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Inspire & Mentor with Marie Claire: Mentoring Competition for Young Women
The NextWomen Mentoring Programme is not the only mentoring programme launched recently.
Trish Halpin, editor MarieClaire UK
We applaud Marie Claire UK, and in particular its editor Trish Halpin, to have launched a mentoring competition for young women recently, together with the Prince’s Trust. The program is called Inspire & Mentor with Marie Claire, and is aiming to help young women achieve new heights in the worlds of business, fashion and beauty, media and science. They will be able to get 4 hours of mentoring over the course of 6 months.
Some of the mentors are:
Marcia Kilgore, 41, founder of Bliss spa, and creator of Soap & Glory and FitFlops
Sarah Walter, 45, director of fashion communication at River Island
Kelly Hoppen, 50, interior designer
NextMentor – Michelle Dewberry
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- Founder of Michelle Dewberry Ltd and Chiconomise.com
- Columnist for Business Matters
- Winner of The Apprentice
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- Starting a business
- Business planning
- Leadership and management
- Marketing
- Sales and business development
- International business development
- Monetisation
- Motivation, confidence building and personal development
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After leaving school in Hull aged 16 with no qualifications, Michelle Dewberry started her career with a modern apprenticeship in business. Alongside this, she studied IT in her spare time and quickly moved up the corporate ladder. Aged just 22, Michelle was head-hunted by a major Internet Service Provider to manage one of their biggest international projects. Following the successful delivery of this project, Dewberry established herself as a self employed consultant, managing multi-million pound projects spanning across Europe and Asia. She was just 23 years old.
Aged 24, Michelle seized the opportunity to apply for the second series of BBC’s The Apprentice and beat over 15,000 people to become the first female and youngest winner of the show.
After a year working closely alongside the ‘notoriously belligerent’ Sir Alan Sugar, her entrepreneurial instincts were awakened and she left to establish her own successful ventures: Michelle Dewberry Limited (MDL), a consultancy that helps transform and troubleshoot companies and Chiconomise.com, the money saving site for women, launched in the height of the recession. With MDL, Michelle has worked with some of the UK’s largest firms including The Royal Mail, The Chamber of Commerce and The Mayor’s Office. Many companies are now queuing up to benefit from her consultancy skills thanks to a stream of glowing testimonials. The Financial Times recently told the story of an adventure holiday company that had reported their best day’s trading in five years following Dewberry’s intervention.
Dewberry has a passion for inspiring others and runs countless workshops aimed at helping people define and achieve their goals. Her autobiography, ‘Anything is Possible’ charts her rise from a council estate in Hull through to the business success she enjoys today. She also runs workshops for organisations wishing to motivate their staff and has delivered countless seminars for high profile businesses.
Since overcoming adversity in her childhood, Dewberry feels strongly that “life is for living” and has a desire to continually challenge herself both physically and mentally. A twice London Marathon runner, competitor in the ‘Microsoft Challenge’ corporate adventure race and recently crowned the winner of a global recession shopping challenge, Dewberry thrives on pushing herself to the limit and enjoying herself while doing so.
Dewberry has strong opinions on current business and economic matters and consequently is frequently asked to comment on matters in a variety of national media outlets. She fears for young people in the current economic climate and feels passionate about helping to avoid a potential ‘lost generation’.
As a recent judge on Bebo Big Think Campaign, Dewberry helped mentor the 3 lucky young finalists chosen to present their ideas to the Cabinet Office, prior to their presentations. This was the first time that any such project has taken place at Number 10 Downing Street. Since the presentations Dewberry has been asked by Tessa Jowell to take a more permanent role in moving these three projects forward, and has also been asked to chair a business podcast in January in collaboration with the Cabinet Office.
In her personal campaign to assist members of society that are swiftly being dubbed ‘the lost generation,’ Dewberry has designed, developed and delivered a programme entitled “Self Employment = Self Empowerment”, for the government scheme ‘Make Your Mark’. This programme was aimed at 14-15 year old school pupils as an alternative careers advice session focusing on looking at self employment as a viable career option and worked on barriers, confidence, risk and practicalities. This was a pilot scheme that Dewberry personally delivered to eight schools across the UK. Early indications have shown that the campaign has proven to be a huge success, and hopes are that the government will be encouraged to roll this out nationwide.
