By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) WIN A FREE TICKET to the Crunchies Awards. Join us this year for the Crunchies, awarded on January 31 in San Francisco. Here’s how to win a free ticket to “the Oscars for the Internet”:...
By Catherine Cook (Co-Founder, MyYearbook) When John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale reach for the same pair of black gloves in the movie Serendipity, they meet and fall in love. The goal of social discovery applications is to engineer this kind of serendipity. By...
By Robin Wauters (Blogger, TechCrunch) Startup Weekend, whose mission is to kickstart and foster startup communities worldwide through events and networking sessions, had a very lively 2011. According to internal statistics shared exclusively with TechCrunch, the...
By Sarah Perez (Writer, TechCrunch) Today, a new startup accelerator for women, the Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) Accelerator, is opening its doors for applications. The program will start off small, offering two to five companies seed funding of $18,000, plus...
By Brad Feld (Managing Director, Foundry Group) On my run yesterday in Central Park, I was thinking about the characteristics of some of my favorite companies. Suddenly a phrase popped into my head about what ties all of these companies together – they are the...
