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Interview ‘Print girl’ Tina Brown, founder of The Daily Beast
Are you considering starting an online media venture? Have a look at this interview with Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of ‘The Daily Beast’ sharing her experience and expertise on her recently launched online news magazine.
She talks about her being the ‘print girl learning internet’, ‘her kids being a huge support’, ‘the demanding 24/7 news cycle’, about ‘not being late in going online’, and where she differs from The Huffington Post, by bringing ‘a provocative mix of left and right culture, politics and video-mix’.
What has she Beeny up to? launch of completingchains.com
Sarah Beeny
Sarah Beeny, known for her no-nonsense advice to would-be developers in TV show Property Ladder, has recently launched completingchains.com – a new website to keep the property market moving during the credit crunch.
Beeny’s concept works with people on the property market, registering all their property details, in addition to all the information about the property they want to buy or sell. It then matches all these people and creates chains. Registered agents then work with sellers across the chain, to release enough equity to adjust the price, so that it is accessible to first-time buyers and to get everything going. Read more
We TV: Campaign to increase voting in America
WE TV’s empowers women across America to register to vote as deadlines rapidly approach. “Women have the potential for a strong voice in the 2008 election,” stated Kim Martin, President and General Manager WE tv. “Last year, over 35 million women did not vote and we can’t let that happen again. WE Vote ‘08 wants to galvanize women across the country to register to vote en masse and exercise their power.”, according to an CNBC article.
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SHE, Dutch internet TV on business women
Last night saw the launch in the Netherlands of our internet programme SHE.
SHE, sponsored by Bizner Bank, will feature interviews with women entrepreneurs, female internet heroes and discuss marketing to women cases. It is presented by Marianne van Leeuwen and Simone Brummelhuis of thenextwomen.
Blueshots, dubbed the initiator of ‘internet TV for professionals only’, will feature the program. That channel was officially launched yesterday. The Dutch press was present and in the coming days, the resulting tv and radio interviews will be published. Marketingfacts already reported this morning, and so did Dutch Cowboys
Click here for the first programme with Heleen van Oord of DQ&A.
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new TV series: Running (a business) in Heels
running in high heels
The US version of the fashion magazine Marie Claire, announced last week that it has joined forces with Style Network to produce the new tv series: “Running in Heels” which tells all about the inner workings of the magazine. The premiere will be in March 2009. Read more
Book: Once you’re lucky, twice you’re good
Once you’re lucky, twice you’re good, describes the start-up culture in Silicon Valley, according to Sarah Lacy. The writer and tech journalist refers to the scepticism of post-bubble internet entrepreneurs’ towards one-off success.
It is a book that tells of the people who emerged from the 2001 dotcom rubble to found companies that took the Web into the 21st century; people such as Mark Andreessen or Mark Zuckerberg. Stories also about Ning and Six Apart founded by female entrepreneurs.
it’s not all success
Occasionally it is good to remember that with business can come success, but also failure. In fact, as Rachel Elnaugh, former CEO of Red Letter Days, an e- company that specialised in unusual gifts, says: “It’s the norm to struggle.”
She would know. Aged 24, she founded Red Letter Days Ltd, which provided unusual “experience” gifts such as tank driving, the chance to drive a Ferrari, or record production. The company grew to a £18 million turnover at its height. With her success came awards, such as the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001/2002. This resulted in her joining the BBC’s Dragons’ Den, a program in which aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas. Read more
Video: women are the new consumers
Women make up most of the spending power in the world. Moreover, in Italy in 2020, 90-year old women will decide the future of the country, as there will be 1 million of them at that time. Women are ruling the online world. Here is a short video introducing this to a club of surprised men.
Blueshots TV and SHE
In the Netherlands the first online tv network for professionals in the internet, media and communication industry was announced by co-founder Ronnie Overgoor. Programs include ‘View the news’ about the latest news, and GURUS, interviews with gurus by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, founder of thenextweb.org.
In the program called SHE, female entrepreneurs will be interviewed about their ambitions and career. Marianne van Leeuwen, founder of sisteract.eu and Simone Brummelhuis, founder of thenextwomen.com will present the program.
All programs will be available on the web, mobile, youtube and iphone as of October, 2008.
Finance: Pitch your story
Julie Meyer, venture capitalist at AriadneCapital and female Internet hero, has an advice for entrepreneurs who are raising finance. In her column in City A.M., a free financial newspaper in London, backed by Derk Sauer and Boudewijn Poelman, she writes that “to secure investment into your company, you have to do two things”:
- Tell a great story where the entrepreneur is the hero and wins.
- Remove systematically all the reasons why the investors won’t want to invest.
If the entrepreneur pitches right, then the investor understands the risks and the strategy to overcome them and in the end will be seduced!
The above you may keep in mind, when you apply to pitch your story on cmypitch.com. By using video, the website aims - among others- to connect businesses with investors. Through video, businesses can present their ideas and investors can get an instant feel for the people behind an idea or a company. Still in Beta, the company will officially launch in the fall of 2008.
In the meantime, think about your story!
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