Media, Tech & Health
The international network that seeks to promote and empower women in tech and entrepreneurship, Girls in Tech, has just announced that it will be launching in London in June.
Founded in 2007 in San Francisco by Adriana Gascoigne, the network counts numerous chapters around the globe – in China, France, Greece, Singapore, Taiwan, the US and more – and over 8,500 members worldwide.
Girls in Tech UK seeks to empower women in technology by simply providing them with more visibility through hosting mini tech conferences and meet-ups where a majority of the speakers – unlike other tech conferences – are women.
Sponsored by Google and Criteo, and with The NextWomen as media partner, the London launch of Girls in Tech will take place on June 1st at Google Campus with speakers from companies and organisations including :
Geeta Sidhu-Robb is a multi-award
winning entrepreneur and founder of Nosh Detox, a company offering bespoke
health packages and unique, natural health solutions to achieve optimal
well-being.
Nosh Detox has been valued at £3 million with a £700,000 turnover in just its fourth year. The business grew 100% in 2009, 200% in 2010 and over 300% in 2011.
Geeta's many accolades include: Exceptional Working Mother of the Year at the Everywoman Annual Conference (2008); Best Diet Delivery Zest Magazine (2009); Vogue Magazine's ‘Best Detox’; Business Woman of The Year at the World Sikh Awards (2011); and Best Detox in London; Evening Standard Magazine (2011).
We love to celebrate female heroes, so we are delighted to report that Yell, a leading provider of digital services, yesterday announced its acquisition of Moonfruit, the UK’s leading DIY
website and online shop builder, founded by Wendy Tan-White. The total cash consideration for the acquisition
is approximately £18 million ($29m).
Moonfruit’s website Moonfruit.com was launched in the UK in 2000 with a mission to make the web easily accessible for local businesses and consumers. When a customer builds a Moonfruit site, with a click of a button they can add a commerce option, a mobile presence and build a Facebook store, all from the same platform.
She Means Business is a documentary about women entrepreneurs. This is from their campaign on Kickstarter:
Women Entrepreneurs are trailblazers. We create businesses… and the jobs, salaries, economic growth, and futures that follow have a powerful but little-known impact. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we are amazed at how rarely the media tells the incredible stories of women braving new frontiers, succeeding (and sometimes failing), and building legacies. We want to bring some of these astounding journeys to the screen.
SHE MEANS BUSINESS is a documentary about women entrepreneurs. We will show authentic, human stories of brave businesswomen to the world so everyone can see just what these wonder women do despite the challenges they face.
Our film has already had its own incredible journey with phenomenal women and men reaching out to help. We launched our Twitter @shemeansbusines on May 1st and have over 11,000 followers already!! Entrepreneurs, film enthusiasts, and supporters of women entrepreneurs are joining daily.
Kathy Douglass is CEO of The Greensheet, a Texas-based publication connecting local buyers and sellers, with nearly a million readers - the largest free weekly circulation in the state.
The Greensheet was
founded in 1970 by Kathy Douglass’s mother Helen Gordon, a tough entrepreneur
who faced incredible resistance from the male-dominated Texas business network.
Ms. Gordon showed great resolve in getting the company off the ground and
turned The Greensheet into a classified publication powerhouse By the time she
retired, Ms. Gordon had grown the company to one of the most successful in the
state.
Kathy picked up
where her mother left off in 1994, continuing the strong performance of The
Greensheet. In 2005, the company successfully entered the offset printing business
at a time when the move was very difficult to make. That same year, Ms. Douglass
managed to secure The New York Times as a client. The Greensheet has printed
the Houston edition of the Times as well as several other major publications
ever since.
Eve Mayer Orsburn, also known as the LinkedIn Queen and CEO of Social
Media Delivered, explains how your business can have an effective and efficient
social media strategy.
On why your business needs a comprehensive social media strategy:
- Social media is efficient, effective, and a less costly way to achieve certain goals.
- Can create opportunities in recruiting, research, funding and partnerships.
The UK Minister for Civic Society,
Nick Hurd, last week presented a cheque for £20,000 to Emma Mulqueeny of Young
Rewired State. The funds were raised through crowdfunding website peoplefund.it.
Young Rewired State, asked the public to back them so they could hold a Summer ‘Festival of Code’ where kids would be taught to code and get help and support from leading edge mentors and coders.
The project enjoyed support from Stephen Fry and Martha Lane Fox who tweeted for people to back the bid. It was also featured in Techcrunch, The Observer and Guardian.
The near-zero-employee $1 billion company is here according to industry
analysis.
A new breed of super-efficient technology companies is already emerging, capitalizing on near-free distribution channels that enable entrepreneurs to find significant markets for their innovations with minimal capital investment and virtually no headcount.
These new conditions translate into minimal risk, unparalleled upside and potentially accelerated revenue generation for entrepreneurs.
Olga Kubassova is Founder & CEO of Image Analysis and Winner of the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ category at the 2012 Cisco everywoman in
technology awards.
Founded in 2007, Image Analyis allows clinicians a vital window of opportunity to treat arthritis and other inflammatory diseases in its early stages by turning the abstract concept of algorithms into innovative software.
For those of us who spend most of our
modern lives in front of a computer following trends, it has become very clear
that social media has created a tremendous opportunity for brands to engage
directly with customers.
Depending on the budget, brands are now able to follow their customer base to the extent of understanding what motivates, interests and engages an individual.
When limiting budget is a concern, how do you increase the size of your audience, where do you focus and more importantly, how do you engage? This article focuses on the engagement side of the equation.
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