Lisa Stone, BlogHer: Practice Makes Perfect Raising Venture

Video Interview with Lisa Stone, CoFounder & CEO Blogher. As BlogHer’s CEO, Lisa Stone works across the entire organization to advocate for bloggers, partners, products, and events that fulfill BlogHer’s vision.A traditional journalist who left CNN for the Internet in 1997, Lisa became the executive producer and Editor in Chief/VP, Programming for Women.com. While there, she oversaw all original programming, integrated Hearst and Rodale magazines, and grew Women.com to a Top-30 site and worked with Hearst and Rodale magazines, E! Television/Online, HBO’s Sex and the City, Bloomberg and Gallup, among others. Lisa was the first Internet journalist awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University (2002), and began blogging as an extension of her 2004 political reporting for the Los Angeles Times. You can find Lisa on Twitter @LisaStone

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Gina Raimondo: Venture Capital and Women

Video Interview with Gina Raimondo, Co-founder / General Partner of Point Judith Capital.  Gina focuses on healthcare investing, with a focus on medical device and healthcare information technology companies.  She represents Point Judith on the boards of GetWellNetwork, Spirus Medical, NABsys and Novare Surgical.  Before joining Point Judith, Gina was the Senior Vice President of Fund Development at Village Ventures (backed by Bain Capital, Highland Capital).  In that role she managed the team that established twelve venture capital funds nationwide and raised over $250MM of capital across the network of funds. Gina received a BA from Harvard University, a law degree from Yale University, and a doctorate from Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar.  She currently serves on several non-profit boards, the board of the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA), and is a trustee of Women and Infants Hospital. You can find Gina at Point Judith Capital & on Twitter @GinaRaimondo

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