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Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » How To Make a Simple Facebook App in 20 Minutes
By Anna Billstrom (Developer, Momentus Media) Facebook apps can be as complicated as Frontierville, or as simple as a Facebook app that simply announces to all your Facebook friends, “I’m pregnant!” Last weekend, a dozen SF-WOW attendees built from scratch a Facebook app to announce a pregnancy to their friends. The workshop is based on a blog post I wrote: Making a Simple Facebook App in 20 Minutes .
Women 2.0 Spins Out, Expands Founder Labs Program To New York
An organization that aims to diversify and strengthen the pool of successful startup founders in tech, Women 2.0 , today announced that it will spin out its mobile focused Founder Labs pre-incubator program as a standalone entity, and expand it from San Francisco to New York City this May. Women 2.0 and Founder Labs founder, Shaherose Charania , told TechCrunch: “We want to change the ‘founder force.’ There’s a pretty diverse work force here. But the founder force looks kind of homogenous.Women 2.0 will host an Investor & Entrepreneur Roundtable starting 6:30pm on Monday, April 11, 2011 in San Francisco with: This intimate Women 2.0 event brings investors and entrepreneurs together to help you learn everything you ever wanted to know about getting funding and launching a high-growth venture. Space is limited. Cost of the event for selected attendees is $50 a person. Ann Miura-Ko Ann is a partner at FLOODGATE where her investment interests include e-commerce, security, and big data.
Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » Investor and Entrepreneur Roundtable on April 11
The Most Influential Women in Technology 2011 - Entrepreneurs | Fast Company
Limor Fried was the sort of third-grader who took apart VCRs for fun.
Women now play games more than men, according to a report by mobile app analytics provider Flurry. At least that’s true in the realm of mobile and mobile social games, where the likes of Zynga’s FarmVille and Popcap’s Plants vs. Zombies are at the forefront. More than half of all mobile and mobile social gamers — 53 percent, to be exact — are women, bucking the stereotype that gaming is typically a male-dominated form of entertainment, according to the report. Only 40 percent of “traditional” gamers are women, according to the report.
Do women play more games than men? | VentureBeat
Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by TheIceBreak CEO Christina Brodbeck . Brodbeck is a UI designer, angel investor and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, CA. Women in tech. I hate to say it, but I am tired of hearing about women in tech.
Women and Tech: Focus On Female Consumers And The Founders Will Follow
Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » Partner event: She’s Geeky Bay Area 2011
She’s Geeky (January 28-30, 2010 in San Francisco) is the unconference for geeky women of all kinds.
Currently, 16% of Founder Institute startups have a female founder.
Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » New Female Founder Fellowship at Founder Institute
Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » Our Story: From Reformed NY Investment Bankers to Silicon Valley Edu-Tech Entrepreneurs
By Emily Chiu & Chiara Piccinotti (Co-Founders, Apply in the Sky)
Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » Step-by-step guide: starting your web company
By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) Every aspiring entrepreneur has to start somewhere. Yet when you decide to start a company, there’s no guidebook to tell you what to do next. People might argue that “real” entrepreneurs need no such book, but a few years ago, I had wasted two years floundering and $20k of my savings on my failed startup — I could have benefited from such a guidebook. So my best friend Jennifer Chin and I compiled the LaunchBit Startup Guide , which I wish I had had several years ago. This guide is for new aspiring web entrepreneurs to learn to validate your business idea and build early versions of your first web prototype without coding.
Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » MarketYoYo Emerges from Women 2.0 Startup Weekend Pursuing the mWomen BOP App Challenge
On November 21, 2010, MarketYoYo (formerly named Crowdmarket) was awarded “Most Likely to Change a Million Lives” and “2nd Prize Overall” at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend . Two days later, Alexis Ringwald (pictured, left) and Xuwen Zhang expanded their team to five (Rajat Mahajan, Ran Tao and myself) to further build on the idea of an SMS service to enable BOP (Base of the Pyramid) female entrepreneurs to connect directly with buyers. I was really excited to be a part of the team and loved the way all five of us were able to rally around a cause just after our first meeting at a coffee shop. With very little time but a lot of talent, inspiration, and passion, we decided to pursue the mWomen BOP App Challenge . A week after initial market research, brainstorming and coding, the idea turned more real after we had conversations with Grameen Phone CEO Kazi Islam, Obopay CEO Carol Realini and VP of Product Marketing David Schwartz.Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » Partner event: Kauffman Lab’s Women in Science and Engineering Business Idea Competition
This week, Kauffman Foundation announced the launch of “Women in Science and Engineering Business Idea Competition” — designed to recruit highly educated and creative women with world-changing ideas consider entrepreneurship and commercialization of those ideas. Co-sponsored by Astia and the Kauffman Foundation, the competition ends January 15, 2011 with the prize being an all-expenses-paid trip to TED 2011. Participate in the business idea competition by January 15, 2011.The Kauffman Foundation reports that despite increased financial power and wealth, high net worth women represent a largely untapped source of capital for start-up entrepreneurs . Luckily for women entrepreneurs seeking funding, the Pipeline Fund in NYC trains women angel investors – Apply for the program by December 1, 2010 . Are you a high net worth woman and want to learn how to support women entrepreneurs? BusinessWeek calls this “ a boot camp for women angel investors. The Pipeline Fund Fellowship in New York City is a program that trains women philanthropists to become angel investors through education (modules on due diligence, term sheets, valuations, board governance, etc.), mentoring (matching each participant with an experienced angel investor to serve as a role model), and practice (participants apply what they have learned to select women-led for-profit social ventures to invest in).
Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » Partner event: Pipeline Fund Fellowship to create more women angel investors
Women 2.0 - Founding Startups » 2nd Women 2.0 Startup Weekend Creates 22 Startups
Women 2.0 Startup Weekend hosted over 135 attendees (with 55% women in attendance!!) at the 54-hour hackathon. 60 ideas were pitched on Friday night, yielding 22 startups by Sunday night.Young Entrepreneur We’re thrilled to announce the latest issue of Self-Made Magazine , which launched last week, and we’re especially excited about our cover story, “50 Women Entrepreneurs Who Inspire Us.” While gender is hopefully becoming less and less of an issue in today’s business world, and while every entrepreneur who achieves success is inspiring, we recognize that women still have many unique obstacles to overcome as entrepreneurs, and we wanted to recognize those who have broken through barriers and found the ultimate success in entrepreneurship!