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Female Internet Heroes Event

Boris Written on 2nd December 2008                                                                                                              1 COMMENT some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Female Internet Heroes EventIf you are based in London, or can make it there before tomorrow, check out The Female Internet Heroes event which will take place on the 3rd of December in London, featuring internet women such as Lulu Phongmany of iVillage, Katarina Skoberne of OpenAd and Andrea Cockerton, Mudhut. 

FreshIdeas Events and TheNextWomen have joined forces to hold the first in a series of events for and about women in the internet industry at the Curzon Office of UBS in London.

The event will see female internet heroes sharing their expertise on setting up an online business, raising finance, and developing a business in the UK and European market. 

The program also includes pitches by Julia Macmillan, CEO toyboywarehouse.com,  Sue Guerrieri, Founder of SugaPlum Shop, Anna Colclough, Founder of Tourdust (in beta) and  Alicia Navarro, Founder of Skimbit.

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Will Seedcamp London fund your bright idea?

simone Written on 17th July 2008                                                                                                              3 COMMENTS some text
Simone Brummelhuis, writing about women on the web

If you’re running a start-up and haven’t heard of Seedcamp before, you’d better take a minute now to read this article. Seedcamp is a much-applauded week-long program for young entrepreneurs from the Middle East, Africa, and…, Europe. That means you can participate as well. From September 15 through 19, London calls you.

So why should you go? At the end of the week – filled with workshops and presentations-, Seedcamp will invest up to 50K Pounds for a 10 percent stake in each of final five teams and provide ongoing mentorship and support for three months in preparation for the companies’ formal rounds of financing. Last year’s winners included Zemanta, an excellent blog service we use at The Next Web as well.

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CEO and co-founder of Seedcamp is Reshma Sohoni, who used to be a banker at 3i. Her business partner is Saul Klein from Index Ventures. They raised capital from a number of informal investors last year.

As the editor in chief of The Next Women, I’m glad to see that the advisory board has many female internet heroes: Sherry Coutu, an early stage investor, Sara Murray, founder of Buddi.co.uk, Bindi Karia of who runs the UK Startup Accelerator Programme of Microsoft and Lori Vokes, Operation Director of Cisco.

If you feel you’re a bright young mind with a game changing start-up, you have the change to be one of the twenty start-ups to participate in the program. That is, if you make it through the application procedure. Not ready yet to go all the way to Seedcamp? Then try the Seedcamp event brite taster events. Here you may find the right team mates that get you going!

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