Women entrepreneurs try speed-dating networking
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They are bloggers, engineers and chefs — American women entrepreneurs who dream of emulating the success of Facebook number two Sheryl Sandberg or General Motors CEO Mary Barra.
And to smash through that glass ceiling, they have found a new weapon: speed-dating style networking events. No men allowed.
To shouts of “one, two, three — change!” and “one, two, three — switch!” ladies mingle at the first event organized at the annual women entrepreneurs festival run by the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
Around 280 women of all ages and professions are given three minutes to get to know each other, swap business information and exchange cards before moving onto the next person.
It is the business equivalent of the matchmakers’ speed-dating phenomenon that took off about a decade ago as a chance for the loveless to quickly meet multiple people in the hope of snaring a date.
The room gets increasingly riotous as the session wears on, bathed in the beautiful light of a New York winter afternoon.
Pairs of women group and regroup like members of a ballet company, exchanging business cards as they go.
Some nod and smile, others stifle a yawn, break into laughter or screw up their eyes in concentration before the emcee calls on them to move onto their immediate neighbor.
“We make short... fun, playful videos to boost people’s popularity online,” says New York-based multimedia artist O Zhang.
Despite high-profile success stories such as Barra at General Motors, only 15 percent of US companies and only 4.5 percent of Fortune 1000 companies are run by women.
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