15 January 2013 | Uncategorized
We are now looking for the next batch of Female Fellows, and there are over 10 Fellowships available for the upcoming Spring 2013 semesters across the globe. By Jonathan Greechan (Partner, The Founder Institute) As you may or may not know, we introduced the Female...
14 January 2013 | Uncategorized
This unique environment of midnight sandwich runs, unending games of ping pong, impromptu social media study halls, and Ruby on Rails power hours has served to concentrate our community and expose us to the next generation of visionaries and entrepreneurs. By Katie...
14 January 2013 | Uncategorized
Join Women 2.0 at our annual conference this February! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Our latest judge to participate in the PITCH SF 2013 Startup Competition is Wesley Chan, general partner at Google Ventures. Wesley joined the Google...
14 January 2013 | Uncategorized
From Pokitdok to AliveCor, from Cake Health to Rock Health, female founders are emerging in the health tech space. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In a recently released infographic, Rock Health reported that young women practicing...
14 January 2013 | Uncategorized
Victoria Ransom has crossed all those supposedly insurmountable obstacles: starting up, bootstrapping to validation, raising venture capital to scale, building a solid revenue stream, and finally, achieving a successful exit. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By...
13 January 2013 | Uncategorized
CableOrganizer has reached close to the $16 million mark with CEO and co-founder Valerie Holstein at the helm. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) Parisian-born Valerie Holstein had a difficult time finding a place where she felt she belonged from...
12 January 2013 | Uncategorized
Women in the alternative investment industry lack opportunities to prove themselves, and some become discouraged, the respondents said. “Old boys’ club” was a phrase that multiple respondents used. By William Alden (DealBook Reporter, NY Times) An index from the...
12 January 2013 | Uncategorized
Marketers will reward consumers that promote their brands in the social space. Mobile loyalty apps are also poised to thrive. By Ayesha Mathews-Wadhwa (Founder & Creative Director, PixInk) Some people say that 2013 will be the year of de-tech, but with so many...
12 January 2013 | Uncategorized
On January 6, designer Andy Rutledge launched a satirical website, Conference Quotas, poking fun at the discussion around increasing diversity at tech and design conferences. By Jess Gartner (Founder, Allovue) There’s that word again: privileged. The word is...
11 January 2013 | Uncategorized
The 10th PITCH SF 2013 Startup Competition finalist has been selected – congrats Enplug co-founder and CEO Nanxi Liu! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Congrats to Enplug, co-founded by CEO Nanxi Liu! Enplug has been selected by our...
