These women not only took an opportunity and made it happen, but they navigated successfully the hyper-growth phase that brings a whole new set of challenges to early stage companies. By Deborah Jackson (Founder & CEO, Plum Alley) At JumpThru, we have a bookshelf full of business books that cover topics such as entrepreneurship, game [...]
Posts Tagged "Gilt Groupe"
Female Founders To Watch: Women With Solid Technical Chops – And Own It
August 10, 2012 – 8:48 am
For a thorough list of technical women founding companies (CTOs, CEOs, VPs of engineering and more), check out this list. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Of the five finalists for Entrepreneur Magazine’s ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR award, there is a female founder – Limor Fried. The MIT-educated electrical engineer (pictured) started electronics [...]
Dear Marissa: Think Different. (Pink Is The New Purple)
July 30, 2012 – 11:00 am
By narrowing its focus to women, Yahoo can beat the pants off its competitors. By Dave McClure (Founder & Partner, 500 Startups) I’d like to write a different open letter to Marissa Mayer that plays to both her strengths, as well as those of Yahoo. It’s a bit off the wall, but if you think [...]
NYC Fashion Hack Day 2012 (Fashion Needs Hacks)
June 22, 2012 – 6:00 am
“It’s essential for the industry to attract people with deep technology skills and keep them so that it can benefit from the hacker attitude of developing an idea, making it quickly, and iterating on it – and not just build sites that simply display fashion and never evolve.” By Sindy Sagastume (Founder, The Odd Slipper) [...]
Fashion And Feminism – Sitting In A Tree…
May 16, 2012 – 6:00 am
Empowering women in business, startups mixing fashion and feminism are celebrating a renaissance. By Tara Hunt (Co-Founder & CEO, Buyosphere) Many of those not in the know think of fashion as a trap for women. Uncomfortable shoes. Impossible body images. Shallow spendy status symbols. Magazine layouts of size zero 6 foot tall women juxtaposed with [...]
The Huffington Post: Women Entrepreneurs On The Rise
February 22, 2012 – 3:47 pm
By Jack D. Hidary (Co-Founder, Dice) What do Gilt, Foodspotting and TaskRabbit all have in common? They were all co-founded by women. This is an encouraging sign in a field that has too few female entrepreneurs. A recent article in San Francisco Magazine highlights a new crop of women-led startups in the Bay Area. These [...]
Why Don’t More Women Go Big With Their Business?
February 19, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Jazmin Hupp (Director of Awesome, Tekserve) With few female entrepreneurs to look to, MIT Sloan hosted a panel on how women can go big with their own businesses. The panel included Joanna Rees (Founder of VSP Capital), Katrina Markoff (Founder of Vosges Haut-Chocolat), Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (Founder of Gilt Groupe), and was moderated by [...]
NYC Startups: 400 Companies From Central Park To Broadway
November 21, 2011 – 2:34 pm
By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0) What do Tumblr and Gilt Groupe have in common? How about Kickstarter and Foursquare? They are a few of 400 tech startups, many of which have been funded in New York City in the last two years. 31 health care companies, 37 finance startups, and 145 shopping and [...]
Acquired by Gilt Group, The Story of Flash-Sale Local Deals Site Bergine From Day 1
November 15, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Patricia Calfee (Founder, Roses & Rye) Seven months after launch, Internet retail pioneer Gilt Groupe bought our flash-sale local deals business, Bergine. When I first had the idea to create a luxury daily deals site more than one advisor urged us to go mainstream. “Be more like Groupon,” they pushed. Instead, I followed my [...]
Partner event: Bloomberg Empowered Entrepreneur (October 18 in New York)
July 28, 2011 – 2:12 am
On October 18, 2011 in New York, Bloomberg Empowered Entrepreneur looks at the next generation of innovative businesses, how they are driving growth, and considering their exit options. The program brings together innovative entrepreneurs, investment bankers, angel & venture capital investors for discussions about starting, financing and growing a business. Women 2.0 members save 50% [...]
