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Sanders receives STEM Leadership Hall of Fame Award

Lucy Sanders, CEO, (NCWIT) National Center for Women & Information Technology receives U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame award 6/19/2013408_ 7/22/13 -
Lucy Sanders, who is CEO of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), has received a U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame award. Sanders co-founded NCWIT in 2004 to significantly increase women's participation in technology and computing. NCWIT, which is headquartered in ATLAS, helps companies, academic institutions, and K-12 organizations recruit and retain girls and women to technology and computing fields. The award was presented at the U.S. News STEM Solutions 2013 National Conference June 19 in Austin, Texas.
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Honoring young women at the high school level
National Center for Women and Informationo Technology (NCWIT) - Aspirations in Computing Award Recipients1417_ 8/5/13 - Aspirations in Computing is a talent development initiative designed to increase female participation in technology careers by providing encouragement, visibility, community, leadership opportunities, scholarships, and internships to aspiring technically inclined young women. MUST SEE VIDEO!
      Since 2007, NCWIT has inducted more than 2,500 young women into the Aspirations in Computing community and is helping to usher these women into technology careers.
     If one thing is clear, it's that Aspirations in Computing women are really going places! In this issue we'll explore some of those different places where Aspirations in Computing recipients are going: Naomi Shah and Meiri Anto went all the way to Brussels to accept the "Tech Needs Girls" prize at the European Parliament; Nicole Torcolini is helping people with disabilities get around more independently through her assistive software; Colorado Aspirations in Computing recipients are helping their peers get into the workforce with new tools they created; and computing educator Catherine Wyman is encouraging Arizona girls to pursue their career goals.
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RELATED LINKS: Aspirations in Computing || Application (Due 9/15 - 10/31) || Success Stories/pdf || National Center for Women in Technology || NCWIT Heroes || MUST SEE VIDEO! || KEYWORDS: NCWIT Aspirations in Computing, Award for Aspirations in Computing, Ruthe Farmer, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, AspireIT

Sherisse Hawkins, CEO/Founder, Beneath the Ink Passion for Meshing Creativity & Technology
enclosure-voice 1463_ 11/18/13 - Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT, is back with another in the series of interviews with fabulous entrepreneurs. Lucy is joined by Larry Nelson, co-founder of w3w3.com Talk Radio. This series focuses on women who have started “IT” companies in a variety of sectors, all of whom have just fabulous stories to tell us, about being entrepreneurs. Today we are interviewing Sherisse Hawkins a former Disney imagineer, with a passion for working on projects that mesh creativity and technology on a large scale. Sherisse Hawkins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Beneath the Ink. Beneath the Ink is a company that provides app-less enhancements for e-books. Using Beneath the Ink technology, it's easy for authors to embed additional content for readers to access when they choose. These enhancements are called Binks. Each Bink gives readers more insight into the characters, places, concepts, and words that pique their curiosity — without ever leaving their page. Sherisse is the former VP of software development at Time Warner Cable. Sherisse loves technology...listen for more...
RELATED LINKS: Beneath the Ink || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Podcast Directory || KEYWORDS: Sherisse Hawkins, Beneath the Ink, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women in Technology, NCWIT, Women, Girls, Technology, Computing Fields, Bink > bytes=16158618
LISTEN TO: Sherisse Hawkins, CEO, Beneath the Ink

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Leslie Bradshaw, COO, Guide & NCWIT Hero Creative interactive agency specializing in data visual storytelling
enclosure-voice 1406_ 7/15/13 - Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network conduct another interview as part of the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Heroes Series, with great women entrepreneurs. People who have started companies in all types of technology sectors and have told us fabulous stories. Today we have Leslie Bradshaw the CoFounder and COO of Guide, a company that is focused on turning online news, social streams and blogs into video. Before her time at Guide, Leslie co-founded and served as the President and COO of JESS3 (Jess-three), a creative interactive agency specializing in data visualization and visual storytelling. She helped JESS3 (Jess-Three) land at 430 on the 2012 Inc. 500. When she is not starting companies, Leslie is a partner at her family-owned vineyard in Oregon. She is also a regular contributor at Forbes on the topic of female entrepreneurship, and serves as a Fellow for the US Chamber of Commerce’s Forum for Innovation. In her role, she is focused on publisher relations, fundraising, marketing, product strategy, talent development and back of house management. Prior to launching this new venture, Leslie co-founded and served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of JESS3, a creative interactive agency specializing in data visualization and visual storytelling. During her tenure at JESS3, Leslie helped the company generate revenues north of $13M, land at No. 430 on the 2012 Inc. 500 and take home AdAge “gold” as the Small Agency of the Year for the Southeast Region. The industry has recognized Leslie's abilities and results, as she was named her one of the top five female executives in the technology industry by Fast Company in 2011 and, in 2012, Inc. Magazine named her one of the “Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30”. Beyond that...Listen for more great ideas...
RELATED LINKS: Guide || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Podcast Directory || KEYWORDS: Leslie Bradshaw, Guide, National Center for Women in Technology, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Online News, Social Streams, Blogs into Video bytes=36809563
LISTEN TO: Leslie Bradshaw, COO at Guide

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Ingrid Alongi takes a Quick Left and builds a Company
Ingrid Alongi, CEO & COFounder, Quick Left WorldBlu's Most Democratic Place to Work!
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1343_ 2/4/13 - Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Ingrid Alongi, CEO and CoFounder, Quick Left. Quick Left is a software engineering company that specializes in designing and building custom web and mobile applications, and is a member of NCWIT’s Entrepreneurial Alliance. With the increasing need for superior web and mobile applications from all sectors, Quick Left is meeting this demand through their innovative processes and unique organizational structure. Due to this unique structure, Quick Left was named one of WorldBlu’s most democratic workplaces of 2012. Lucy asked Ingrid to tell us about this. "It's something we haven't done enough bragging about. WorldBlu is a really cool organization that is about setting up strategy for being a democratic organization and some really great companies are part of their list - in all kinds of industries. Some of the things we do, we have a really transparent organization, and open books policy, we share the financial situation with the team quarterly. Ingrid, a Boulder native, began her career in web development in southern California during the late 1990s. Throughout her career, she also gained experience building and running engineering teams as well as working with and managing clients. As soon as she had the chance, she moved back to Boulder in 2007 to work in the budding startup scene, which soon lead to the recreation of Quick Left. Ingrid doesn't think of herself as an entrepreneur. She says, "I just like to get things done. I like to keep my commitments. I think it's a good thing, if people are considering, if starting a company, is for them. You don't have to be a certain type of person to be successful." Ingrid's advice to young people: Don't force it. Don't start a company just to start one. It's really important to wait until the right thing comes along - the right passion or the right co-founder. Don't be pressured ...Listen for more great ideas...
RELATED LINKS: Quick Left || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || TechStars || Heroes Channel || KEYWORDS: Ingrid Alongi, Quick Left, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneur, Boulder, TechStars, Heroes, > bytes=16175754
LISTEN TO: Ingrid Alongi, CEO & CoFounder, Quick Left

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Jean Hammond, Founder, Learn Launch, TechStars Mentor, VC, Angel 
    Investor, NCWIT Hero Women's roles and behaviors in technology commercialization
enclosure-voice 1339_ 1/21/13 - Today Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network are interviewing Jean Hammond an entrepreneur and angel investor. Jean is a co-founder of the Boston forum of Golden Seeds (which invests in women-managed businesses) and a member of Launchpad Venture Group and Hub Angels. An investor with an active portfolio over 50 companies, she has served on the Board or as a Board-level advisor with over 20 of these firms. Jean's been working on a new non-profit that she recently launched called Learn Launch. Helping drive the support ecosystem by matching entrepreneurs with investors and other resources, Jean meets with hundreds of entrepreneurs a year. As a part-time entrepreneur-in-residence at the E Center and an active mentor at TCN, TechStars, and MassChallenge, she has directly or indirectly helped dozens of startups, moving them from “idea stage” to “funding-ready” to eventual launch to become vital members of the Massachusetts innovation economy. Most recently, Jean co-founded LearnLaunch, a non-profit fostering the creation and growth of learning and education technology companies and the ed tech business cluster across New England. LearnLaunch brings together innovators, K-12 and higher ed educators, investors, students, school leaders, buyers and distribution channels, and provides structured services such as classes, forums, conferences and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs. On the board of Thompson Island Outward Bound and Boston Rising Jean supports the growth of science education and entrepreneurial jobs in the inner city...there's much more to listen to...
RELATED LINKS: LearnLaunch || NCWIT Home || Golden Seeds Boston || Launchpad Venture Group || TechStars Boston || Heroes Channel || KEYWORDS:Jean Hammond, Learn Launch, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, LaunchPad Venture Group, Hub Angels, TechStars, Boston, > BYTES=15642856
LISTEN TO: Jean Hammond, Founder, Learn Launch

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Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier
Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist, bitlyenclosure-voice 1332_ 1/7/13 - Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Hilary Mason, for NCWIT's Hero Series with inspirational women leaders in technology and IT sector. Hilary has a great job, she is the chief scientist at bitly. Through its URL shortening and bookmarking services bitly provides a fun and easy way to save, share, and discover links from the web by using links called "bitmarks". Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier - pretty important to services like Twitter, for example. As Chief Scientist, Hilary's work crosses pure research, math, and development of product-focused systems. Hilary loves New York and she loves NY entrepreneurs - she is the Co-Organizer for DataGotham, Co-Founder of HackNY, as well as a member of the NYC Resistor. She is also involved with the NY TechStars effort, something near and dear to our hearts. How did Hilary become interested in technology? Hilary said, it started when she was a little girl. She was fascinated by computers and she taught herself to write code from the back of magazines when she was still in elementary school. Her fascination continued and she went on and majored in computer sciences. Her love for technology continues and she thinks it is amazing that the computer she carries in her pocket is more powerful than the one she used in elementary school. Hilary has mixed feeling about the word entrepreneur because it's so overloaded in our culture, and it's become trendy in a way that she's not sure is healthy. The way Hilary describes her work is she tends to find problems and then try to make things that solve the problems. It's engineering the right thing to solve the problem - no so much about starting a business just for the sake of being an entrepreneur...Listen for more...
RELATED LINKS: bitly || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || TechStars NYC || Heroes Channel || KEYWORDS: Hilary Mason, bitly, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneur, New York, TechStars, Hero's, BYTES=13407611
LISTEN TO: Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist, bitly

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Our education system is ignoring a vital segment
Ruthe Farmer, Director Strategic Initiative, NCWIT & 2012 Chairperson, Computer Scinece Education Week enclosure-voice 1306_ 11/05/12 - After hearing this, you will be scratching your head and wondering what the heck is going on in education and who establishes the STEM standards. STEM is known as Science, Technology, Engineering and Math standard in education. Next, you will realize a greater appreciation for the work of our own NCWIT. This is really important! We often talk about preparing our workforce for the jobs of the future, but our education system is ignoring a vital segment and failing to prepare our young students for the jobs that are waiting for them. We are talking to Ruthe Farmer of the National Center for Women & IT. This year Ruthe is the chairperson for the Annual Computer Science Ed Week. CSEd Week designated as the second week of December to honor Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, a visionary in the field of computer science. "We're going to be doing an event in Washington DC, on the Hill, with the STEM Education Caucus on December 12th; We're getting some national attention. We've got a goal of about 7500 pledgers (We reached 3700 last year, so we're doubling every year) to demonstrate to everyone at the policy level, that parents, families, employers, want computer science education in the schools. NCWIT is a partner in the CSEd Week, along with a number of other organizations and companies, working to get computer science education into the core curricula in the K-12 space in the U.S." Go to the CSEdWeek.org website and there are a bunch of activities for everyone to get involved in, individuals, and businesses, universities everyone along the pipeline. The goal is to demonstrate a grassroots interest in computer science education to drive demand so that at the national level policy makers will understand that computer science education is important. "Most people are unaware of the fact that the bulk of high schools do not offer anything that would be considered rigorous computer science. Many schools instead are offering word-processing, using spread sheets or using PowerPoint. Not that those are bad skills but they're not computation. They're not teaching that you should be a designer of innovation. It's like taking drivers ed - it doesn't teach you to be a mechanic. We're really trying to get computer science into... Listen for much more... CSEdWeek 2012, December 9 to 15, 2012, is a highly distributed celebration of the impact of computing and the need for computer science education. CSEdWeek is a call to action to shed light on the vital importance of computer science education for all students.
RELATED LINKS: CSEd Week || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || KEYWORDS: Ruthe Farmer, CSEd Week, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, NCWIT, Computer Science Education Week, STEM, National Center for Women & Information Technology, bytes=4701103
LISTEN TO: Ruthe Farmer, Chair, CSEdWeek; Dir. Strategic Initiative, NCWIT

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Corporations, non-profits and universities working together
Aspirations in Computing - Applications Open - October 1 - 31, 2012
Ruthe Farmer, Director, Strategic Initiativesenclosure-voice 1292_ 10/8/12 - The National Center for Women in Information Technology [NCWIT], is a national learning community of 300 organizations - that's corporations, non-profits and universities working together to increase women's meaningful participation in computer science and IT, and ultimately create an innovation workforce for the United States. We're talking with Ruthe Farmer, Director of Strategic Initiatives, NCWIT, about the Award for Aspirations in Computing which is open [Oct 1 thru Nov 30] to all high school girls in the United States. It is an award to recognize girls' aspirations, interests and aptitudes in technology, computing, web design - any girl who has an inkling that she might be into technology - that's who we're looking for. Super star, rock stars. We're looking for all girls that have an interest because we're a community of young women working together, to encourage and support each other in exploring this interest. The applications are open online. They apply at www.AspirationsAward.org and they have until October 31st to get their applications submitted. The winners get prizes and award events. The national winners get $500, a laptop and a trip to an awards gala that Bank of America puts on in North Carolina, that is like the Oscars - it is awesome! Ruthe tell us NCWIT is on target to recognize 1,000 girls in 55 events across the nation. That's up from 30 events last year - this is really growing. For example, last year here in Colorado, we had sponsorship from Google, ViaWest, Chase Bank, as well as the University of Colorado and the School of Mines ...Listen for much more...
RELATED LINKS: Aspirations Award || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || KEYWORDS: Ruthe Farmer, NCWIT, Aspirations in Computing Award, High School Girls, Bank of America, Google, ViaWest, Chase Bank, University of Colorado, School of Mines, Technology Channel, National Center for Women & Information, bytes=5437965
LISTEN TO: Ruthe Farmer, Dir Strategic Initiatives NCWIT

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Seeing a need that wasn’t necessarily being addressed
Brandy Alexander-Wimberly, Founder/CEO, Buyvite Group Payenclosure-voice 1254_ 8/6/12 - Have you ever volunteered to buy a group present or to pay for a group trip? The stress begins when you have to go back around and collect money from family and friends? Brandy Alexander-Wimberly, CEO and Founder of Buyvite has created an online community that facilitates and simplifies this type of group purchase. Buyvite just went live in May after a year in development. Brandy said they've just closed an angel round and they are really excited about the future of social commerce and group payments in particular. It's kind of a Kickstarter or a crowd funder - but for the retailer and that's the essence of their platform. Brandy tells us she has her eyes on social commerce, responsive design and the future of mobile advertising. For Brandy, she likes to envision better ways of doing things and then trying to make the idea into a reality. Listen for more ideas about the future...
Related Links: Buyvite Group Pay || NCWIT Home || NCWIT About || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Buyvite, NCWIT, Brandy Alexander-Wimberly, Group Purchases, Traditional Radio, TV, bytes=13576048
LISTEN TO:Brandy Alexander-Wimberly, CEO and Founder of Buyvite


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Benchmarking: Are women leading alongside men?
Marie Wilson, Lucy Sanders & Larry Nelson782_ 2/1/2010 enclosure-voice
In 1998, Marie Wilson founded The White House Project in recognition of the need to build a truly representative democracy – one where women lead alongside men in all spheres. Since its inception, The White House Project has been a leading advocate and voice on women’s leadership. An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Marie Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004). The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) hosted the White House Project Benchmarking study. Marie led the eye-opening program. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) along with Larry Nelson from w3w3.com interviewed Marie after the program. The White House Project, a national, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization, 501(c)(3), aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency. By filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women, we make American institutions, businesses and government truly representative. Through multi-platform programs, The White House Project creates a culture where America’s most valuable untapped resource—women—can succeed in all realms. To advance this mission, The White House Project strives to support women and the issues that allow women to lead in their own lives and in the world. When women leaders bring their voices, vision and leadership to the table alongside men, the debate is more robust and the policy is more inclusive and sustainable. Listen, there's much more...
Related Links: The White House Project || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Share || Event Photos || Mastering Change || Keywords: Marie Wilson, The White House Project, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, > Channel: NCWIT 11286025 bytes - 2/1/10
LISTEN to Marie Wilson, President, The White House Project


Powered by Podbean.com Lucinda Sanders, CEO/Founder, National Center for Women and Information Technology

Lucy Sanders makes it her business to get women into technology! Lucy is the CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women and Tecthology. With a huge gap in our talent pool, we are facing a national crisis... and women can help save us... The Trend is Changing, statistics show that better than 50% of new entrepreneurus are female. NCWIT regularly introduces us to fabulous, successful women and technologies - Listen to her interview with Krista Marks, a Colorado Hero!...

