By Connie Guglielmo (Writer, Forbes) Didn’t have time to read Facebook’s 150-page prospectus? Katie Mitic, director of platform and mobile marketing, summed up Facebook’s mission, product philosophy and where the company thinks it stands in the market in a 30-minute presentation about lessons learned by the social-networking giant. Mitic, who joined Facebook in 2010, was [...]
Posts Tagged "Forbes"
Friday Roundup: Women Entrepreneurs Make News This Week
January 27, 2012 – 9:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Vivek Wadhwa on Inc.com featured and pictured Shaherose Charania in a story titled “The Face of Success: Women And Venture Capital”. Meanwhile, Women 2.0 PITCH Conference speaker Danielle Fong (pictured, right) is touted in Forbes magazine as a “24-year old wunderkind” and venture capitalist Vinod [...]
Millennial Women Are Burning Out At Work By 30… And It’s Great For Business And Entrepreneurship
January 13, 2012 – 10:00 am
By Meghan Casserly (Writer, Forbes) A recent Kauffman poll shows that Gen-Y may be poised to be the most entrepreneurial bunch the world has seen. “54% of the nation’s Millennials either want to start a business or already have started one,” says Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. Paired with data on [...]
Female Founders To Watch In Forbes “Impact 30″
December 16, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) Forbes has created their Impact 30, a list of social entrepreneurs, defined by Forbes as “people who use business to solve social issues.” They have chosen their 30 entrepreneurs, nine of whom are women, with a panel of diverse experts. These are the people using business and non-profits [...]
Forbes Contributing Writer Attributes Attractiveness, Children and Housekeeping to “Why Women Do Not Become CEOs”
November 2, 2011 – 7:30 am
By Gene Marks (Contributer, Forbes) I run a small technology firm. We do business with a lot of larger technology companies. I meet plenty of women in senior positions. But it’s rare that I come across a female CEO. Why is that? Look, I’m not surprised. I’m a guy. I know why. Reason 1: One [...]
Women-Founded Businesses That Make Technology Simple
November 1, 2011 – 1:00 pm
By Cheryl Isaac (Contributor, Forbes) Some have addressed the “lack of women in tech startups,” or mentioned that women should stop blaming men for the lack of women startups. Recently, I read a post from three-time-start-upper Penelope Trunk, founder of Brazeen Careerist, about why she stepped down from her startup. Interestingly enough, Penelope also thinks that women don’t [...]
Crowdsourcing Conversation on the Startup Funding Gap
October 28, 2011 – 4:30 am
By J. Maureen Henderson (Contributor, Forbes) Australian entrepreneur Pemo Theodore spent five years in London trying to drum up venture capital funding for her digital matchmaking start-up. She came away empty-handed, but with a desire to explore the well-documented gender gap in funding for female-led startups. Theodore interviewed dozens of venture capitalists, female founders and tech industry experts [...]
Female Founders of Snapette Not Your Typical Geek Entrepreneurs
October 14, 2011 – 9:18 pm
By Tomio Geron (Writer, Forbes) The founders of Snapette are not your prototypical start-up entrepreneurs. At least in the minds of some Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The two founders, Jinhee Anh Kim and Sarah Paiji, are not prototypical young, male engineers from Silicon Valley. They’re women with business backgrounds from the East Coast and other [...]
New Retail Startup Aims to Disrupt Fashion Industry
October 10, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Raquel Laneri (Writer, Forbes) After months of late-night brainstorming sessions, cold-calling designers and raising $100,000 in seed capital from friends and family, Cerulo and Mazur launched Of A Kind, a retail site devoted solely to limited-edition items by emerging designers. Of a Kind operates at the break-neck speed of an online sample sale, with [...]
Seed Funding: The Debt Versus Equity Debate Continues
September 28, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Tina Baker (Contributing Writer, Forbes) Early stage funding for startups is getting complicated. In the past several years, many companies have raised initial seed funding through convertible loans instead of selling shares. In this type of funding, the loan, together with interest, automatically converts into the shares a company sells in its next funding [...]
