Women founders of online startups

Some people think that women and high-tech are almost incompatible things. However, in fact, many famous Web 2.0 startups were created by women. They did it either alone, or together with a girlfriend, or with relatively little involvement of men. The representatives of the weaker sex participated in the creation of such wonderful companies as Flickr, Blogger, SixApart, Mozilla, Guidewire Group, Adaptive Path and dozens of others ( list ).

There are a lot of women in high-tech, most of them just work in large corporations and do not stand out from the crowd. For example, Sandra Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems, is a computer science professor who graduated from Stanford. She founded Cisco in 1984 with her husband. At that, her entrepreneurial passion was not exhausted, and in the 90s she became the founder of another company, just not from the IT sphere, but the cosmetic startup Urban Decay Cosmetics (however, now she has returned to the IT industry as an investor).

If you look around you will see a lot like Sandra.

Here is a list of companies where women were founders or co-founders.
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Caterina Fake: Flickr
Meg Hourihan: Blogger
Mena Trott: SixApart
Mitchell Baker: Mozilla
Chris Shipley: Guidewire Group
Janice Fraser: Adaptive Path
Mary Hodder: Dabble
Gina Bianchi: Ning
Ann Crady: Maya's Mom
Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry: Meebo
Emily Chang: eHub / IdeaCodes
Xochi Birch: Bebo
Joyce Park: Renkoo
Jessica Hardwick: SwapThing
Margarita Irizarry and Monica Heitlauf: Scrapblog
Yael Elish: eSnips
Halley Suitt: Top Ten Sources
Elisa Camahort, Lisa Stone, Jory DesJardins: Blogher
Ryanne Hodson: Node101
Ariel Kleckner Ford: CareSquare
Carla Morton and Cathleen Wang: BrandHabit
Sharra Chan: OrangeDoor
Erica Douglass: Simpli.biz
Lisa Sugar: PopSugar
Louise Wannier: MyShape
Beatrice Tarka: Mobissimo
Emily Boyd: Remember the Milk
Andra Davidson: Mothersclick
Eileen Gittins: Blurb
Rashmi Sinha: SlideShare
Julie Davidson: 30Boxes
Laura Scott and Katherine Lawrence: pingVision
Kathy Sierra: Head First Books
Gillian Carson: Carson Systems
Alex Vikati: CastTV
Vanessa Williams and Leigh Himel: Oponia
Dina Kaplan: Blip.tv
Rachel Cook: Minti
Amy Muller: Ruby Red Labs
D Millack: Zazzle
Ellen Miller: Sunlight Foundation
Linda Furrier: Podtech
Elizabeth Souther Tarbell: VivaPop
Maggie Fox: Social Media Group
Maggie Tsai: Diigo
Susan DeFife: Backfence
DiAnn Eisnor: Platial
Kim Polese: Spikesource
Angela Beesley: Wikia
Arianna Huffington: Huffington Post
Kelly Goto: Gotomedia
Merci Hammon: PMOG

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