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Who are the 2012 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs?
August 31, 2012: 9:00 AM ET
FORTUNE -- One of this year's Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs multitasks in Hollywood. She's a movie star.
Another 2012 MPW Entrepreneur just sold her company to Google (GOOG) for a reported $350 million.
Another winner, nominated by Facebook (FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg, sold her company to LinkedIn (LNKD) for $119 million this year.
These three startup queens are Jessica Alba of The Honest Co., Victoria Ransom of Wildfire Interactive, and Rashmi Sinha of SlideShare.
Below is the full list of 2012 MPW Entrepreneurs: 10 honorees selected from among 133 applicants because they've created innovative companies that could be big and global someday. Or perhaps already are.
We're inviting all 10 of the MPW Entrepreneurs to join us at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit October 1-3 in Laguna Niguel, California. Until then, kudos to these 10 business stars:
1. Jessica Alba, Co-Founder, The Honest Co.
2. Jill Becker, CEO and Founder, Cambridge NanoTech
3. Jessica Butcher, CMO and Founding Director, Blippar.com
4. Theresa Fette, CEO, Provident Trust Group
5. Christiane Lemieux, Founder, DwellStudio
6. Laura Mather, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Silver Tail Systems
7. Victoria Ransom, CEO and Founder, Wildfire Interactive
8. Rashmi Sinha, CEO and Co-Founder, SlideShare
9. Alexa von Tobel, Founder and CEO, LearnVest
10. Shunee Yee, CEO and President, CSOFT International
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Fortune Women Entrepreneurs: Apply by August 1
Do you know an extraordinary female founder of an emerging global startup?
Or are you--yes, you!--a potential 2012 Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneur?
We 're extending the deadline to Wednesday, August 1, to nominate or apply to be selected as a 2012 Fortune MPW Entrepreneur. We're looking for female entrepreneurs at innovative, game-changing startups, based anywhere in the world, with revenue between $1 million and $25 million. We'll invite our 2012 honorees MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 24, 2012 12:50 PM ET -
Star search: Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs
Do you know a woman who is building a game-changing startup? She could be a Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneur.
The 2012 Fortune MPW Entrepreneur program is open for nominations and applications. Each year, Fortune recognizes 10 emerging female founders of innovative, groundbreaking companies. We're looking for emerging female entrepreneurs at thriving businesses, based anywhere in the world, with revenue between $1 million and $25 million. We'll invite the 2012 winners MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jul 2, 2012 10:54 AM ETPosted in: Clara Shih, Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs -
Fortune's most promising women entrepreneurs
Fortune's editors have chosen the 2011 Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. From a pool of 131 applicants, we've selected (not easily) 10 extraordinary innovators, game-changers and groundbreakers whose startups generated $1 million to $25 million in annual revenue last year--but appear poised to become large and global businesses.
That is, these women could be on the Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business list someday. (This year's U.S. and international rankings will MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 13, 2011 1:28 PM ET -
Calling all Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs...and Tyra Banks goes to Harvard
Fortune Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs 2011 is open for nominations and applications.
Each year, Fortune recognizes 10 female entrepreneurs who are outstanding game changers, groundbreakers, and innovators. We invite them as our special guests to the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit (this year, October 3-5 in Laguna Niguel, CA) and we share their success stories with our readers.
We're on the hunt for female founders of thriving U.S. or international companies with MORE
Patricia Sellers - Jun 30, 2011 11:08 AM ET -
Career Rx: Raise the roof and reinvent
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 -
Gallery of Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs
Check out the gallery of Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, published on Fortune.com and CNNMoney.com today.
Here on Postcards, we've been sharing stories and videos of the 10 women-run start-ups that we honored in this new program, a partnership between Fortune and American Express (AXP). Small-business innovators like these women are key to economic recovery in the U.S. Fortune chose these 10 not only for their achievement so far MORE
Patricia Sellers - Dec 18, 2009 1:02 PM ET -
Entrepreneurs who never let you see 'em sweat
by Patricia Sellers
New-product innovation tends to be 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Here's that 1% that led to the creation of a hot little company called Sheex: One afternoon in the summer of 2007, Susan Walvius, then the head women's basketball coach at the University of South Carolina, was at practice and wearing a pair of over-sized, super-soft, performance-fabric shorts. "I'd love to have bedsheets made out of this stuff," Walvius MORE
Patricia Sellers - Dec 15, 2009 12:08 PM ET -
Top women entrepreneurs
The Fortune Most Powerful Women isn't only about Fortune 500 bosses and world-renowned business builders like Oprah Winfrey.
Today we unveil a new program and annual list called Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. It's the right time to broaden the power base of the MPWomen community and honor outstanding builders of start-ups across the U.S. Small business, besides employing more than half of the U.S. workforce, is the main engine of the MORE
Patricia Sellers - Dec 7, 2009 3:33 PM ET
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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