September 2009
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NewPowerGirls.com Now NPGDaily!
This morning an exciting change happened with our transmedia project, The New Power Girls! What started (and continues) as a popular series on the Huffington Post grew and evolved to become a standalone companion site, which has grown and evolved once again! Starting today, TheNewPowerGirls.com is now NPGDaily, a blog that covers women startups and existing companies, traditional companies using...
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Vote For A Power Girl! Help Woman-Owned Happy Baby...
When American Express came our way to talk about its “Shine a Light” program with NBC, we were instantly interested. The program, which aimed to help bring much-needed exposure to small businesses, invited companies to participate for the chance to win $100,000 in grant and marketing support — enormous whether you’re a startup or have been around for years. Founders shared...
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New Power Girls love Skincare
I am constantly searching for the right skincare regimen — something that is simple to use (i.e. not 20 steps!), that works for when I am LA (where the desert sun. overly chlorinated water and dryness take it’s toll) and in NYC, and when I travel (long haul flights in airplane air and touching down in a different climate altogether).
This summer I had the pleasure of being able to...
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NPG On Huff Post This Week: 20 Women Founders To...
From this week’s New Power Girls series on The Huffington Post, here’s what Meghan and Patricia have to say about the next group of ten of the NPG 20 Women Founders To Watch:
Patricia
The goal of creating a list of women companies to follow was inspired by how other media regularly covers companies like Google, Facebook, etc. Right now, there isn’t a lot of media covering women startups...
WHAT MAKES AN ENTREPRENEUR?
Very interesting story in Business Week about a woman entrepreneur Sue Drakeford. check it out.
—Meghan
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NPG 20: DivineCaroline
Real Girls Media founder Kate Everett Thorp’s legacy in business is lined with impressive roles at top companies and doesn’t stop there. She’s held high level roles with top companies including AKQA and McCann Erickson, and the agency that she founded, Lot21, was acquired by media giant Carat Interactive. She also co-founded the prestigious Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), has...
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Designer Tory Burch To Lend Women Entrepreneurs A...
Designer Tory Burch doesn’t just outfit hundreds of thousands of American business women with chic and stylish clothes that help them look and feel their best. Now, the female fashion founder is lending a hand to empower women entrepreneurs too. In a guest post for Fortune Magazine this past week, she unveiled the new Tory Burch Foundation, which is dedicated to “help mothers provide...
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Tribe's iPhone App Nabs Fast Company, Top Spot On...
Nothing inspires me more than an entrepreneur who has the hustle on and knows how to adapt. It doesn’t matter if its a man or woman — I’m equally moved by anyone who is doing things in new ways and taking the market on. This past week, Tribe’s new “Start Your Own Company” iPhone application for entrepreneurs made Fast Company’s web coverage. Since the apps...
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NPG 20: The Budget Fashionista
In 2004-2005, a small group of women founders with digital media companies formed a sort of unofficial alliance to stick together in business. Today, that group has grown to include more than 200 women, and still includes the four original founders it had back then (including NPG’s Patricia). One of the most dynamic in the group also happens to have the largest and most successful fashion...
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NPG 20: Blurb
When we set out to identify the 20 women founders and companies we wanted to regularly track here we reached out to readers and email subscribers to share who they felt were women to watch. No other company was mentioned as much as Eileen Gittins of Blurb.com. Gittins nabbed major tech industry cred from working in high level positions at Kodak, Wall data, and several other companies as well as...
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NPG At The Emmys Red Carpet
Power Girls were everywhere at the Emmys in Los Angeles yesterday! Drew Barrymore, Sally Fields, Guiliana Depandi, Tina Fey, Heidi Klum and so many great women doing big things turned out for TV’s hottest night. We spied dozens as we perched near the TV platforms, where it seemed virtually everybody convened to grab an interview with E’s Depandi under the blistering, direct heat....
What We're Reading
Google’s Letter to the FCC Regarding Google Voice for iPhone — Google Public Policy Blog
Memo to Startups: You’re Supposed to Be Changing The World, Remember? — TechCrunch
Official: FCC to Propose “Net Neutrality” Rules — Associated Press
Media Pros Say Journalism Has Improved in the Internet Age — Paid Content
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NPG 20: The Huffington Post
With a said 22 million unique visitors a month and the record as the most linked to blog on the internet, it’s not a surprise that entrepreneur Arianna Huffington has garnered major attention for her company, The Huffington Post. Launched in 2005, the site has more than 3,000 high level bloggers ranging from celebrities to political figures to experts of all types. Among those that have...
