By Gretchen DeKnikker

Today, I am the co-founder of an enterprise software startup, SocialPandas, backed by a top-tier investor with an amazing support system of angels and advisors. This part of my story, which I rarely share, is about the distance I've...

By Julie Zhuo (Director of Product Design, Facebook)

For as long as I can remember, my parents have told me that they raised me like a boy.

As soon as I could grasp that the way to raise...

Selina Tobaccowala talks about the changes she's observed in the industry since founding Evite in 1997.

From her first foray into entrepreneurship cofounding Evite out of her Stanford dorm room in 1997, to her current post leading the tech...

Maker's Row, a new platform that aims to humanize local factories and make them easily accessible to entrepreneurs, is hoping to reinvigorate American manufacturing by smashing stereotypes.

When you smash atoms, physicists tell us, you get a whole lot of energy. Could smashing stereotypes do something similar?

That's the idea...

Recently, many articles have appeared fanning the flames of debate over whether women can 'have it all.' I don't know what the 'all' is that we're supposed to want, but I can say that I have one of the best...

Hackbright Academy, an accelerated software programming school in San Francisco, is helping to tip the gender balance in the industry one woman at a time. And 16 graduated on Friday as the school's second class since its inception.

After 10 weeks of diving into Python and other developer tools,...

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 of Songkick, offers advice to those starting up that's also remarkably applicable to those jumping out...

I helped found Meebo in 2005. It's now 2012. I heard somewhere that the average lifespan of a startup is 7 years. I have no idea if that's still true, but somehow Meebo hit that statistic right on the dot.

Growing Meebo...

By Alice Brooks, Bettina Chen & Jennifer Kessler (Founders, Maykah)

We all had favorite toys growing up. But did you ever think about how those toys influenced who you are today?

We are Alice, Bettina, and...

Iridescent's program gives high school girls the skills and confidence needed to succeed in computer science and entrepreneurship.

By Karen Holst (Co-Founder, Pick-A-Prof & VP Institutional Development, MyEdu)

While volunteering with Iridescent's Technovation Challenge, I would often come home from mentoring the group of teenage girls with a smile...

Over 5 years in Silicon Valley has taught me that marketing is unmistakably a science -- the science of discovering what people love about your product and of engendering love if none previously existed. Much as Google uses mountains of data to match a user to their precise search query,...

As I placed Madeleine Albright's book in her hands at the book signing, as many before me just had, she looked up and said, "Who should I make this out to?" "Rania," I said. She paused: "I once had a student by that name..." I smiled. "That's was me..." Her...

The timer had started running 30 minutes ago. I was sweating from the exertion of rigging up a 500-pound tool string with my crew and the nervousness of being responsible of running a $2 million exploration job in an...

Since winning the first Technovation Challenge, Emilie Robert Wong has developed three more apps (two for Michelle Obama's Healthy Kids initiative and one with an ecology theme), interned at two tech start-ups and is currently working for LocAid. She...

Written by Sara Naseri and Emilie Kjeldsen for Women 2.0

Most 17-year-olds go to school, play sports and spend time with their friends; others invent pioneering technologies within the sun protection industry, discuss their project with...

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) & Harrison Kratz (Community Manager, MBA@UNC)

Women today are making professional strides at an unprecedented level. We are seeing women start businesses at 1.5 times the national...

By Carrie Chitsey (Founder & CEO, 3Seventy)

When we started our mobile company over three years ago, we were attending several tradeshows to learn more about mobile and innovation. We developed a handy SMS (text messaging) technology using keywords for...

By Angeline Evans (Writer & Blogger, The New Professional)

Allison Lami Sawyer was born to be an entrepreneur. The Rice University MBA student always knew she wanted to start her own business, and armed with a master's degree in nanotechnology,...

About the guest blogger: Christina A. Brodbeck is the co-founder and CEO of TheIceBreak, a service that helps keep the spark alive in your relationship. Prior to TheIceBreak, she was on the founding team of YouTube, the company's first UI Designer, and the Mobile Design Lead. Christina is also...