To add to the list of ventures and programmes Dewberry is currently working on, she is now the new resident columnist for the biggest monthly business magazine, Business Matters, where fellow columnists include Duncan Bannatyne.
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The NextWomen Invite Female Entrepreneurs to Dine with Michelle Dewberry and Chiconomise
Continuing with their ever popular series of Kitchen Dinners, The NextWomen are excited to announce their newest feast – Dine with Chiconmise on Wednesday March 24th, 2010 in London. Join Michelle Dewberry in The NextWomen’s very own kitchen for an intimate dinner and learn more about the ‘act of living stylishly for less’ from the founding Chiconomist herself. Enjoy peer-to-peer networking with successful online female entrepreneurs, a three course meal, speed mentoring and a fascinating keynote.
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For more details visit our kitchen dinner and upcoming events pages and watch the video from our hugely successful Big Kitchen Dinner and photos.
MICHELLE DEWBERRY
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Head Hunted by a Major Internet Service Provider
After leaving school in Hull aged 16 with no qualifications, Michelle Dewberry started her career with a modern apprenticeship in business. Alongside this, she studied IT in her spare time and quickly moved up the corporate ladder. Aged just 22, Michelle was head-hunted by a major Internet Service Provider to manage one of their biggest international projects. Following the successful delivery of this project, Dewberry established herself as a self employed consultant, managing multi-million pound projects spanning across Europe and Asia. She was just 23 years old.
Winner of The Apprentice
Aged 24, Michelle seized the opportunity to apply for the second series of BBC’s The Apprentice and beat over 15,000 people to become the first female and youngest winner of the show.
Founder of Michelle Dewberry ltd and Chiconomise Read more
Business Dating for Entrepreneurs: FounderDating.com
It’s a conundrum that many people face when starting a business – how to meet the right partner. For those lucky entrepreneurs amongst us, this has never been an issue. You had a friend or a business associate who shared the same passion or business idea as you and your venture was born. For some of us, however, beyond the great idea is the need and desire to have that partner who shares the joint vision.
The solution:
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Co-Founders, Jessica Alter and Saar Gur, recognised the hole for this new niche in the dating industry:
‘Like so many good ideas, FounderDating was born out of a cup of coffee (or maybe it was diet coke) and personal frustration. We have met countless uber talented people who want to become entrepreneurs, but haven’t yet found the right co-founder(s)/team or idea to work on. We started FounderDating to help introduce smart, dedicated and inspired people, start making matches and lower the hurdles to company creation.’
Identifying a person who brings with them a killer combination – say, coding skills or other the traits that would make a strong co-founder – is challenging, especially for people without established connections from say, previous work in business development at Bebo or business school. So in partnering with venture capitalist Saar Gur last year, Jessica co-founded an event series that works to bring people passionate about starting their own endeavours together with other entrepreneurs displaying complimentary skill sets.
The process is very simple, with three basic rules:
- Be Committed
- Don’t Meet and Tell
- Be Prompt
Currently running in San Fransisco and Seattle, they are soon to go global, starting with Israel.
Female Internet Hero Angel Gambino joins Social Network Sonico
Female Internet Hero Angel Gambino joins Sonico – the social network of Latin America that organises people’s lives online – as its new Vice President, Business Development at Sonico headquarters located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Founded in July 2007 by Rodrigo Teijeiro, currently Sonico’s CEO, Sonico is the social network of Latin America that organises people’s life online and has been widely adopted across Latin America. Indeed the social communication platform has over 42 million registered users.
Located in Buenos Aires, and with a team of over 80 people, Sonico was elected by BusinessWeek as the 5th tech startup with the highest global growth potential. Sonico closed its first round of capitalisation of USD 4.3 million in May 2008.