Amazing story: Boulder to Disney
Krista Marks, NCWIT Heroenclosure-voice 871_ 8/2/10- Lucy Sanders, Founder and CEO of the National Center for Women in Technology describes Krista Marks as, "A rare blend of technical accomplishment and social passion and entrepreneurial spirit. You cannot spend more than five seconds with Krista without getting all kinds of great information and energy and passion!" Krista is the co-founder of Kerpoof Studios which was acquired by Disney in 2008 and Krista is now the general manager of Disney Online Kerpoof Studios (and still based in Boulder). Lucy asked, "How did you get interested in technology?" Her interesting reply, "My entry into technology was not so smooth. When I went to college, I didn't even know about technology or pursuing a career in technology which for me, was electrical engineering. [But obviously there are a number of careers in technology.] For me, in high school, I gravitated to mathematics, science and problem solving, these were the areas I liked. Fortunately when I got to orientation for college, I sat next to a student who said they were going to major in electrical engineering. I didn't know what that is. "What is that?" And she said, 'I know that if you really like math and physics, it's the best major to have. I said, "Oh my god, those are my two favorite things. "So I fell into it. This is why NCWIT and the things you're doing, Lucy, is so critical, so important. I would like every student to be aware of the available opportunities when they're choosing a career. I did end up there and loved technology. In fact, from that point on I really wanted to be involved in designing technology. I spent the first eleven years designing custom electronics, and got to work around the world." In the first of many future integrations of Kerpoof technology, Disney.com has launched new features on its popular Characters portal (www.Disney.com/Characters). Now, when guests visit pages for characters such as Mickey and Friends, they will be able to create their very own customized pictures using an intuitive graphical interface. There's more...
Related Links: NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || ATLAS || Kerpoof Studio || Disney.com/Create || Entrepreneurs Unplugged || Entrepreneurs Unplugged with Krista Marks, Event Photos || Keywords:Krista Marks, Kerpoof, Disney, Silicon Flatirons, ATLAS, ITP, Lucinda Sanders, NCWIT, Small Business Innovation Research, Grant, Entrepreneurs Unplugged > 3/8/10 Bytes:45382115  Chnl: Entrepreneurs LISTEN to Krista Marks, Entrepreneurs Unplugged

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The daily struggle of creating something out of nothing
Celia Francis, CEO, WeeWorld and NCWIT Heroenclosure-voice 1167_ 2/27/12 - Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Celia Francis, CEO of WeeWorld. WeeWorld is social network for tweens and teens, one of the top ten sites for that age group in the United States and they spend their time visualizing and playing games and expressing themselves and being creative. We really are focused on an idea of personalized entertainment with the idea of thinking about more ways that you can get people in that age group involved in design, creativity and self expression. We've moved over to the mobile world on both iOS and Android, it's called the Weenie Avatar Creator - very popular, top 100 apps. She offers a great deal of useful entrepreneurship advice. Celia says her story begins when she was a kid. Growing up as a first generation American. Her German mother complained about how all the American products were not high quality, not beautiful, and how she wished she had more long lasting, beautiful products from Germany. Celia felt sort of a nationalistic pride and that started her on this journey of wanting to create great products for consumers. She spent a lot of her time as a student thinking about design and technology - and studying product development. w3w3® Media Network is proud and honored to bring another NCWIT interview to our audience. We've long since recognized the need for education and support for our youth and particularly for young women, in math and science, engineering and technology. The women we interview are bright guiding lights for the future of our youth, generously sharing their experiences - challenges and all. They are inspiring, often humorous and motivating. This series is a real jewel and a valuable set of tools for the future of young women and everyone who has the good fortune to listen...there's much more, listen now...
Related Links: Wee World || Wired Magazine Article || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Celia Francis, WeeWorld, Social Network, Tweens, Teens, iOS, Android, Weenie Avatar Creator, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, w3w3® Media Network - bytes=22096982
LISTEN TO: Celia Francis, CEO, WeeWorld


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Teach for America or a Peace Corps for Geeks
Jennifer Pahlka, Founder & CEO, Code for America an NCWIT Hero!enclosure-voice 1135_ 1/2/2012 - The National Center for Women In Technology (NCWIT) is very proud to bring the stories of incredible young women to your attention. We are talking with Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America. She recently described Code for America, "It's like a Teach for America or a Peace Corps for Geeks". People in government, senior managers with projects they think could benefit from web based solutions can make an appeal to Code for America to get volunteer help to build these projects out. This is not the first thing Jennifer has done, she's a serial entrepreneur and has extensive experience in gaming and media. Jennifer says they're a new organization having just finished up their first fellowship year. They had 19 fellows work with them all year long and work with the cities doing great projects. An example of one project is the "Adopt a Fire Hydrant App", which came out of the fact that fellows go visit their cities for five weeks. Their Boston team was treated to a massive 'snowpocalypse' and they saw the city struggling to clear the streets. They never really get to digging out the fire hydrants, but the citizens were right in front of them and they could dig them out. So the 'fellows' created a little web app that allowed the citizen to clean the fire hydrant and agree to dig it out when it snows. Jennifer's advice to a budding entrepreneur: You have to really care, deeply care about the problem you're trying to solve and think it's an important problem. And care about your people. If you don't deeply care about your work others won't either and you won't be successful. Jennifer didn't feel like an entrepreneur until she came up with the idea for Code for America. She suddenly felt she could be incredibly useful to the world and she could make a difference and it was the power of the idea and the notion that no one else was going to do it that made her start this organization. Listen for more...
Related Links: Code for America || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Jennifer Pahlka, Code for America, National Center for Women In Technology, NCWIT, Lucinda Sanders, Geeks, Entrepreneurs, People in Government, Apps - Bytes: 16827353
LISTEN to - Jennifer Pahlka, Founder/CEO, Code for America


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Developing faster access to relevant info on the web
Sandy Jen, CTO/Co-Founder, Meebo and NCWIT Heroenclosure-voice 1143_ 1/16/12 - "For me the biggest light bulb moment was seeing someone else who I thought was as dumb as I was, do something extraordinary. That was inspiring. In my logical computer science brain I thought, there's not a lot of difference between me and him - What made him do that? That was the biggest insight for me. Fast forward six years, when I talk to young entrepreneurs they're saying... Oh I have this great idea.. I need to do this thing... I need to get this hire... I need a business plan... I need to get the technology in place... and they keep putting up these roadblocks. Self imposed road blocks. The difference today in terms of technology is that it is so easy to get started. We have all these resources, and they're cheap. You can do a mobile app in like a week. That is extraordinarily powerful for a young, very ambitious entrepreneur who has an idea!" Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network are interviewing Sandy Jen, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Cofounder of Meebo, a consumer Internet company that organizes the web around people, and helps build out their interest graph for easy, faster access to relevant info on the web. As CTO, Jen, formerly the Vice President of Engineering, leads Meebo's entire engineering team. She is responsible for shaping the company's engineering goals and spearheading both front- and back-end development for Meebo, while coordinating the department's communications with the rest of the company. Sandy, along with friends Seth Sternberg and Elaine Wherry, started Meebo in 2005 with one goal in mind: to connect people to their friends across the Web. Sandy is also a rock climber and Ultimate Frisbee player, mentors young entrepreneurs and students in her spare time...there's much more and you'll want to share this interview with others...
Related Links: Meebo || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Why Facebook Matters for B2B || Keywords: Meebo, Sandy Jen, National Center for Women in Technology, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Entrepreneurs, The Facebook Era, Facebook, Twitter, Social Media - Bytes: 23929315
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Talent Pipeline: Awards for Aspirations in Computing
Aspirations in Computing Award - NCWIT's 
        recognition awards program for high school age young women with an interest in ITenclosure-voice 1072_ 8/29/11 - Being the father of four daughters, Larry has a high interest in the National Center for Women in Information Technology. Ruthe Farmer, is the Director of Strategic Initiatives with NCWIT, which is a coalition of well over 250 organizations (corporations, K-12 organizations, universities) working together to increase women's participation in computing and IT. The program that Ruthe is talking about, NCWIT's 'talent pipeline program' called the Awards for Aspirations in Computing. "Which is an effort to find and recognize high school girls that are active in computing technology right now and Ruthe Farmer, Director of Strategic Initiative, NCWIThave the greatest potential to go on and major in that field in college. Ruthe said they started the award program in 2007 with twelve girls. In 2008 they went national and today the national event serves 35 national winners and those come from the top one percent of all applicants. They get about 3000 applications from approximately 35 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. In 2011 NCWIT recognized 355 girls, and in the 2011-12 round they expect to recognize between 500 to 700 girls. Ruthe's long term goal is to have a thousand girls per year recognized in approximately 70 affiliates that would cover all 50 U.S. states, and then a pool of 10,000 girls." Larry asked, "Who are these young women, how do we recognize them, what would we be looking for?" Ruthe said, "They could be your daughter, niece, granddaughter, your neighbor's kid, your babysitter - it could be any girl... What we're looking for is any girl with aspirations and interest in computing. We're not looking for the rock star, top of her class, valedictorian.. We are looking for that little bit of interest and how we can foster it from here." At the national level, the prize is $500 cash, a laptop and a trip for two [the girl and a parent] to the Bank of America 'Technology Stars of the Future Gala' which is comparable to the Oscars. The NCWIT Academic Alliance is committed to 100 schools offering scholarships by this next year. The opportunities really are there, this is a beginning point for these girls. A quick note to teachers. We want all of your girls, not just your top students. Often with the word competition, teachers think I'll send someone who has a shot at winning. Really everyone has a shot because we're looking for aspirations. So ask all of them to apply." Pass this interview along to others you know would be interested...
Related Links: Aspirations Award || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Ruthe Farmer, NCWIT, Aspirations in Computing Award, High School Girls, Bank of America, Technology Channel, National Center for Women & Information Technology 8/29/11 Bytes: 7869652
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Niniane Wang, CTO, Minted User generated content is becoming more and more critical
enclosure-voice 1082_ 9/26/11 - Niniane has a great track record at Google and Microsoft. She started with Minted about a year ago and leads the technology team including engineering and technical operations. Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network conduct another interview as part of the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Heroes series, with great women entrepreneurs. People who have started companies in all types of technology sectors and have told us fabulous stories. Today we have Niniane Wang, CTO of Minted. Minted is a startup out of San Francisco and it uses technology to crowd source graphic designs from a global community. Minted holds monthly design challenges for stationery, invitations, calendars, and other categories and all graphic designers are invited to enter. The Minted community selects the best designs in a highly competitive process; winning designers earn cash prizes, a place in the Minted collection, and commissions on all sales of their designs. It is a great site - you can go there and discover the work of great designers from all over the world. Lucy asked, "How did you get into technology? And as you look out, which ones do you see that are particularly interesting?" Niniane pointed out - I got into technology by programming in basic when she was five... Her parents had immigrated to the US so that her dad could get a PhD in math. They didn't have a lot of time or money. They bought a game counsel from Radio Shack because they couldn't afford Nintendo. It had a basic interpreter on it - it came with a book of basic programs and Niniane started copying in the programs. She said it was very visual and she would amuse herself in this way. It was fun, rewarding and instantly satisfying. Niniane loves disruptive technologies like the Kindle and says she carries hers everywhere and buys 10 times as many books now. User generated content is becoming more and more critical. First we saw user generated web sites, now there is a proliferation of people creating art. Niniane offers many insights...listen for more...
Related Links: Minted® Home || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Niniane's Google+ - a must see! || Niniane's Blog || Keywords: Niniane Wang, Minted, National Center for Women in Technology, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Google, Microsoft, User Generated Content, Designers - bytes=21526019
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Leverage and engage the millions of users of social network sites
Victoria Ransom, CEO/Founder, Wildfire 
        Interactive - NCWIT Heroenclosure-voice 1055_ 8/01/11 - The National Center for Women in Technology CEO, Lucy Sanders and w3w3.com Internet Talk Radio anchor, Larry Nelson are talking with Victoria Ransom, founder & CEO of Wildfire Interactive, and serial entrepreneur (3 companies all of which are operating today) and an adventuresome spirit - she once spent over a month living with a remote Amazonian tribe. Wildfire Interactive helps organizations leverage and engage the millions of users of social network sites like Facebook and Twitter. Their web applications allow companies to easily integrate branded interactive campaigns (across all types of social media networks) like sweepstakes, contests and give-aways, utilizing the viral features of the social web to create engaging campaigns. Wildfire also provides powerful analytics so you can measure the impact of these campaigns. Victoria has been an entrepreneur since her early twenties and has developed three companies. As founder & CEO of Wildfire, Victoria led the company to profitability in just one year and has built the company to tens of thousands of customers, over 140 employees, and five offices worldwide. w3w3® Media Network is proud and honored to bring another NCWIT interview to our audience. At w3w3® Media Network, we recognized the need for education and support for our youth, particularly for young women, in math and science, engineering and technology. Our partnership with Lucy Sanders and NCWIT is highly rewarding. The women we interview are bright guiding lights for the future of our youth, generously sharing their experiences - challenges and all. They are inspiring, often humorous and motivating. This series is a real jewel and a valuable set of tools for the future of young women and everyone who has the good fortune to listen.
Related Links: Wildfire App || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Victoria Ransom, Wildfire Interactive, National Center for Women in Technology, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Facebook, Twitter, Social Media, Interactive Campaigns - 8/01/11 Bytes: 18677240
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Gillian Muessig, 'Mom of Search Optimization' It is a fresh Web crawl of the worldwide web
enclosure-voice 1011_ 5/9/11 - We have another in this series of interviews with fabulous entrepreneurs. Women, who have started “IT” companies in a variety of sectors, all of whom have just fabulous stories to tell us, about being entrepreneurs. Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Gillian Muessig, cofounder and president of SEOmoz. She is an expert in search optimization, known as the 'Mom of Search Op'. SEOmoz provides the world's most popular Search Marketing applications. SEOmoz.org serves a community of 300,000 search marketers around the world. The SEOmoz blog is read by 50,000 SEOs each month. She also has a weekly radio show CEO Coach where she covers important entrepreneurial issues around funding, finance, staffing, marketing and branding and brand development. The latest and greatest, well, I guess we're taking social signals much more seriously these days. So we are the creators of LinkScape. It is a fresh Web crawl of the worldwide web. In other words we have code otherwise known as bots that run out along the web and catalog the pages just like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and so on. LinkScape gives us a link graph of the web it's not a full search engine. Now we are taking a look at the social graph... the noise from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo Answers, Cora, just thousands of social media sites show up in the Search Engine Results Pages known as SERP. That's what's new at SEOmoz, we're looking at the social signals and incorporating them into our platform. Gillian had a very interesting take on entrepreneurs, "It is a hereditary disease, not a profession. Entrepreneurship is something you have to want and you have to want it so desperately that you are willing to walk through what I call the dip. So understanding entrepreneurship is: Have a great idea. You decide you want to bring it to the marketplace. But you must walk through this chasm of impediments to success. And, sometimes it gets very, very dark. It is not just that you need financial qualifications... there is much more! "People who say it cannot be done, are often interrupted by those who are doing it." Listen, there's much more...
Related Links: SEOmoz SEO Software Simplifed || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Gillian Muessig, SEOmoz, NCWIT Hero, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lucy Sanders, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, 5/9/11 bytes=30121381 LISTEN TO: Gillian Muessig, SEOmoz

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The app market is really taking off right now
Cathy Edwards, CTO and CoFounder, Chomp.com - NCWIT Hero enclosure-voice 998_ 4/11/11 - Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Cathy Edwards, CTO and co-founder of Chomp.com, a search engine for mobile applications. Lucy loves it saying, "If you're like me, it's difficult to find all the applications that you can have on your mobile device today. Cathy created Chomp's proprietary algorithm that understands the function of each app. So you get to search for applications not just on what they're called, but what they do. For example you can search for puzzles, games, gardening, fitness, etc. It's a great app launched in January 2010 with a platform for the iPhone and just recently for the droid. Cathy said," Things are really going well. The app market is really taking off right now. If you look at the stats, the rate at which apps are growing, both in terms of the number of apps available and the rate of adoption, is very similar to the early days of the web. This is looking like something that is going to be very, very big. And of course as it gets really big people are going to need ways of finding those apps." Cathy was asked, "Why are you an entrepreneur, what about it makes you tick?" She replied, "I feel really privileged to do what I do. I love to get up in the morning and go to work. I really think very few people are in a position where they can genuinely say, I spend a lot of time working and I love every minute of it. To me being an entrepreneur is about two things. The first is about creating and building like really amazing products, the things that people use and that people love. There's this kind of very tangible feeling that goes along with being an entrepreneur of I built that. The second piece is about creating and building an amazing team of people. I really love working with people and I have the most amazing team of people at Chomp." Listen for more...
Related Links: Chomp dot com || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Cathy Edwards, Chomp, Apps, Search, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT Heroes, iPhone, Droid - Channel:NCWIT 4/11/11 Bytes: 14072584 LISTEN to Cathy Edwards, CTO and Co-Founder, Chomp.com

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Target market leads to a big sale and much more
Alicia Morga, NCWIT Heroenclosure-voice 972_ 2/21/11 - She is an example of bootstrapping that few others can match. Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network and Lee Kennedy, Founder, BolderSearch.com and NCWIT board member interviewed Alicia Morga, founder and past CEO of Consorte Media, sold in 2010 to Audience Science. Currently Alicia is the creator of GottaFeeling (iPhone App) and the founder of a new (in stealth) startup. Alicia is a remarkable young woman with great down-to-earth advice for other young women wanting to build a life in the information and technology space. She is an example of bootstrapping that few others can match. Her beginnings are humble and we encourage you to watch the 'Professional Bio' video on her blog - it's short (link below... About Alicia). Lucy Sanders wanted to know when Alicia got interested in technology. Alicia points out, "It was a circuitous route for sure." She didn't grow up wanting to be an entrepreneur, nor did anyone think she would be an entrepreneur. Looking back she realizes she had all the entrepreneurial traits that are usually necessary to become an entrepreneur, she was very curious and adventurous. Her first exposure was in high school with a basic programming language class. She built a baseball game and thought that was fun - 'you can build anything you want in this thing called a computer'. She did end up going to Stanford University which plunked her down right in the middle of Silicon Valley. She tells us she heard dribs and drabs about technology and entrepreneurship, but didn't connect the dots until she became a corporate lawyer after law school, also at Stanford University. Take the GottaFeeling App. Alicia had never created an app before, she didn't even own an iPhone or an iTouch. She decided this was something she didn't know anything about and said, "Why don't I just jump in and see what I can create." That's when she created GottaFeeling...listen now there's much more...
Related Links: About Alicia Morga || Consorte Media || Gotta Feeling iPhone App || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Alicia Morga, Consorte Media, Gotta Feeling iPhone App, Stanford, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT Heroes, Lee Kennedy, Bolder Search, Entrepreneurs, Technology > 2/21/11 bytes=18453214
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18 years of leadership with early stage companies
Sukhinder Singh-Cassidy, Entrepreneur & NCWIT Hero enclosure-voice 951_ 1/11/11 - Today we are interviewing Sukhinder Singh Cassidy who is a leading consumer internet and media executive with over 18 years of leadership experience at global and early stage companies including Google, Amazon, Yodlee, and News Corp. w3w3® Media Network is proud and honored to bring another NCWIT interview to our audience. We've long since recognized the need for education and support for our youth and particularly for young women, in math and science, engineering and technology. The women we interview are bright guiding lights for the future of our youth, generously sharing their experiences - challenges and all. They are inspiring, often humorous and motivating. This series is a real jewel and a valuable set of tools for the future of young women and everyone who has the good fortune to listen. From 2003 to 2009,
    Ms. Singh-Cassidy
was a key executive at Google, Inc, where she grew and scaled several leading businesses, including Asia-Pacific & Latin American Operations for almost 5 years. In this role, she was responsible for all of Google’s commercial operations in both regions, and built the company’s physical presence from inception to its current scale as a multi-billion dollar business serving users, advertisers and partners across 40 domains and 103 different countries throughout APAC and Latin America. Prior to her high-tech involvement, Sukhinder did the taxes for her father, a doctor. She gives some great advice on what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur including maintaining high energy and intensity, know how to sell and be self-aware. There's much more, listen now...

