On Friday in Silicon Valley, I emcee'd the finale of BlogHer BET, a confab about Business, Entrepreneurism and Technology. One of my panelists was Janet Riccio, an EVP at Omnicom Group (OMC), who came on stage with 10 tips for raising start-up money. Riccio had gotten the list of tips from an entrepreneur she knows: Communispace CEO Diane Hessan, who agreed last month to sell her company to Omnicom for MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 31, 2011 12:13 PM ET
Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO who got trounced in the race for California governor last November, has a new career plan: Venture capital with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Meg Whitman will start a new career path.
By Patricia Sellers
Meg Whitman, who is in Hawaii until Wednesday with her neurosurgeon husband Griff Harsh, declined to comment, but sources close to her and to the venerable Silicon Valley venture capital firm say MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 29, 2011 2:54 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
In this era of social media, where we are all super-connected, the most ingenious do-good movements can begin with a tiny idea.
Make 'em viral and they will spread.
It happened with "The Last Text," the riveting video that AT&T (ATT) produced to coax people like you and me not to text and drive. The 10-minute film, which I wrote about on Postcards last month, has drawn more than two MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 24, 2011 12:54 PM ET
There's no sign in the lobby. There's no web page. There's no clue -- until you arrive on the 23rd floor of 75 Rockefeller Plaza -- what Pilot Group is. Sure, it's the private equity shop of Bob Pittman, former COO of AOL Time Warner (TWX) (AOL) (parent of Fortune's publisher). But it's also a hostel for former Masters of the Media Universe. "Come stay at MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 23, 2011 5:00 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
How critical to success is a healthy corporate culture?
As my Postcard last Thursday noted, Ginny Rometty, one of the top execs at IBM (IBM), says that culture is emerging to be the No. 1 corporate asset.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation's (DWA) chief, seems to agree--as yesterday's Postcard details.
Another guy who deems a thriving culture to be a vital ingredient of a successful company: Warren Buffett. I spent much MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 17, 2011 11:14 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
You have to wonder whether the CEOs who run the Best Companies to Work For were born to lead great companies.
Jeffrey Katzenberg. Photo: David Shankbone/Creative Commons
In Los Angeles on Friday, I had a chat with Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of DreamWorks Animation (DWA), whose company sits perpetually near the top of Fortune's annual list.
Katzenberg is so proud of the achievement that every DreamWorks announcement includes the ranking in the MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 15, 2011 12:09 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
It's nice having a place to vent.
And while I usually use Postcards as a platform to share insights into powerful people and how they navigate their careers, today I need to gripe.
PDF invitations drive me crazy.
You can't copy and paste the information into your calendar.
You have to write everything manually.
Who has time for this?
I recently aired my compliant to someone who sends more invitations than I: Maryam Banikarim, MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 14, 2011 11:37 AM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Culture.
Now that's a subject that most leaders would be wise to pay more attention to.
Ginny Rometty speaking at an IBM event. Photo: Tom Raftery/Creative Commons
One boss who does: Ginny Rometty at IBM (IBM).
And to her benefit. Currently in charge of sales and marketing and strategy at Big Blue--and No. 8 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list--Rometty is mentioned in Fortune's current cover story about IBM as a possible successor to MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 10, 2011 11:11 AM ET
Today is International Women's Day--as Google (GOOG) notes by placing a colorful graphic, honoring women, above the search box on its homepage.
If you click on that graphic, you'll arrive at a page that lists a multitude of ways to help women around the world. Google lists 44 organizations--such as Women for Women International and Vital Voices and Camfed--that deploy your donations to empower women.
Click on the link for Camfed, a not-for-profit that MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 8, 2011 2:58 PM ET
by Patricia Sellers
Delivering a talk on Women and Power in Princeton on Thursday night, I tossed out a term that the crowd really liked: Raise the roof!
As I told the 400 people gathered at the YWCA "Tribute to Women" dinner, the "glass ceiling" concept is out of date--and let's rethink how far corporate women have come.
Not that bias against female managers has gone away--far from it, as I've written right MORE
Patricia Sellers - Mar 7, 2011 7:34 AM ET
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Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie's blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.
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