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Sepideh Nasiri (above) speaks shares a few words about Women 2.0 events, which have expanded incredibly within just this past year. Founder Friday events are now taking place internationally in Latin American cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Bogota, as well as in Vancouver. |
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Women 2.0 Co-founder Angie Chang working hard behind the scenes (above). Fran Maier, Match.com and TRUSTe Co-founder speaks to the audience, made up of diverse female founders and women in technology, about the faceted role of women. |
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Michelle Zatlyn, Co-founder of Cloudflare, speaks about her own experience scaling her company from founding team to a billion views a day. |
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A fireside chat led by Kara Swisher with Selina Tobaccowala, Founder of Evite and SVP Product & Engineering at Survey Monkey. Kara chats with Selina about growing Evite.com from her Stanford dorm room (the company sold to Ticketmaster in 2001) and her strategy of growing to a billion users in emerging markets at Survey Monkey. |
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Morning coffee break and networking (above), followed by the first session of pitches in the 2013 PITCH SF Competition (below). Competition finalist Fiestah, an event services marketplace that takes the stress out of finding, booking, and managing your event vendors. |
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Lesley Marincola, CEO and Co-founder of Angaza Design, pitches next. Angaza Design offer a pay-as-you-go technology that makes clean energy alternatives like solar energy products accessible and affordable. |
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Finalist Nanxi Liu, CEO and Co-founder of real-time interactive billboard network, Enplug (above). |
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Case study featuring two early Facebook employees, Julie Zhuo, Director of Product Design at Facebook, and Naomi Gleit, Senior Director of Product Management at Facebook, who shared what they learned from a design and product perspective to reach a billion users (above). |
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Attendees broke for a networking lunch with investors (angels and venture capitalists), including panelist, Christine Herron, Director of Intel Capital (below). |
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Attendees also took part in the networking lunch with experienced entrepreneurs and founders, including Jess Lee, Co-founder and CEO of Polyvore (below left). |
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Rashmi spoke about balancing entrepreneurship and motherhood:
“Work/life balance is a myth. The enlightenment I gotten for myself is work/life convergence. I have two little kids and I am a passionate mom and a passionate entrepreneur. At every opportunity I have, I introduce my kids to my work. We recently moved office, they helped me build the furniture. I had twins last year at the beginning of the year and I’d never imagine that in the same year, I’d have twins and get acquired. It worked out – I was dealing with the due diligence with having them around. If it works for you, you will make it work and you don’t need to be afraid of it.”
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Closing keynote by the iconic Lynda Weinman, Co-founder and Executive Chair of online software training platform, Lynda.com (above) who reminded us, "Content is Queen."
Afterwards, there was a surprise visit by special guest, John Paul Farmer, Senior Advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (below).
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Big congrats to Bia Sport, who won the People's Choice Award (above), as voted by the Women 2.0 community on Twitter, and to Angaza Design, who won the 2013 PITCH SF Competition (below).
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Lesley Marincola of Angaza Design backstage winning the 2013 PITCH Competition (below).
Read the post-conference coverage on Women 2.0 here.
The image above was later featured in a Businessweek article here.
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