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New search: Patterns and pixels of images and videos
Leila Boujnane, Idée, Inc.enclosure-voice 947_ 1/4/11- Here's another interview in the 'Entrepreneurs NCWIT Heroes series. Lee Kennedy, BolderSearch and NCWIT Director along with Larry Nelson, w3w3.com are interviewing Leila Boujnane, the CEO of Idée Inc., (pronounced Eday). Idée’s goal is to make images searchable. Idée Inc. develops advanced image identification and visual search software. The technology looks at the patterns and pixels of images and videos to make each image or frame searchable by color, similarity or exact duplicate. Leila said, "Our current image index, these are the images that we've crawled from the web and indexed, is close to two billion. This is really a very exciting undertaking for us because it brought what we call image recognition based search to everyone." TinEye is a reverse image search engine. "It's like a Google image search except you use pictures instead of text." - Los Angeles Times. If you'd told Leila that she would be involved with technology a decade ago, she says she would have laughed and would have said you didn't know what you were talking about. She was in med school, in France, to become a doctor. She was curious about technology, of course, but had more of a science and mathematics mind rather than an engineering or software interest. But, Leila realized that medicine was just not for her. She stopped her studies and took a year off to figure out what she wanted. Making her way to Canada, and quite by accident, she ran into a group of people starting a software company. "They were looking for an addition to their team, I turned out to be a good fit and decided to give it a try... After that I never looked back, but it was completely accidental." ...listen, there's more...
Related Links: Idée Blog || Idée Inc. || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Leila Boujnane, Idée, Search, Image Identification, Visual Search Software, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Bolder Search, Entrepreneurs, Technology 1/4/11 Chnl: NCWIT bytes=20967239
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Following a career path of politics lead to High-tech
Amanda Steinberg, CEO, Soapbxx and CEO, 
        DailyWorth.com enclosure-voice 941_ 12/13/10- Today she is the mother of two children under four and runs two companies. Lee Kennedy, Founder, Bolder Search and board member for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network spoke with Amanda Steinberg, CEO and co-founder of Soapbxx & Dailyworth. Amanda started with an overview of her two companies. Soapbxx is a website consultancy most specifically focused on online fundraising and marketing strategies for non-profit organizations." DailyWorth.com is a long time dream coming to fruition for Amanda. "DailyWorth is very simple actually; it's a free daily email that teaches women about basic finance. We currently serve 50,000 members and it is growing quite rapidly." When asked about how she got interested in Technology, Amanda talked about her mother who in 1964 was probably the only woman in her class majoring in math and computer science. While most four year olds were doing arts and crafts, Amanda's mother plunked her down in front of a computer. Later, Amanda was actually following a career path of politics. In college she got an administrative position where she graduated into doing VB scripting for databases and just fell in love with technology and realized her brain actually works like this and decided this would be her career. Larry said, "Lucy Sanders likes us to ask this question. "Why are you an entrepreneur?" "Ahh, how could I not be an entrepreneur?" Because she's able to generate business and because she does have certain leadership attributes, she has to be an entrepreneur, it's just not a choice for her. There's much more, listen now...
Related Links: DailyWorth || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Amanda Steinberg, DailyWorth.com, Soapbxx, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Bolder Search, ACLU, Entrepreneurs, Technology - 12/13/10 Bytes: 15575983 LISTEN to Amanda Steinberg, CEO, Soapbxx and CEO DailyWorth.com

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Asra Rasheed, CEO, RRKidz. NCWIT Hero Interactive content for today’s digital kids
enclosure-voice 917_ 10/25/10- Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network and Lee Kennedy, Founder, BolderSearch.com and NCWIT board member interviewed Asra Rasheed, CEO of RRKidz. This is part of a series of interviews that we are having with fabulous entrepreneurs. Women who have started “IT” companies in a variety of sectors, all of whom have just fabulous stories to tell us, about being entrepreneurs. RRKidz develops and publishes engaging, educational interactive content for today’s digital kids. Curated by Reading Rainbow’s, LeVar Burton, RRKidz brings learning and skill based experiences to children within a safe social environment online and on handheld devices. Asra is an industry executive and accomplished entrepreneur. She possesses extensive experience in interactive media, entertainment, video games, online and offline business strategies and operations. When Asra was asked to define the qualities necessary to be a successful entrepreneur she was very straightforward. She said, "Be committed; Be passionate; Strategize; Have a roadmap; Be driven; Be balanced; Build relationships a network." It's easy to see why she enjoys advising companies. She possesses extensive experience in interactive media, entertainment, videogames, online and offline business strategies and operations. Recently, Asra was President of Thumb Media Group; content publishing platform for mobile and tablet devices. Previously, Asra was President and COO of Gottaplay Interactive, an online videogame rental service; aka: Netflix for games. Prior to that, she was Founder and Director of Interactive Media at Koyo Graphic International where she worked on creating online and interactive experiences for companies such as Bandai Entertainment, Warner Bros., Sanyo, and others." Listen now, there's much more...
Related Links: Asra Rasheed on Twitter || NCWIT Share || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Asra Rasheed, RRKidz, Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton, Lucinda Sanders, National Center for Women in Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneurs, Lee Kennedy
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Inspired by Bill Gates, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina
Saman Dias, Founder, AIM Computer Training, Advisor, Astiaenclosure-voice 890_ 10/18/10- Larry Nelson and Lee Kennedy, interviewed Saman Dias, an award-winning entrepreneur who recognized the value of enterprise-scale business technical training when she founded AIM Computer Training... the global company was acquired in 2004 and Saman went on to lead other successful entrepreneurial efforts in real estate and social networking. She is currently staying quite busy as an advisor to entrepreneurs at different companies, including Astia's incubator. This interview is part of NCWIT's (National Center for Women in Technology) interview series with fabulous, successful women entrepreneurs who have started IT companies. Originally from Sri Lanka, Saman studied to become a doctor and was preparing to take the entrance exam for medical college. But she had a hard time passing the entrance exam. Saman was frustrated, she felt as though her sisters would be going into college and she'd still be studying to take the entrance exam. Her uncle came to her and said, 'what about computers'? Saman said, "I had no idea what it meant, it was early in the 1980s, but I said, sign me up. And that's how I got into technology." Lee, founder of BolderSearch and NCWIT board member, asked why did she become an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurs will really relate to her reply. "Because, I feel that you can create your own destiny, it gives you the independence and the opportunity to create wealth and be your own boss, I loved that. Looking back, I feel that your contribution really can make a difference not only for yourself, but to the community, the company and from there you make a difference to the world because you are helping to create wealth and jobs and helping to create new innovation." There's much more advice for entrepreneurs as she talks about as Bill Gates, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina...
Related Links: Saman Dias Linkedin || Astia || NCWIT Share || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Saman Dias, National Center for Women in Technology, NCWIT, Astia, Entrepreneurs, AIM Computer Training, Lee Kennedy, Independence 10/18/10 bytes: 9093332
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Powered by Podbean.com Krista Marks, Gen. Mgr., Disney Online Kerpoof 
                Studios

Amazing story: Boulder to Disney
enclosure-voice 871_ 8/2/10- Lucy Sanders, Founder and CEO of the National Center for Women in Technology describes Krista Marks as, "A rare blend of technical accomplishment and social passion and entrepreneurial spirit. You cannot spend more than five seconds with Krista without getting all kinds of great information and energy and passion!" Krista is the co-founder of Kerpoof Studios which was acquired by Disney in 2008 and Krista is now the general manager of Disney Online Kerpoof Studios (and still based in Boulder). Lucy asked, "How did you get interested in technology?" Her interesting reply, "My entry into technology was not so smooth. When I went to college, I didn't even know about technology or pursuing a career in technology which for me, was electrical engineering. [But obviously there are a number of careers in technology.] For me, in high school, I gravitated to mathematics, science and problem solving, these were the areas I liked. Fortunately when I got to orientation for college, I sat next to a student who said they were going to major in electrical engineering. I didn't know what that is. "What is that?" And she said, 'I know that if you really like math and physics, it's the best major to have. I said, "Oh my god, those are my two favorite things. "So I fell into it. This is why NCWIT and the things you're doing, Lucy, is so critical, so important. I would like every student to be aware of the available opportunities when they're choosing a career. I did end up there and loved technology. In fact, from that point on I really wanted to be involved in designing technology. I spent the first eleven years designing custom electronics, and got to work around the world." In the first of many future integrations of Kerpoof technology, Disney.com has launched new features on its popular Characters portal (www.Disney.com/Characters). Now, when guests visit pages for characters such as Mickey and Friends, they will be able to create their very own customized pictures using an intuitive graphical interface. There's more...
Related Links: Disney Online Kerpoof Studio || Disney || Characters Portal || NCWIT Share || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Krista Marks, Keerpoof, Studios, Disney, Digital Mosaic, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women in Technology, NCWIT, Disney Online 8/2/10 Chnl: NCWIT bytes: 3693508
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852_ 6/1/10 - History of a successful female entrepreneur
Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Founder & CEOMargaret Burd, President, CEO and a Founderenclosure-voice Does this sound like an entrepreneur: Someone who is optimistic; likes people; likes helping people; likes networking; likes to start things? Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Margaret Burd. Margaret is a founder, President & CEO of Magpie, Inc., a software company that offers a full suite of software development and consulting services for the Smart Energy, Telecom, and Healthcare industries. Margaret also is a founder and board chair of Magpie Healthcare, Inc., a software product company that provides hospital caregivers with simple, phone-based solutions for people-to-people and team communications that save lives by measurably improving quality of care. Margaret came to technology in a rather unusual way. Her first career was teaching math and science and coaching lots of different sports in public school in Missouri, for about nine years. In 1983 she was still earning $15,000/year and was pretty bored with the teaching thing. The University of Kansas let you get into their Computer Sciences Masters program if you had a math degree. She applied, they accepted, and Margaret ended up with a Masters in Computer Science. Right out of school she got an offer from Bell Labs, ended up in Denver, and that's how Margaret got into technology. Margaret said, "It was an amazing turn of events in my life, and probably just because. You know one of those things that just happened." Margaret has some great advice for entrepreneurs ...listen for more...
Related Links: Magpie || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Margaret Burd, Magpie TI, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneurship, Computer Sciences
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839_ 5/10/10 - "The truth is that I love to ML Mackey, CEO & Co-founder of Beacon Interactive Systemsmake money"
enclosure-voice The company started in a rent controlled apartment in 1992, and over nine years built up to a profitable, self funding business providing software solutions to customers such as MetLife, Olympus, and IBM. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) along with Larry Nelson from w3w3.com interviewed ML Mackey – CEO & Co-Founder of Beacon Interactive Systems. Ms. Mackey is remarkable because she is a woman technology CEO who has built a successful company first in the private sector, and then again in the public sector. In the crash of 2001, Beacon successfully leveraged its core expertise to focus on SBIR and other government contracts, and has since become a preferred provider to the US Navy for workflow management solutions. Ms. Mackey has earned the respect of many in both private and government circles, and is actively contributing input at legislative and policy levels on how to bring commercial sector innovation to the Department of Defense. At one time in her life she was a ballet teacher. Lucy asked, "How did you get involved in technology?" ML replied, ""I wanted to give a profound answer, but the truth is that I love to make money. I couldn't see supporting the lifestyle I wanted teaching ballet, which I love." So ML applied for an electrical engineering scholarship, because they had the most available. "Turns out, luckily for me, that I really enjoyed what I was learning about. Engineering is a fascinating profession. It's a fun and exciting place to be. So I stumbled upon the place I needed to be." Explaining why she became an entrepreneur, "My partner and I like to do things, we like to make things happen, we like create things and be around smart creative people and we want to make an impact with what we are doing. It seemed like starting a company was a great combination for all these things. Now, I think it is the adrenalin, the challenge, the opportunity, the creativity and it's the great people I get to work with at my company, it's the interesting customers we get to work with, it's never dull."
Related Links: Beacon Interactive Systems || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Blog || Find It || Keywords: ML Mackey, Beacon Interactive Systems, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneurship > 5/10/10 Chnl: NCWIT bytes: 14471526 Listen to: ML Mackey, Beacon Interactive Systems

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828_ 4/19/10 - Cutting edge analytics for B2B and B2C industries
Candace Fleming, CEO and Co-Founder, Crimson Hexagon - 
           NCWIT Hero Seriesenclosure-voice Her experiences are a learning history. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network and Lee Kennedy, Founder, BolderSearch.com interviewed Candace Fleming Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Crimson Hexagon. Candace worked with Gary King to take Crimson Hexagon from a nascent research technology to a successful commercial application. She and her merry band of believers in social media have created a technology that large and small companies use to derive meaning from the online conversation. Via a software-as-a-service offering, their clients can understand daily what thousands of people are saying about their brand, their competitors, and pretty much any topic being discussed (some of which sure are doozies). She does all the crazy things a small-company CEO does, ranging from negotiating big contracts and hiring an outstanding team, to reading Tweets on snack food fetishes (anything for their clients!). Candace pointed out that many entrepreneurs and executives strive for perfection but recommends to put things 'to bed' sooner than they think...the reason being good is okay, not perfection. She explains much more in the interview. When asked what are the winning characteristics of a successful entrepreneur she replied, "Be an optimist; don't be afraid of hard work; and be direct and honest." Listen for more...
Related Links: Crimson Hexagon || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Blog || PodCast Directory || Keywords: Candace Fleming, Crimson Hexagon, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Entrepreneurship, 4/19/10 bytes: 11867536 Chnl: NCWIT LISTEN to Candace Fleming, CEO and Co-Founder of Crimson Hexagon

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820_ 4/5/10 - Venture Capital and Board of Directors
Maria Cirino, Co Founder and Managing Director, 
           .406 Ventures enclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network and Lee Kennedy, Founder, BolderSearch.com, spoke with Maria Cirino, CoFounder & Managing Director, .406 Ventures for the NCWIT Toolbox Series. The topic today is forming as well as learning from all kinds of boards, advisor boards, boards of directors, etc. Maria explained their unusual name, "We are a Boston based venture capital firm, focusing on early stage technology investments. We dug into .406 and it was a strong Red Sox player, Ted Williams, who batted a .406 average in 1941 and that has not been beaten since. The reason Ted was able to achieve this was, he had extraordinary vision, and he'd taken the time over the years to analyze where, within the strike zone he could hit best. We thought that measured selectivity was a great metaphor for this business. Because while we see upwards of 800 very talented entrepreneurs every year, we invest in half-a-dozen of those. Her advice for avoiding a bad situation "Do your homework upfront. Find names that might not be on that VC's reference list, and find out why. If they had a bad experience, try to understand that, sometimes it's a personality conflict, but the more homework you can do upfront the better off you'll be. Remind everybody the board's role is not to run the company. The board's role is to advise the company, the board's role is to assist the company, provide oversight to that management team and ultimately to hire and fire the CEO." Listen for more details about boards...
Related Links: .406 Ventures || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Blog || Keywords: Maria Cirino, .406 Ventures, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneurship, Board of Directors - 4/5/10 bytes: 15823206 Chnl: NCWIT LISTEN to Maria Cirino, CoFounder & Managing Director, .406 Ventures for the NCWIT Toolbox Series

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768_ Reform legislation, reform the way people think
Lucinda Sanders & 
           Jenny Slade, National Center for Women and Information Technologyenclosure-voice National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT is a non-profit coalition of corporations, other non-profits and universities from all around the country who believe women's participation in technology and computer sciences needs to be increased. They work together from the K-12 through the IT workforce to run programs that increase, promote and advance women's participation in IT. Larry interviewed Jenny Slade, Communication Director of NCWIT about an important project they are working on. Jenny pointed out, "Women represent 50% of the workforce and in part because technology is inherently a creative venture. If you're not including 50% of the population in the creation of technology, then you're losing a lot of innovative ideas. Women comprise about 24% of the professional IT workforce and at universities women bring home between 12-14% of computer science and information degrees and in the K-12 space, girls comprise 17% of ACT computer science test takers and that's given that young women take more than half of ACT tests. We've launched our first fundraising campaign. We've been very successful in the past raising funding from our constituents, to perform our work. If you donate $25 to NCWIT for our work in DC, what you're doing is putting statistics and important data into the hands of policy makers...people who make decisions about whether, and how computer science is taught in our schools. One of the ways we're going to recruit more women into IT is to reform legislation, reform the way people think about computer science both in our schools and in our workplaces." More info... NOTE: Google incentive: Random Drawing for Trip to Sydney, Australia - for two! Learn More...
NOTE: Google incentive: Random Drawing for Trip to Sydney, Australia - for two! Learn More... Related Links: NCWIT Share || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: NCWIT, Jenny Slade, Lucy Sanders, Women in IT, National Center for Women & Information Technology NCWIT Heroes, Google > Channel: NCWIT 7547432 bytes - 1/4/10 LISTEN to Jenny Slade, Communications Director, NCWIT

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764_ NCWIT Needs Your Help NCWIT Needs Your Help in DC

NCWIT is a strong advocate in DC for innovation, for the importance of IT/ computing, and for assuring that girls and women are involved in inventing the technology of the future. "We provide research and statistics to policy makers and convene important discussions throughout the year. Although we are generously supported with National Science Foundation and corporate funding, we cannot use these dollars in DC. Hence the need for this campaign. If this cause appeals to you, please help us pass it along."

