-Gina Bianchini
cofounder and CEO
Ning
This custom social-network maker made a splash on our May 2008 cover, and not just because she knew what a viral expansion loop was. With 500,000-plus networks now running on Ning, the company has had its share of developer challenges but remains cashed up and growing.
-Caterina Fake
cofounder
Flickr
Fake not only cofounded photo-sharing behemoth Flickr but also sold it to Yahoo for a reported $35 million. Now everyone is buzzing about her next project, something called Hunch, which is in stealth mode.
-Eileen Gittins
CEO
Blurb
Gittins's book self-publishing platform is lean and green and has unleashed the insta-author (and book retailer) in everyone from amateur photographers to big brands like Lexus. With a million-plus books created, Blurb is also -- ahem -- profitable.
-Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry
cofounders
Meebo
Oft cited as the Web's fastest growing IM tool, this third startup for Jen and Wherry (and fellow cofounder Seth Sternberg) is on a cacophonous track. It lets some 40 million users yap over any IM network and in a variety of settings; new partnerships with Hearst and Universal Music point to an even chattier future.
-Mary Lou Jepsen
founder and CEO
Pixel Qi
As CTO of One Laptop Per Child, Jepsen led design and development of the least expensive and most energy efficient laptop ever made. She founded Pixel Qi in 2008 to commercialize the groundbreaking OLPC screen technology she invented.
-Alicia Morga
CEO
Consorte Media
Using science (not cultural hype) to match brand advertisers with Hispanic-American consumers on the Web, Morga's marketing firm had 100% growth last year. And she's hiring.
-Kim Polese
CEO
SpikeSource
Polese was part of the early Java team at Sun Microsystems and cofounded Marimba (now part of BMC). Her new business -- which boasts a partnership with Intel -- helps companies test the security and quality of open-source software.
-Tina Sharkey
president
BabyCenter
Sharkey's site reaches nearly 80% of new moms online in the U.S. and some 6 million visitors a month internationally. With the 2007 acquisition of MayasMom.com, a social-networking site, Sharkey's parental domination is nearly complete.
-Rashmi Sinha
cofounder and CEO
SlideShare
The psychology PhD turned Web designer and community expert has created a vibrant social hub around -- of all things -- the PowerPoint deck. Launched with less than $50,000, SlideShare now has a million registered users, plus a partnership with LinkedIn.
-Mena Trott
cofounder and president
Six Apart
With cofounding husband, Ben, Trott created tools such as Movable Type and TypePad that enabled the blogosphere to bloom. Her firm recently snapped up social network Pownce, too, adding that site's cofounder Leah Culver, another woman we admire, to the team.
-Louise Wannier
CEO
MyShape
Matching tech with fashion, MyShape has created an online bazaar with more than 400,000 members. What else would you expect from a serial entrepreneur with degrees in textile design and business administration?
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May 26, 2009 at 12:48pm by Ann Evanston
Just an impressive list - I am glad to see that women are rocking the tech world as part of what they do so well as entrepreneurs!
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June 10, 2009 at 3:20am by richard moodie
I've spent my career as a high tech entrepreneur. Before I joined the Anita Borg Institute I spent twenty years at start ups, and I found the innovative drive fast paced and exhilarating. There are two articles that were published recently that points to the fact that women entrepreneurs are still poorly represented. Penny Herscher, an ABI board member and entrepreneurial two time CEO, was interviewed by the Mercury News about the continuing dearth of Women CEOs. Her blog is a wealth of knowledge about being a great CEO, but it is still very uncommon to see a woman at the helm of Technology Companies.
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June 10, 2009 at 3:21am by richard moodie
Recent government statistics indicate that more women than ever before are setting up their own online companies, be it a marketplace, a service provider or an agency; changing the face of business and challenging the traditional male tech stereotype. As we are aiming for a mixed networking event, which is not always so usual in the Tech world, please book your place quickly: we aim for 65 men + 65 women.
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If you achieve satisfaction by fulfilling that purpose - whether it is business, professional, financial or personal, or a combination of those factors - you have genuinely succeeded.
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As they Say that behind every successful man there is woman. Now I am thinking that who is behind these successful ladies.
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July 14, 2009 at 7:43am by Kate Henlay
You know who's behind them, Their brain :) they use their brain which makes them sometimes more powerful then men.
July 14, 2009 at 8:04am by Kate Henlay
Also want to say that few years back nobody thoughted that a women can succeed in IT business but now things have changed quickly. There are big names in IT industry, few mentioned above. These women gives encouregment to other women coming in IT industry.
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September 28, 2009 at 1:23am by Mike Levin
There are indeed a good number of influential women in this industry -- ranging from Gina Bianchini, CEO of well-funded ($120M), do-it-yourself social networking site Ning, to Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer who Fortune named one of the 50 most powerful women in 2007, to Caterina Fake, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded photo-sharing site Flickr and just launched collective-intelligence, decision-making site Hunch. There are also women entrepreneurs in medical field who research pregnancy and HPV and Genital warts...
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