I heart what Women 2.0 are doing with their programs to encourage women with startup ideas. If you are a woman with an idea for a startup, DO THIS. Even if you are a team that includes 1/2 women, DO THIS.
[copied and pasted press release...I don't usually do this, but this is well worth [...]
October 12, 2007 – 4:00 pm
and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
- ani difranco, 32 flavors
Is it just me, or does everyone else notice that women who make it to some reasonable level of power in North America are painted [...]
September 19, 2007 – 11:37 pm
On October 22-23 in Mountain View, Kaliya Hamlin and a group of others is putting on a really cool conference that I thought everyone should know about:
She’s Geeky
A Women’s Tech (un)conference
October 22-23 in Mountain View, CA.
This event is designed to bring together women from a range of technology-focused disciplines who self identify as geeky. [...]
Every now and then, I get the kind of questions that make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. These questions are worse for women than any kind of overt sexism. Worse than saying, “girls aren’t good at math”. Worse than saying, “I don’t care about your coding skillz, yer hot.” The [...]
“Chris Messina, 26, and two fellow Web2Open organizers stood on chairs in one of the Moscone Center’s alcoves, addressing a crowd of about 80. Speaking without microphones, they asked everyone to introduce themselves and offer three “tags,” or one-word descriptions, to give a sense of their topics of interest.”
from this article on unconferences by Scott [...]
On Saturday, whilst working on our last minute changes to our ETech presentation, I received a frightened email from Kathy Sierra that read in the subject line:
“I may just have to quit”
I quickly opened it up. It wasn’t the first time Kathy had sent me an email on the content, but the subject line really [...]
March 18, 2007 – 11:12 pm
There are two types* of people in this world: the first believes everyone’s lives are inherently interesting and the second is Nicholas Carr.
Yes, it is a terribly narcissistic mistake to believe that anyone gives a flying snake about what you ate for breakfast (it was Mintz Blintzs from Trader Joe’s and they were amazing, [...]
December 8, 2006 – 9:36 pm
I just want to re-publish the growing list of Women Who Risk and I want to re-assert that if you are a woman co-founder who meets the criteria of:
Has to be their full-time gig (not a thing they do on the side or that they are doing between jobs)…but they could have been doing it [...]
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