Women 2.0 Startup Weekend or Everyone 2.0 Startup Weekend?
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Really great news from Women 2.0 today about a striking increase in the number of female technology start-up founders in the last three years! From being 25% of the pool to more than 50% - and an added bonus - most are located outside of SF and the Silicon Valley (nearly 54%)!
This represents great strides for technology, the diversity of leadership creating change in this space, and the locales where they’re creating this change - and good news for the economy overall!
via nasnyc
“ Imaginary caricatures will be replaced by phenomenological descriptions of the lived situations of real women.
— Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (on Simone de Beavoir)
(Source: plato.stanford.edu)
Oct 10
More feminist Ryan Gosling memes please!
Why yes, we do! @KaraSwisher’s great piece on the subject in @Glamour this month. Woot! (Taken with instagram)
Oct 03
Nice Girls Don’t Ask
by Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever, Michele Gelfand, and Deborah Small
Sep 16
» Chucks Make The World: Everyone Needs a Role Model
Today’s post is dedicated to our Best Chuck website designer, and occasional warehouse pirate wench, Angie Chang.
As my big sister, I’ve always looked up to her. She was always the smart one, nose in a book, trying to figure out life and how things work. I like to take credit for her…
Jun 15
Finding out about the competition was the best thing to happen to us since it forced us to lean forward, accelerating our launch.
- Rebecca Woodcock
Startup Quote x Women 2.0 edition
Jun 11
“ [Computer programming is] just like planning a dinner. You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so that it’s ready when you need it… Women are naturals at computer programming.
— Dr. Grace Hopper, computer scientist that conceptualized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, leading to the development of COBOL (one of the first modern programming languages)
(Source: stanford.edu)
