Mauria Finley learned the value of recruiting moms from stints as an executive at eBay and PayPal. Now she’s putting that insight to use at her new startup Citrus Lane – and it’s paying off big time. By Mauria Finley (CEO & founder, Citrus Lane) In recent weeks, two news stories from prominent business leaders [...]
Posts Tagged "Ebay"
Make An iOS App In 48 Hours At iOSDevCamp 2012 (July 20-22)
July 5, 2012 – 9:00 am
eBay’s women in tech group is sponsoring tickets to women who enjoy coding or designing iOS apps. By Jennifer Holmes (Organizer, iOSDevCamp 2012) “Women in Tech” could mean a variety of different women, from the serious coder to the UI designer to the CEO. Although occasionally women are in short supply in the engineering department, [...]
Words Of Wisdom From Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard CEO
April 19, 2012 – 7:00 am
Check out the inspiring video series with Meg Whitman on Makers! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the way that Hillary Clinton‘s popularity rating has increased with time (and the one-week Internet meme sensation Texts from Hillary), perhaps Meg Whitman‘s star is still rising. Best known as eBay’s veteran CEO – she [...]
5 Tips For Emerging Women Leaders (And A Bonus!)
April 17, 2012 – 7:00 am
Don’t formally ask people to be your mentors. Adopt mentors informally and don’t tell them. By Sophia Perl (Product Manager, eBay) It’s been awhile since I’ve been out and about in the Valley. Last Saturday, I attended Santa Clara University’s Women in Business Conference at eBay’s north campus, aka PayPal. I’m a bit of hard [...]
Why Your Next Board Member Should Be A Woman
February 20, 2012 – 11:19 am
By Aileen Lee (Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) Good questions have been asked lately of tech companies without gender diversity on their boards of directors. While women comprise 51% of the population, they make up only 15.7% of Fortune 500 boards of directors, less than 10% of California tech company boards, and 9.1% of [...]
Startups Pass On Silicon Valley To Find Their Fortunes In New York
February 6, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Ryan Kim (Writer, GigaOm) Though Silicon Valley has lured away plenty of startups, (cough: Facebook), New York is becoming a magnet of its own, attracting companies that want to build their businesses amid the bright lights of the big city. In the last couple months, New York has drawn former San Francisco startup Qwiki, [...]
Who Are The Top 10 Women in U.S. Technology?
November 6, 2011 – 7:30 am
By David Zielenziger (Contributer, International Business Times) Nobody would ask who the top 10 men are in U.S. technology because their ranks fill the executive suites at Intel, Apple, Texas Instruments, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Motorola Mobility….and on and on. Finding the women is harder because there are fewer, especially at the CEO level, where they can really [...]
Create Social Impact With Your Business (SaveUp, World of Good)
November 1, 2011 – 7:30 am
By Priya Haji (Co-Founder & CEO, SaveUp) Editor’s note: Priya Haji is co-hosting Founder Friday San Francisco on November 4, 2011. RSVP for Founder Friday here. My entrepreneurial imagination gets inspired by seeing how I can help people through an innovative use of business or technology. My dad and my grandmother are my role models. [...]
