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Just got back from TheNextWomen strategy for entrepreneurs event at Sun Microsystems where Newspepper were hired to film the event.

I felt inspired to write a quick post on women who I really look up to and respect in the Internet  & technology/entrepreneurship space. I’ve been to so many events over the past two years and heard/witnessed so many amazing women doing incredible things – These are the sort of women I have loads of respect for and sometimes think to myself  ‘Yeah, I want to be like her when I grow up’.

I will probably always be more fluff than tech and never grow up, but here goes:

Reshma Sohoni

Reshma runs Seedcamp on a day-to-day basis as its CEO. She joined Seedcamp from the Venture team at 3i. Prior to 3i, Reshma spent over 3 years at Vodafone in their Commercial Strategy team, working across the Europe and Japan footprints in marketing strategy and pricing functions. Reshma started her career in the US in investment banking (Broadview) and venture capital (Softbank).

Besides the amazing bio, why I like Reshma: Reshma is completely on the ball -she knows exactly what she is talking about when it comes to tech startup funding and tells others how it is ‘If you’re a tech startup and not reading TechCrunch or a similar tech blog every day to keep up with what’s going on in your market, then you’re doing something wrong’.

Marissa Ann Mayer (born on 30 May 1975) is the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at the search engine company Google. She acts as a gatekeeper for their product release process, determining when or whether a particular Google product is ready to be released to users. She has become one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.^[3]

Besides the amazing bio, why I like Marissa: I’ve seen her present at a number of huge conferences (consisting of nearly all male audiences) she is always composed even when asked the trickyiest Google hater questions.

Sarah Miriam Lacy (born December 29, 1975 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American technology journalist^[1] and author.

She co-hosts web video show Yahoo! Tech Ticker^[2] and is a columnist at TechCrunch, BusinessWeek and Fox News.^[3]

She is noted for an interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the 2008 South by Southwest Interactive festival in which Zuckerberg told her she would have to actually ask questions and the audience staged what has been characterized as a revolt.^[4][5] Her response, posted on her Twitter account, was “Seriously screw all you guys. I did my best to ask a range of things.”^[6]

She is the author of Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good, which also goes under the title “The Stories of Facebook, Youtube and Myspace”.

Besides the amazing bio, why I like Sarah: She never had any formal training as a journalist, yet I think she is one of the best journalists on the web- Her posts are well researched and always based on facts. She gets an extremely bad wrap from nasty Internet trolls who sometimes even post comments on her posts that are close to death threats. Does that stop her?  No, she gives them the middle finger by being courageous and carrying on reporting on what she loves; Internet, tech and Web 2. 0 culture.

Simone Brummelhuis

Simone Brummelhuis trained as a lawyer and is now the founder of The Next Women, A business magazine for Female Internet Heroes. News Interviews Startups Funding Community. Founder, entrepreneur, CEO, TV, Pitching Events

Besides the amazing bio, why I like Simone: Being Dutch Simone doesn’t take any bulls**t. She knows what she wants, is realistic and yet still very approachable.

Shaa Wasmund

In 1994 Wasmund started her own PR firm which managed the launch of Dyson vacuum cleaners.

In 2007 Wasmund established a partnership with fellow entrepreneur Dan Wagner to launch Bright Station Ventures, an investment vehicle with $100 million of capital dedicated to investing in ideas and seeding young technology businesses. Wasmund’s most recent project is a site dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs and small business owners. Smarta.com was launched in January 2009 and combines editorial, user-generated content and business networking facilities.

Smarta.com is supported by leading entrepreneurs including Theo Paphitis, Deborah Meaden, Michael Birch and James Dyson and receives financial backing from Vodafone, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Besides the amazing bio, why I like Shaa: Someone once told me -”That girl [Shaa] could draw money from a stone, referring to her skills of raising finance for her ventures”- We all know how hard raising capital is so well done Shaa! Go Girl!

Bindi Karia

Bindi is the VC/Emerging Business lead for Microsoft UK and is the UK-based member of the Emerging Business Team. She is responsible for managing the UK Startup Accelerator Programme where she focuses on how Microsoft can drive success for leading edge and early-stage technology companies. She is also responsible for managing the relationships with the UK Investor Community, including Venture Capitalist, Angels and other Investor Organisations. Her previous role at Microsoft was as a Business Productivity Advisor, where she was responsible for managing relationships with the most influential business decision-makers in the UK Financial Services Sector.

Besides the amazing bio, why I like Bindi: It’s simple: Although Bindi works for the big old corporate Microsoft she is just totally young, cool and awesome so she makes Microsoft (a little bit) awesome too!

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