I am an entrepreneur working to bring products to market in the technology sector. I joined Twilio, a startup based in San Francisco, in March 2009 as Director of Marketing and first employee. I am also on the board of advisors for Startup Weekend, an experiential program for entrepreneurship education funded by Kauffman Foundation, and a mentor for Dave McClure’s 500Startups venture capital fund, where I help administer the $250,000 Twilio micro fund. In my free time, I have several other side projects, including: TweetToCall the social phone book app where I’m learning PHP, the NoBetty cooking blog where I share my baking adventures, and LeanToMarket – a marketing blog for scrappy startups. Previously, I served as Editor in Chief for Seattle 2.0, before moving to San Franisco from Seattle, and also worked as community manager for Whrrl – one of the first location based social networks. Deep in my heart I have a love for shipping, and attribute my passionate for cloud services to the non-asset based model employed atExpeditors International, where I was a Business Process Analyst. I’m having a lot of fun learning about entrepreneurship through my experiences.Danielle Morrill
Ann Miura-Ko — “There aren’t as many female entrepreneurs playing the game, so you don’t see them as often. People ask me, Are there really awesome female entrepreneurs out there? Yes we have a ton of them in our portfolio.”
Christina Brodbeck — “Wishful thinking and arguing about female founders, entrepreneurs or gender roles is overriding recognition of the powerful role that the female consumer is already playing in technology.”
Cindy Padnos — “I strongly recommend entrepreneurs interview, screen and reference their investors in the same way investors are doing with them. Call not just the entrepreneurs whose boards they currently sit on, but those who failed.”
Jenny Fielding — “Entrepreneur, investor, lawyer, tech geek, yogi, global nomad…”
Marya Stark — “These ideas made me think about the wide world of products and services that have not yet been dreamed up because women aren’t around to have their unique ‘a-ha’ moments. Times are a-changing.”
![Katie Stanton, VP of International Business, Twitter
When Stanton moved to Washington, D.C. after working in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade, it was difficult for her to break the habits she learned while working at tech giants Yahoo and Google. “One of the organizational things you do at Google is create your OKRs, which stand for objectives and key results,” Stanton said. “I’ve been doing them since I entered government, even though no one else does them.”
Luckily, Stanton had a list of OKRs ready when she moved to the State Department in January 2010. “During my first meeting with [State Chief of Staff]Cheryl Mills, I went in and talked to her about my OKRs,” Stanton said. “As we were talking,Secretary Clinton walked in and it was the first time ever in my life I was glad I did my OKRs.”
While working on the new business development team at Google, Stanton had an impressive list of goals. She helped launch Google Finance, Open Social and Google Moderator.
In 2010, Stanton brought those creative talents to the State Department, where she works as the special adviser in the Office of Innovation. There she is tasked with identifying how to use technology to advance the department’s diplomatic and development goals. “We want to use modern day tools to solve modern day problems,” Stanton said.
But Stanton left the Obama administration not long after joining it to return to her tech roots. She joined Twitter’s international business group, based in San Francisco, in summer 2010. The announcement was made via Twitter.
In her own words:
“It’s possible to solve these problems using technology, but also using the power of our communities. When we see people just working together, using simple but powerful technology, we can save the world.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj79fvNKQf1qig4x3o1_500.jpg)
