Many times I get asked what made me start GoKid. Four years ago, my husband and I decided it was time to leave New York City. We wanted to raise our kids, as millions before us, in a house in the suburbs. We fell in love with an old farmhouse in Connecticut and moved one […]
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We’re excited to announce that we are part of the first group of women-founded businesses to go live on the iFundWomen crowdfunding platform, launched today! iFundWomen is a crowdfunding platform for women-led business and creative ideas. Please visit our project page to learn more and contribute. Every contribution counts and we have beautiful rewards to match: from
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At GoKid our goal goes beyond getting people to use fewer cars and share their time; we also want to promote a healthier planet for our children by having cleaner air and safer roads. To that end, we love when we hear about others with the same goals, whether they are developing technology, or creating
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Monday night GoKid joined nine other women-led start-ups for a night of pitching at Women Who Tech’s Women Startup Challenge. Microsoft hosted at their Times Square location providing an enormous room that was packed with hundreds of people before the pitching began. The companies were extremely diverse and roughly fit into four categories: Women Startup
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Yesterday I attended a six-hour long conference on tech and entrepreneurship that was different from any I had been to before. Instead of the usual 90% male and 10% female ratio, the floor of the 2Xin Tech conference was filled with women. There were too many to count, but it looked like more than 200
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A couple of weeks ago I attended a great MeetUp at NYU Stern. One of the founders of BlaBlaCar, Frédéric Mazzella, was there to talk about building a company with 20 million users and $110M in funding. Despite the success of this company internationally, I am guessing you have never heard of BlaBlaCar, a company based in Paris,
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