High-flying entrepreneurs Clara Shih, Gina Bianchini, Priya Haji and Rebecca Woodcock recognized as Silicon Valley Movers & Shakers. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the Silicon Valley, venture capital firms and high-tech management teams are often a sea of men. So it’s nice when the women movers & shakers are not filtered [...]
Posts Tagged "Gina Bianchini"
When a Billionaire Launches a Grassroots Revolution
March 17, 2013 – 7:00 am
Maureen Dowd bitingly referred to her the “PowerPoint Pied Piper in Prada ankle boots. Then the anti-Sandberg pendulum swung in the opposite direction, with the likes of Mohamed El-Erian, PIMCO CEO, calling the book recommended reading for CEOs. By Leah Eichler (Founder, Femme-O-Nomics) No good deed goes unpunished is a lesson that Sheryl Sandberg has [...]
Choose Investors Thoughtfully: The Levo League Founders
March 15, 2012 – 1:00 pm
Video interview with Levo League founders Caroline Ghosn and Amanda Pouchot. By Pemo Theodore (Founder, Ezebis) Founded in 2011, Levo League’s mission is to help young professional women to thrive in the workplace without compromising their identities as women. Caroline Ghosn is co-founder and CEO who spent over three years at McKinsey, where Caroline met [...]
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 [...]
Strong Female Entrepreneurs To Follow On Twitter
January 6, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Natalie MacNeil (Co-Founder, YEC Women) The following answers are provided by YEC Women. Co-Founded by Natalie MacNeil and Scott Gerber, YEC Women is an initiative of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit organization comprised of the country’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to youth unemployment and [...]
Gina Bianchini Launches Mightybell with $2.1M in Funding
September 9, 2011 – 1:01 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Mightybell launched today from Ning cofounder and former CEO Gina Bianchini. This is her second startup. She raised a $2.1 million in seed funding last year from Floodgate and First Round Capital. ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick notes Mightybell offers “a clean Content Management System, an iPhone app and [...]
