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Sheila Lirio Marcelo (Founder & CEO, Care.com)
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder and CEO of Care.com, talks about Women 2.0 and female entrepreneurship. She admits it is a challenging and lonely road, and supports Women 2.0′s goal of cultivating a support network for early-stage entrepreneurs.
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Betsy Aoki (Startup Outreach, Microsoft Bing)
In an interview at the 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference, Betsy Aoki, former Xbox product manager now runs startup outreach for Microsoft Bing, talks about previously working at a startup in Seattle, the need for women-focused events in a male-dominated industry, and appreciating the networking opportunities at Women 2.0 events.
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Founder Friday Mixers
Founder Friday is a Women 2.0 event to promote the creation of new networks among aspiring entrepreneurs, current entrepreneurs and investors in innovative cities globally. Both men and women are invited to attend Founder Friday. Founder Friday is hosted in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Austin, New York, Madrid (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile) and more cities coming soon.
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Start Something: Startup Weekend SF Hosted by Women 2.0
Filmed as a student project with San Francisco State University's Digital Video Intensive program, Start Something follows three groups of entrepreneurs as they navigate Startup Weekend, a three day event where entrepreneurs come together to share ideas, form teams and launch startups.
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Alexa von Tobel, LearnVest
Alexa von Tobel talks to Women 2.0 about the impetus for starting LearnVest, a company focused on providing financial education tools for women. Among her goals? Keeping people in their 20s and 30s from ever getting into debt and educating more than 10 million women over the next few years.
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Alicia Navarro, Skimlinks
FounderLY sat down with Alicia Navarro, the London-based founder of Skimlinks, about an initial pitch while backpacking that's grown into an international organization. Her idea to simplify affiliate marketing tools now serves Technorati, Internet Brands, and Ning.
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Tina Seelig: Teaching Creativity & Entrepreneurship
Tina Seelig, ED of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, speaks about the lesson that is the crux of entrepreneurship: all problems are opportunities, and the larger the problem, the grander the opportunity. This video was created by Stanford's eCorner series, whose work Women 2.0 supports.
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Patricia Nakache, Trinity Ventures
Women 2.0 partner EZebis spoke to Patricia Nakache, General Partner at Trinity Ventures, about "investing in the women's web" and how investors and founders are leveraging the time that women spend on social networks.
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Michelle Zatlyn, CloudFlare
Women 2.0 partner FounderLY shares Michelle Zatlynâs advice based on her experience co-founding website protection service CloudFlare. Zatlyn emphasizes the importance of creating a service that actually solves problems and surrounding yourself with people who will support your work unconditionall
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Alexis Ringwald, Valence Energy
Alexis Ringwald describes selling her clean tech company, resources for entrepreneurs interested in energy, and the electric car full of Bollywood dancers that ignited her interest in the space.
