From the category archives:
Recently I got a chance to talk to Megan Casey, co-founder of squidoo.com.
My favorite part of the conversation is when Megan talked about difference between having an idea and a vision. An Idea is something that strikes you in the night and you go “ooh!! that can be a lot of fun”. A vision [...]
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Recently Women2.0 team – Shaherose, Emily and I got a chance to talk to Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch.
It’s really interesting when Caterina talks about how restraints breed creativity. There is a big advantage when you are starting out and nobody knows you and nobody cares about you. There is such a [...]
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Recently I met with Veronica Belmont, co-host of Revision3’s tech-centric show, Tekzilla, and Qore on the PlayStation Network.
During our conversation, Veronica talks about being super passionate for whatever you are doing. If you are not, it’s definitely gonna show. If you don’t have knowledge to back up whatever you are talking about, there is no [...]
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Recently I met with Shellye Archambeau, CEO of MetricStream when Shellye shared how her experiences at companies like IBM, BlockBuster led her to where she is today.
One very fascinating story of our conversation is when Shellye was a summer intern after high school. When she told her supervisor that she wants to go to college [...]
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Recently Women 2.0 collaborator Jazmin Hupp and I met with Wendy Lea. Wendy has worked as a bootstrap entrepreneur, corporate executive, and angel investor over the last 25 years. She recently joined GetSatisfaction.com as CEO. She shares her advice about when to admit that you don’t understand, raising capital, and how female leaders can [...]
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Recently I met with Clara Shih, author of The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff (Prentice Hall) and Director of Social Networking Alliances & Product Strategy at salesforce.com. She shares her personal experiences with Women 2.0 about the importance of mentors and role models, [...]
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Recently I met with Sandy Jen, co-founder of Meebo, an Ajax-based in-browser instant messaging program which supports multiple IM services. She talks about how and why she chose to be where she is today, and shares her experiences as an entrepreneur.
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Sramana Mitra on mentors and entrepreneurship (MP3)
Author of Entrepreneur Journeys, Sramana Mitra is an entrepreneur, a strategy consultant and a Forbes columnist. She blogs at www.sramanamitra.com.
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