《財富》最具影響力的女創業家(1)

Ann Hand

安漢德

company: Project Frog

公司：建築公司Project Frog

Age: 45

年齡：45歲

Though Hand was British Petroleum's SVP of Global Brand, Marketing and Innovation, for several years, she's on a much more environmentally friendly mission today. Project Frog aims to revamp the construction industry with simple-to-build spaces (they takes days, rather than months to construct) that consume about 50% less energy than traditional buildings for sectors like education and healthcare. Hand's plan seems to be working: revenue is expected to more than double this year.

雖然漢德曾在英國石油公司（British Petroleum）擔任過多年全球品牌、營銷與創新高級副總裁，但她現在卻在從事更加環保的事業。Project Frog的使命是希望通過易於建造的空間（通常幾天或者幾個月便可完成），徹底改造建築行業。相比教育與醫療等行業的傳統建築，Project Frog的建築可以節省約50%的能源。漢德的計劃似乎已經奏效：公司今年的收入預計將增加一倍以上。

Julia Hartz

茱莉亞哈茨

Company: Eventbrite

公司：在線票務平臺Eventbrite

Age: 33

年齡：33歲

Hartz started Eventbrite, an online ticketing platform, with her now-husband Kevin in 2006. Since its founding, the company has raised $140 million from firms like Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management and reached $2 billion in gross ticket sales this September. Entrepreneurship forced Hartz to appreciate candid and collaborative conversations. "I had to learn how to ask for help," she says. "Everyone always thinks it's brave to go out alone, but I think it's even braver to put yourself out there in front of others, and to figure out how to work together."

2006年，哈茨與現任丈夫凱文共同創辦了在線票務平臺Eventbrite。自成立以來，這家公司先後從紅杉資本（Sequoia Capital）和老虎全球基金（Tiger Global Management）等公司獲得了總計1.4億美元的投資。今年9月，它的票務銷售總額達到了20億美元。創業讓哈茨不得不在與人溝通時運用坦率、且具有合作性的對話方式。她說：“我必須學會如何尋求幫助。所有人都認爲創業是勇敢的舉動，但我認爲，更需要勇氣的事情是，把自己擺到衆人面前，同時努力達成協作。”

Jules Pieri

朱爾斯皮耶裏

Company: The Grommet

公司：The Grommet公司

Age: 53

年齡：53歲

After years working with large consumer product companies like Stride Rite and Keds, Pieri grew frustrated with the difficulty mom-and-pop shops had launching new products. "The more innovative a product—as opposed to mainstream and "known"—the harder it was to get distribution," she explains. In response, she launched The Grommet, a discovery platform that connects customers with inventors' stories and their products, five years ago. Pieri, whose company helped launch products including SodaStream and Fitbit, counts HP CEO Meg Whitman as a mentor and has a side-gig as an entrepreneur in residence at Harvard Business School.

皮耶裏在大型消費類產品公司工作過多年，如Stride Rite和科迪斯（Keds）等。所以，這種夫妻店在推出新產品時所遇到的困難令皮耶裏感到失望。她解釋道：“越創新的產品，因爲與主流和‘已知’相悖，因而越難銷售。”因此，她在五年前成立了The Grommet，這個信息分享平臺會將消費者與發明者的故事和產品聯繫起來。皮耶裏的公司幫助發佈的產品包括自制碳酸飲料機Sodastream和智能腕帶Fitbit。她一直把惠普公司（HP）CEO梅格惠特曼作爲自己的導師，並在哈佛商學院（Harvard Business School）擔任入駐企業家。

Leila Janah

利拉詹納

Company: Samasource

公司：撒馬源公司

Age: 31

年齡：31歲

In 2008, Janah talked to a call center worker from Dharavi, India, the largest slum in South Asia, while working as a consultant. The worker said there were millions of unemployed villagers as talented as he was. "I thought, 'What if outsourcing could generate a few dollars for billions of people, rather than billions of dollars for a wealthy few'" Janah says. She went on to launch Samasource, a tech platform that connects impoverished women and youth with large corporations like Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft to complete digital projects. To date, the non-profit has helped over 16,000 people rise above the poverty line and it recently launched SamaUSA, a domestic program for low-income students living in San Francisco.

2008年，詹納作爲顧問與印度達拉維一家呼叫中心的員工進行了交流。達拉維是南亞最大的貧民窟。那名工人說有數以百萬計的無業村民具備有與他一樣的能力。詹納說：“我想：‘有沒有可能利用外包爲數十億人每個人帶來幾美元，而不是爲少數富人帶去數十億美元？’” 於是，她成立了撒馬源公司（Samasource），用這個高科技平臺幫助貧困的女性和年輕人獲得谷歌（Google）、商務社交媒體公司LinkedIn和微軟（Microsoft）等公司的數字項目。到目前爲止，這個非盈利機構已經幫助16,000人脫離了貧困。近期，它還在美國成立了一個國內項目SamaUSA，主要面向居住在舊金山的低收入學生。

Lisa Stone

麗薩斯通

Company: BlogHer

公司：女性博客網站BlogHer

Age: 46

年齡：46歲

In early 2005, Stone and her co-founders Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins noticed that there were countless women blogging, but mainstream media rarely linked to their posts. The trio decided to host a grassroots conference that year and attracted sponsors like Google and Yahoo. It quickly sold out and soon after, they launched . The publishing platform turned blogging into a lucrative business for many women -- it paid $25 million to 5,000 of its bloggers between 2009 and 2012 -- and now reaches an audience of 92 million.

2005年初，斯通和其聯合創始人愛麗莎卡瑪赫特和朱瑞德斯賈丁斯發現，使用博客的女性規模龐大，但主流媒體卻很少會引用她們的文章。於是，三人決定召開一次草根會議，並吸引了谷歌和雅虎（Yahoo）等贊助商。門票很快銷售一空，不久，她們便成立了。這個博客發佈平臺把撰寫博客變成了許多女性可以用來賺錢的一項業務——2009年至2012年期間，這家公司向5,000名博主支付了超過2,500萬美元。目前，這個平臺的用戶已經超過9,200萬人。

Lori Steele

勞瑞斯蒂爾

Company: Everyone Counts

公司：網絡投票公司Everyone Counts

Age: 50

年齡：50歲

Ten years ago, Steele was a successful investment advisor speaking at ITU World, a United Nations conference on technology for government. That same week, California experienced its first-ever gubernatorial election recall. Steele couldn't believe these kinds of hiccups were happening during such important races (the infamous Florida presidential election recall was only three years prior), so she decided to solve the problem herself. To date,169 countries, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, used Everyone Counts' electronic voting platform, as did the Academy Awards committee.

十年前，斯蒂爾作爲一名成功的投資顧問在世界電信展（ITU World）上發言。世界電信展是聯合國主導的一項活動，重點是科技在政府中的應用。同一周，加州經歷了史上第一次州長罷免選舉。斯蒂爾不敢相信，在如此重要的選舉中，會出現這種不合時宜的平臺故障（三年前纔剛剛發生了臭名昭著的佛羅里達州總統選舉罷免），所以她決定憑一己之力來解決這個問題。到目前爲止，共有169個國家使用了Everyone Counts的電子投票平臺，包括波斯尼亞黑塞哥利亞和奧斯卡獎評審委員會。