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Katarina Skoberne talks about growing a global business
Katarina Skoberne, founder of OPENAD.NET will talk about setting up and growing a global business in the internet industry tomorrow at the Female Internet Heroes Event. Further, she will interview Andrea Cockerton, founder of MUDHUT Consultancy, and prior thereto director of the Great Eastern Investment Forum, one of the leading business angel networks in the UK, on how to getting finance and perfecting your pitch for your internet venture. Katarina Skoberne was interviewed on IntrudersTV:
Entrepreneurs to pitch business for women panel
Four entrepreneurs will pitch their business during the Female Internet Heroes Event in front of a panel, consisting of Penny Gowers, Founder and CEO of Everyclick and Blackberry Woman in Technology Award winner in 2008, Jenny Fielding, UK Advisory Board Member of Astia and Katarina Skoberne of Openad.
- Julia Macmillan, Founder and CEO www.toyboywarehouse.com
- Sue Guerrieri, Founder of SugaPlum Shop
- Anna Colclough, Founder of Tourdust (in beta)
- Alicia Navarro, Founder and CEO of Skimbit
The winning pitch will be rewarded a free consultancy by Andrea Cockerton of MUDHUT, who has already de-risked business critical pitches for almost 300 companies, individuals and teams, such as in connection with the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2006-2008.
Julia MacMillan was interviewed by us some time ago; she received recently angel investment to grow the business.
Alicia Navarro was interviewed by Intruders TV:
Start-up Interview: Remote Employment
Paula and mentor Karen
An amazing 3,4 million people in the UK work from home and many more millions have flexible employment, knows Paula Wynne, co-founder of remote employment. Her website is dedicated to home based, flexible and remote working and is promoting the idea that a modern day approach to working lives has many advantages; an increase in business productivity and competitiveness, reduction of transport congestion and a harmonisation of work and family commitment.
Since founding Remote Employment in January 2008, Paula has already been recognised as a pioneer in her field. She has been awarded for her business efforts to understand and reduce their impact on the environment and society by BT Business and charity Global Action Plan. In addition, she participated in the FreshIdeas Events competition for a mentor and was awarded, as one of ten promising businesses, a mentor in the form of Karen Darby, founder of comparison site simplyswitch. Karen will mentor and guide Paula for the duration of six months to achieve her business goals.
In our start-ups series, we talked to Paula about her company and her mentor.
How did you come up with the idea of Remote Employment?
Online Video Advertising Summit With Christine Peterson of Carat
Early Bird ends tomorrow!
Meet Christine Peterson, Media Director at Carat and find out: “What marketeers should know about Online Video Advertising”. She will deliver this keynote speech at the online video advertising summit in the Netherlands on the 10th of December. Interested? Through TheNextWomen you can get 100 euro discount. Just register here with code *NWNGO* and get the discount (+ early bird discount till November 21)
Christine Peterson has over eight years of experience in the interactive media so she knows a thing or two about online video. She has worked for Consulting and Communications company RappDigital and communications agency OMD Digital. Her success at OMD included her GE team being awarded the MediaWeek 2003 interactive media campaign of the Year. Read more
Dutch magazine Emerce nominates 7 influential e-commerce women
Dutch technology magazine Emerce has nominated 7 women among the 25 most influential Dutch e-commerce professionals. Voting is open to the public to select the ‘most of the most’ influential, who will then head the E-commerce 25. The nominations are:
- Claudia Bruil, founder of children retailer KLEERTJES
- Ines van den Born, founder of international retailer gloves INESGLOVES
- Stephanie Dijkstra, founder of international fashion retailer SIMPLYCOLORS
- Suzanne Ekel, country manager of postcard retailer GREETZ
- Marianne van Leeuwen, founder of marketing to women agency SISTERACT and celebrity fashion retailer WELIKEFASHION and editor of THENEXTWOMEN
- Marianne Wigger, founder of women fashion retailer ZENGGI
- Nikki van Wijk, e-commerce manager of TRANSAVIA
Calypso Rose, entrepreneur with a social conscience, initiates Pocket the Problem project.
