How To Be a Successful Entrepreneur
Do you know HowTo envision? HowTo build? HowTo scale, build alliances, understand data, grow a team? And above all: HowTo succeed?
The Women 2.0 HotTo conference is jam packed with “high-impact speakers ready to share their stories and successes, panels sharing insight into real-world strategies, and mentorship sessions offering real-time coaching.”
Some of the featured speakers include: Kathy Savitt the Chief Marketing Officer at Yahoo!; Jocelyn Goldfein the former Director of Engineering at Facebook; and Yoky Matsuoka the VP of Nest Labs (Acquired by Google) – to name a few.
The HowTo is two full days of “tech insight and expertise for tech professionals, investors, executives, designers, marketers, engineers, or anyone with an entrepreneurial dream.”
Get pumped for the conference by watching these clips from Jocelyn Goldfein and Yoky Matsuoka – two women who are fearlessly taking the lead – they may just inspire you to attend!
“I never took computer science in high school, I didn’t think about it seriously as a career, but when I got to college I thought, ‘that might be too hard for me, that might be the hardest thing on my list. So, I guess I’ll try it first and see.”
– Jocelyn Goldfein, former Director of Engineering at Facebook
“When I look back, I was rushing to get to where I am or where I thought I was getting to. And when I was 18 I thought ‘when I’m 22 I have to be perfect.’ But now where I am and how long it’s taken and how many chapters I’ve walked through I realize I should not have rushed so much.”
– Yoky Matsuoka, VP of Nest Labs
So if you’re ready to take the leap into the next chapter of your career and expanding your dreams into reality, you still have time to get the Innovation Hall ONLY Ticket:
About the Author
Kaitlin Rattiganis a recent graduate with an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution with a concentration in Gender and Peacebuilding. She is a firm believer in social media as an effective and meaningful tool to promote positive societal change. Never underestimate the power of 140 characters. Kaitlin is a voice for the Millennials, a constructive disruptionist, an advocate for women’s leadership, and is a believer in challenging and expanding the definitions of what it means to be a feminist. For gender-analytical fem-tastic commentary on current events, follow Kaitlin@KaitlinRattigan. Do you have an issue you want highlighted on The Movement Blog? Is there an area within women’s leadership that you feel passionate about and want to share with a wide audience? Feel free to send Kaitlin a DM or Tweet to@KaitlinRattiganwith the hashtag #Women2025 and let’s keep the conversation going and work together to propel women into their equal share of leadership positions by 2025.