Warm regards for a very happy holiday,
Lucinda Sanders, CEO & Co-founder

NOTE: Google incentive: Random Drawing for Trip to Sydney, Australia - for two! Learn More...
Related Links: NCWIT Share || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: NCWIT, Lucy Sanders, Women in IT, National Center for Women & Information Technology NCWIT Heroes > Channels: NCWIT

Gail Goodman, President & CEO, Constant Contact 806_ 3/15/10 - Be ready to own your destiny
enclosure-voice When Gail was in high school, they didn't have personal computers, you had to go find a big computer, about the size of a refrigerator. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT and Lee Kennedy, NCWIT Director, serial entrepreneur and founder of Boldersearch, along with Larry Nelson, from w3w3.com interviewed Gail Goodman the President, Chairman and CEO of Constant Contact for the NCWIT Hero Series. Gail joined Constant Contact in 1999, when there were six people, today they have 625, and has more than 300,000 customers worldwide. When asked about her personal characteristics ... she had four: 1. Tenacity, she refuses to fail! 2. She is an analytic animal. When she sees a challenge she doesn't react emotionally, she reacts analytically. Diagnose it, do a causal analysis and then fix it. 3. She is a continuous learner. I understand that I don't know what I don't know and I'm not afraid to get help from others. I'm always reading, I'm always talking to others and I'm always picking other people's brains. 4. The final piece is not natural for me but I think it is immensely important that you be open to the feedback of others. Recognize the weaknesses in yourself - then you can compliment them with the team. Gail's advice to young entrepreneurs: "Get experience; earn your stripes somewhere else. Not only will it give you experience and a guide to your own leadership and management style, I think it'll make you much more fundable." There's much more...
Related Links: Constant Contact || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || PodCasting Directory || Keywords: Gail Goodman, Constant Contact, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Hero Series, Entrepreneurs >> 3/15/10 Bytes: 14435477 Channel: NCWIT LISTEN to Gail Goodman, Constant Contact

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726_ Computing Awards - Designed for High School Girls, Grades 9-12
Ruthe Farmer, NCWITenclosure-voice ATTENTION: Employers, parents, teachers, grandparents, aunts & uncles; It's time for the 2009 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Awards - Designed for girls in High School, grades 9 -12. Girls all around the country are submitting their applications - Due: November 15th, 2009! Larry talked with Ruthe Farmer, Director of Strategic Initiatives, NCWIT about this fascinating program. Ruthe said, "The awards program was designed to recognize and encourage girls who are interested and active in technology at the high school level (grades 9 through 12) and keep them in the pipeline so they can work for you one day. The program is open to any girl in the United States (so any girl with a U.S. Zip Code) is eligible." Larry asked what are the awards? "At the Aspirations in Computing for High School Girls grades 9-12. Applications close November 15, 2009 national level, the girls win $500 cash; a laptop which is a gift from Bank of America our National Sponsor; a trip with a parent to the gala "Technology of the Future Showcase" at Bank of America's Headquarters in Charlotte, NC; So it's a pretty big prize package. At the event they'll receive a 'Goodie bag' with a beautiful Crystal/glass Trophy for both them and their school because we really want them displayed in the trophy case right along with the football trophies, creating a tradition that girls at that school apply and win this award. Essentially the girls apply on line and they provide a name and address for their teacher and parent, who also get to view and endorse the application. The application asks questions about the kind of computing they've done..." Listen for more...
Related Links: Applications for Aspirations in Computing & Info for Parents || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: NCWIT, Aspirations in Computing Award, Ruthe Farmer, High School Girls, Bank of America, Technology Channel: NCWIT > 6477012 bytes - 10/26/09 LISTEN

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328_ The Trend is Changing for Start-up Entrepreneurs
enclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, Co-Founder & CEO, National Center for Women and Information TechnologyStatistics show that better than 50% of new entrepreneurs are female. Many business people are surprised to hear that there is a growing number (contrary to popular belief) of women getting into and making a very productive and rewarding career in Information Technology (IT). As a result, many women of varying ages and interests are taking the entrepreneurial plunge. In walks Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), headquartered at CU Boulder. Lucy is a Bell Fellow and points out (proves) there are many female entrepreneur success stories or as she and her team states it, they are “NCWIT Heroes”. If you have any interest in this burgeoning growth phase of Women and IT, check out the first in this series of amazing true-life stories.

CU-Boulder Women-In-Technology Advocate Inducted Into Hall Of Fame

Lucy Sanders, who directs the National Center for Women and Information Technology on the CU-Boulder campus, has been inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, considered one of the most prestigious recognitions for women working in technology and science.

Related Links: NCWIT Heroes || Nat. Acadamies Report || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice|| Keywords: NCWIT, Lucy Sanders, Women in IT, National Center for Women & Information Technology NCWIT Heroes > Channels: NCWIT Bytes: 6525913 LISTEN 6/18/07

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The mission of the National Center for Women & Information Technology is to ensure that women are fully represented in the influential world of information technology and computing.

NCWIT's overarching goal is parity in the professional information technology (IT) workforce, and our fundamental strategy is to educate, disseminate, and advocate a national, multi-year implementation plan that generates tangible progress within 20 years.

Press Release: Anousheh Ansari Wins - First Annual NCWIT Symons Innovator Award - Monday May 11, 1009

720_ New technologies are emerging at a faster pace than companies can swallow
charlene Li, Altimiter Groupenclosure-voice Despite the new technology flood, companies lack a strategy to on-board these disruptions. As a result, they often react, flounder, or simply ignore them. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, and Lee Kennedy NCWIT board member and founder of Bolder Search along with Larry Nelson interviewed Charlene Li, founder of Altimeter Group and co-author of the business bestseller, “Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies“. She frequently consults and speaks on social and emerging technologies and publishes a blog, The Altimeter. This interview is part of the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Tool Box series was focused on the social media in the future. Charlene had a very straight forward about the topice and defined it as technology allows people to connect with each other. She started getting involved with social technologies in 1996 and has seen it evolve. Besides enabling others to connect it can have differing impacts on relationships ...enriching them as well as exploiting them. Charlene also talked about how leaders win by letting go and ROI. Listen for more...
Related Links: Altimeter Group || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Charlene Li, Altimeter Group, Lucinda Sanders, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT, Social Media, Lee Kennedy, Larry Nelson, Change - Channel: NCWIT - Bytes: 23798912 - 10/5/09 LISTEN

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Mitchell Baker, Founder, Mozilla Foundation 692_ Founder and Chair of the Mozilla Foundation discusses open source software
enclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Lee Kennedy and Larry Nelson, spoke with Mitchell Baker, founder and Chair of the Mozilla Foundation. She just received the "Women of Vision Award" from the Anita Borg Institute. This is the next in the Entrepreneurial Toolbox Series - a series focused on different subjects entrepreneurs need to know about. We've talked about networking, failures, business competitions, how to get an NSF SBIR grant, and today they are discussing open source. Mitchell went onto define the parameters, "Open Source is software which is available for use under license, meaning under terms which meet certain criteria. So the software has to be available in a way that says it's free of charge; you're free to access and have the source code version of the software (that's the version that human beings can understand) - you can get the source code version free of charge, you can use that version however you want. I can take a piece of open source software, I can change it, I can modify it, I can brand it differently, I can make a new product out of it and I can use that product either myself or as the basis of a commercial business. So the ability for you to get access to the source code, to change it and the ability to do what you want with it is the core criteria for being open source." There's more...
Related Links: Mozilla Blog || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation, Open Source, Lucinda Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Entrepreneurial Toolbox Series > Channel: NCWIT 35998409 bytes 7/13/09 LISTEN

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Ellen Siminoff, CEO and President, Shmoop University 668_ Entrepreneurs are people who would just be dreadful employees
enclosure-voice When Ellen Siminoff was asked, "What is it about you that makes the entrepreneur part tick?" Ellen, who was a founding executive at Yahoo said, "When I started Yahoo, we were a small group of folks and thought we were changing the world! For me, it's about the idea and the people and the excitement of creating it." Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interviewed Ellen, CEO and president - their mission,. "Shmoop wants to make you a better lover (of literature, history, poetry and writing)." About 18 years ago, Ellen and her husband started a different company, they were distributing television programming in Eastern Europe and she fell in love with the media industry. In 1994, at the Los Angeles Times, Ellen started running their online classifieds (this was really early), and she realized technology could be used to deliver media in a really interesting way. Today she's a great fan of the Kindle. Lucy asked what's next for Shmoop? Ellen's reply, "Well, I think we've done a really great job on Lit, history and poetry. We're going to do more in Civics, and get some of the maths and sciences up there because I think it's really important to be able to read, write and do arithmetic." There's more...
Related Links: NCWIT Home || Shmoop University || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || PodCast Directory || Keywords: Ellen Siminoff, Shmoop University, Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT Heroes 6/1/09 > Bytes: 18852679 - 6/1/09 LISTEN

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Lucy Sanders, Co-Founder & CEO, National Center 
    for Women and Information Technology
This is NCWIT week at the w3w3.com!
April 27, 2009...
The National Center for Women and Information Technology, located right here in Boulder, Colorado, and Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-founder will be celebrating their 5th anniversary. On May 11, 2009 they will hold the NCWIT Symons Award (In Memory of Jeannette Symons) honoring Anousheh Ansari. Background here. Next is the NCWIT "Global Status of Women in Technology" event which will be held May 12-14 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.

655_ Reaching more than 14 million women each month with blogs and more
Elisa Camahort Page, COO and Co-founder, BlogHerenclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interviewed Elisa Camahort Page the co-founder and COO of BlogHer for the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Hero Series. BlogHer is the leading community and media network for women who blog. BlogHer reaches more than 14 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub, and a publishing network. She is a blogging pioneer and marketing executive with 18 years of experience in Silicon Valley. Elisa was at the vanguard of professional and business blogging. Among the seven blogs she writes are blogs with personal, professional and political focus areas. Elisa opened her own high-tech marketing consultancy, Worker Bees, after a successful career as a marketing executive in the cable broadband sector. Founded in February 2005 as a labor of love by three bloggers, BlogHer's mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education, community and economic empowerment...listen for more entrepreneurial ideas...
Related Links: BlogHer Home || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || w3w3® Media Network Blog || Keywords: Elisa Camahort, BlogHer, Lucy Sanders, Blogs, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information, Silicon ValleyTechnology, NCWIT Heroes > Channel:NCWIT Bytes= 28647552 > 4.27.09 LISTEN

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656_ Everything You want to know about working with non-profits and technology
Lisa Rau, CEO, Confluence Corpenclosure-voice Confluence is an information technology services firm dedicated to supporting the culture, mission and budgets of the nonprofit sector, and select local government clients. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interview Lisa Rau, Chief Executive Officer of Confluence for the Entrepreneurial Tool Box series. Lisa is also on the faculty of the Center for Nonprofit Advancement's Learning and Leadership Institute. She shared some great ideas about partnerships, social networking and strategic strategy assessments. Lisa said, "Non-profits are all about building community, outreach, advocacy, education and these are all things that social networking can be very instrumental in. It's better to have one or two widgets you can work with than a whole group of them. Even with a blog, the technology is the easy part. It's the organization part where someone has to work with the blog, post it and review comments in order to make it fresh and worthwhile." Listen for more...
Related Links: NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Confluence Corp || Find It Archives || Keywords: Lisa Rau, Confluence Corporation, Non-profits, Lucy Sanders, Entrepreneurial Tool Box, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT > Channel:NCWIT Bytes= 19066883 > 4.27.09 LISTEN

653_ The reinvented web is a more social, more connected place
Mena Trott, Co-Founder & President, Six Apart enclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interview Mena Trott, Co-Founder, President, Six Apart. Mena has been involved in the weblogging space since she began publishing to her own weblog, dollarshort.org, in early 2001. She speaks regularly at industry conferences. Mena can be found writing about weblogging and Six Apart at Mena's Corner. Mena pointed out, "At Six Apart, we provide the tools that have helped reinvent the web as a more social, more connected place full of distinct voices and lively conversations. In just a few years, millions of bloggers have dramatically changed the face of media, communications and society. We believe in the power of blogging, and that's why we make the most powerful and expressive platforms and services available: Movable Type, TypePad, Vox, Blogs.com and TypePad AntiSpam." Six Apart and its famous products Movable Type and TypePad helped pioneer the blog category and move blogging into the mainstream. Since 2001, it has enabled millions of individuals, media companies and enterprises to create blogs and form rich, interactive communities. Six Apart powers conversations among passionate people and leading organizations around the globe. Listen for more...
Related Links: NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Six Apart || PodCasting Directory || Keywords: Mena Trott, Six Apart, Lucy Sanders, Movable Type, TypePad, Vox, Blogs, AntiSpam, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT Heroes > Channel:NCWIT Bytes= 21183323 > 4.20.09 LISTEN

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Carol Realini, Founder, Obopay 633_ Realini named one of 50 Top Women in Technology by Corporate Board Member
enclosure-voice In 2005 Carol Realini founded Obopay after traveling in Africa and recognizing that while mobile phones were ubiquitous, many people didn’t have access to even the most basic banking services. Recognizing the need and opportunity in both industrialized and developing nations, Carol designed Obopay’s business model to promote social and economic development throughout the world, by providing mobile savings, money transfer, and payments to people everywhere. In 2008, Carol was named one of the 50 Top Women in Technology by Corporate Board Member magazine. If you’ve not heard of Obopay, here’s a quick rundown; Obopay is simple, convenient, instant, secure, easy-to-use and available to everyone, working on any mobile phone with any carrier. Obopay does not run credit checks and transfers money in seconds. Obopay customers can use their existing bank accounts—at any American bank—to send and receive money via their mobile phone. Users send and receive money through mobile application, text message (SMS), mobile Web browser, secure Web site, widget or AOL Instant Messenger. Anyone can pick up money received by having it deposited directly into their existing bank account or by requesting a check, without having to sign up with Obopay. Obopay takes the time and hassle out of costly wire transfers, and lets businesses, banks and carriers connect with and deliver real value to America’s 200 million mobile consumers. Listen to Carol in her own words.
Related Links: Obopay || NCWIT Channel || Entrepreneurial Heroes 2007 || Entrepreneurial Heroes 2008 || Keywords: Carol Realini, NCWIT, Women in IT, Obopay, secure mobile money transfer, Channel:NCWIT Bytes= 23834856 > 3.16.09 LISTEN

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603_ Receiving a $100,000 Grant from the US Government for Research
Krista Marks, Founder & CEO, Kerpoof for the NCWIT 
                Entrepreneurial Toolbox Seriesenclosure-voice Every federal program with a large R&D budget has to use a percentage of their budget to fund small businesses with these SBIR Grants. That was the topic of discussion with Krista Marks, founder of Kerpoof. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson continue with the NCWIT series the Entrepreneurial Toolbox Series. This is a new interview series designed to promote fundamental skills of entrepreneurship. The series interviews both men and women about a range of topics critical to entrepreneurial success, such as networking, how to procure funding, writing a business plan, raising money and the importance of failure. The series is sponsored by the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Alliance with support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Qualcomm. Krista said, " The NSF (National Science Foundation) has many different programs aimed at advancing the cause of research and science in the United States and even internationally in some cases. SBIR stands for small business innovation research, so to qualify for an SBIR Grant you have to be a small business (fewer than 500 employees), and the grant has to be used specifically for funding research. A phase one grant is $100K and this funds the first part of that research, typically a feasibility type of analysis. The SBIR Grant is not unique to the NSF. Every federal program with a large R&D budget has to use a percentage of their budget to fund small businesses with these SBIR Grants. At the time Kerpoof wanted to do research on delivering an activity, entirely in a browser that would introduce kids to basic programming constructs and to do that in a way that is as responsive as traditional software. So we submitted an SBIR proposal and received a SBIR Phase I grant for $100,000.00 to complete that research." Krista shares a number of 'must knows'.
Related Links: Kerpoof English || Kerpoof Spanish || NCWIT Channel || SBIR Information || Entrepreneurial Toolbox || Keywords: Krista Marks, Kerpoof, Lucinda Sanders, NCWIT, SBIR Grants, Larry Nelson, Entrepreneurial Toolbox
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598_ David Cohen says, "We invest a small amount of money in about 10 companies."
David Cohen, TechStars, Colorado Startups - NCWIT "Entrepreneur ToolBox" Seriesenclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson had a great conversation with David Cohen about the learning experiences of a new entrepreneur for the new NCWIT series, The Entrepreneurial Tool Box. David is a serial entrepreneur and investor in other startups with his company aptly named, Colorado Startups. David started 3 software companies here, two worked out pretty well, one didn’t. The first was a public safety software company started in ’93, still going in Broomfield, CO with a couple hundred employees now. The 2nd was a startup around mobile social networking – "We were a little early on that one." The 3rd was around music and RSS, we sold to a Silicon Valley company two years back. The subject of the 'Tool Box' interview is 'Business Planning Competitions. David gave an overview of TechStars and at the same time shared some insights every entrepreneur should listen to. "It is mentorship driven. We invest a small amount of money in about 10 companies that come to Boulder every summer for three months. We surround them with some of the best and brightest mentors and at the end of the summer they pitch their ideas to investors and hopefully keep going. We started with my own experiences and what I wished I had known back when starting my first company. The value of TechStars is the mentorship. The reason for that is because they are surrounded by expertise, people who’ve been there and done that, made those mistakes and had those successes and can really give them some critical feedback in a very compacted time frame. Then he detailed the quaities they are looking for. BTW, applications open January 19, 2009.
Related Links: TechStars || TechStars Scedule || Colorado Startups || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Practice || Keywords: David Cohen, TechStars, Colorado Startups, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Mentors, Entrepreneurial Tool Box, Blog, Investors >> Channels: NCWIT, VC, Bytes: 16188293 >

