Meet the Women of Y Combinator

28 March 2013 | Uncategorized

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...

How to Attract Guys to a Woman-Centric Startup

26 March 2013 | Uncategorized

The co-founders of RocksBox and a male designer on their team talk about the challenges of attracting super talented guys to a female-founded jewelry startup. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) What do the best developers and designers look for when they’re...

Female Founders Doing Extraordinary Things: Making Peace

26 March 2013 | Videos

Ambitious female founders can be found in every corner of entrepreneurship from high tech to high fashion, even working in conflict resolution in war-torn places. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Just about every founder hopes their efforts will make the world...

How to Deal with Oafs, AKA the Adria Richards Mess

21 March 2013 | OOO

A female developer evangelist calls out a couple of misbehaving males for making sexist jokes at a conference, getting one of them fired. All hell breaks loose online. What lesson, if any, can we learn from this unsavory incident? By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women...