Previous Events
Read about successful events run previously by The NextWomen
Workshops
January 27th 2010: The NextWomen 2010 Strategy Event - Workshop + Keynotes and Panel
- Photos from the event
- Female Entrepreneurs Learn Top Business Strategies for 2010
- Keynote Details
- Keynote Speakers and Panel
- Detailed Blue Ocean Strategy Session Plan
- Agenda
Funding and Pitching Events
October 7th 2009: Darwinian Business – Survival of the Fittest (Entrepreneur)
- AudioBoo and Fits.me Crowned Winning Pitch-preneurs
- Biographies of the women and men involved
- Agenda
- Pitch-preneurs 1
- Pitch-preneurs 2
- Pitch-preneurs 3
- Pitch-preneurs 4
- Pitch-preneurs 5
25th February 2009: Funding and Pitching for Starting and Growing Businesses – All You Wanted to know, but were too Afraid to ask
- Agenda and biographies
- The NextWomen Stay Optimistic in Difficult Funding Times
3rd December 2008: Female Internet Heroes Event
- Agenda and biographies
- If you have been Successful Send the Elevator back down
Kitchen Table Dinners
Kitchen Dinner Number 1: Dine with Accel (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 2: May 6th Dine with Google, (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 3: June 30th Dine with Yelp (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 4: July 27th Summer Kitchen Dinner (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 5: November 18th Dine with theOutNet – The BIG Kitchen Dinner (Sold out)
Kitchen Dinner Number 6: December 16th Dine with Facebook – The End of Year Dinner (Sold Out)
Mixed Networking (London)
Tuesday June 2nd 2009: Secrets Revealed: Female Technology Entrepreneurs – Stories of Success from Women in Tech
Held at the Hospital Club on Endell Street, we partnered with First Tuesday for an informal networking event at Paul Allen’s private club – The Hospital – where some of the UK’s most successful female technology entrepreneurs reveal their secrets. Speakers included:
- Cary Marsh, Founder and CEO of MyDeo
- Katarina Skoberne, Founder of Openad.net
- Angel Gambino, Social Entrepreneur, ex Bebo
Read about their experiences in the world of tech.
Industry heroes: – To Start a Business You Need a Comfort Level with Failure
flickr: Esther Dyson
Last night saw our mixed event with First Tuesday at the Hospital Club in Soho, where 125 technology entrepreneurs and investors were joined by our very first female internet hero Esther Dyson. Internet visionary and investor, she has been involved in varying capacities with the likes of Flickr and Delicious, and successfully sold EDventure Holdings – a global interactive content company – to CNET in 2004.
In an informal evening of mixed networking, 125 industry professionals rose to The NextWomen challenge of Speed Matching. Presented with a job swap ticket at the door; founders, leaders and investors noted what they could offer and what they were looking for. In a quick fire one minute matching session at the end of the evening, ten requests were picked at random and read out. Any person that could help on the matter stood up and a potential business connection was made. With time very much of the essence throughout the evening the remaining job swaps will be placed on Simone’s List.
First of the speakers to take centre stage was Cary Marsh, CEO and founder of video hosting site, mydeo. Born from the desire to share videos of her first son with family in Holland, and set up from home during maternity leave, Cary described how her first dti grant funding made it infinitely easier to get others on board – the first hurdle is always the biggest. With the site growing, they noted that Microsoft had no video hosting partnership in Europe. Knowing mydeo was the site for the job, she made endless calls until finding the right person to speak to and was promptly signed up. Microsoft onboard, and the site has become unstoppable, enjoying second round funding from Best Buy and a third from Best Buy Capital, before branching out into video streaming for businesses. Read more
The 10 Men a UK Female Internet Entrepreneur Should Know when Starting and Growing a Business
‘Its not what you know, but who you know’ (Paul Arden). This is true for entrepreneurs growing their business and forming their teams and advisory boards. Alicia Navarro, CEO of Skimlinks recently told The NextWomen about the great value a diverse board has given to her company. At best, women should surround themselves with male and female mentors. And those men, who are they, where are they, what can they do for you?
Therefore: Who are these men you should know when starting and growing a business?
Mike Butcher of TechCrunch: For Feedback + Publicity
If media coverage is what you need then Mike Butcher is the man to know. He is the omnipresent European Editor of TechCrunch and his CV is impressive.
Having worked as Editor for UK trade title New Media Age weekly European Tech title The Industry Standard, online marketing and media site Netimperative.com and TechCrunch UK and Ireland, he has also managed to fit in freelance journalism for numerous national press titles including: The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. You would think this was enough work for any man over the last 20 years and yet to date he still has roles as: ‘Technofile’ columnist for The Irish Times; Director of content with MexicoReporter.com, not to mention numerous television appearances for the likes of BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg or events at which he speaks or chairs.