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Heidi Roizen, Founder, SkinnySongs 575_ From Venture Capitalist to Entrepreneur Music Producer
enclosure-voice (Part 1 of 2) Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy along with Larry Nelson interviewed Heidi Roizen, CEO of Skinny Songs. Heidi Roizen has achieved success as an entrepreneur, a corporate executive, a corporate director and venture capitalist. She has held positions of leadership within a number of industry organizations, and is a recognized and popular spokesperson for the technology industry and entrepreneurial community. Currently, Roizen is CEO of SkinnySongs, which she launched in January of 2008. SkinnySongs introduced the first-ever collection of radio-hit-quality music in which the lyrics are specifically designed to motivate people to reach their weight and fitness goals. This is the first in this new NCWIT series, The Entrepreneurial Tool Box. Each interview will have a particular focus this interview addresses the best way to network. Many listeners will be very surprised at some of her comments, but remember Heidi is royalty when it comes to networking...ask Bill Gates. Lucy asks her to define Networking and references a comment made by Heidi that it isn't stalking. Lee wanted to know what entrepreneurs need to do to be prepared. Larry asked, "What types of people are in your network and how do you avoid compromising them?" Heidi has some great advice about the best way to reach out to venture capitalists and what not to do. This is a great series, listen now...
Related Links: Heidi Roizen Website || SkinnySongs || USA Today || NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Home || Keywords: Heidi Roizen, Networking, Venture Capital, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Lucy Sanders - Channels: NCWIT on w3w3 & Social Entrepreneurship Bytes: 14773919 > LISTEN - 10/27/08

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Entrepreneurial Tool Box

Asppirations Award Winners - Where are they now Aug 2013
Mitchell Baker, Founder & Chair, Mozilla Foundation
Maria Cirino, .406 Ventures
David Cohen, TechStars
Saman Dias, Founder, AIM Computer Training
Ruthe Farmer, Aspirations in Computing Awards 2012
Ruthe Farmer, CSEd Week 2012 - Goal 7500 Pledges...
Brad Feld, Foundry Group - Learning Experience (and part 2)
Jean Hammond, Founder, Learn Launch
Charlene Li, Altimeter Group
Krista Marks, Kerpoof.com
Yoky Matsuoka, YokyWorks Foundation
Lisa Rau, Confluence Corp
Heidi Roizen, Founder SkinnySongs.com Part 1 - and Part 2
Tina Sharkey, Chairman & Global President, BabyCenter
Chris Shipley, Founding Partner & Editorial Director, GuideWire Group
Ann Winblad, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners


The NCWIT Hero Series: Interviews with
Fabulous, Successful Entrepreneurs...
Asmau Ahmed, Plum Perfect
Ingrid Alongi, Quick Left
Anousheh Ansari, Prodea Systems
Shelley Archambeau,MetricStream
Donna Auguste, Make A Little Room
Marcie Black, Bandgap Engineering, Inc.
Leila Boujnane, Idée Inc.
Stephanie Boyle, Rogue Paper
Leslie Bradshaw, COO, Guide
Margaret Burd, Magpie, Inc.
Gillian Caldwell, Witness.org
Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer
Sukhinder Singh-Cassidy, Entrepreneur
Elizabeth Charnock, Cataphora
Hilary DeCesare, Founder/CEO, Everloop
Cathy Edwards, Chomp.com
Judy Estrin, Packet Design
Caterina Fake, Co-Founder, Hunch
Brad Feld, Foundry Group
Laura Fitton, Oneforty.com
Jessica Jackley Flannery, Kiva
Candace Fleming, Crimson Hexagon Bambi Francisco, Vator.TV
Celia Francis, CEO, WeeWorld
Ping Fu, GeoMagic
Eileen Gittins, Blurb
Gail Goodman, Constant Contact
Diane Greene, VMware
Helen Greiner, iRobot
Dr. Katherine (Katie) Hall, CTO, WiTricity
Julia Hartz, President, EventBrite
Sherisse Hawkins, CEO/CoFounder, Beneath the Ink
Sandy Jen, CTO/CoFounder, Meebo
Dina Kaplan, BLIP.TV
Lee Kennedy, TriCalyx
Jean Kovacs, Sterling Commerce
Beth Krodel, Insight Designs Web Solutions
Sarah Lipman, Power2B, 3-D Touch Scr.

ML Mackey, Beacon Interactive Systems
Audrey MacLean, Stanford University
Beth Marcus, Playsmrt Jan 2010
Krista Marks, Disney Kerpoof Studio 8/2/10
Talia Mashiach, CEO/Cofounder, Eved
Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist, bitly 1/7/2013
Kristin McDonnell, LimeLife
Alicia Morga, GottaFeeling 2/21/11
Sian Morson, Founder and CEO of Kollective Mobile
Gillian Muessig, SEOmoz.org
Jennifer Pahlka, Code for America
Pooja Nath, Piazzza
Emily Olson, Foodzie
Nancy Phillips, ViaWest
Kim Polese, Spike Source
Victoria Ransom, CEO/Founder, WildfireApp
Asra Rasheed, RRKidz
Carol Realini, Obopay
Heidi Roizen, Mobius Venture Capital
Lucy Sanders, NCWIT
Clara Shih, CEO/Founder, Hearsay Social
Anu Shukla, Offerpal Media
Marketta Silvera, Apptera
Ellen Siminoff, Shmoop University
Rasmi Sinha, SlideShare
Amanda Steinberg, Soapbxx and DailyWorth.com
Jeanette Symons, Imbee
Shanna Tellerman, Wild Pockets, Autodesk
Selina Tobaccowala, Ticketmaster
Genevieve Thiers, SitterCity.com
Sangita Verma, Tag Network
Margaret Wallace, Rebel Monkey
Niniane Wang, CTO, Minted
Lena West, xynoMedia
Elaine Wherry, Meebo
Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, Guilt Groupe
Marie Wilson, The White House Project
Brandy Wimberly, CEO/Founder, Buyvite
Michelle Zatlyn, CoFounder, CloudFlare

STRATEGIZE - DESIGN - DEVELOP - ANALYZE
Sian Morson, CEO & Founder, Kollective Mobileenclosure-voice 1479_ 12/16/13 - Another fabulous entrepreneur; A women who has started an “IT” company. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT, is back with another in the series of interviews with fabulous entrepreneurs. Lucy is joined be Larry Nelson, co-founder of w3w3.com Talk Radio. This series focuses on women who have started “IT” companies in a variety of sectors, all of whom have just fabulous stories to tell us, about being entrepreneurs. Today we are interviewing Sian Morson the Founder and CEO of Kollective Mobile. Kollective Mobile is a mobile development agency that focuses on bringing mobile solutions to start-ups and agencies. Sian also speaks and writes about mobile strategy for a number of publications and also works with a variety of non-profits working to bridge the digital divide. She is an advisor to Learning Gateway and Exposure Camp. Sian Morson is a tech entrepreneur, mobile evangelist and strategist. In 2010, Sian founded Kollective Mobile to help other businesses and startups with mobile development and strategy. A seasoned digital professional, Sian has worked with many high profile clients to deliver large web builds and campaigns for popular brands. Her diverse skill-set includes marketing, advertising, mobile strategy, business management and thought leadership. She works closely with her partners and clients to assist them in achieving their overall business objectives...listen for much more...
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KEYWORDS: Sian Morson, Kollective Mobile, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women in Technology, NCWIT, Women, Girls, Technology, Mobile Solutions, bytes=15227823
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Beth Krodel, CoFounder, Insight Designs Creating and developing websites and interactive online products
enclosure-voice 1412_ 7/29/13 - Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network are interviewing an award-winning newspaper reporter (from the Detroit Free Press) turned entrepreneur, with experience building companies and websites.Beth Krodel is the co-founder of Insight Designs Web Solutions. Insight Designs is a Boulder based company that specializes in creating and developing websites and interactive online products. From 3D modeling, to websites, to programming, Insight Designs does it all. They have been a mainstay on the Boulder County Business Reports Mercury 100 list of fastest growing companies for the past decade. Beth has overseen the launch of over 200 websites over the past 14 years including Level 3 Communications Inc., PepsiAmericas, and Eldora Mountain Resort. In 2011, she was honored by the Boulder County Business report as one of the top 40 entrepreneurs under 40. Congratulations! Beth said, her first computer experience was in 1982, after finishing her 6th grade English assignment, she had an hour a day to work with an Apple 2, from January to June. Fascination with the computer led to understanding that it would change communications. Later after university, while working with another journalist they realized that the future of the newspaper industry was going to change. They decided then that creating a web design and development company was a great way to go. It was a way to carry on their commitment to communication and allow them to share stories of companies and organizations specifically on the Internet.
RELATED LINKS: Insight Designs || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Podcast Directory || KEYWORDS: Beth Krodel, Insight Designs, National Center for Women in Technology, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Online Websites, Logos, 3D Modeling bytes=20089942
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Computer Science Education Week 12/9/2012

Celebrate Computer Science Education Week - Now, it's here!
Since we know that an increase in computer science education creates opportunities to increase the diversity of people who pursue computing, NCWIT is a major fan of CSEd Week. As a fan of NCWIT, we hope you will become a fan of CSEdWeek, too. To help stoke your fandom, we're going to tell you a few things about CSEdWeek and computing education that you may not have known.

Admiral Grace HopperDid you know that CSEdWeek was born in 2010 when the 11th Congress passed House Resolution 1560, "Supporting the increased understanding of, and interest in, computer science and computing careers among the public and in schools, and to ensure an ample and diverse future technology workforce? Did you know that CSEdWeek takes place December 9-15, 2012, to coincide with the birthday of visionary computer scientist. Admiral Grace Hopper, who was born on December 9, 1906? Did you know that only 9 states allow computer science to count as a math or science graduation requirement, and did you know that the number of high schools offering AP computer science has fallen 35% since 2005?
Only 9 states allow computer science to count as a math or science graduation requirement. Did you know that the lack of computing education in schools especially impacts girls, because girls get fewer informal opportunities to experience computing outside of school? Jobs need qualified  employees.Did you know that computing education is a BIG DEAL, because the Department of Labor projects that there will be 1.4 million computing-related job openings by 202 but the U.S. is producing only enough computing graduates to fill 61% of these jobs? Did you know that pledging your support for CSEdWeek costs nothing, takes two minutes, and is easy as pie? Did you now that you can join CSEdWeek celebrations around the country (like cake to honor Grace Hopper's birthday, a Scratch Day in NYC, a Robotics Explosion, and an ITPalooza), or plan your own? Did you know that there's a CSEdWeek Twitter conversation on December 11 at 6 PM ET? Did you know that there's no excuse for doing nothing - when an all-ages activity like CSUnplugged is fun and free - and that there are loads more ideas at the CSEdWeek website?
Sign the PledgePledge and plan today. Get started at www.csedweek.org. Follow CSEdWeek on Twitter. Visit CSEdWeek on Facebook.

 

Listen Up: Entrepreneurial Heroes
Entrp-HEROES1305_ 11/05/12 - Ever wish you didn't have to deal with the hassle of collecting money from friends or family, when making a group purchase of tickets or gifts? Ever wonder where kids too young to use Facebook can hang out safely, online? Ever think how much easier shopping for makeup online would be if you could get personalized recommendations based on your photo?
        It just so happens that entrepreneurs already have created startup companies that make these online experiences better, and it just so happens that all three of these company founders are women. We've interviewed these founders and picked their brains about business, technology, entrepreneurship, risk-taking, funding, networks, the work/life juggle, and more. Listen up now.

Brandy Alexander-Wimberly, Founder and CEO of Buyvite - NCWIT Hero Brandy Alexander-Wimberly, Founder and CEO of Buyvite, a group purchasing platform that allows many users to contribute money towards a group transaction

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Hilary DeCesare, Co-founder and CEO of Everloop and NCWIT HeroHilary DeCesare, Co-founder and CEO of Everloop, a social media website designed to be a safe place for kids under 13 years old

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Asamu Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Plum Perfect - NCWIT HeroAsmau Ahmed, Founder and CEO of Plum Perfect, a visual search engine that provides personalized recommendations to shoppers using their own photos

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We started our Entrepreneurial Heroes interview series in 2007 because we didn't believe there are "no women technical founders" … but we did believe that women founders weren't getting the attention they deserve. To-date NCWIT has completed more than 70 interviews with successful women entrepreneurs in tech for the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Heroes series. We hope these women will inspire you, motivate you, and surprise you as they describe how they first got involved in technology, what characteristics they think are vital to being a successful founder, and what advice they would give to young people interested in technology or entrepreneurship

You can listen in at http://www.ncwit.org/heroes, or find our podcast in iTunes.

Nominate a successful female tech entrepreneurDo you know a successful female tech entrepreneur whose ideas and products are changing the way we think, work, play, and communicate? Nominate a Hero for our interview series.

NCWIT Entrepreneurial Heroes is sponsored by the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Alliance — helping startup companies build gender-inclusive cultures, right from the start — with support from EMC.

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Compelled to address the problem with technology
Asmau Ahmed, Founder/CEO, Plum Perfectenclosure-voice 1274_ 9/10/12 - Today we are talking to Asmau Ahmed Founder and CEO of Plum Perfect. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT, with Larry Nelson, CEO, w3w3.com Internet Talk Radio bring us another great woman entrepreneur in this series of interviews that we are having with fabulous entrepreneurs. Women who have started “IT” companies in a variety of sectors, all of whom have just fabulous stories to tell us, about being entrepreneurs. Asmau Ahmed brings over 11 years of experience in chemical engineering, math/statistical data analysis and strategic consulting to Plum Perfect. Her story begins with years of unsuccessfully navigating store aisles in search of make-up and clothing colors to make her look her best. As an engineer, beauty & fashion enthusiast, she was compelled to address the problem with technology. And so she built Plum Perfect, a visual search engine that provides instant personalized recommendations to shoppers using their photos. Plum Perfect is so fantastic because it recognizes that between having a career, a family, and a life, consumers need a quicker and more efficient way to shop. It is a one-stop-shop that allows you to search for and find the right beauty products for you. Asmau said, "What we've really built here isn't just a beauty product or fashion or home product - It is the ability for users to take digital photos [we're really in this culture of photo sharing...] Plum Perfect leverages that culture of photo sharing, and uses that to drive e-commerce, powered by really strong technology." Asmau has always been curious and innovative. At a young age her parents changed the laundry room into a chemistry lab for her. So that was the beginning. In college she became a chemical engineer but, to this day she says, "I love, love, love math. I loved innovating and..." Listen for more…
Related Links: Plum Perfect || NCWIT Home || NCWIT About || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Asmau Ahmed, PlumPerfect, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Visual Search Engine, Photos, Beauty Product, Technology, bytes=22036796
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The purpose is to keep these kids safe across all devices
Hilary DeCesare, CEO/Founder, Everloopenclosure-voice 1266_ 8/27/12 - Hilary DeCesare, Co-Founder and CEO of Everloop. Hilary is a digital parenting expert and a mother. She recognized the unmet need for a safe environment for children to share, to talk, on the Internet. Came up with the idea of Everloop and their innovative technology called looping. Children join loops that share common interests. Everloop is a social media platform designed for kids under 13. There is a huge craze going on out there where kids are using devices far earlier than ever. You've got kids as young as 5, 6, 7 going on their parent's smart phones, iPads, desktops. What Everloop is trying to do is make sure when these kids go out into the wild, wild Internet and they're exposed to adults, that they're ready to actually be there and they're not making mistakes. So Everloop's purpose is to really keep these kids safe across all devices. During the interview Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network talked with Hilary about the lessons learned and future expectations. She said, "Don't lose sight of your purpose. Put together one page on what you're hoping to accomplish and what are your milestones going to be." Hilary is big on putting plans together - a 30 day, a 90 day... you have to be organized enough that when you hit those small successes you stop and take note - that was really good I've been able to accomplish this. If you don't, you're spinning and spinning and miss the fact that you're progressing. Listen for much more...
Related Links: Everloop Home || Secret Millionaire || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Hilary DeCesare, Everloop, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Children, Safe, Internet, Planning, bytes=18436914
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Genevieve Thiers, Big Time Solutions for working moms
enclosure-voice 1205_ 5/7/12 - From opera singer to big time solutions for working moms. She needed to make some money but didn't want to wait tables. Studying the business Genevieve Thiers, SitterCity.commodel for Match.com, she met her husband who became her number one mentor...Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT, and Larry Nelson, from w3w3.com interviewed Genevieve Thiers, the founder of Sitter City. Gen was sitting in her college dorm room, senior year, when she saw this 9 month pregnant mother climbing up 200 steps, posting flyers for babysitters. Gen thought to herself that she could create a solution to this problem. Why doesn't someone just take all the caregivers in the city, or the nation for that matter, and put them all in one place where you could easily find them. But more importantly, quickly screen them. So that's what Sittercity.com became, America's first and largest network to connect parents with caregivers nationwide. And there are millions of caregivers in five divisions, child care, pet care, senior care, home care and tutoring. She has founded several companies in the Chicago area. Her first company, Sittercity.com, is America's first company to take care giving services online, and now has millions of users nationwide, and serves clients like the U.S. Department of Defense, Avon, MasterCard, Monster WW and many others. Her latest company, Contact Karma, is in beta and aims through the use of social recommendation engines to help consumers find the perfect vendor match. Gen's advice to young entrepreneurs just getting started.... "There are no problems, just sticky situations looking for resolutions. Problems can't exist for you if you're an entrepreneur. I mean insurmountable ones; you have to see them as opportunities to solve something. You can't see holes, you have to keep rolling over them and stay focused on your vision." ...There's much more, listen now...
Related Links: Sitter City || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Genevieve Thiers, Karma, SitterCity, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, w3w3® Media Network, Entrepreneurs, Technology, Care Givers, Chicago - bytes=18520505
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Connecting buyers and suppliers in the marketplace
Talia Mashiach, CEO/Founder, Eved enclosure-voice 1199_ 4/23/12 - Talia Mashiach is the CEO and Founder of Eved. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT, and Larry Nelson, from w3w3.com interviewed Talia. This is part of a series of interviews that we are having with fabulous entrepreneurs. Women who have started “IT” companies in a variety of sectors, all of whom have just fabulous stories to tell us, about being entrepreneurs. Talia is the CEO and Founder of Eved (Ev-ed), an online meeting and event market place. Eved connects buyers and suppliers in the meeting and event industry through an easy-to-use web based platform. Eved believes the Meetings & Events industry is ready for a transformation driven by technology. Eved did $5.5 its first quarter. Lucy asked, "What got you into technology?" Talia always loved business and her passion has been around automated business processes. She's not that old at 35, but when Talia went to college there wasn't all this excitement about entrepreneurs, there weren't any classes or people wanting to be entrepreneurs. Finally exposed to technology when she launched a company in 2000 - back when people didn't really have business web sites, certainly not ecommerce, it was really just about to start. At that time she sold overstock computers from Dell to small businesses. She was taking orders by phone then faxing them into the warehouse... moving it all around and managing all the clients... and she just thought there needed to be another way to do that, that would be much faster. So, she decided to build a website that would automate this entire process. That was her starting point when she decided she had to turn the process into something on the web. What is really cool around technology today and Talia thinks the future is going to be all around cloud collaboration. Certainly around business software - I think it needs to start looking at the applications people are using in their daily lives like Facebook...There's much more, listen now...
Related Links: Eved || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Talia Mashiach, Eved, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, w3w3® Media Network, Entrepreneurs, Meetings & Events industry, Facebook, Technology, bytes=21083431
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Routed through a members only intelligent network
Michelle Zatlyn, CoFounder and Head of User Experience, CloudFlareenclosure-voice 1177_ 3/12/12 - Lucy Sanders says, "It's quite an accomplishment to be named the most innovative network and internet technology company in 2011 by the Wall Street Journal, that's a huge accomplishment!" Our listeners will want to check into this. Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed the CloudFlare co-founder and Head of User Experience, Michelle Zatlyn. Cloud Flare is an infrastructure based business that is really making performance, security and access to the kinds of features that web sites need, much more accessible to all types of web sites, not just the high end web sites that can afford this type of infrastructure. For every extra hundred milliseconds it takes a site to load, you lose 2% of your visitors - that's a really big problem for web site owners. The Internet is made up of 250 million web sites around the world, from blogs to business websites, to national governments. Michelle said when they first started the question was how can we make a service that really makes speed and security accessible to the entire internet, and that's what we've done. Launched over a year ago, live for 15 months, they went from very little traffic over their network around the world to 430 million web surfers every month, that's a really big number. We do more traffic than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, AOL and Bing combined.
      w3w3® Media Network is proud and honored to bring another NCWIT interview to our audience. We've long since recognized the need for education and support for our youth and particularly for young women, in math and science, engineering and technology. The women we interview are bright guiding lights for the future of our youth, generously sharing their experiences - challenges and all. They are inspiring, often humorous and motivating. This series is a real jewel and a valuable set of tools for the future of young women and everyone who has the good fortune to listen.

