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Luck has nothing to do with it- Van Leeuwen’s online adventures
Marianne van Leeuwen: founder of dutch price comparison site Miepkniep
It is a perfect morning in Amsterdam and sitting at a tiny bar table is a woman, Marianne van Leeuwen. Without saying a word, she radiates a playful energy coupled with an air of someone who seems to have it all. [You wonder to yourself at just why some people are so lucky?]
Marianne van Leeuwen has been on an online entrepreneurial adventure for the last 10 years. The founding of MiepKniep in 1998, the first Dutch price comparison website, was only the first chapter. Already though, it was evident from introducing a price comparison website to the Dutch culture in particular, a nation of traders over the centuries, that Marianne has a strength for good ideas. And running with them. Read more
Europe gets online, just for 24 hours, at Europeana
Digitising European History
An online library with thousands of digital files including pictures of paintings, love letters by writers, ancient pieces of music, children’s literature and more have been made accessible at a European library.
The project is an attempt to digitise Europe’s history and show its rich cultural heritage and is available in 23 languages including English, French, German and Spanish.
National libraries have contributed material including digitised copies of rare and valuable books, whereas museums like The Louvre in Paris and The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have submitted digitised paintings and other digitised objects from their collections. Read more
Gadget Magazine Savvy launched
Savvy launches today
A magazine for women ‘who are not afraid of technology‘ launched this week in the Netherlands.
Savvy Magazine, a “Women’s Guide to Gadgets” will publish about mobile phones, digital camera’s, mini notebooks, navigation and other electronic gadgets but spice cover design and fashion too. The magazine is written by women who know what other women want to read about. Personal experiences and opinions by women.
Editor in chief Mireille Rameau explained that the magazine is a result of the desire of women to know about gadgets from a ‘usage’ point of view. She said: Read more
E-Search International Member ‘Partners at Work’ at NYSE Euronext
Women-only executive and head-hunting firm Partners at Work has today opened the trade day at the NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam to celebrate its 5 year anniversary.
Opening by Partners at Work
The firm advises, counsels, selects and places experienced professionals and senior managers in banking, law and human resources. As a member of E-search International ,an international alliance of executive firm agencies, Partners at Work also recruits and places executives internationally. Through E-search it is linked by the internet to associate companies based throughout the UK, Continental Europe, the USA and Asia.
Partners at Work is founded by Marline Stoffer, Read more
Shoes online at the virtual shoe museum
try wearing these
All the shoes you’d ever want to see can be found at the virtual shoe museum. The website, by graphic designer Liza Snook, exhibits almost all the shoes that were ever designed. The site contains hundereds of shoes collected by Liza over the past 20 years. The museum dates back to 2004 when Liza started to exchange ideas with designers, publishers, photographers and other people connected to the shoe business. The result has been a vast collection of beautiful and extravagant shoes. The sites contains pictures of both real and virtual shoes and a vast amount of shoes that woul be virtually impossible to walk in.
So its probably for the better that none of the shoes are for sale…because we would probably try.
Launch bikini website Habinki
Habinki Website
Chloe Holding, one of thenextweb and thenextwomen’s mentees, has defied the credit crunch and launched her website HABINKI. The website offers a range of custom-made bikinis and necklaces.
Chloe set up Habinki from a passion she had for travelling to exotic places and buying clothes, translating these interests into designing bikinis and sourcing manufacturing and ultimately setting up her own e- business in sexy, glamorous and flattering swimwear for women. Read more
London’s Portobello Market goes online
London’s Portobello Market, home to hundreds of vintage, accessories and clothes stalls, has gone online. At pretaportobello.com you can get online access to products from up and coming design talent from all around London.
The site is just like a real market, offering the possibility to haggle with vendors over clothes that have no prize tag. Read more
Offer: Latecrunch tickets
Join us in Berlin
We have 15 ‘women only’ tickets to offer for Latecrunch, the magnificent after-party of the Web 2.0 conference in Berlin!
The party, hosted by Techcrunch UK, is a networking party for startups, VCs and entrepreneurs. The event will be on Thursday 23rd October, the last night of the Expo.
So, if you want to get crunching with the web 2.0 crowd, this is what you do: sign up for thenextwomen at Twitter, Linkedin and our newsletter with in the subject line ‘latecrunch’ and we’ll reserve one for you! Read more
Mesh secures Addidi Angel funding
Kay Vasey
Online Cultural Marketplace Mesh has just secured its first round of funding from a new group of women investors. The wealth management company Addidi launched it’s women-only business angel network this week and Mesh is their first investment. Kay Vasey, Director of Mesh said “the angels have been incredibly helpful, well-organised and understanding”.
Haute Couture online: Belgian Verso
Haute couture is moving to the internet. VERSO, an internationally acclaimed multi-brand store in Antwerp, has launched the Verso Online Store. The site offers a wide range of designer fashion, accessories and fragrances for women. Brands such as Prada, D&G and Fendi can be found. The store delivers products all over Europe. Read more
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