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Vincent Wright, Roney Smith, Svetlana Gladkova and 4 other people liked this
"Beyond the Spark: Entrepreneurship Redefined" (Conference sponsored by Women 2.0 & Stanford Women in Business) Sat 5/10/08 9 am - 4 pm Picasa Album (237 photos): http://tinyurl.com/3ntw7a, Facebook Albums - Parts 1-5 http://tinyurl.com/6cno7x http://tinyurl.com/5j943x http://tinyurl.com/5p9elu http://tinyurl.com/3jpe83 http://tinyurl.com/4ud6b8 - (A) Women 2.0 conference website http://women2.org/conference (B) Official Women 2.0 Wrap-up http://women2.org/beyond-the-s... (C) Angelsoft Blog http://blog.angelsoft.net/2008... (C) TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/... (D) Guidewire Blog Prayer Flags photos http://guidewiregroup.wordpres... (E) ABC Local http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/sto... (F) entrepreMusings http://entrepremusings.com/ind... (G) entrepreMusings II http://tinyurl.com/5npyhy - Mitchell Tsai
An 18-yr-old high school girl, Kristen Heath, presented about a company, Passive Devices, she started while 14 yrs old! Kristen sells Snoop Tunes, devices which allow 15-22-yr-olds and 18-30-yr-olds to share music with nearby friends on iPods & other devices using FM (rather than sharing earbuds or illegally copying music). Describing her experience at starting a company at age 14, she shared "I wasn't thinking I would actually have to be there & go through all the steps." :-) - Mitchell Tsai
Amra Tareen (allvoices - helping 3rd world voices get heard, Geolocating), Erica Estrada (d.light, sub-$25 lights), Leila Chirayath (Market for Change - supporting outsourcing to Kenya & other developing countries) presented about the challenges of international business - Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan. NOTE: Leila shared that biggest challenge for Kenyan programmers is NOT infrastructure, but lack of marketing ability to US/Europe. - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #1: WebVet - "WebMD for pets" http://webvet.com, Hope Schultz, William Zaccheo, Target: Most pet owners don't trust internet info for pets, and are very picky about vets. Q: How sticky will the site be? Are they spending too much on content? - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #2: Koollage - 1-step pod-maker for social "mini" blogging and "micro"media. http://koollage.com. Mythili Sankaran. Target: Right now blogs look terrible on iPhones. No easy 1-step method to make pods. - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #3: Gaiagy - 1-stop-shop for finding the best eco-efficiency products. http://HomeEnergySaver.com. Margot Eiran. Kanika Singal. Rucker Alex. Target: It's a pain-in-neck to find & evaluate eco-efficient stuff for the home (even for experts)! Existing government sites can NOT recommend actual products. - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #4: Skill Shop - Help IT shops put the right people on the right projects. Idea stage. Solution: Use a taxonomy rather than a keyword match on "C#, HTML, Javascript, CSS" - Mitchell Tsai
Business Plan Competition - Finalist #5: Passive Devices (mentioned above). Sold 2,000 units. $20 each. Have order for 50,000 units. Redesigning units based on feedback from 1st 2,000. Two Markets: 18-30-yr-olds want better earphone quality, and share less. 15-22-yr-olds share more. - Mitchell Tsai
Google.org's (Hybrid Philanthropic-Profit arm of Google) Rachel Paynes discussed their 3 areas of interest (1) Climate Change (2) Global Public Health (3) Global Development. One project, Planet Read, teaches people in India to read by showing the words to popular Bollywood songs. "Same-Language Subtitling" In 1 year, 200 million people have been learning to read. Watching 1 day/wk, they estimate it will take 3 years to learn to read. - Mitchell Tsai
UPDATE (Photos): Added one photo at end (of me & Amra Tureen, shot by Shirley Lin). http://friendfeed.com/e/b31ac4... Two other photo albums by Shirley Lin (203 photos) http://www.flickr.com/photos/s... and Angie Chang (39 photos) http://www.flickr.com/photos/t... - Mitchell Tsai