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Women 2.0 Start-Up Weekend Launches 19 New Women...
Women 2.0, an organization that’s dedicated to increasing the number of women entrepreneurs and providing support to help enable women to create high growth companies, held its annual Start-up Weekend at the end of August. Just this week, it announced that a total of 19 women-founded companies spun out of the event. You can check out the list of those created here. The two-day event kicked...
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NPG 20: Ning
She’s graced the cover of major magazines and has been said to be one of the most connected and respected women in the Silicon Valley, but nevermind all that. Gina Bianchini’s startup Ning has seen more than 1.5 million created with 33 million registered users since it’s launch in 2004. Playing on the explosion of users engaging the internet’s communications (aka, social)...
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Y Combinator Winter Funding Open
Seed fund Y Combinator will be accepting applications for its winter funding through October 26. As most know, seed funding is the earliest stage of funding. You can learn more about the firm’s mindset here. Y Combinator takes a different approach in that it aims to help entrepreneurs form ideas into companies, and to move those ideas to the point of additional funding (including introducing...
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NPG 20: Blogher
If there were any women-owned Web 2.0 startup that could be the poster child for what’s possible, Blogher is it. Launched in February 2005, the site has become a force in the market and one of the most successful blog networks for women. It was founded by Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page, and Jory Des Jardins when the trio launched a conference for women who blog, and they haven’t...
Keeping Inspired
Loved this profile in the Times Sunday with Karen Petrou who started her own consulting business in 1985. When you are having a bad entrpreneurial day (and believe me we all have them!) it is great to read articles like this to keep you inspired.
-Meghan
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NPG On Huff Post This Week: 20 Women Founders To...
From this week’s New Power Girls series on The Huffington Post, here’s what Meghan and Patricia have to say about the first ten of the NPG 20 Women Founders To Watch:
Meghan:
When I think about women-owned companies that are making waves, innovating, creating new niches, there are a wide variety of companies that come to mind — most of which are not on the general media’s radar as...
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TechCrunch50 Girl Startup Report: Learnvest
Yesterday’s TechCrunch50 included another female startup, the second to appear over the two-day demonstration and launch event. Learnvest is a new online tool that aims to teach people financial management and responsibility. TechCrunch’s post on it says the company is targeting women, but it could be something used by either gender. The founder took some hard questions and criticism...
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TechCrunch50 Girl Startup Report: SealTale
If you haven’t been checking out the TechCrunch50 event in San Francisco via U-Stream this week, it’s definitely worth a watch. The event, in its third year, has become a launch pad for great startups as well as incredible judges, panelists and speakers who give a good look into the minds of investors as they review ideas. Earlier today, the first female founder competing in the event...
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Women Artists Stand Up For Taylor Swift Following...
The big story following the MTV Video Music Awards was of course Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video, which West apparently felt should have been awarded to Beyonce. Swift stood completely stunned and obviously hurt by West’s actions, but certainly didn’t stand alone - nearly immediately, more than a half dozen of...
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On Women Companies and VC Funding
Another article this past week appeared regarding women owned companies in technology and VC capital, pointing to a lack of VC firms backing women in the technology business. This has been part of a larger, ongoing “There are no women in tech” voice that’s been consistent in the market this year. As a woman in the tech business with a nearly ten year background in very high tech...
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Congrats to NPG Give Away Contest Winners
Who doesn’t love fabulous lingerie, a great beauty product or a fantastic read? We do! And lately we’ve been breaking a little piece off of our favorite life and business stuff to share with readers. One lucky Power Girl has nabbed the NPG video series gift bag, another the latest book everybody’s been buzzing about in business. Winners have been contacted and prizes are being...
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Internet Talent iJustine Lands MTV VMA Role
Earlier this year, we interviewed internet celebrity iJustine for our conversational how-to web video series, which we’ll be producing every quarter. This past week, she landed an incredible gig with the MTV Video Music Awards, where she’ll be working as a special correspondent at the awards this weekend. Justine is one of the most successful internet personalities on the web and...
NPG On Huff Post This Week: NPG Buzz And Creating...
