The sharing economy has gained some high-profile backers recently. A female UX expert offers tips on how to design for it. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) The sharing economy may sound like an idea out of a hippie commune, but since the runaway success of Zipcar and Airbnb, the movement towards collaborative consumption has [...]
Posts Tagged "Y Combinator"
So You Want to Be the Next Zipcar? Principles of Design for the Sharing Economy
May 7, 2013 – 7:00 am
Grand St Raises $1.3 Million
April 3, 2013 – 10:00 am
The online tech boutique co-founded by female Y Combinator grad Amanda Peyton raises $1.3 million in a round led by First Round Capital. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) If you’re the type of conscious consumer who doesn’t buy your music from a big box store, nor your food from a jumbo-sized supermarket, why should [...]
Meet the Women of Y Combinator
March 28, 2013 – 9:00 am
The fact that 10% of founders presenting at this week’s YC Demo Day are women might not sound like a victory, but it’s actually more than double the percentage in previous classes. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) This week 47 startups presented at Y Combinator Demo Day. How many of the founders up there [...]
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) [...]
Songkick Co-Founder Busts Your Anxieties
November 3, 2012 – 1:37 pm
Planning and skepticism certainly have their place, but don’t let too much thinking hold you back. By Jessica Stillman (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Michelle You has simple advice for founders – just go for it. Founding companies is second only to, perhaps, sky diving when it comes to terror, which is why Michelle You, co-founder [...]
Songkick Chief Product Officer And Co-Founder Michelle You Joins Speaker Lineup For Women 2.0 PITCH Conference In November
September 20, 2012 – 9:32 am
PITCH Conference on November 14, 2012 features a full day of speakers including Songkick co-founder Michelle You. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We’ve two months away from Women 2.0′s first PITCH Conference in New York City featuring speakers including Michelle You, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Songkick. Since launching in 2007 [...]
Y Combinator’s Alexis Ohanian Joining November’s PITCH NYC Conference As Judge For The Startup Competition
September 5, 2012 – 7:00 am
Meet the startup guy who launched Reddit, Breadpig and Hipmunk! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 is excited to announce that Y Combinator ambassador Alexis Ohanian will be joining the judging panel at PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition on November 14, 2012. Alexis is an investor with over 50 tech [...]
Why I Picked Astia In The Jungle Of Startup Accelerators, Incubators
June 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
“I made new friendships with CEOs from around the world building products solving a variety of problems.” By Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee) When I left Mint.com to start BizeeBee, a number of startup incubators approached me about joining. While I liked the concept of having focused time to think, learn, and mentors who [...]
How To Survive The “Trough Of Sorrow” As A Solo Non-Technical Startup Founder
May 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
And then my co-founder and CTO in Julia Grace joined my startup. Having a co-founder is infinitely better! By Tracy Osborn (Founder, WeddingLovely) In the last year, I’ve gone from building a random side project (after finding a co-founder ultimately failed), to running a revenue-generating company which just finished the F11 batch of 500 Startups. [...]
The Women Of Y Combinator – And They Are Awesome
April 2, 2012 – 5:00 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Kim-Mai Cutler (Writer, TechCrunch) I would normally rather have a root canal instead of write about the issue of women in technology. I just find most essays on this really tedious and obvious. (Sorry Alexia.) But I do want to point one thing out. When I went [...]
