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Zoover and Layar named Leading Online Entrepreneurs of the Year

Stephan Bosman of travel portal Zoover was named as the Leading Online Entrepreneur of the Year in The Netherlands in the first LOEY Awards. Claire Boonstra of Layar and her team received the Starters Award at the LOEY Awards. Zoover has become one of the largest recommendation & review travel sites in Europe, receiving one million [...]

Interview Nathalie Gaveau of Priceminister.com: What’s Next after a Successful Exit?

This week we interview French entrepreneur, Nathalie Gaveau in our 100 Interesting Roles a Woman Can Take in Tech. Currently, she is starting her second venture in e-commerce after a successful exit of Priceminister.com, which she co-founded in 2000 in a tiny kitchen in Paris and sold in June 2010 to Rakuten. Nathalie talks about starting [...]

Apply now to Business Pitch Competition for Female Tech Entrepreneurs

Female Internet Hero and angel investor, Esther Dyson, will participate in a new Busines Pitch Competition organized by Vator.tv and Girls in Tech for women with great ideas who want to ignite their companies’ visibility and growth. Fifteen women chosen by their peers and vetted by blue-chip VC judges will have the opportunity to present onstage [...]

The BlogHer10 Conference in New York – It’s All About the Communities

Diane Hayman is the Editor and co-founder of PowderRoomGraffiti.com an online women’s community that brings honest, irreverent insights to a global audience. She writes this article as a guest editor for The NextWomen. Attending a BlogHer conference is all about the chance to meet and talk face to face with some of the most interesting [...]

Why Business Plans are Not as Important as you Think

This a an article by Paul Grant, founder of The Funding Game and NextMentor in the Mentoring Programme. I remember my first business plan too well. It was such an unforgettable document for two reasons. First, it took nine painful months to write. And second, I found out that no-one ever read it. Despite that, I managed [...]

Top 50 High-Flying Female Executives in Mobile Content

Tim Green of Mobile Entertainment Magazine has again compiled a list of the top 50 high-flying female executives in mobile content, and he has kindly permitted us to publish the full article, with all the credits for him and his magazine. Its an impressive list of female business heroes who have started companies as pioneers, [...]

Seedcamp Week 2010 sees Increasingly Savvy and Female Entrepreneurs

Seedcamp Week 2010 will take place on September 13-17 in London, and the participating teams will come from all over Europe. According to Seedcamp, among the applications this year the following trend was found: technology + fashion, SaaS, further geographic diversification, more female entrepreneurs, and increasingly savvy entrepreneurs. Seedcamp was started [...]

Interview with a Multi-Tasking Female Investor, Entrepreneur and Mentor

As a business hero in her own right, she founded two companies and sold one, she invested in four other companies, she is non-executive director in various companies, such as Six to Start and First Flight (Placements); she has been managing director of the company that acquired her venture, and she had an interim COO [...]

Saska Graville from Red Magazine Advises Female Business Owners on a Successful PR Pitch

For the 10th Kitchen Dinner, The NextWomen received Saska Graville, deputy editor of Red Magazine as the special guest of The NextWomen Summer Kitchen Dinner. The 25 women who were gathered for this intimate and relaxed networking include many business founders and directors. Indeed, 76.5% of them own or lead a company. As the attendees arrived [...]

Fashion Pioneer Natalie Massanet Takes you on a Tour of Net-a-Porter’s Offices

Last month, Natalie Massanet opened up Net-a-Porter’s 44,000 square foot headquarters in West London to the founder of online magazine Business of Fashion in its series of Fashion Pioneers and a video was made. Very inspiring.