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...
(0) Comments | Posted May 21, 2012 | 5:51 PM
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...
(0) Comments | Posted May 10, 2012 | 11:35 AM
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...
(0) Comments | Posted May 7, 2012 | 4:14 PM
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...
(0) Comments | Posted April 9, 2012 | 5:58 PM
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...
(0) Comments | Posted April 6, 2012 | 4:53 PM
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...
(1) Comments | Posted March 21, 2012 | 9:05 PM
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,...
(0) Comments | Posted March 1, 2012 | 10:59 AM
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...
(7) Comments | Posted February 28, 2012 | 8:43 AM
By Joshua Henderson (Director of Programming, Springboard Enterprises)
There are incredible things happening in the startup world for women entrepreneurs.
Media platforms like Women 2.0, The Daily Muse, EZebis and The Next Women are showcasing the talents and...
(3) Comments | Posted February 8, 2012 | 10:28 AM
By Sheila Lirio Marcelo (Founder & CEO, Care.com)
Editor's note: Care.com CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo will be speaking at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference on February 14, 2012 in Mountain View, CA. Get your ticket now!
2012 has already proven to be a newsworthy year...
(0) Comments | Posted January 31, 2012 | 3:30 PM
About the guest blogger: Julia Hu is the Founder & CEO of LARK, a consumer electronics startup that helps couples sleep better together with the LARK product (now in Apple stores across...
(3) Comments | Posted January 18, 2012 | 8:04 AM
By Leah Busque (Founder, TaskRabbit)
Editor's note: Vote Leah Busque for TechCrunch's Founder of the Year!
It was Friday and it had been a long week. I was back in Boston after spending the last two weeks in...
(1) Comments | Posted January 17, 2012 | 10:47 AM
By Carla Rover (Writer, The Advertising Technology Review)
There are two sides to the post-feminist world for women creating startup technology companies.
Here's the good part: most investors, at least publicly, acknowledge the need for a more diverse field of leadership in the startup community.
...(5) Comments | Posted January 9, 2012 | 12:20 PM
Women 2.0 interviews Candace Klein, Founder & CEO of Bad Girls Ventures -- a non-profit, micro-finance organization focused on educating and financing woman-owned start-up companies. To date, Bad Girls Ventures has educated over 250...
(4) Comments | Posted December 30, 2011 | 6:25 PM
By Carla Rover (Writer, The Advertising Technology Review)
There's a disturbing trend in technology right now. Bright, highly-qualified women, regardless of where they start climbing the ladder at technology companies, rarely end up at the top. Few women found technology startups, or at least, few women who found them get...
(2) Comments | Posted December 12, 2011 | 4:38 PM
By Flaminia Cavallo (Founder, TheoryMine Ltd)
I am not very different from any other young woman you come across. I don't like waking up early in the morning and I like staying up...
(1) Comments | Posted December 9, 2011 | 5:52 PM
By Alexandra Weber Morales
The new-girl network is in full flourish. At a recent Bay Area Girl Geek dinner hosted by Perforce Software in Alameda, the definition of "girl geek" was more inclusive than ever. From the teenage Cal student simulating Martian life to game developers, from bloggers...
(1) Comments | Posted May 23, 2012 | 6:05 PM