Mike Butcher truly is journalist extraordinaire and with the awards to prove it – ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade by GfK NOP in 2004 and number 47 of the Top 100 people to know in London’s creative scene by The Independent in 2008.
Before he considers your start-up worth writing about, he will give you honest, and we mean really honest feedback on your business plan.
Bill Morrow of Angels Den: For Review Bizz. Plan and Seed Capital
So you have the media coverage and now you need the seed investment, but just how do you go about it? Bill Morrows’ previous jobs have included accountant for Telecommunications giant Virgin and CEO of Morgan Chase. Frustrated by the inability to find good investment deals, he has since spent the last few years researching, co-founding and chairing Angels Den – the online platform that brings investors and entrepreneurs together in one single, stress free environment. Refreshingly he is also only one man of a team of four other women.
Since the site launched in July 2007, Bill has reportedly attracted 1000 Angels to the Den. Designed to give entrepreneurs the exposure they need, the site is aimed at achieving under £500k of investment for businesses almost from the comfort of their own homes. Whilst the site does not provide financial advice, for a small fee it showcases start-ups’ business plans, logically placed for potential investors to search and find them. Angels Den is like the first ‘angelic’ step to funding. It allows entrepreneurs to make their plans visible and for investors to instantly understand its nature. Once both parties are interested then the meetings can begin.
In May of this year, the site championed SpeedFunding – an evening session in which entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of investors in under 3 minutes.
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Saul Klein of Index Ventures: For Contacts and VC funding
If it is Venture Capital you require then Saul Klein is the man to know. Joining Index Ventures as a partner in 2007, Saul has spent the last 15 years under various guises, including entrepreneur, seed investor and operator. Saul is one of those men who has experienced the start-up world from every angle and in direct correlation now currently sits on the board of some great internet success stories – Glasses Direct, MyHeritage, LoveFilm and Songkick. Indeed he is co-founder and ex-CEO of LoveFilm and part of the executive team at Skype.
Adamant there are still a lot of European entrepreneurs out there yet to be cultivated both financially and creatively, Saul recently set up Seedcamp – an initiative that pioneers week long events across the globe, aimed at awarding seed funding and invaluable business connections for start-ups. With places for 20 companies, there is the possibility for up to five of them to receive low-level funding in return for a small percentage of the company and three months spent nurturing the teams.
As with the other men we have profiled here, Saul’s endless work for entrepreneurs does not end here. He is also a founding partner of The Accelerator Group and OpenCoffee Club that was started in London to promote informal face-to-face meeting and networking. In line with his Midas touch, there are now over 110 meetings across the globe.
Brent Hoberman of Lastminute and EFC: For Advice and Money
If you want to know how to scale a business, then you should get to know serial entrepreneur, Brent Hoberman whose best known for being the co-brain child of lastminute.com. When the company was floated on the stock exchange in 2000, funds were so great that they have managed to purchase a further 14 businesses over the years. The company was sold to Sabre in 2005, but Hoberman still holds the position of chairman and chief strategic officer. In 2007 Brent went on to found the hugely successful mydeco, the one stop online shop for interior design and products.
With the money he had amassed over his years, he has acted as angel investor in various start-ups including moveme.com, viagogo, t5m, imagini.net, academia and lifestyle and travel social network WAYN for which he also acts as non-executive Chairman.
Of course such great entrepreneurial success does not come without recognition. Over the years he has been included in: Time Magazines Top 25 European digital leaders, Revolutions Internet Person of the Year and the Institute of Travel Tourism (ITT) Travel Business Person of the Year. There seems to be no bounds to this mans success.
His latest venture seems the accelerate the need to get to know him: With Michael Birch, who sold social networking website Bebo, he is setting up European Founders Capital (EFC). EFC wants to fill the gap between business angels, who typically invest £50,000 to £100,000, and venture capitalists who put several million pounds into firms that have matured beyond their initial concept. Planning is to have about £70 million made available by successful entrepreneurs to starting entrepreneurs.
Barry Vitou, ‘Boot’ Lawyer: For Legal Advice for Tech Startups
To tackle your legal issues, you are best to contact with Barry Vitou of Winston & Strawn, and more imporantly, organizer of Bootlaw, a free boot camp for emerging technology, internet and digital businesses and for the professionals working in them who want to learn more about the legal issues they face.
