Girls In Tech

Marion Freijsen & E.Factor – The Global Online & Onearth Network for Entrepreneurs

In this month of March – International Women’s History Month – we wanted to highlight a very innovative, cutting edge woman and her team who are helping entrepreneurs connect and thrive,  across the globe.

Marion Freijsen  is one of three founders (and serial entrepreneurs) who started E.Factor, the largest niche social network for entrepreneurs.  It was founded after publishing their book:  the N-Factor in 2007.  Says Marion, “In preparation for our second book, we discovered there really was nothing that existed online that offered entrepreneurs 4 of the key things they all look for:

1. knowledge/expertise and advice,

2. access to finance,

3. support and help with growing their business and earning real $$$, and lastly

4. a way to save costs.

So they launched their platform in March 2008 – and are now well over 800,000 members in 165 countries, from more then 100 different industries.  “Entrepreneurs like the peer element in the community, the fact that they share a common passion – being an entrepreneur. And the fact that we bring them together our “OnEarth” portion of our slogan “Online & OnEarth”tm,  makes a huge difference,” Freijsen says.

E.Factor is not about connecting you with the people you already know  (i.e. on LinkedIn, Facebook) but connecting you with new people you NEED to know in order to grow your business.  Says Marion, “LinkedIn is about collecting, E.Factor about connecting.”  They encourage prospective entrepreneurs to become a member to Find partners, Get financing, Be inspired, and Close deals!

So check out their website, here:  http://www.efactor.com/

About Marion Freijsen:

Founder and CTO of E.Factor, she has had over 20 years of extensive entrepreneurial experience in International business with a primary focus on Technology and Sales Management. From an early start in Merchant Banking in London in 1987, she has worked solely in commercial roles at technology companies, at five different hi-tech start-ups.

Throughout her career – Marion has been successful in expanding the organization’s activities in greenfield regions across Europe. She has sold, or managed a wide variety of technology solutions ranging from highly complex enterprise solutions to serving the specific demands of on-line trading markets.

During the course of the past 20 some years, Marion has set-up and managed offices in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands and built an extensive network amongst the financial services industry and blue-chip multi-national corporates across Europe and the US.  She is co-founder and Executive Board Member of OHM, and co-founder of The E.Factor and Cranevision.  She is author of the N Factor.