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Marissa Mayer: Advice for Female Entrepreneurs

February 28, 2024May 16, 2011 by Pemo Theodore

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.

Vivek Wadhwa: Venture would Have Much Higher Success Rate if Focus was Women

February 28, 2024April 6, 2011 by Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Vivek Wadhwa @ Data 2.0 Conference. Vivek is a senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, an executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, and a visiting scholar at the School of Information at University of California at Berkeley. He helps students prepare for the real world, lectures in class and leads groundbreaking research projects. He is also an advisor to several start-up companies, a columnist for BusinessWeek.com, a contributor to the popular tech blog, TechCrunch, and writes occasionally for several international publications. Prior to joining academia in 2005, Wadhwa was a technology entrepreneur, who founded two software companies. You can find Vivek on his site & on Twitter @vwadhwa

Jeff Clavier, SoftTechVC: Beating Odds for Irish and European Startups

April 10, 2024December 29, 2010 by Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC. SoftTech VC is one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. Since 2004, Jeff has invested in more than 80 consumer Internet companies in areas like social media, monetization, search, gaming or B2B/B2C web services. These investments are typically located in Silicon Valley, New-York and Boulder. With over 20 years of operational, entrepreneurial and venture capital experience, Jeff is able to add relevant perspective and value to his companies as they grow from inception to maturity, and hopefully, success. Jeff was born, raised and educated in France, earning a MS in Computer Science and a research degree in Distributed Computing. You can find Jeff @ his blog Jeff Clavier’s Software Only and on Twitter @Jeff

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