Related Links: Cloud Flare || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Michelle Zatlyn, Cloud Flare, Innovative Network, Internet Technology, Security, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, w3w3® Media Network, Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, AOL, Bing - bytes=20760767 LISTEN TO: Michelle Zatlyn, CoFounder/ Head of User Experience, CloudFlare

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Clara Shih, CEO/Founder, Hearsay Social Expert advice for managing social media
enclosure-voice 1126_ 12/12/11 - Today Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network are interviewing Clara Shih the best selling author of The Facebook Era and founder/CEO of Sequoia-backed Hearsay Social, one of the fastest-growing and most exciting technology companies in Silicon Valley. Clara is a renowned social media authority and technology leader whose New York Times-featured book has been translated into nine languages and is used as a textbook at Harvard Business School. Hearsay Social develops social media software to enable large franchise brands to create, measure and distribute content out to local reps, agents, and franchisees' Facebook or Twitter pages. Consider insurance agents, financial advisors, coffee houses or restaurant chains. They are part of important corporate brands, but what makes them thrive are local relationships. Social media can help, but it needs to be managed in a way that supports the brand, customer satisfaction and hence the business bottom line. Our listeners are familiar with “customer relationship management” for businesses this is something like, social media relationship management. In 2007, Clara created the first business application on Facebook and subsequently authored the New York Times-featured best selling book The Facebook Era, which has sold over 21,000 copies worldwide. Previously, Clara was a marketing executive at salesforce.com, and held technology and product positions at Google and Microsoft. Clara has a BS in computer science and economics and MS in computer science from Stanford. She is a frequently invited keynote speaker on social media at global conferences including AlwaysOn, Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0, CRM Evolution, Social-Loco, American Marketing Association, Toronto TechWeek, and Social Ad Summit. There are a number of learning points for entrepreneurs and leaders offered by Clara...listen for more...
Related Links: Hearsay Social || Find Clara on Facebook || and Twitter @clarashih || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Why Facebook Matters for B2B || Keywords: Clara Shih, Hearsay Social, National Center for Women in Technology, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Entrepreneurs, The Facebook Era, Facebook, Twitter, Social Media, - bytes=152933443
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The intersection of design and technology
Shanna Tellerman, Autodesk Cloud Services & Appsenclosure-voice 1086_ 10/3/11 - Shanna Tellerman is passionate about the intersection of design and technology as it relates to interactive media. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) and Larry Nelson, president of w3w3.com interviewed Shanna. She founded Wild Pockets out of graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. The company focused on democratizing access to game development by providing a cloud hosted game engine. Shanna is currently the Product Line Manager for Autodesk Cloud Services and Applications, this is post-acquisition of her first technology company, Wild Pockets by Autodesk. She is responsible for driving the product line that includes the new cloud platform that is powering web and mobile initiatives across the company. w3w3® Media Network is proud and honored to bring another NCWIT interview to our audience. We've long since recognized the need for education and support for our youth and particularly for young women, in math and science, engineering and technology. The women we interview are bright guiding lights for the future of our youth, generously sharing their experiences - challenges and all. They are inspiring, often humorous and motivating. This series is a real jewel and a valuable set of tools for the future of young women and everyone who has the good fortune to listen. Shanna has been a frequent speaker in the game industry and a thought leader on the topic of women in technology. She has been active in organizations including Astia, Women 2.0, Girl Geeks, Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network. In 2009 she was named one of Business Week’s best young entrepreneurs. Shanna offers some great advice for leaders and entrepreneurs...listen for more...
Related Links: Autodesk || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Shanna Tellerman, Autodesk, National Center for Women in Technology, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Designers, Cloud, Carnegie Mellon University, Mobile Initiatives - bytes=19883470
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Nothing less than a pioneer in the mobile space
Stephanie Boyle, Founder, Rogue Paper and NCWIT Hero enclosure-voice 1070_ 8/29/11 - The average US household currently watches 8.4 hours of television daily. 59% of Americans use TV & Internet simultaneously. 80% of under -25's use a second screen to communicate with friends while watching TV. TV Tune-In is a social platform for the 2nd screen TV audience. Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network joins Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT and they are working hard to make sure that more girls and young women are introduced to the exciting potential of computing education and career paths. Part of what NCWIT is doing is this exciting interview series with women who have started IT companies. They are fabulous entrepreneurs. They all have interesting stories to tell. Lucy says Stephanie Boyle is nothing less than a pioneer in the mobile space, having first shaped the area as a founding member of Ericsson's digital media innovation center - big brain thinking going on in this center, and really helped to shape the whole mobile area. Now she is the founder of Rogue Paper where she and her team deliver integrated mobile experiences to users. Stephanie Boyle is a Founder at Rogue Paper, Inc. Rogue Paper provides television and media properties increased engagement opportunities with their viewers via mobile applications, such as category leading co-viewing applications VH1 Co-Star and MTV WatchWith. Stephanie has been in the mobile industry her entire career working at the intersection between mobile, entertainment, user experience, design and media since the birth of the mobile Internet in the US (early 2000). She was a founding member of Ericsson's digital media innovation center, Ericsson Mobility World (née Ericsson Cyberlab) a joint venture between the NYC Investment Fund & Ericsson that ultimately had 30 centers covering 140 countries driving mobile services using content and applications in both mature and emerging markets. Keep up to date and listen for more...
Related Links: Rogue Paper || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Stephanie Boyle, Rogue Paper, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, television, Media Properties, Mobile Applications, VH1 Co-Star, MTV WatchWith, TV 2.0 for Mobile, Internet, IPTV, Ericsson 8/29/11 Bytes: 21225537
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3-D Touch Screen technology: Unbelievable technology
Sarah Lipman, CTO, Power2B and NCWIT Hero enclosure-voice 1062_ 8/15/11 - Power2B is a creative workshop dedicated to generating radical innovations and human experiences at every level of daily living. Part of what they've done is an innovative patent around 3-D Touch Screen technology, and they're beginning to imagine certain interfaces for these devices where they can actually look at natural body language and present things based on.... Larry is sitting up straight ...based on how you are behaving. Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Sarah Lipman, Founder & CTO, Power2B.. Sarah said, "Power 2B is an unbelievable technology. It's a technology that replaces the traditional touch screen at a fraction of the price, and it provides coordinates, not only in the x, y points when you touch the screen but even when you're not quite touching the screen. So it can track you even before you touch the screen." Sarah is the visionary and innovator of the Power2B concept and technology and is responsible for management and guidance of the technology team. In addition, Sarah leads the concept incubation group for technology innovation. Before founding Power2B, Sarah managed a dual career in education and publishing. She draws for inspiration on an eclectic range of interests, including medicine, mathematics, industrial design, anthropology, history, and her children. w3w3® Media Network is proud and honored to bring another NCWIT interview to our audience. We've long since recognized the need for education and support for our youth and particularly for young women, in math and science, engineering and technology. The women we interview are bright guiding lights for the future of our youth, generously sharing their experiences - challenges and all. They are inspiring, often humorous and motivating. This series is a real jewel and a valuable set of tools for the future of young women and everyone who has the good fortune to listen...Sarah has much to share, listen for more...
Related Links: Power2B || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords:Sarah Lipman, Power 2B, Mobile Devices, National Center for Women in Technology, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Touch Screen, Mobile Industry - 8/15/11 bytes=16061234
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Awesome tools for you and also for your business
Laura Fitton, Oneforty.com, NCWIT Hero enclosure-voice 1003_ 4/25/11 - This is part of a series of interviews that we are having with fabulous entrepreneurs. Women who have started “IT” companies in a variety of sectors, all of whom have just fabulous stories to tell us, about being entrepreneurs. Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Laura Fitton, CEO and Founder of Oneforty.com. Lucy points out that Laura is known as the 'Queen of Twitter'. Oneforty helps people understand Twitter and the exploding ecosystem of applications and services built on it; and Oneforty has been called the 'app store for Twitter' by TechCrunch and others. Back to 2006, Laura moved to Boston, with no business network she's going to start her communications consulting firm there, after nearly 2 1/2 years out of the market. So she gets into blogging, hears about this Twitter thing. She blogs about how stupid this Twitter thing is (March 2007) and then two months later, says Laura, "the nickel drops." Laura realized she could surround herself with successful, interesting people and still be this home-based mom of two kids under two and yet stay motivated and inspired throughout her work day. And that is exactly what appealed to her about Twitter when Twitter finally did appeal to her. Laura tried hard not to be an entrepreneur, she worked for one in her twenties and "the guy was nuts!" You have to be fundamentally out of touch with reality on some level, because otherwise you'd know your idea can't possibly work. You have to have enough detachment from that to go and make it work, which is great!" Laura has a number of valuable tips about using Twitter and then goes onto some great advice for entrepreneurs. Listen for more...
Related Links: Oneforty-dot-com || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel ||
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Alexandra Wilkis 
        Wilson, Founder, CMO, Gilt Groupe It is also important to have mentors
enclosure-voice 987_ 3/21/11 - This series is a real jewel and a valuable set of tools for the future of young women and everyone who has the good fortune to listen. Lee Kennedy, board member for NCWIT and founder of BolderSearch.com along with Larry Nelson, w3w3.com are speaking with Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Gilt Groupe, an innovative company that's revolutionized the fashion industry and ecommerce in general. Alexandra has been featured on Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and many times on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox. "We launched Gilt Groupe in November 2007. We were inspired by a love of fashion and the excitement of a New York Sample Sale. We wanted to bring this excitement online for the first time in the U.S." Lee said, "We'd love to hear how you got into technology." Alexandra's reply, "Prior to launching Gilt Groupe, I hadn't worked in technology in any official capacity. I'd been working for Bulgari and Louis Vuitton after business school in much more of a bricks and mortar environment. My co-founder, Alexis Maybank is the reverse of that. She had worked at eBay, an early employee there, and scaled from 40 to about 5000 employees over a five year period. So she had terrific ecommerce experience. However, Alexandra considers herself an early adopter as a consumer. Larry asked, "What is it about being an entrepreneur that makes you tick?" She answered, "Prior to launching Gilt Groupe, my resume didn't look like an entrepreneur. But I think it is something innate, something I was born with in terms of my creativity and my spirit, my father is an entrepreneur. I was the little girl growing up in New York City who loved having lemonade stands and while I had the lemonade stand, I would sell the bracelets that I made, off of my wrist. So I was always into business ideas from a very young age. I had a baby sitting business that I built, so I think it comes from within. Something important to think about is there so many different types of entrepreneurs. They're...Listen for more...
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Bettina Hein, Pixability - NCWIT Hero Increase sales and profits by using video
enclosure-voice 980_ 3/7/11 - w3w3® Media Network is proud and honored to bring another NCWIT interview to our audience. We've long since recognized the need for education and support for our youth and particularly for young women, in math and science, engineering and technology. The women we interview are bright guiding lights for the future of our youth, generously sharing their experiences - challenges and all. They are inspiring, often humorous and motivating. This series is a real jewel and a valuable set of tools for the future of young women and everyone who has the good fortune to listen. Lee Kennedy, founder, Bolder Search and NCWIT Board member, along with Larry Nelson, w3w3® Media Network interviewed Bettina Hein, founder and CEO of Pixability. Pixability, based in Cambridge, MA., helps small and medium sized businesses and non-profits increase sales by using video. Bettina is a serial entrepreneur and founder of She E Os, a network for female CEO's and growth companies. Bettina's advice to young entrepreneurs today? "I love helping people make their dreams come true. I typically tell them anyone can be an entrepreneur. I tell them there are three things you need. 1.) 90k - If you knew what was going to hit you during the course of building your company, you would not start. So, start young and go at it. That doesn't mean unprepared. You have to do your research, look for a good market. But if you knew too much you would not be able to be an innovator. The second thing you need is chutzpah, being audacious, putting yourself out there - you really have to own it and be convinced you can do this. The third thing is perseverance - you have to have the will to see it through. Because it is very hard and you are going to want to quit, often. So you have to want to see it through. that doesn't mean being stubborn. You have to take cues and pivot and change your business model and evolve it. So, if you have those three, I think any young person can make it. ...listen now there's much more...
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Sarah Allen, CEO  & Founder, Mightverse; President & Founder RailsBridge Here it is; say it in any language right now
enclosure-voice 966_ 2/14/11 - Lucy Sanders, CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network and Lee Kennedy, Founder, BolderSearch.com and NCWIT board member interviewed Sarah Allen, founder and CEO, Mightyverse and President and Founder of RailsBridge, an inclusive and friendly Ruby on Rails community. RailsBridge guidelines are: First, do no harm. Then, help where you can; Bridge the gap from aspiring developer to contributing community member through mentoring, teaching & writing; Reach out to individuals and groups who are underrepresented in the community; Collaborate with other groups with similar goals. All of this makes Sarah a standout example of women in information technology and an NCWIT Hero. As usual, Lucy checked out the Mightyverse website, played with it and explains, " Basically Sarah created, at Mightyverse, what she is calling a language market place. And you don't just see or hear a pronunciation, but you see people's faces, actually saying the word or phrase. It looks good on your mobile device and you can go anywhere and figure out how to say something." Leave your English/Japanese Dictionary at home, but don't forget your Smart Phone / Mobile Phone with the Mightyverse App. Sarah is primarily self-funding this company through some independent consulting work. Sarah has also started and is president of RailsBridge - free workshops teaching Ruby on Rails aimed at women with the mission of increasing the number of women Ruby developers. The project which has trained almost 600 people, nearly 500 of them women, in five cities in the past year and a half, is gaining speed in 2011. Sarah is quite a technologist, obviously being chief technology officer. She said, "When I was in college, I didn't see the power of computing and how it could be applied to real world problems." Before Mightyverse she worked on a team of four engineers developing Shockwave and Flash software. In 1998 she was named as one of the Top 25 Women on the Web, an amazing technology career. Sarah said, "We're finally approaching what Tim Berners-Lee meant by the semantic web. The notion of having services on the web that you can connect to and machines can connect to and make sense of. So we're starting to be able to assemble fairly complex systems without building every piece ourselves. That's really exciting."
Related Links: RailsBridge || Mighty Verse || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Sarah Allen, Mightyverse, RailsBridge, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Bolder Search, Entrepreneurs, Technology - Ruby on Rails, Lucy Sanders, Larry Nelson, NCWIT Heroes, Shockwave, Flash, mentoring - 2/14/11 bytes=22974696 LISTEN to Sarah Allen, CTO, Mightyverse, RailsBridge, President & Founder - NCWIT Hero

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Silicon Valley's biggest IPO since Google
enclosure-voice 959_ 1/31/11 - w3w3® Media Network is proud and honored t Diane Greene, founder VMwareo bring another NCWIT interview to our audience. We've long since recognized the need for education and support for our youth and particularly for young women, in math and science, engineering and technology. The women we interview are bright guiding lights for the future of our youth, generously sharing their experiences - challenges and all. They are inspiring, often humorous and motivating. This series is a real jewel and a valuable set of tools for the future of young women and everyone who has the good fortune to listen.
      Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Lee Kennedy, Founder, Bolder Search and board member for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Diane Greene, founder of VMware. VMware introduced something really innovative which was a virtualization layer between hardware and software that allowed different operating systems to run on the same machine. When the company went public in 2007, it was Silicon Valley's biggest IPO since Google. We asked how she came to be an entrepreneur. Diane explained, "I had always been an organizer, like working with people if their visions are aligned and that led to leading people and being in charge. So, it's a desire to do new things, make things happen. When you need to work on a passion and vision you are sometimes left with no option but to do it yourself. When asked for her advice to young people who are thinking of entrepreneurship, she said. If you see something that really excites you then set about doing it and doing it right. Don't cut any corners, go about it with absolute quality in every way that you approach it and think it through, and execute on it." There's more advice for entrepreneurs.....

