event: DINK, YUP, WAHM and now BYOB
After DINK’s, YUP’s and WAHM, now you can also be a BYOB. At the Ladies who Launch Event in San Fransisco this weekend, Victoria Colligan (photo), Co-Founder and President of the women’s entrepreneur website will introduce under this name a line of speakers who have achieved to Being Your Own Boss.
Among the interesting speakers are female internet hero Gina Bianchini, Founder of Ning. Others ‘queens of the web’ making their appearance are Patricia Handschiegel: Founder/CEO of Stylediary , the website where you can browse thousands of photos of what men and women are wearing and buying around the globe. And Heather Stephenson: Co-Founder of Idealbite, the website that offers ideas for light green living. Read more
launch E-factor: Global entrepreneur network.
Last week saw the official opening of the offline space in Amsterdam of yet another entrepreneurial online network, E-factor. The new website which already has 49193 members in 71 countries will follow soon.
The network is co-founded by Marion Freijsen. As founder of OHM, she has played a major role in bringing technical ideas people and sale opportunities and people together. She further wrote the book:”The N-Factor - how Networking can change the dynamics of your business”. Therefor, the founding of an online entrepreneurial network was a logical step.
UK Report pessimist over advancement women in workplace
Women will have to wait another 73 years to equal men as directors of FTSE 100 companies, according to a report by the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission. Thenextwomen disagrees.
The report, published today, speaks of stalled progress in the percentage of women MEPs, top media bosses, directors of leading museums and galleries, chairs of national arts companies and holders of senior ranks in the armed forces. The only increase in women’s representation is seen in the House of Lords, FTSE 100 company directors (but marginally with 0.6 % increase), local authority council leaders and university vice-chancellors. Nicola Brewer, the Chief Executive of the Commission deems radical steps are required. Read more
Glam Media appoints media veteran McCully as Editorial Advisor
Glam.com, the main website of Glam Media, keeps growing. The media network, focused on women, appointed today Martha McCully, a founding editor and director of beauty magazine Allure.
As strategic Fashion and Style Editorial Advisor, she will help Glam shape the way women access content online. She will also be involved in special projects for Glam. She reacted to the appointment: Read more
the end of exclusive networks?
As more and more people from all over the world join in the social networking hype, some networks look towards exclusivity. Examples are ‘internations, an invitation-only international network for expatriates and the committee of 200, which dubs itself an membership organization of the world’s most successful corporate women and female entrepreneurs.
Most known is a small world, a networking site for the world’s elite, co-founded by female entrepreneur Louise Wachtmeister. But as trends go, the Guardian reported this week, the latter may be losing its exclusivity, having grown from 500 in 1994 to 325.000 users at present.
Style.com puts fashion shows on iphone
No time or invitation to attend the New York Fashion Week? As long as you have an iPhone, you can still keep your wardrobe updated on the newest ready-to wear collections.
The online Voque fashion portal Style.com will enable you to watch runway shows of the New York Fashion Week. Just download the shows at iTunes.
dating website for girls interested in toyboys
“The tradition that the man, in a heterosexual relationship, should be older than the woman, should be challenged. There really is no reason why that should still be the case. It’s not about Mrs Robinson any more; women have moved on since then, they are independent, know what they want and certainly aren’t desperate.”
This is the premise of recently launched dating website toyboywarehouse.co.uk. Its founder is 47-year-old Julia Macmillan, a painter and sculptor with an interest in younger men.
deals: Women exits (via M&A, IPO or otherwise)
Recently, TheNextWomen was asked to assist in compiling a list of women who led or founded companies that went through an exit. An exit can be the sale of a company or the company going public (an Initial Public Offering or IPO).
We have a large data base of Female Internet Heroes, women who are either CxOs, investors or founders of internet companies, but now we will also make a list of women exits.
Here’s start:
- The sale of clothing company LK Bennett to Phoenix Equity in 2008. Linda Bennet, who founded the company, made a deal worth 100 million pounds.
- The $125 million dollar acquisition of online women’s magazine Daily Candy by Comcast in 2008. Its founder is Dany Levy, who is also its Chairman, and Editor-in-Chief. Catherine Levene is its COO.
And that is 3: Bebo hires Nicole after Joanna and Kate
After Joanna Shields and Kate Burns, Bebo has now hired a third woman to conquer the European Market. This time it is Nicole Vanderbilt, who has become VP of International Sales.
Educated at Princeton and Insead, Nicole leaves a career as Google executive behind her.
September internet events
September will be a busy month for all those interested in women and internet technology related events. In order to keep track of what is going on in September, here’s a selection of upcoming events:
2-5 September, ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008, IMPACT Challenger Exhibition and Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand.
ITU TELECOM ASIA 2008 is a key networking platform for Asia’s top ICT names to come together and focus on core issues relating to ICT expansion across the region.
