After writing a couple of posts on people behind most famous websites and people who made top social bookmarking sites. Now let me introduce to some of the woman who were behind some of the famous websites. There are still many women apart from the ones mentioned in this post but I just made a list of only few.
1.Flickr: 35th most visited website wouldn’t have been with yahoo if Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield wouldn’t have made it. It is a photo sharing website commonly tagged under image and video hosting site launched in February 2004 after a year of its launch and popularity it was being bought by yahoo for $35 million.
1.Flickr: 35th most visited website wouldn’t have been with yahoo if Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield wouldn’t have made it. It is a photo sharing website commonly tagged under image and video hosting site launched in February 2004 after a year of its launch and popularity it was being bought by yahoo for $35 million.
Caterina Fake
Meg Hourihan
Elaine Wherry and Sandy Jen
4.Blurb: Tiered of searching a publisher for your book, need to convert your PDF to a book, want books or brochures of your company to be printed at a really affordable price then I think you must take a look at Blurb. This book publishing based website has a woman named Eileen Gittins who is the founder and CEO for the company. This company had been started in 2005 and published more than 1.3 million books and has sales of more than $47 millions. Blurb has an alexa rank of 9,435 as on April 2011.
Eileen Gittins
5.Ning: A website which allows a user to create their own social networking website is Ning. Since it was launched users were rapidly growing. It offered free services in the beginning but due to its popularity now it allows a 30 day free trial. It is the 250th most visited website in the world. Ning was founded by Gina Bianchini along with Marc Andreessen. She is the CEO of ning.
Gina Bianchini
6.Pixelqi: One Laptop per child is the concept of Pixelqi. And the person who wanted to her way in bringing out a affordable laptop was Mary Lou Jepsen the Founder and CEO of Pixelqi. Having won many awards company is looking forward to improvise their products like bringing out nice LCD designs and so.
Mary Lou Jepsen
7.Consorte Media: Advertising companies are at heavy demand these days and in this crowding season of companies Consorte Media could make its presence a unique presence. Way back in 2005 it was established with its Headquarters in San Francisco. CEO of this company is Alicia Morga who formerly acted as CEO of Zero Gravity Internet Group, Inc and VP for Napster.
Alicia Morga
8.SpikeSource: This is a software testing company which is now being purchased by Black Duck Software in December 2010. This company used to test the quality of open source software which was headed by Kim Polese who has been the CEO for the company until it was sold.
Kim Polese
Tina Sharkey
10.SlideShare- A slide hosting service launched in October 2004 headed by Rashmi Sinha cofounder and CEO made a special place in the web world. This website being the 255th most visited website has already created news in many of the technology blogs and websites. She is an Indian born American who after her PhD tasted this success.
Rashmi Sinha
11.Marketing Zen(clicktoclient): A web designing company which handles the designing, SEO, development and marketing was founded by Shama Kabani. She is also one of the young woman entrepreneur who did it her way after being rejected for her work on social media but now owns her company Marketing Zen (clicktoclient) which has made leaps in the online market.
Shama Kabani
12. Internqueen: A Consultancy website for Internship placement has been launched by Lauren Berger. After completing 15 internship programs in four years she got this idea of a consultancy helping students and parents who are looking around for a proper guidance. Now she acts as the CEO of Intern Queen Inc.
Lauren Berger
13.Sixapart: Movable type and typepad are some of the blogging platform which are a part of sixapart. This company was co founded by Mena Trott along with her husband Ben. These two platforms made the blogosphere a rich place for many blogs.
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