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Successful entrepreneurs: Realistic optimists
Marcie Black, Co-founder & CTO, Bandgap Engineeringenclosure-voice 885_ 8/23/10- Entrepreneurs have personal lives and sometimes have to struggle to bring balance to their life. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network interviewed Marcie Black, CTO & Co-founder, Bandgap Engineering. Bandgap has pioneered the development of a highly tunable and inexpensive method for nanostructuring silicon and is applying this technology to high efficiency solar cells. Lucy asked, "If you were talking to a young person who wanted to be an entrepreneur, what other advice would you give them?" Marcie replied with a great deal of passion, "I wouldn't advise people to be an entrepreneur, even though I love it. What I would advise them to do is really figure out what drives them. If it's making money, or having prestige, it's probably not the best route for them. But if it's something like bring technology to the market and trying to make the world a better place through their technology, then I would advise them to be an entrepreneur. Once they become an entrepreneur, my biggest advice would be to follow your passion and do what you enjoy, what you really believe in. Because if you believe in something and you work hard at it, you're much more likely to be successful. She went onto share, "I've noticed that of the successful entrepreneurs that I know, are very optimistic and I am very optimistic as well. But you can't be blindly optimistic. You have to be what I call 'realistic optimist'; you can't have your blinders on. But you do have to see a way that the company can be successful and arrange it so all the parts fall into place for that to happen. So, I'd say optimism and also persistence and work ethic are very important." ...There's more...
Related Links: Bandgap Engineering Home || NCWIT Share || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Marcie Black, Bandgap Engineering, Entrepreneurs, Nanostructuring Silicon, Solar Cells, Lucinda Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT >> 8/23/10 bytes: 13017968
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Julia Hartz, Co Founder & President, EventBrite.com 868_ 7/12/10 - Bootstrapping: Growing
from 3 to 60 employees

enclosure-voice "We bootstrapped the company, just three people for two years, very product focused, but she is happy to announce they are now nearing 60 employees, so it's quite a different company now than it was even back in 2008. On the product side we're just really focused on making life simpler for event organizers," said Julia Hartz, EventBrite, Co-Founder & President. Lee Kennedy, NCWIT Board Member and founder of Bolder Search, Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network had a conversation with Julia. She is responsible for the overall vision and strategy of the company. Julia is a reformed Television Network Executive and comes to Eventbrite by way of Hollywood. During her tenure in the television industry, Julia was a creative executive at FX Networks and helped supervise The Shield, Nascar Drivers: 360, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Prior to FX Networks, Julia worked in creative development at MTV Networks where she was fortunate enough to work on several prolific shows such as Jackass. When asked, "Why are you and entrepreneur and what makes you tick?" Julia replied, "I'm an entrepreneur because I think I can change an industry. I also love helping to build something that people want. Being an entrepreneur, for me, I feel like I'm part owner in a movement and there is just something inherently satisfying about working on something you feel such ownership and passion about." Based on her experiences Julia shares a number of ideas and recommendations for entrepreneurs ...listen now...
Related Links: EventBrite || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || Bolder Search || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Julia Hartz, EventBrite, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Bolder Search, Entrepreneurship 7/12/10 Chnl: NCWIT bytes: 12491967 Listen to: Julia Hartz, President & Co-Founder, EventBrite.com

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865_ 6/28/10 - Excellent advice and ideas for all entrepreneurs
Dr. Katherine Hall, CTO, WiTricity & NCWIT Hero enclosure-voice “Being stuck with a bad power cable is like being stuck in a bad relationship," said Dr. Katherine (Katie) Hall, CTO of WiTricity. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, Director of w3w3® Media Network and Lee Kennedy, Founder, BolderSearch.com and NCWIT board member interviewed Katie, the CTO of Witricity and previously Wide-Net Technologies. She is an expert in Photonics, holds eleven US patents got her start at Bell Labs (Lucy is a Bell Labs alum also). This interview is part of the NCWIT Hero Series and Katie shares some great insights for entrepreneurs. She pointed out that a common trait for entrepreneurs is that they 'want to make things better' and work with a team. Katie goes onto say, "Take a risk and don't feel concerned about failing. And don't be afraid to be part of the team...take the leap." She really pushes for, "Care more about the people you work with than what you are working on. When asked, "What personal characteristics do you think have given you advantages as an entrepreneur?" Katie's reply is also excellent advice for all entrepreneurs. She doesn't like to be told,'no' which ties into those advantages. "Persistence, competitive and optimistic." Witricity is working on transferring electric energy or power over distance without wires; it is commercializing technology first invented at MIT. Cell phones, game controllers, laptop computers, mobile robots, even electric vehicles capable of re-charging themselves without ever being plugged in. WiTricity Corp. is working to make this future a reality, developing wireless electricity technology that will operate safely and efficiently over distances ranging from centimeters to several meters—and will deliver power ranging from milliwatts to kilowatts. Listen for more details and ideas...
Related Links: WiTricity Home || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Katie Hall, WiTricity, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Entrepreneurship 6/28/10 Chnl: NCWIT bytes: 17162974 Listen to: Katie Hall, CTO, WiTricity

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844_ 5/17/10 - Making life easier so that we can innovate faster
Pooja Nath, CEO and Founder, Piazzza enclosure-voice What is a term that brings people together in a common place? Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) along with Larry Nelson from w3w3.com interviewed Pooja Nath, CEO and Founder of Piazzza. Piazzza gets students help, fast. Students post questions (anonymously, if they like) and their classmates and professors collectively answer. This online platform gets them high quality answers for even the most specific doubts, sometimes within minutes. When Pooja thinks back to her undergrad days, when everybody would be sitting together in the same lab, mostly because they were not in a financial situation to own their own laptops or computers, the amount of help people got and the ways in which they worked off each other was just so beautiful. That was her inspiration to come up with a term that had the same meaning in her mind. "My inspiration was that I was one of the very few female students in computer sciences in India. There were about 420 boys in my class, we were about 20 girls and in computer sciences. So I'd be by myself on the side, too shy to ask any guy for help and I just wished I had something to connect me to my classmates in a way that I could tap into their collective knowledge." Pooja understands the problems students have studying for assignments or exams. They have specific questions that have a lot of context. She says, search engines can't help much because there's a lot of knowledge out there that's too general. Last summer Pooja built the first prototype herself, then launched to a single class at the University of Maryland where she did her master's degree. When that started to go quite positively, we launched to more classes at Stanford and University of Maryland - Santa Clara, and that went even better.
Related Links: Piazzza || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Blog || Keywords: Pooja Nath, Piazzza, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneurship, Students, Computer Sciences 5/17/10 Bytes: 12416421 LISTEN to Pooja Nath, Piazzza

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782_ Benchmarking: Are women leading alongside men? 2/1/2010
Marie Wilson, Lucy Sanders & Larry Nelsonenclosure-voice In 1998, Marie Wilson founded The White House Project in recognition of the need to build a truly representative democracy – one where women lead alongside men in all spheres. Since its inception, The White House Project has been a leading advocate and voice on women’s leadership. An advocate of women’s issues for more than 30 years, Marie Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work ® Day and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004). The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) hosted the White House Project Benchmarking study. Marie led the eye-opening program. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) along with Larry Nelson from w3w3.com interviewed Marie after the program. The White House Project, a national, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization, 501(c)(3), aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency. By filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women, we make American institutions, businesses and government truly representative. Through multi-platform programs, The White House Project creates a culture where America’s most valuable untapped resource—women—can succeed in all realms. To advance this mission, The White House Project strives to support women and the issues that allow women to lead in their own lives and in the world. When women leaders bring their voices, vision and leadership to the table alongside men, the debate is more robust and the policy is more inclusive and sustainable. Listen, there's much more...
Related Links: The White House Project || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Share || Event Photos || Mastering Change || Keywords: Marie Wilson, The White House Project, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, > Channel: NCWIT 11286025 bytes - 2/1/10 LISTEN to Marie Wilson, President, The White House Project

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Beth Marcus, 
           NCWIT Hero, CEO & Founder of Playsmrt 778_ Entrepreurial impact on the gaming industry
enclosure-voice The medical field, the gaming industry and the pet accessories market have seemingly little in common, but Beth Marcus has built a name in all three. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) along with Larry Nelson from w3w3.com interviewed Beth Marcus for the NCWIT Heros series. Beth has been Founder and CEO of several successful startups, most notably EXOS, Inc., which was launched in 1988, venture capital backed and sold to Microsoft in 1996. Since then she has been involved in 20 start-ups in a variety of fields as a founder, investor, or advisor. She has raised equity numerous times and has also done angel investments herself. Several of these ventures have been acquired by public companies. Beth has worked as a consultant providing patent strategy, litigation support and other strategic technology related consulting services. Beth is an acknowledged expert in the hand-device interface space and has been an expert for several of the major players in the industry in support of prior patents litigations. Recently Beth became founding CEO of Playsmrt, Playsmrt allows parents to create a safe, interactive environment in which children 1 to 8 years old can play media, communicate with family members, and learn. Parents set limits, kids explore! Beth shares some great entrepreneurial advice. There's much more...
Related Links: Zeemote || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || Playsmrt || Engineering Pathway || Keywords: Beth Marcus, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, EXOS, Microsoft, Zeemote, Digital Gaming, Playsmrt, Entrepreneurs > Channel: NCWIT bytes:22899343, 1/25/10 LISTEN to Beth Marcus

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2/22/10 - 796_ Emerging technology companies and market opportunities
Chris Shipley, CoFounder and CEO, GuideWire Groupenclosure-voice As a founding partner and editorial director in Guidewire Group, Chris Shipley consults with emerging technology companies in the U.S. and Europe to identify market opportunities and accelerate products to market. Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT and Lee Kennedy, NCWIT Director, serial entrepreneur and founder of Boldersearch, along with Larry Nelson, from w3w3.com interviewed Chris for the NCWIT ToolBox Series. Chris said, “In this market, revenue is the new venture capital. Going out and working with customers, meeting a need and getting paid for what you do is business building. The average ‘fund raise’ is going to take 3 to six months minimum. You might as well be out building customer relationships which will accelerate your fundraising and put money in the bank in the interim. So relentless focus on drive to revenue is a important. What I look for in an early stage company, what appeals to me is this intersection of a great idea, a real market need, a smart business model and a passionate team, that is the G Score". The simplest way to think about this G Score, is G stands for the gas for early stage companies. It's the transparent and objective measurement of a company across seven categories of performance and execution and it proves to be very prescriptive for early stage companies and it changes the conversations of large companies that want to work with them because it puts them on a common ground. Your team is important. The key is for men to remember that the best teams are integrated teams. So when you're thinking about who you should bring on to your executive team, a bias toward bringing a woman into the team is actually a bias toward improving your business." Listen for more...
Related Links: Chris Shipley Website || Guidewire Group || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Channel || Keywords: Chris Shipley, Guidewire Group, Lucy Sanders, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Emerging Technology, Market Opportunities > 2/22/10 bytes: 35409818 Chnl: NCWIT LISTEN to Chris Shipley, CoFounder & CEO, GuideWire Group

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740_ From the depths of a financial disaster to a multi-million dollar winner
Caterina Fake, Founder, Hunchenclosure-voice Caterina Fake, Co-Founder, Hunch, a collective intelligence decision making system was interviewed by Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT and Lee Kennedy, NCWIT Director, serial entrepreneur and founder of Boldersearch, along with Larry Nelson, from w3w3.com for the NCWIT Hero series. Before Hunch, Caterina was the co-founder of Flicker. Flicker was one of those companies that really opened up the eyes of people to the power of Web 2.0 and really taking together those features such as social networking and community and things people want to share. Caterina was a cofounder of Flicker, before it was sold to Yahoo. Initially they were trying to develop an online game. The company was dying, ready to collapse. Caterina took no salary for a year, others went without salary for 6 months only one guy, with three kids, was paid. "It was horrible but also the most growth oriented experience I ever had. We managed to grab victory from the jaws of defeat. We had enough to keep going for three months, not enough time to finish this game, but we could finish this photo sharing idea that we came up with. We'd applied to the Canadian government for a grant two years earlier and had forgotten about it. On December 23, we received a letter saying we got the grant - $150K I think, 50K for production, $50K for marketing - we only ended up collecting a fraction of it... but $50K at the time was enough to keep us afloat, to build this new thing which we'd christened 'Flicker'. It was very much a Phoenix from the ashes and a story that ended happily."
Related Links: Caterina Website || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || Hunch || Heroes Channel || Keywords: Caterina Fake, Hunch, Flicker, Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy, National Center for Women and Information Technology, NCWIT, Entrepreneurs, > Channel: NCWIT 23761397 bytes 11/16/09 LISTEN

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732_ Using innovation for social good - NCWIT Entrepreneurial Tool Box
Yoky Matusoka, YokyWorks.org enclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, the CEO for the National Center for Women and Information Technology or NCWIT and Lee Kennedy, NCWIT Director, serial entrepreneur and founder of Boldersearch, along with Larry Nelson, from w3w3.com interviewed Yoky Matsuoka for the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Tool Box series. Yoky is a Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. She received her Ph.D. at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Neuroscience in 1998. She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Yoky MatusokaBrain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT and in Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. Today Yoky is an associate professor at the University of Washington focusing on neurobotics. In 2007 Her work in Robotics gained the MacArthur’s Foundation "Genius Award". The MacArthur Foundation characterizes her work as transforming our understanding of how the central nervous system coordinates musculoskeletal action and of how robotic technology can enhance the mobility of people with manipulation disabilities. In addition, Yoky started the YokyWorks Foundation – a non-profit to be recognized as a premier provider of practical engineering solutions for people seeking to improve their life experience. Their mission is to enable people to experience life beyond their physical or sensory capabilities. "Also I want to help my volunteers. Many have raised families and now want to have a way to contribute to society and I feel just having them exposed to this effort is giving them pleasure, and that also is extremely rewarding." Listen for more exciting details...
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713_ Entrepreneurs: High tolerance for risk; passionate; visionary; adapt to change
enclosure-voiceAnu Shukla, Offerpal Media,  Founder & CEO When interviewing serial entrepreneurs you begin to see patterns along with unique issues and ideas. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interviewed Anu Shukla, a serial entrepreneur. Prior to founding Offerpal Media, Anu was the founder and CEO of Mybuys Inc. where she currently serves on the Board of Directors. Mybuys is a venture-backed company in the eCommerce personalization market. Prior to Mybuys, Anu pioneered the category of Internet Marketing Automation as founder and CEO of Rubric, Inc. Rubric was acquired in 2000 for $366 million. Offerpal Media is the first "Managed Offer Platform" for social applications, online communities and e-commerce sites. Their full-service, turnkey advertising platform monetizes social publisher's traffic while generating high-quality leads for advertisers. The platform is based on an innovative engagement-marketing model in which users earn points or virtual currencies by participating in unique advertising offers that are specially engineered for targeting, relevancy and maximum conversions. The company was founded in June, 2007, with the vision of providing a new technology platform for the social media marketplace. Listen to Anu for entrepreneurial ideas that we can all apply. The Offerpal Media network reaches more than 50 million social networking users in total and spans hundreds of the most popular social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, hi5, Friendster and other leading social networks. They also work with dozens of community web sites and online games.
Related Links: OfferPal Media Home || NCWIT Home || NCWIT Practice || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Mastering Change ||
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685_ TechStars alum joins the Entrepreneurial Heroes Series
Emily Olson, Co-founder, Foodzieenclosure-voice Emily Olson is a TechStars alum and for people who've listened to our Entrepreneurial Toolbox Interview series you've heard David Cohen talk about TechStars a wonderful program here in Boulder to help budding entrepreneurs. Emily is a cofounder, Foodzie, an online market place where you can discover and buy foods from all kinds of passionate food producers and growers. Business Week named Emily and the three cofounders some of the most promising entrepreneurs in tech. "We're growing a lot." says Emily, Right now, people want farms local to them and to have more sources for that. So that's where Foodzie is focusing, helping the growers market and the people to find what they're looking for and using the tools we've developed to do that. When asked what Emily like about technology in the food industry she had a long list of great points.. Small producers have a hard time getting into the big stores, the Internet provides unlimited shelf space without the brick and mortar; you can get to know the grower - something never possible in a store and the videos and social media bring so much more information to the buyer. There's more...
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Lucinda Sanders, CEO and Co-founder, NCWIT 667_ Only 12% of graduates are women - we need a huge segment of the population to be involved.
enclosure-voice The first annual NCWIT Symons Innovator Award was presented to Anousheh Ansari this past Monday, May 11th, and it was a remarkable event. We stood 100 strong in the foyer of Heidi Roizen's home as Jennie Symons, the orphaned 9 year old daughter of Jeanette Symons presented the award to Anousheh Ansari, the first woman private explorer in space, the first astronaut of Iranian descent and with her family, title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. She is Chair, CEO and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, and formerly Chair, CEO and Co-Founder of Telecom Technologies, Inc. a technology company sold for $750 million. These men and women, gathered here, are outstanding examples of the promise and the future for 'women and information technology'. Anousheh with Jennie Symons and Lucy SandersWe begin this story in Atherton, CA, to celebrate one woman's success and to work on preparing the road for future young women and for the competitive advantage of our country... Statistics show that better than 50% of new entrepreneurs are female. They receive 3% of the VC investments and only 5% of the Federal funds set aside for new businesses. It is a gender issue to be sure. While many women of varying ages and interests are taking the entrepreneurial plunge, Lucy Sanders points out another big issue, not so readily recognized, is the Global competitiveness of our country so adversely affected by a subtle gender bias. Today the numbers of students going into computer science studies are plummeting. As this workforce Anousheh Ansari, First Female Commercial Astronautdwindles, the best job opportunities grow. While attending the NCWIT Conference hosted by Google, Jeff Huber, Sr. VP of Engineering at Google said, "It's a critical problem! A crisis for the industry, for Google." Only 12% of graduates are women at a time when we need a huge segment of the population to be involved. Is the study of math and science important to our collective future? We certainly believe so and the National Center for Women and Information Technology is making the difference.
Related Links: NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice|| NCWIT Channel || PHOTOS Reception || Google Campus || Keywords: NCWIT, Lucy Sanders, Women in IT, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT Heroes, NCWIT Toolbox Series, Google, Jeff Huber, Anousheh Ansari, Jeanette Symons, First NCWIT Symons Innovator Award > Channels: NCWIT Bytes: 6525913 > 5/18/09

