“We need to get off each others’ backs and trust each is busting her hump. And when someone needs a hand, and you have one free, offer her yours. You just never know when you’ll be the one who needs it.” – Tereza Nemessanyi, Founder and CEO of Honestly Now By Jennifer McFadden (Co-Founder, Skillcrush) [...]
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And The First New York Tech Meetup’s Women’s Demo Night Looked Like This…
June 18, 2012 – 9:00 am
Women’s Demo Night in New York was hosted by New York Tech Meetup, Change the Ratio and Bizspark. By Shindy Chen (Contributor, New York Tech Women) At the inaugural New York Tech Meetup Women’s Demo Night, the city’s xx-chromosomed powerhouses and tech scene up-and-comers were certainly in residence at Microsoft’s midtown offices. Demos from eight [...]
Find Yourself In The Wild West? Find Your True North
December 19, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Christina Vuleta (Founder, 40:20) Editor’s note: This is an interview with a startup veteran on starting your career at a startup. Tereza Nemessanyi, CEO and Co-Founder of Honestly Now, has seen both sides of the startup coin. Her career path took her from being employee number one at a new media venture in Eastern [...]
A Different Look At Startups (Vs. Penelope Trunk)
December 12, 2011 – 10:07 am
By Joanne Wilson (Blogger & Angel Investor, Gotham Gal) Penelope Trunk’s post titled “Stop Telling Women to do Startups” made the rounds this weekend. This is not the first time that we have heard from Penelope and I am sure it will not be the last. As I sat down to write my thoughts on [...]
Recommend an Awesome Product or Service Created By a Woman-Led Company for the 2011 Holiday Shopping Guide
November 14, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Tereza Nemessanyi (Co-Founder & CEO, Honestly Now) A few weeks ago I read this post about a woman founder and her cool product, and thought, “Hey! I have to buy this for Xmas for my girls!” Subsequently, Peggy Wallace of Golden Seeds, who sits on my Board, shared with me her insights from the [...]
My Voicemail From Virginia “Ginni” Rometty in 2002
October 26, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Tereza Nemessanyi (Co-Founder & CEO, Honestly Now) One afternoon in 2002, the red light turned on on my office phone — I had a voicemail. That morning, IBM had announced its acquisition of PWC Consulting, which was the largest acquisition in the history of IBM. I’d worked on one part of the PWC Consulting [...]
Founding CEO Tereza Nemessanyi of Honestly Now Secures Funding From Golden Seeds, Canrock Ventures
September 26, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Tereza Nemessanyi (Co-Founder & CEO, Honestly Now) Editor’s note: Last week, TechCrunch announced Honestly Now raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Golden Seeds and Canrock Ventures. Co-Founder and CEO Tereza Nemessanyi authors a guest blog post special to Women 2.0 about the process. As I sit down to write this, I’m nervous. Really [...]
Bringing the Women 2.0 Revolution to SXSW 2012 – Please Vote!
August 16, 2011 – 6:35 am
By Veronika Sonsev (Founder & CEO, InSparq) The tech industry has traditionally been a boys’ club — women have been under represented as developers, founders and c-level executives. However, thanks to traditional and social media, a network of loosely associated groups (Women 2.0, Change the Ratio, RailsBridge, Girls in Tech, Women in Wireless, etc.) and [...]
Parent Entrepreneurs Strike Work Life Balance: Advice From Jennifer Toney and Carol Realini
June 29, 2011 – 8:34 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-In-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Pemo Theodore interviewed Jennifer Toney, co-founder and CEO of WeMakeItSafer. When asked about being a “mompreneur”, “balancing it all” and gender bias, Jennifer said: “There tends to be a fear that moms aren’t going to have the same amount of time as a single person, [...]
Response to VC CONFESSION: “I Have Doubts Once I Think Of Women Founders Having Kids…”
April 24, 2011 – 9:18 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder, Women 2.0) Jessica Jackley (pictured, left) is best known as the co-founder of Kiva.org — Currently, she is starting up ProFounder.com to help you raise money for your business from your community. Jessica has raised funding from over 30 investors for her latest startup. One of her angel investors questions if [...]