From this week’s New Power Girls series The Huffington Post, we share what people are saying about the New Power Girls. Here’s How to Create a New Power Girls Group in Your City:
Today’s Huff Post article shares a look at the camaraderie and friendship that takes place among a real group of women entrepreneurs and executives that have their sights on doing big things in business....
Top Hollywood Women To Offer Advice Tonight
Some of the leading female producers in Hollywood are offering insight and inspiration to others this week at an AFTRA Women’s Committee event that’ll be moderated by actress/producer Elizabeth Karr. Among the distinguished panelists that’ll be on hand are Joan Rater (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Heather Juergensen (“Kissing Jessica Stein”), Claudia Lonow...
See Meghan At The Emmys!
NPG’s own Meghan Cleary is one of the first and few multi-platform brands in style. She’s America’s Shoe Expert, a published author, had a hugely popular show on HSN, plus boasts a cult-like web and social media following and has appeared in more than 450 media outlets including Tyra Banks Show, TODAY Show, Wall Street Journal and others. Plus something huge that she’s...
Two Incredible Women Entrepreneurs
I came across this article about entrepreneurs in Africa (including two incredible women!) and was just so inspired. We launch businesses in America in such a far different climate. To think about women doing the same in countries where women have few freedoms, war or violence is awesome. I think we have all experienced obstacles, the feeling that you’re facing the impossible, etc. But, here...
Celebrating Women Workers On Labor Day
Labor Day has been said to have been first created in the late 1800s as a celebration of workers. It was intended to be a tribute to how working people everywhere have contributed to our country. Historians say that the first real push of women in the workplace came during World War I, when the government realized a need to coordinate the resources of working women. It later spun into an...
What We're Reading
50 Things That Are Being Killed By The Internet — The Telegraph
How Newspaper Sites That Charge Are Faring — Paid Content
The Anatomy of Determination — Paul Graham
The 100 Most Creative People in Business — Fast Company
Farewell to Nancy Talbot
In 1947, Nancy Talbot co-founded a women’s clothing store with her husband, then played a major role in its growth to become a catalog empire and retail chain. She has been said to be the inspiration for the women’s apparel it carried and the driving force behind the company, which she and her husband inherited from his father in Boston. She has been known for her talent in working...
Submit A Company For Our NPG 20 Companies To...
Do you know an incredible female entrepreneur? An amazing founder? A great women-owned startup or existing company that’s doing dynamic or new things in the market? We want to know about it! In the coming week, we’re going to be putting together a list of twenty women-owned companies to watch to profile and cover on a regular basis. We’re looking for startups, existing companies,...
Women-Owned Blogher Teams Up With Sunlight...
Blogher, a women-focused online blog network founded by women, announced this past week that it’ll be teaming up with the Sunlight Foundation and its new program, OpenCongress.org, to foster and drive conversations about U.S. health care policy among women. As part of the project, women are submitting questions, thoughts and ideas to the White House via the Blogher site, as well as political...
Win A Copy of "Putting the Public Back in Public...
Calling all Power Girls! We got our hot little hands on a copy of the uber-popular book, “Putting the Public Back in Public Relations,” by Deirdre Breakenridge and Futureworks PR scion Brian Solis. The book taps the duo’s incredible insight on how to deliver your company’s message in today’s fragmented, multimedia market. To enter, just send a note our way with your...
NPG On Huff Post This Week: Delivering Your...
From this week’s New Power Girls series The Huffington Post, here’s what Meghan and Patricia have to say about creating and delivering your company’s message:
Patricia:
As I mentioned in the Huff Post piece, I’ve had to take out a few fairly new ideas to the market. It always presents a challenge. Now, new ideas not only have to be explained, but done so over a variety of platforms....
Survey of Wikipedia Users Points to Mostly Male...
The Wall Street Journal reported today about a study of Wikipedia users that suggests just 13% of the sites contributors are women. Of the roughly 53,000 respondents who contribute to the site, 7,000 said they were female. The average age of women was 24, and 31% read but do not edit or write entries. The rest of the data shifts to general insight about the online encyclepedia, but it’s an...
Women who don't give up
Love this article about Joyce Groote — she was a geneticist by background, had an MBA in marketing as well, but now owns a footwear company. Her journey is a great example of how seemingly disparate backgrounds can fuse well when starting your own company. This article is long, but very worth it. Read about her trademark and intellectual property battles with a behemoth in her category,...