..This post was originally published on the Technovation Challenge Blog and syndicated on the Women 2.0 blog. Think about an app or gadget you love to use. Is it Instagram? Is it Snapchat? Your smart phone? Whatever it is, at some point it did not exist. At some point someone…

Get TEKD! — Find the class or group for you! “Ever want to start programming or understand startups more and just not know where to start?” That was the line I used to pitch TEKD at the AT&T Hackathon for Social Good.

I started this blog to cover my journey in entrepreneurship among other things. As I am taking personal stock in what has gone on in the last year, I came across this essay I wrote for an application. I thought I would share it since it captures the essence of…

Hearing how people got into tech is fascinating to me, especially women. (Check out http://ilearnedtoprogram.com) Not that men’s stories are not interesting. It’s that women’s stories tend to have a lot of variability to them. From the age to the role model to the reasons. Here’s my story. I started…

I somewhat chuckled when I heard this. I thought it was a bit of an exaggeration. Then I remembered a book I read last year called “Click”by Ori Brafman, which was all about codifying why people click when they meet. …

I’m on a plane right now on my way home from Central America. Fortunately the long plane rides afford me a lot of time to be pensive and Startup Weekend is on the dome right now. I’ve been pondering what I wanted to get out of the Women 2.0 Startup…

Often other technical women ask me what was my path from being a coder to a product manager. I’ve recounted the same steps over and over again. I coded for several years. Got a taste of working with clients. Liked the more social aspects of working with non-technical people and…

Two Pivots in 6 Weeks — This year it is no secret that the entrepreneurial bug has come back to bite me and bite harder this time around. I’m still crazy for education and technology. A decade ago I was right out of school and ready to take on the world. The world of hacking that…

Herding Kittens Being a part of the Founder Institute has essentially turned me into a 24/7 thinker, where I’m to the point that I have to have my phone always near me to take a note or record anything that comes to mind on my idea. Basically, I want to…