A truly inspiring project organized by young entrepreneur Calypso Rose, founder of CLIPPYKIT and by Make your Mark. Yesterday evening saw the opening of the exhibition in London at City Hall. ‘Pocket the Problem‘ is the project that was set up to enable girls to explore the concept of fashion with a social conscience. 650 girls, all aged 14-15, formed teams to come up with a unique design using the Clippykit Bag to raise money and awareness about an issue of importance to them. The winning design was about gun and knife crime.
Calypso Rose
Calypso Rose, only 27 years old, approached the Make your Mark foundation with her idea to tackle the negative image of teenagers and to assist teenagers in an entrepreneurial way with the Pocket the Problem project. Read more
Golden Stilleto Awards 2008
The Golden Stiletto Awards 2008
SHESAYS will announce tonight the lucky creative talents who will receive the Golden Stiletto Awards 2008. Shesays holds events in the UK and the US, where top females in the digital ad agencies share their thoughts and help people to either get started or work their way up. Founder Alessandra Lariu, Director of McCann NYC and Laura Jordan Bambach of Glue London say: “The world is pretty much half men, half women. So why are there hardly any females in the creative department of most digital ad agencies? We decided to stop chatting about it and do something”.
The awards are the only ones which celebrate female creativity with an all female judging panel made up of distinguished leaders in the advertising industry. Lee Wright, Managing Director of Dare heads the jury of 6 women. Read more
women’s enterprise day
19 November: Women
‘Aim high and think big’ is the message organisers of the Women’s Enterprise Day want to give women in business today. The day is part of the Enterprise Week (17-23 November 2008), a worldwide celebration of enterprise, that sees people thinking about and organising events around ways to tackle the economic and social issues.
The UK version of Women’s Enterprise Day and Enterprise Week are co-ordinated by Make Your Mark, the national campaign to unlock the UK’s enterprise potential. The day is about celebrating successful female entrepreneurs, and inspiring more women and girls to turn their ideas into reality. Here are some events that take place in the UK on the day:
For once global positive news: UK’s Enterprise Week now in 77 countries
This week is Enterprise Week (17-23 November 2008) that is going global. If you want to know what is going on in this worldwide celebration of enterprise you may want to visit ENTERPRISE WEEK and UNLEASHINGIDEAS. The organisation has asked Thenextwomen.com to write about it, and we are glad to do so. First a couple of facts and some highlights:
- Enterprise Week (17-23 November) has been a big success in the UK, with over half a million people attending over 5,000 events in 2007.
- This success has inspired an international event in 2008 - with 77 countries taking part - and 11,000 events with 5 million participants.
- Called Global Entrepreneurship Week it aims to create the successful businesses of tomorrow by generating ideas that tackle the challenging economic and social issues that we face today.
enterprise week going global
- Global Entrepreneurship Week is supported by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, sponsored by NYSE Euronext, Ernst & Young and IBM and organised by Make Your Mark (founders of the UK’s Enterprise Week) and the Kauffman Foundation
- Make Your Mark is the campaign to give people the confidence, skills and ambition to be enterprising - to make their ideas happen. It was founded by the four leading UK business membership organisations and endorsed by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
Highlights:
- Monday 17 November will see in the UK a flagship event. Can Entrepreneurs Change The World? Numerous interesting speakers. Only to be viewed online
The 100 hottest private tech companies in Europe
Cary Marsh, Founder/Ceo MyDeo
The Mediatech 100 is a list of Europe’s hottest private media technology companies that are likely to have the biggest impact on the industry in the future. Winners are selected after extensive research by an expert advisory panel of 20 most prominent mediatech investors and experts in Europe. Among which Michelle Holford of international investment company Livingstone Partners LLP, Bindi Karia VC at Microsoft and Marta Skundric of venture capital company DN Capital.
Other Female Internet Heroes among the winners are:
- Outi Henriksson, CFO of online entertainment company Sulake (Finland), which runs virtual world Habbo Hotel
- Cary Marsh, Founder and CEO of video hosting company MyDeo (UK) and
- Founder Katie Lee of new media company Shiny Media (UK).
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