Monthly at their London office they are hosting an evening for the members of Bootlaw where they cover business questions and their legal ramifications from a pragmatic and practical standpoint. The evenings are informative and fun and are intended to put something useful back into the emerging technology and digital ecosystem. Bootlaw’s objective is to enable its members to make informed decisions about legal issues without unnecessarily racking up legal bills. And for individual questions, Barry is the perfect problem solver and provides proactive, timely, pragmatic, and commercial high-quality legal advice to clients. He advises clients in a variety of industry sectors, including financial services, Internet and Web 2.0, media technology, clean technology, traditional industrial, and manufacturing businesses.
Stewart Townsend of Sun Microsystems: For Software+ Hardware Freebies
In order to benefit from all the tech freebies, such as hosting, office space, meeting rooms what can you do but contact immediately the man in the jungle shirts: Stewart Townsend, Manager of Startups and Emerging Markets EMEA for Sun Microsystems. They are specialists in Business and market development; technology adoption, strategy and roll-out; Alliance and Channel development and they have the best contacts to get your startup in all kinds of tech events.
Having worked for the industry giant since 2000, Stewart has spent the last eight years driving revenue, growth and market adoption across EMEA; implementing infrastructure and business software and hardware for corporate accounts, whilst strengthening Web 2.0 and red-shift markets.
Stewart is a consistent driver for this multinational vendor of computers and their components, software and IT services with particular success launching the Web 2.0 start-up customer program.
Alex Hoye of Latitude Group: For Strategic Advice
If you want Harvard MBA quality strategic advice combined with an entrepreneurial mindset, then you should connect with Alex Hoye. Currently, the CEO of Latitude Group, one of Europe’s largest independent digital marketing agencies, he is your best bet for SEO, social media strategies and affiliate marketing.
However, Alex brings far more to the table: He co-founded GoIndustry plc from 0 to a 100 million dollars listed company and 15-country market leader and he has acted as angel investor and mentor in various technology and internet-based projects. The companies are: Skimbit, MyBuilder, RentMineOnline, and GoMix. He also acts as an advisor to private equity firm Vitruvian Partners, a €1B private equity fund focused on technology, media and telecommunications, a member of Cambridge Angels and on the advisory board of Seedcamp.
Whilst obtaining his BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford, USA and an MBA from Harvard, with enough time left to start a wine club at both, he gained further basics at McKinsey & Co. and Disney, acquiring analytical, restructuring, finance, and M&A skills. He has worked out of the UK, Germany, US, and Latin America, becoming your truly global mentor.
Ashley Ward, Headhunter, Serial CEO and Leadership Trainer: For Leadership Skills Training
If you want cutting edge training to strenghten your leadership skills as (future) CEO of a venture capital and private equity backed business and want to sharpen the range of skills required to meet shareholder expectation, you should contact Ashley Ward, programme head of the European Leadership Programme (ELP) and Partner in Nexec Partners, the executive search practice specialising in meeting the exacting recruitment needs of innovative, high growth companies.As a serial CEO for 26 years Ashley led several businesses to sale or IPO Orchestream which became a FTSE 250 company with a capitalisation of almost £1b. Ashley is passionate about ensuring that search candidates are properly qualified for the role, have a cultural fit and personal chemistry with board colleagues. Using interpersonal skills and industry knowledge he gains a greater understanding of client needs and is able to communicate this clearly and positively to candidates. In addition to his role as a head hunter and leader of ELP he sits on the board of various VC backed businesses.
Nigel Miller, UK lawyer for technology and online: For IT Contracts Advice
In order to avoid the legal pittfalls in negotiating your term sheets and your partnership agreements, you may want to know Nigel Miller, a partner with UK law firm Fox Williams specialising in Commerce & Technology law. One of the firm’s founding partners he also leads the Technology law group. With particular interest in commercial contracts and regulation, IT, intellectual property, data protection and e-commerce his strengths are negotiation and compliance with UK and EU business regulation.
Outside of the law firm he writes and speaks about business law matters and is a fellow and past chairman of the Society for Computers & Law and past president of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations.
Nigel is featured in “Legal 500 – Who’s Who in the Law” and is highly respected as a no-nonsense expert on regulatory matters.
