Here's what I'm looking for:
- Entrepreneur or investor in entrepreneurs
- Built a tech company (eg web, ads, iPhone, software, hardware, etc)
- With a big business success or big failure
http://mixergy.com/contact
I have worked for her and I can say that Lucinda is an extraordinary leader with an unusual but effective leadership style. I would be happy to provide an introduction if you like, although it is probably not necessary: Lucinda is also smart enough to take advantage of free publicity! You may, however, have to schedule around an extended trip to Korea (I think that's where she's going) because she recently won an Eisenhower Fellowship to study and do business development abroad.
-- Michael Chermside
That's the kind of entrepreneur I'm trying to interview.
I'm emailing you now.
Seems kind of sad that the most common outcome (middling success, never quite finding product/market fit, running out of cash with an orderly exit) isn't represented. Considering women are already rare in our industry, it's not surprising you are having difficulty here.
After you listen to a few of of my interviews about failed companies, you'll start to find commonalities. (Doing what everybody says is a common mistake, for example.) And, it'll stop you from repeating mistakes others have made.
http://tweepml.org/Women-I-d-like-to-hear-speak-at-a-confere...
(I wish more the people on the list had clearer Twitter bios. Reminds me to clean mine up.)
My friends founded a little wireless access point startup back in 2001. This is back before it was even called Wi-fi, you just tried to sell people on something called "eight-oh-two-eleven-bee". They brought Claudia in to manage. She was our former manager at another startup and was very well-liked. Pretty soon she'd turned it into a dominant hotspot network in the entire province (by some measures, all of Canada), and sold it to an ISP. That business went from my friend's apartment to a signature address in downtown Vancouver in just four years.
She's won just about every business award they give out in that city. She's also an awesome person with a great sense of humor. Proof that you don't have to be evil to get ahead.
Since then she's done a number of things and is now working on flat-panel advertisements. I can introduce you if you like.
Yes. We met back in Feb.
My contact info is in my profile if you want an introduction.
Still too soon for Mixergy.
I like to do interviews after there's a big success or failure. I'm not so much trying to uncover the next big hit and talk to people who had previous hits about how they did it.
http://www.crunchbase.com/person/reshma-sohoni
Also check out The Next Women (it's a female tech startup site), they have a database of female entrepreneurs:
http://thenextwomen.com/female-internet-heroes-female-entrep...
If you need an intro, my email is my user name at gmail.
mendel@cs.stanford.edu
They were both in big tech companies and now are running for major offices that could drastically impact startups. Maybe they would like the exposure and you could talk to them about policies that relate to entrepreneurs.
Maybe PG (or someone here) knows someone who knows someone ...
http://www.megwhitman.com/contact.php http://carlyforca.com/eventrequest/
Might I add there are a lot of single women there as well.
We've been having a hard time scheduling, but she'll be on.
Cynthia Typaldos Founder, Kachingle www.kachingle.com cynthia AT kachingle DOT come
Also - an awesome interview would be Anu Shukla (ex-Offerpal, among other companies)
She was on and she was good.
She's scheduled to come on tomorrow @ 10am Pacific Time, but I'm still waiting for her Skype name so I can do the interview.
- Lisa Rutherford (TwoFish) - Sarah Novotony (Bluegecko) - Rashmi Sinha (Slideshare) - Dana Kanze (Moonit) - Alyssa Royse (JustCauseIt)