By Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell) The community mourns the recent death of 22 year old entrepreneur Ilya Zhitomirskiy. Being a founder of a startup comes with massive pressure. Every story is different. What’s important is that the community stays together and support each other. Below is a personal story with recognition to other [...]
Posts Tagged "Ellie Cachette"
Founder Friday Networking Mixers (December 2 in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, NYC, Barcelona and Madrid)
November 16, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Sepideh Nasiri (Corporate Sponsorships & Events Director, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 is hosting four Founder Friday networking mixers for women entrepreneurs and their friends on Friday, December 2, 2011 in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York City, Barcelona and Madrid. Founder Friday Los Angeles will be co-hosted by Jenny Yee (Director of [...]
ConsumerBell CEO Ellie Cachette on Avoiding the Female Ghetto
November 10, 2011 – 12:46 pm
By Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell) There’s something happening in New York Tech Scene: The female community is finding and establishing itself among the ranks of the techies in the Big Apple. For a lot of reasons New York is not Silicon Valley, where the culture has matured to the point that everyone seems [...]
Single, Working, and Preparing for Pregnancy
October 26, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell) Running a startup is demanding — long hours, last-minute changes to tasks and projects, fast-paced days and zero time to myself. Stress levels can stay at a permanent HIGH setting for months -– even years. Sometime it feels as if I already have a newborn. “Oh, you have [...]
15 Female Founders and CEOs to Watch at the Springboard 2011
October 21, 2011 – 8:01 am
By Amy Millman (Co-Founder & President, Springboard Enterprises) Last week, Mark Suster and Gina Bianchini called attention to some of the most frequently asked questions when it comes to women in tech: “Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?” and “Is there a Female Mark Zuckerburg?” Whenever this happens, we know Women 2.0 will respond with [...]
Ellie Cachette on Building Tables and Creating More Seats
October 19, 2011 – 1:34 pm
By Leslie Bradshaw (Co-Founder & President, JESS3) I first met Ellie Cachette through a mutual friend and fellow entrepreneur, Nick O’Neill, and later came to know her thanks to a long weekend at sea through Summit Series. Her company, ConsumerBell, has been one of the few startups that I’ve been introduced to that has been [...]
(Video) The Evolution of Pitching Onstage as a Startup CEO
August 24, 2011 – 6:30 am
By Ellie Cachette (Founder, ConsumerBell) At the BlogHer conference, I ran into the Director of BlogWorld Expo and told her how much time I’ve taken into pitching. “You’re kidding!” she exclaimed. No. From rewriting logic flow of my pitch, to studying my body language, my phrases, tones, colors I wore… We would film me presenting [...]
How To Keep Your Startup On Track With Project Management
August 16, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Natasha Murashev (Co-Founder & Director of Operations, Holler) Running a startup is like running on a treadmill. You keep running and running and after all the running, you still have to keep running. The treadmill gives you no mercy. It doesn’t slow down when you’re tired or thirsty, it just keeps going and going [...]
Angel Investor Esther Dyson on Women Entrepreneurs and Health-Focused Startups
June 30, 2011 – 6:05 am
Women 2.0 asks Esther Dyson, angel investor in companies like Flickr and 23andMe, about opportunities for entrepreneurs and the women entrepreneurs in her portfolio. Esther Dyson: The opportunities for women are basically the same as opportunities in general. They are not currently in video sharing or yet another social network (ie. “if we get 10 [...]
How Following Your Gut Leads to a Product
May 10, 2011 – 7:35 am
By Ellie Cachette (Founder, ConsumerBell) Back in October of 2009, I had the idea of creating a site that collected people’s complaints. Not in the back-end kind of way but in a crowdsourcing way where people could vote if they had the same issue, which I then could contact the company to work out some [...]