Mike Sigal, CEO Guidewire: For Contacts in Silicon Valley
If you are thinking of taking your startup to the US, and in particular Silicon Valley, then you better call, twitter and mail Mike Sigal, CEO and Co-founder of Guidewire Group. GuideWire organizes numerous events showcasing and identifying Europe’s top startups who are ready to expand to Silicon Valley and beyond, such as Innovate!Europe a three-part program of relationship building with partners, investors, service providers and media.
Mike has a 20-year record of building innovative technology-based businesses for existing and emerging global companies. Previously, he ran a strategic advisory and interim management consulting firm, with an impressive aray of clients. He has lived and worked in Europe, providing marketing and business development services to technology companies as they developed their trans-Atlantic strategies. As director of DASAR, producer of the annual European Technology Roundtable Exposition (ETRE) conferences, Mike built communities which fostered relationships among technology industry executives and investors.
An entrepreneur at heart, Mike has founded a number of technology ventures, including FM Waves and WiFinder. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
A diverse advisory team, according to many reports, provides the most innovative value (McKinsey reports etc.). We hope this list is useful for the men to connect with. Let us know the Men in Tech, that are an indispensable male adviser, investor, connector, trainer, coach for your business.
The 13 Most Important Conclusions on Twitter
All the UK top Twitterati came together this week to talk about Twitter and The future of real time news, a day before it was announced by The Guardian that Twitter has overtaken sites as Linkedin, Digg and Bebo in popularity. Journalists, bloggers, social media advocates and publisher shared and discussed the effects and impact of twitter and other social media tools on mainstream media during Media140. 
On stage were the following women: Suw Charman-Anderson (suw.org.uk), social media consultant specialising in the use of blogs wikis, and other Web 2.0 tools in business, but better known as the driving force behind Ada Lovelace Day (findingada.com), an international day of blogging, drawing attention to women excelling in technology. And also, Web Development Editor (Business) for The Times, Joanna Geary, Laura Oliver, Senior Reporter, Journalism.co.uk and Joanne Jacobs, Social Media Consultant.
The 13 most important conclusions on Twitter are gladly aggregated by The NextWomen via the hashtag #media140:
- Twitter is like a curve graph. It starts with cynicism and ends in addiction.
- The use of Twitter can be: a. Alternative RSS, b. Live blogging tool, c. News monitor, d. Socialising public policy events.
- Twitter will go from “what are you doing now?” to “what are you seeing with your own eyes?”
- The 4 stages of Twitter users are curiosity, anxiety, engagement and addiction.
- Twitter can be a technological partner and changes how a journalist broadcasts work.
- Twitter causes ideas that people like, find their own momentum and spread without active promotion.
- Because of Twitter, readers have become news editors.
- Twitter is used by publishers as an “endless stream of stories” similar to a PA wire.
- Important complementary tools for Twitter are Qik, Ustream + mob phones + how hashtags enable stream.
- Once you get asymmetrical on Twitter (on ratio of followers to following), you risk broadcasting instead of conversing,
- Twitter means that freelancers working alone in the field aren’t alone any more.
- Twittering can bring about democratic change.
- Twitter can make local news international.
Secrets Revealed: Female Technology Entrepreneurs – Stories of Success from Women in Tech
Angel Gambino (see photo), Social Entrepreneur, ex Bebo and adviser to Sellaband, Cary Marsh, Founder and CEO of Mydeo and Katarina Skoberne, Founder of Openad.net will all be speaking and revealing their stories of success at a joint and mixed networking event of The NextWomen and First Tuesday at June 2, 2009.
Recent government statistics indicate that more women than ever before are setting up their own online companies, be it a marketplace, a service provider or an agency; changing the face of business and challenging the traditional male tech stereotype. At this joint event on June 2, 2009, you will hear women who have succeeded; the parts played by the various members of their teams – male and female alike – and the steps and risks they have taken to achieve their success.
And more: we are aiming for a mixed and informal networking event, which is not always so usual in the Tech world, please book your place quickly: we aim for 65 men + 65 women!
When: Tuesday June 2, 2009, 6.30 pm
How much: £19.00 per person become part of The NextWomen (London) and book your ticket here
The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London
Angel Gambino
London based Angel Gambino is an entrepreneur and investor who has a wide range of experience working with innovative businesses that are developing and initiating high quality digital entertainment and those that aim to create social good. Read more
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