Tech - Matter

LedBetter joins Matter Eight!

LedBetter’s technical advisor Ipsheeta Furtado and cofounder and CEO Iris KuoIn the fall of 2005, a wise, kind editor introduced me to my now dear friend Camille Ricketts. At the time, he simply thought two young journalists might benefit from knowing each other. There was no way to know

Diversity

Be Better!

Top highlightLast year I had the honor of participating in the United State of Women Summit, a gathering focused on gender equality and empowerment that kicked-off the #StateofWomen movement. Oprah Winfrey, in one of the plenary sessions, asked, “what can men leaving here [Summit] do?” Then First Lady Michelle Obama

Wedding Planning

Redefining Wedding Planning with Menagerie

Today’s couples are planning their own weddings. But in a world without the wedding planner and the success of their wedding contingent upon hiring the right vendors, they are spending more than 150 hours searching and emailing vendors for quotes, organizing their research in spreadsheets, and managing their wedding

Startup

Looking Back At Matter

Lots of memories and post-its in this place.When we began our journey with Matter, either 19 weeks or a lifetime ago depending on how you measure time, we knew nothing — especially not how little we knew. That only became apparent over time, as each passing day brought crucial lessons

Startup

Why We Moved our Company from SF to NYC

Stringr was founded in San Francisco. The founding team met while gazing at a gleaming view of the Bay Bridge at Wharton|SF on the Embarcadero. I own a condo in Russian Hill. One of my co-founders, Lindsay Stewart, was raised in Silicon Valley and went to undergrad at Berkeley,

Facebook

Your friends aren’t hanging out on news sites — why would you?

Ceci Mourkogiannis is a co-founder of Papero: an interactive social layer that lives on the surface of existing media content, designed for younger millennials and older members of Generation Z who expect digital media to be interactive and social at its very core. Your friends aren’t hanging out on