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Wishpot.com hires CMO
A new function of ‘Chief Mom Officer’ has been introduced in the online industry. The first person to take up this position is Jessica Smith, who has been hired by Wishpot, an online social shopping network, to promote the hiring of moms in the industry. After hiring Jessica Smith in her new role as CMO, the company launched Wishpot Baby, which is still in beta.
Smith has made it her mission to get companies to understand and accept the new title of Chief Mom Officer. Read more
Follow us on twitter
2 weeks ago we started to feed our articles to Twitter. And today we have more than 150 people who signed up for it already. If you have not signed up for twitter yet, you can.
Fabulously40.com
New social networking sites that only target a niche market are launching daily. Today we came across a social networking site targeted to women over 40… called Fabulously40.
The website, founded in 2006 by CEO Yana Berlin, provides information, resources and community on family, lifestyle, love, career, beauty and health to “help women unleash their hidden creativity and rediscover their true identities as they enter their fifth decade of life.”
It has a traffic rank of 62,042 at Alexa.com, while 55% of its visitors come from the US and the remaining from native English speaking countries. However, it seems that only the last couple of months the audience consisting of sophisticated, mature women in their 40s and beyond have started to find the website.
Mslexia relaunch
This week, MsLexia, the magazine for women who write, has relaunched its website and its magazine.
Mslexia was launched by founding editor Debbie Taylor in the UK in March 1999 with start-up funding from the National Lottery and Northern Arts. It commissions work by prominent authors as well as talented newcomers. Apparently, literary agents and BBC producers scan the magazine on the lookout for fresh talent.
Black is the new Google? Cuil.com
This week saw the launch of search engine Cuil, pronounced [KOOL]. Founder and President of Cuil is Anna Patterson, who is on of the list of ex-Google employees, who sold her company a couple of years ago to Google and is now having a new business life after Google.
McCain’s Female Internet Heroes
Female Internet Hero Carly Fiorina appeared this weekend on BBC television as adviser to John Mc Cain’s presidential campaign team, commenting on the trip of Barack Obama to Europe.
The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard is joined in the business advisory team of McCain by another female internet hero, Meg Whitman, former CEO of E-bay who’s role it is to keep him up to date in the world of technology. Fortune calls them McCain’s economic gurus.
A video in which Fiorina explains her support:
Deal: Social Media Group acquires Livingston Comm.
Social Media Group, founded by CEO and female internet hero Maggie Fox, has announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase Washington, DC-based Livingston Communications, one of ‘the world’s most highly respected social PR firms’ according its press release.
The deal includes the acquisition of the international Buzz Bin blog and the BlogPotomac conference.
The acquisition is expected to be formally completed by the end of August.
The new firm becomes the world’s largest independent social media marketing and communications firm, with clients such as Ford and Yamaha.
Training for Venture Capital Forum
Springboard Ventures has finalized its first round of the pitching course for women companies, that will eventually led to the ALL THINGS MEDIA Venture Capital Forum 2008. The course was held as a bootcamp.
Among the companies taking part were several major companies, such as The Franklin Report of founder and CEO Elizabeth Franklin, an online and book survey of home renovation and maintenance service providers, based on customer feedback and reviews. Also taking part was Amika Mobile of founder Sue Abu-Hakima and Edgar online of founder Susan Strausberg.
Female Internet Heroes: Julie Meyer
Every week we will be publishing an interview with one of our female internet heroes in order for you to MEET interesting women. READ about their WORK, THINK about how they PLAY the internet industry and see how you MATCH them. Be inspired! This week we talk to Julie Meyer.
“Mass entrepreneurship is the big idea of the 21st century” says Julie Meyer, founder of high-profile network First Tuesday, a meeting place for entrepreneurs and investors, and founder and CEO of investment and advisory firm, Ariadne Capital. Julie would know, as an entrepreneur, advisor and investor in the internet world, she has seen many of the 20th and 21st century technology and digital successes up close.
Her career began in France, with consulting for Hewlett Packard and 3Com, later moving to Boston to work with Motorola on the Power PC project, then UK internet investment house NewMediaInvestors (now Spark Ventures) which funded lastminute.com and WGSN, and now Ariadne Capital which advised Skype before its four billion sale to eBay, as well as Monitise, CarPhoneWarehouse, Zopa and Spinvox.
TheNextWomen talked to Julie about being an entrepreneur abroad, how the internet is impacting the society we live in and what we can expect from online business in the future.
Startup Wigadoo: going Dutch online
Want to organize a weekend get-together with your MBA friends? You may want to think of using the startup Wigadoo. It was co-founded by CMO Uma Rajah, holder of an MBA from Insead, and someone who is familiar with the fun and pitfalls of organizing social gatherings.
She knows that payment is a hassle, especially for the one organizing the weekend. One friend does not have cash, another cancel at the last moment, a third leaves early without paying…..in the end it is always the same person who takes up the bill, the one who organised it all.
So here comes Wigadoo: a simple system that let’s you set up an online payment system to avoid financial trouble.
And in case you want to meet friends, but are short of ideas what to do, Wigadoo has set up an activity directory with adventurous things.
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