Girls In Tech

Union Square Ventures is hiring – at the least for the next half-hour now. Famous for finger-on-the-pulse technology and internet investments, they are also famous for their winning philosophies, an open and direct rhetoric, and seem to relish in the ability to innovate publicly. In their new positions they do not sway from their course. The General Manager role is a dynamic communicator and integrator, while he/she, will join the analyst role in submitting testaments of web presence and LinkedIn for consideration. Looking up @usv @fredwilson @albertwenger reveals a string of approval on Twitter.

This got me thinking and in between a fantastic call with Katarina Skoberne for our London chapter and an interview for one of the most popular newspapers in China by @acrosstheC featuring a new initiative we are exploring with @crystalcy and of course the GIT China launch (@jennybai) I started to write up this up as an FYI … Later Jalak Jobanputra@jalak, Christine Lemke @clemke and Melek Pulatkonak@theorientalist got in touch and announced the finalization of our first GIT NYC Entrepreneurship series event – and Jalak chronicled her perspective on http://nothingventuredblog.com. We’ll repost it here, as you really can’t beat the intelligence, experience, humor and passion with which she approaches everything.

I thought back to when we rounded the bend to 2010, when there was a feeling of excitement about the new year – throughout Girls in Tech chapters, and I think the rest of the world to some extent. We were collaborating online in new ways and excited about new chapters and events. As the year progressed, the virtual economy announced new functionality across the internet, traditional media and news became easier to access, and innovation-spirited, communication-focused internet products launched and spread quickly locally. Brands and models followed, led, and employed social media, and vice versa.

At AlwaysOn OnMedia 2010, men and women VCs provided thoughtful industry analysis and qualified the social media feedback loop in terms of what it meant for platforms and models. Most if not all of it is chronicled at OnMedia, specifically Pricing Private Companies: What’s the 2010 Strategy? and Social Media’s Next Step: The Savvy E-Commerce Campaign in this context. This was all mirrored as social good campaigns like twestival were reaching a year or more of maturity and more executives focused on social good. Platforms or tools were punctuated with APIs that could be used for similar purposes.

The online ecosystem is itself more eloquent (code is poetry). Through the media, women taste this eloquence: from DARPA (as mentioned in a previous post), from McKinsey, from the Economist, from Forbes Women, and through organizations like GIT, find a chance to celebrate it. As creativity as a pursuit in itself edges its way into the spotlight of our tech-ness, women’s achievements and stories from their ecosystems, declare themselves strongly from abroad and are featured within New York City.

Our leaders – brilliant and online – social and learning – and more numerous than it may appear.

Some resources:
@AstiaNYC
@GoldenSeeds
@IlluminateVC
@Thenextwomen
@theglasshammer
Entrepreneur’s vc100
The most loved vcs by thefunded
Venture capital at alltop.com
Forbes Midas List
Forbes powerful women VCs