Torben Rankine Country Manager Leadership Business Consulting/Coordinator Global Strategic Innovation Programs focused on Portuguese startups. Angelika Blendstrup interviewed him about Portuguese startups & women entrepreneurs. Torben is a financial and Management consultant with over 12 years experience. He has worked in investment sales and management and as a project director in the financial, insurance, transport, telecoms and public administration sectors. He has a deep understanding of the Iberian markets and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Social-Loco Conference 2011 Mashup #Socioloco
We attended Social-Loco Conference & there were some great sessions as well as fabulous people. This is a mashup of some of the sessions.
Marissa Mayer: Advice for Female Entrepreneurs
Marissa Mayer is the Vice President of Location and Local Services at Google. Previously she was Vice President of Search Product and User Experience. Marissa joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer, where she led the user interface and web server teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com. Prior to joining Google, Mayer worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. You can find Marissa on Twitter @marissamayer
Marissa Mayer was kind enough to give some advice & tips for female entrepreneurs @Social Loco Conference. We also asked her about how to handle failure.