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When women ruled the world

This whole Ada Lovelace Day gave me a bit of a headache. You’d think to write about one woman in technology that you admire is a doddle. But I am not easily impressed. I hold many of my fellow tech ladies in awe: Amanda for organsing the global Twestival; Sarah for taking her GirlGeekDinners to [...]

Why does it always have to be about money?

It’s not that I want move to Israel to join a kibbutz, but why does it always to have to be about money?

I’m not talking about start-ups wanting to monetise their ideas – this is business and everyone needs to eat. But I’m infuriated with so called ‘women networks’ that promote ridiculously priced [...]

Silicon, stilettos, sponsors

This could’ve gone terribly wrong: a massive fuck-up and huge disappointment.
But thanks to Danvers and Barry of Winston & Strawn (whom you want on your side when you get some VC monies), I won’t have to auction any invitations to the first Silicon Stilettos meet-up on eBay. Check out their Bootlaw meet-up. With 56 Stilettos [...]

You hide, I seek

27 members of Silicon Stilettos since its midnight launch. But finding women in tech is not easy. With no existing networks I turned to Facebook. Nada. Everyone seems to be based across the pond.
BusinessLink promised to put me in touch with several women’s network, surely there must be some techie ladies there. I am meeting [...]

Ladies’ night, take 2, launching Silicon Stilettos

Time flies in a start-up. I started writing this blog just before taking off for America, for almost a month. When I got back, there were enough Huddle things to occupy me day and night. My ladies’ tech night ended up on a backburner. Five months later, I finally caught my breath and it’s back [...]

Ladies’ night

My little idea of bringing a few ladies involved in marcomms at start-ups is nicely coming together. We have Zubka, LinkedIn and Trampoline Systems line-up. Anyone else fancies joining for a few cocktails and a chat?