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658_ Social Media: You have to accept that we live in public today
Tina Sharkey, chairman & Global President, BabyCenterenclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interviewed Tina Sharkey, Chairman and Global President of BabyCenter for the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Tool Box Series. Prior to joining BabyCenter, Tina was co-founder and chief community architect of iVillage.com. BabyCenter is the Web’s #1 global interactive parenting brand, reaching 78% of new and expecting moms online in the United States, and reaching 15 million parents monthly across 18 markets worldwide. When Tina was asked about the social media she replied, "I can tell you that social media is not an empire unto itself. Social media is really a facilitating and enabling platform about the tools, the services and applications that allow people to connect, communicate and share with each other. Social media is really a collection of things that enable conversations and sharing, that enable discovery. It's the media that's created by people and you have to figure out who are the people you trust and who is in your circle of friends, whose opinion do you trust?" She goes onto share some practical online insights...listen now...
Related Links: NCWIT Home || BabyCenter Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || PodCast Directory || Keywords: Tina Sharkey, BabyCenter, Lucy Sanders, Blogs, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information, Social Media, Expecting Moms, Entrepreneurial Tool Box; Channel:NCWIT Bytes= 29381070 > 5.4.09 LISTEN

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657_ Good software comes from a collaboration between developers and designers
Rashmi Sinha, PhD, Cofounder and CEO, 
           SlideShareenclosure-voice Rashmi Sinha is a designer, researcher and entrepreneur. She is confounder & CEO for SlideShare. Rashmi believes that good software comes from a true collaboration between developers and designers. Her background is social software & interface design. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson interview her for the NCWIT Hero Series. How and why she became an entrepreneur is very interesting and many entrepreneurs will be able to relate to her story. Rashmi has a PhD in Cognitive NeuroPsychology from Brown University in 1998. After moving to UC Berkeley for a PostDoc, she fell in love with the Web, and realized that many issues that Web technologists think about are problems of human psychology. She worked on search interfaces & recommender systems. SlideShare is a great way to get your slides out there on the Web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Let your slides do the talking! This takes PowerPoint to a new level. Listen for more...
Related Links: http://www.slideshare.net/ SlideShare NCWIT Home || NCWIT Blog || Heroes Channel || Rashmi's Blog || PodCasting Directory || Keywords: Rashmi Sinha, SlideShare, Lucy Sanders, PowerPoint, Entrepreneurs, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT Heroes > Channel:NCWIT Bytes= 22030213 > 4.27.09 LISTEN

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641_ Ann Winblad, ...one of the foremost experts on navigating Silicon Valley
Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad Venture Partnersenclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, NCWIT along with Larry Nelson, w3w3®.com spoke with Ann Winblad, co-founder and a Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. When Ann Winblad got started in the software industry she was based in Minneapolis, "It's a very entrepreneurial state, but there's not density in one entrepreneurial area - there's a little bit of software, a little media, a little of medical devices". Lucy, asked about Silicon Valley reputation. Ann said, "The Silicon Valley is still like Mesopotamia. It is said innovation is happening everywhere, and it is. Looking at the numbers, in 2008 there were about 1400 deals done outside of the US (Europe, Israel, China, India) about $13.4 Billion; compared to the US with about 2600 deals and about $29 billion invested. But relative to Silicon Valley, over 30% was invested in companies in the Bay area". The contemporary software industry started back in the late 1970s, Ann started her software company in Minneapolis in 1976, the same year that Microsoft started, within the next year Apple started and within two years Oracle started. There was enough of an infrastructure in Silicon Valley from the birth of the semi-conductor industry, and then we started to get these real anchor tenants, and so a high density of young companies..." Well, you can see, there is a wealth of information in this single interview with a woman who was and is part of the creation of the history and the future in Silicon Valley, your tour guide, today.
Related Links: Hummer Winblad Venture Partners || Hummer Winblad Team || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Practice || Entrepreneurial Toolbox || Keywords: Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, NCWIT Toolbox, Lucy Sanders, Silicon Valley, Software, Venture Capital, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle > Channel:NCWIT Bytes= 27298484 > 3.30.09 LISTEN

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607_ Emmy Award winning reporter becomes founder of a tech company
Dina Kaplan, BLIP.TV enclosure-voice Blip.TV is a very interesting site and provides an infrastructure for the video blogging community and it's much more than that. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT founding board member, along with Larry Nelson continue with the NCWIT Hero Series and talked with Dina Kaplan, COO and one of five co-founders of BLIP.TV. Dina says, "We definitely consider ourselves a media company, and I think that’s very important. If you go back a few decades, NBC and CBS and all those broadcast networks that we now think of as media companies, back in their early days, they were considered technology companies. So I think we’ll see that same transition happen with the new media companies. It’s incredibly rewarding to be a new media company that’s not betting on hits and not banking on hits, and essentially having the authority to giving the ‘green light’ or the ‘red light’ to a project. So what BLIP is, is a very democratic network where anyone can upload a show and if it’s good the show will amass hundreds of thousands or even millions of viewers and can also have the opportunity to make money as well. You’ll never have that kind of democratic platform with a traditional TV network because just by their nature they have to invest in hits and bank on that and hope that something is really huge, because there’s a limited amount of bandwidth over those airways. So part of the reason that I jumped over to the new media is that it met my values and my beliefs that anyone who is talented should have a chance to succeed. It shouldn’t be up to one programming chief, what gets the green light and what does not." There's more...
Related Links: BLIP TV || NCWIT Channel || Entrepreneurial Heroes 2007 || Entrepreneurial Heroes 2008 || Keywords: Dina Kaplan, Blip TV, Lucinda Sanders, NCWIT, Hero Series, Larry Nelson, Entrepreneurs, Media, New Media Channels:NCWIT Bytes=20910396 > - 1/19/09 LISTEN

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592_ Brad Feld and the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Tool Box (Part 1 of 2)
Brad Feld, Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy & Larry Nelson - NCWIT Series 'The Entrepreneur's Toolbox"enclosure-voice Brad Feld was being drilled by Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy along with Larry Nelson, about the learning experiences of a new entrepreneur for the new NCWIT series, The Entrepreneurial Tool Box. And as Brad said, "Dave Jilk was a college friend. In 1987 we launched a company which we then grew, with no financing into a couple million dollar business and sold in 1993. So that was the first real success I had, after a couple of companies that went absolutely no where." When addressing the failures Brad said, "Well you go through this cycle of believing, sort of the optimism of the creation at inception of the company, some progress, whatever progress there is and then ultimately you start to have some problems and you either push through the problems or you don’t. I mean Feld Technologies had all kinds of things that could have caused us to fail. In fact, one of the first things we did was hire a half dozen college friends and part time people, and spent money we didn’t have and all of a sudden we were upside down $20,000 and we had no money, and we realized we couldn’t do that anymore because we didn’t have the money to pay the people and we had to get to a place where we’d make money. In the case of the other failures, I think it was pretty clear at some point we were not making real progress." said Brad Feld, Chairman of the NCWIT – also co-chair of the Governor’s Innovation Council. Listen for more insights...Brad also talks about what it takes to create winners.
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Related Links: Foundry Group || Brad's Blog || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Practice || TriCalyx || Keywords: Brad Feld, Foundry Group, NCWIT, Entrepreneurial Tool Box, Dealing with Failing, Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy, Leadership, Blog - Channels: NCWIT, VC,

594_ Brad Feld and the NCWIT Entrepreneurial Tool Box: Part 2 of 2
Brad Feld, Foundry Groupenclosure-voice In this part 2 of 2 Brad Feld said, "My favorite entrepreneurs to work with and invest in their future companies are ones that have had a success, at least one success and one failure. If you’ve had three successes in a row and no failures, you think you’re invincible. Once you’ve had the first failure you realize that success is not a given – you have to work hard for success and there are lots of things that, some under your control, some not under your control that are going to impact your success or failure." Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy along with Larry Nelson had a great conversation with Brad about the learning experiences of a new entrepreneur for the new NCWIT series, The Entrepreneurial Tool Box. Brad went onto say, "There are very clear values that drive leaders. And I think if you want to be a successful as an entrepreneur, studying great leaders, thinking about what makes those leaders great, and thinking about what attributes of that leader you share, or that are comfortable for you to emulate, is an important driver. I think entrepreneurs that don’t think about leadership and don’t understand how they relate to it – because not every entrepreneur is the same kind of leader. Another thing that is really important on either side of the equation is to understand what fear does. Essentially fear freezes you completely from being able to make good decisions. When you’re acting out of fear, you’re not able to step back and figure what’s going on." Brad continues...
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588_ Changing Career Choice From an Attorney to High-Tech Entrepreneur
Lena West, CEO, xynoMedia, NCWIT Hero enclosure-voice Lena West, CEO, Founder and Chief Strategist of xynoMedia Technology. This New York based firm helps high growth companies leverage the power of social media, blogs, podcasts and online communities. This interview is one of a continuing series of interviews for the NCWIT Heroes Channel. These entrepreneurial women are great examples that are inspiring to young women and girls who might consider an IT career and is also informational for parents and business leaders. Lena strongly believes that social media is a catalyst to uniting the world’s people and will continue to lead businesses and individuals toward greater levels of environmental accountability, social responsibility and corporate transparency - hence her passion for the medium. She went onto say, "And, that's how I really, truly feel. It's the main reason why I do what I do. With all that's going on in the world, I still believe in the goodness of people. I believe in the power of positivity and higher levels of energy to trump negativity." As a first year college student, Lena was going to be an attorney. That idea was short lived, just not her cup of tea. Eventually she took a job as a secretary with IBM, getting closer to the technology, and learned what she needed to learn and where she could learn about computer technology. She went from help desk work to consulting and eventually to business owner. There's more, listen now...
Related Links: xynoMedia Technology || Lip-Sticking || NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Fact Sheet || Find It || Keywords: Lena West,xynoMedia, NCWIT, Social Media, Blogs, Podcasts, Online Communities, Lee Kennedy, Entrepreneur - Channels: NCWIT Bytes: 16498419 - 11/17/08 LISTEN

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Jessica Jackley Flannery, Co-Founder, Kiva 562_ Social Entrepreneurism and Microfinancing Goes Global
enclosure-voice Social entrepreneur, Jessica Jackley Flannery is a co-founder of Kiva with her husband Matt. Kiva is the first peer-to-peer microloan website, demonstrates how the Internet can facilitate meaningful, positive connections between lenders and entrepreneurs in the developing world and even help us all become micro-financiers. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy along with Larry Nelson interviewed Jessica. She first saw the power and beauty of microfinance while working in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Jessica has worked in the Stanford Center for Social Innovation to launch the inaugural Global Philanthropy Forum, and at Amazon.com, Potentia Media, the International Foundation and World Vision. Jessica has spoken widely on microfinance and social entrepreneurship, and has seen microfinance at work in a variety of communities in more than 30 countries. Jessica is an Ashoka Fellow and has built the Kiva budget from a small startup amount to $45 million. She was asked, "What does a $20 donation do for Kiva?" "Any donation helps us cover our basic operational costs--paying salaries, keeping the lights on, etc. In 2007, for every $1 Kiva receives in donations, we raised another $10 online in loans for the poor." Jessica shares some incredible success stories. Listen for more...
Related Links: KIVA || NCWIT Heros || ASHOKA || NCWIT Practice || Keywords: Jessica Flannery, Kiva, NCWIT, Ashoka Fellow, Microfinance, Social Entrepreneurship > Bytes: 24043836 > - LISTEN 9/29/08

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Female Serial Entrepreneur Raises Millions of Dollars
Jean Kovacsenclosure-voice 536_ Here's a story about a female serial entrepreneur who literally fell into becoming a co-founder of a couple companies. Jean Kovacs has raised tons of money and in 2006 her company was bought by Sterling Commerce, an AT&T company. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy along with Larry Nelson interviewed Jean who had some very interesting replies to their questions. When they were discussing some of her best learning experiences Jean replied," I learned the most from bad managers." That's another way of learning vicariously. Today Jean Kovacs is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Strategic Alliances for Sterling Commerce, responsible for driving global strategic alliances, including the AT&T strategic relationship, and all corporate marketing and communications. Kovacs has over 25 years experience directing technology companies and a track record of using her strategic business skills and background to deliver exceptional results with growing enterprises. Jean also is Chair of the board of BUILD, a non-profit that gives entrepreneurial experiences to under-served communities - she believes that all students have the same potential and drive to succeed. The reality, however, is that students in under served neighborhoods begin with limited, and sometimes no, motivation or role models. Listen now.
Related Links: Sterling Commerce || E-Business Article || NCWIT Channel || NCWIT Practice || Keywords: Jean Kovac, Sterling Commerce, Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy, NCWIT Practice, National Center for Women & Information Technology, BUILD - Bytes: 16801857 LISTEN 8/11/08

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523_ Women Will Drive Media Revenue Once it is Mainstreamed
Kristin McDonnell at Stanfordenclosure-voice The mobile consumer software industry is a multi-billion dollar market that is slated to grow three-fold to $50 billion worldwide by 2009. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy along with Larry Nelson interviewed Kristin Asleson McDonnell, CEO of LimeLife and serious serial entrepreneur. LimeLife, a company that delivers “fun” right to your mobile device, making women’s lives easier. And, LimeLife is the only publisher of wireless content exclusively focused on the women’s market. The company’s products are forging innovations in the mobile industry based on unique insights about what women seek in mobile entertainment. They entered the market with games. The games include 'Girls Night Out Solitaire', 'Girls Night Out blackjack', 'Hollywood Hangman' and and Lucy's favorite 'Law and Order'. Products include lifestyle tools, entertaining mobile games, Sleek & Chic™ fashion wallpapers and original Daily Dose™ text messages. Lucy, Lee and Larry (the 3 L's) asked Kristen what was on the horizon for LimeLife? She replied, "We are creating 'Lifestyle tools like ‘People Magazine on the phone’. Launching this summer is a web and mobile' community for women centered around shopping, fashion, music – our tagline = “Everything I like, wherever I am.” Kristen has some great ideas for entrepreneurs as well as some motivating thoughts for girls and young people considering high tech. Listen and pass this along to others.
Related Links: Lime Life || Kristin at Stanford|| Heidi Roizen || NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice|| Red Herring || Keywords: Kristin McDonnell, Lime Life, Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy, NCWIT, Women in IT, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT Heroes > - Bytes: Bytes: 19930282 LISTEN 7/14/08

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Audrey MacLean 530_ Entrepreneurship and Ethics Lead to an Extreme Sport
enclosure-voice Today Audrey MacLean is focused on working with the new generation of entrepreneurs. Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology with NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy and Larry Nelson, president of w3w3.com, interviewed Audrey, Co-Founder & CEO, Network Equipment Technologies. Professor MacLean has a unique track record for entrepreneurial success as a founder, CEO, seed investor, and board member. She has been on the Forbes 'Midas Touch' list and listed by Business Week as one of the 50 most influential business women in America. She was also featured by Forbes in a cover article on Angel Investing. MacLean has over three decades of combined experience in the computer and communications industries. She was a founder of Network Equipment Technologies which went public in 1987 and later co-founded and was CEO of Adaptive which merged with NET in 1993. Building on her own entrepreneurial success, MacLean has been instrumental in helping to launch and grow successful companies through her work as a mentor, capitalist and as a professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford University. She is also an affiliate and advisor to a number of leading Venture Funds. Audrey points out it takes a team, a team you can trust and has a strong leaning toward ethics, entrepreneurship and clean tech...listen now.
Related Links: Audrey MacLean || NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Blog || CO Coalition for Gender and IT || NCWIT Practice|| Keywords: Audrey MacLean, Stanford, Network Equipment Technologies, Lucy Sanders, Lee Kennedy, NCWIT - Bytes: 17844248 LISTEN 7/28/08

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549_ Building a Successful Online Business for a Female Entrepreneur
Lucy Sanders and Lee Kennedy, NCWITenclosure-voice Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and Larry turned the table on NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy. Lucy, Larry and Lee (the 3 L's) interview successful female entrepreneurs. Lucy and Larry decided to turn the table on Lee, and put the spotlight on this CEO/Founder of TriCalyx, a consulting business focused on helping people build an online business. She has worked with Brad Feld, and had been the CIO at Webroot Software. Lee has been on a number of other startup teams and moved to Boulder from the Silicon Valley. Like so many others, she quickly saw and experienced the entrepreneurial excitement and supportive cluster. She has an interesting makeup of strengths and interests. Lee is very technically inclined and has a marketing background. Her two partners really carry the ball in in the software development and other techie areas...that's building a well-balanced team. TriCalyx does a great deal in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Lee pointed out that 85% of the world’s online population, purchase online! And that’s up 40% over the past two years. Then for people in the 75K and higher income bracket it’s more like 90+%. She has some great advice for parents of young people that can help in supporting their children’s move into IT. In fact, you might want your children to listen to this interview also.
Related Links: Tricalyx || NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Practice || Find It ||
Keywords: Lee Kennedy, TriCalyx, Lucy Sanders, NCWIT, Search Engine Optimization, Online Business, Entrepreneur > Bytes: 13755771 > LISTEN 9/8/08

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Heidi Roizen, SkinnySongs.com 581_ Networking 2.0 from a Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur
enclosure-voice (Part 2 of 2) "Networking is not an event driven thing. It’s not something you go out and do and then you’re done. It’s sort of a lifelong component of building your career. Frankly so many of the people in my network are my personal friends, I think it’s a lifelong component of building an interesting life", said Heidi Roizen during an interview with Lucy Sanders, CEO and Founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and NCWIT board member, Lee Kennedy along with Larry Nelson. The long-term strength and stability of an organization is dependent on networking. Lucy is always intersted in looking into all the aspects of a topic asked Heidi, "Do you have examples of bad networking or the right way to act?" Heidi replied, "There are a number of trade associations in any industry, and that has always been part of my (I don’t want to call it networking) but building relationships and learning more about your industry. First of all it is a way to give back to the industry and a way to do some constructive things and you build relationships outside of what your immediate needs might be, but ultimately come in very handy for you as well. And I definitely would credit my affiliations with the trade associations within my industry as things that really helped me build out my network. Pitfalls – When you’re going out to meet someone, you have to think, ‘what do I have to offer?’ I think that people have more to offer than they think they do. Every other person you meet out there is a human being and they have interests, children, and hobbies and passions and causes they support. I think you can build relationships with people by looking more deeply at the whole person." There's more great advice...
Related Links: Heidi Roizen Website || SkinnySongs || USA Today || NCWIT Heroes || NCWIT Home || Keywords: Heidi Roizen, Networking, Skinny Songs, Venture Capital, National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT, Lee Kennedy, Lucy Sanders > Channels: NCWIT Bytes: 14773919 > LISTEN 11/3/08

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