A growing high tech startup industry trend has little to do with tech, and a lot to do with togetherness. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) There was a time in Silicon Valley when VCs did not like the idea of funding couples. Nonetheless, Cisco and 3Com – two legendary Valley startups [...]
Posts Tagged "Victoria Ransom"
Who Said Women Entrepreneurs Don’t Raise Venture Capital?
January 14, 2013 – 6:00 am
Victoria Ransom has crossed all those supposedly insurmountable obstacles: starting up, bootstrapping to validation, raising venture capital to scale, building a solid revenue stream, and finally, achieving a successful exit. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) A blog post that I wrote on the subject in October 2010 still garners readership and [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Google Acquisitions
September 28, 2012 – 8:00 am
Celebrating Google’s birthday – and the female founders acquired by Google over the last 14 years. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Google announced partnering with Women 2.0 with the launch of the new Google for Entrepreneurs program. We celebrated Google’s 14th birthday and reflected on the 118 mergers and acquisitions [...]
Is It Time To Rethink The Stigma For Tech Companies Led By Couples?
August 6, 2012 – 7:00 am
Two other recent acquisitions by companies led by couples: Kush sold to Smule, and Yell bought Moonfruit. By Liz Gannes (Writer, AllThingsD) Romantically involved tech company co-founders are having a good year. In the past four months of big-ticket tech exits, Wildfire, co-founded and led by the engaged couple Victoria Ransom (CEO) and Alain Chuard [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Enterprise Social Marketing Companies
August 3, 2012 – 6:00 am
Social media marketing serving the masses means high-growth startups – creating lots of value and jobs. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) PITCH 2010 Startup Competition finalist Amita Paul pitched Objective Marketer onstage at the November conference. A few months later, Objective Marketer was acquired by Emailvision! This year, we’ve seen big exits [...]
Founding CEO Victoria Ransom And Wildfire Interactive Team Join Google In $250M Acquisition
July 31, 2012 – 11:52 am
Google beefs up their social efforts with acquisition of social marketing startup Wildfire Interactive today. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Google declared on its blog today that they will be “sparking better conversation with Wildfire”, announcing the acquisition of social marketing startup Wildfire Interactive today. Wildfire was co-founded by Victoria Ransom and [...]
Female Founders To Watch: TechFellow Award Winners
February 25, 2012 – 12:12 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) TechFellow Awards is an annual startup investment program to honor those innovating in high-tech entrepreneurship. Supporters of the TechFellow Awards include the Founders Fund, TechCrunch, and NEA. There are four categories – general management, disruptive innovation, product design & marketing, and engineering leadership. Each category is awarded [...]
Partner event: Socialize Conference (Monetizing Social Media)
October 10, 2011 – 3:00 am
Next week’s Socialize: Monetizing Social Media -– West will bring together business leaders for two days of comprehensive sessions, focused discussions, and diverse perspectives on gaming, mobile, marketing, and media. The four-track conference in San Francisco on October 20-21, 2011 will give social media enthusiasts a comprehensive look at how to effectively use social media [...]
How to be a Tech Entrepreneur Without Knowing How to Program
August 8, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Laura Forrest (Marketing Manager, Mozilla) Don’t have a computer science degree? Don’t worry. Don’t let that stop you from founding your own start-up. There are many examples of successful non-technical co-founders who didn’t let the lack of knowing a programming language stop them from creating something great. In this case study, we look at [...]
Female Founders to Watch in the Facebook Ecosystem
May 6, 2011 – 9:13 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder, Women 2.0) Who doesn’t have a love and hate relationship with Facebook? Love it because it can be a source of business and new job creation by female founders! Here are 5 female founders of tech startups making money off Facebook: Annie Chang (Co-Founder & Head of Products, LOLapps) “Don’t be [...]
