Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) interviews female founders about success stories, inspirations and motivations as women entrepreneurs. By Kelly Hoey (Co-Founder & Managing Director, WIM) Meet Lori Cheek – architect turned entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Cheek’d, the reverse engineered dating site coined by the New York Times as “the next generation of online dating.” Women [...]
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Meet Lori Cheek, The CEO And Founder Of Reverse Engineered Dating Site Cheek’d
January 18, 2013 – 6:00 am
Meet Ellen Dudley: Hacking The Way People Meet New People
December 25, 2012 – 6:00 am
Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) interviews female founders about success stories, inspirations and motivations as women entrepreneurs. By Kelly Hoey (Co-Founder & Managing Director, WIM) Here’s a woman entrepreneur to watch: Ellen Dudley, co-founder of PeopleHunt.me. The self-proclaimed “hackergirl” invents technology to hack the way people meet new people.
2013: The Year Of The Female Entrepreneur?
December 13, 2012 – 6:00 am
It is no surprise then that four of the major global consumer tech businesses – Facebook, Groupon, Zynga and Twitter – have more female customers than male. However, each suffers from a lack of female representation at board level, and this is true throughout the business world. By Wendy Tan White (Founder & CEO, Moonfruit) [...]
MiniMonos Founder And CEO Melissa Clark-Reynolds Answers Three Questions About Entrepreneurship
November 28, 2012 – 7:00 am
Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) interviews female founders about success stories, inspirations and motivations as women entrepreneurs. By Kelly Hoey (Co-Founder & Managing Director, WIM) Melissa Clark-Reynolds is the Alpha Monkey and CEO of MiniMonos, an ethical children’s brand based on a virtual world. The company is moving into touch applications and toys in 2013. MiniMonos [...]
Third Wave Fashion Founder Liza Kindred Answers 3 Questions About Starting Up And Fashion Tech Startups
November 27, 2012 – 11:35 am
Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) interviews female founders about success stories, inspirations and motivations as women entrepreneurs. By Kelly Hoey (Co-Founder & Managing Director, WIM) Meet Liza Kindred, Founder of Third Wave Fashion. Liza is a serial entrepreneur who has been fully submerged in both the fashion and the tech worlds. Third Wave Fashion is a [...]
Focus100: Black Women Entrepreneurs Share Startup Tips And Resources
October 15, 2012 – 8:00 am
The women discussed the cultural pressures and myths that hold black women in business back. By Sian Morson (Founder & CEO, Kollective Mobile) The first Focus100 conference and symposium, created by Kathryn Finney, convened with the goal of ensuring that 100 tech companies founded by black women receive funding by the year 2015. Day one [...]
Interview With Corie Hardee, Little Borrowed Dress CEO
September 9, 2012 – 11:38 am
Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) interviews female founders about success stories, inspirations and motivations as women entrepreneurs. By Kelly Hoey (Co-Founder & Managing Director, WIM) Corie Hardee is the Founder and CEO of Little Borrowed Dress, the first online dress rental company to focus exclusively on bridal, offering bridesmaids dresses for rent at a quarter of [...]
This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Kelly Hoey
June 29, 2012 – 9:45 am
Women 2.0 profiles women (from angel investors to venture capitalists) who invest in women. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The numbers are bleak – 11% of investment partners at venture capital firms are women and 15% of angel investors are women. And according to this handy infographic on investing in women, women [...]
Pipeline Fellows Increasing Financing For Women-Led Businesses
March 3, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Geri Stengel (Founder, Ventureneer) Your startup may be doomed to failure if you under-capitalize it from the get-go, but friends and family can only do so much and venture capitalists are looking for businesses that are more established with huge growth potential. Bridging that financing gap has been especially difficult for women-led businesses and [...]
U.S. Department Of Labor Launches Equal Pay App Contest (Deadline To Apply: April 17, 2012)
February 7, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Kelly Hoey (Co-Founder & Managing Director, Women Innovate Mobile) Just off a call with Brian Forde, Advisor to the United States CTO on Mobile and Data Innovation. It was a “how do we get the word out to developers” call – obviously not a tough conversation when Women 2.0 is involved. This app challenge [...]
