 2011, we’ve received inquiries from entrepreneurs across the U.S. and across the globe. Thanks to JumpThru’s designer, Tina [...]
The New Girls Network: Building A Bigger Pie For High-Growth Women-Led Companies
February 29, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Joshua Henderson (Director of Programming, Springboard Enterprises) There are incredible things happening in the startup world for women entrepreneurs. Media platforms like Women 2.0, The Daily Muse, EZebis and The Next Women are showcasing the talents and expertise of women founders and entrepreneurs. Investment firms like BELLE Capital, Golden Seeds, Phenomenelle Angels, KC Women’s [...]
