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Entries Tagged as 'Meltwater Group News & Events'
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Posted March 11th, 2010 By Victoria | 13 Comments |
Joined Meltwater’s Manchester office in 2007 and made a move to London 6 months later. Victoria is now part of Meltwater's global Communications team.
Location: London
Education: BSc Management (Hons) University of Manchester
Fanatical about: Extreme sports – wake boarding, snow boarding & sky diving, festivals and visiting new places
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Last Tuesday evening the London School of Economics (LSE) Old Theatre, which has previously been host to Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Amartya Sen, was buzzing with students eagerly awaiting the outcome of the LSE “Pitch It!” business plan competition they had been part of for the last 4 months. Twenty-six teams had entered their business ideas, but the final six teams were about to pitch their businesses to the panel of judges made up of Julie Meyer (BBC Dragons’ Den and Founder of Ariadne Capital Cash), Jorn Lyseggen (Founder and CEO of Meltwater Group), John Dixon (Head of Media, RBS Finance) and Cliff…
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Posted March 2nd, 2010 By Kimling | 1 Comment |
Former TV news reporter who made the jump to Corporate Communications at Meltwater.
Location: San Francisco CA
Education:
BA Philosophy, Wellesley College 2004
MS Broadcast Journalism, Boston University 2005
Fanatical about: Yoga, food, road cycling, great video production and swimming
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Last Friday, February 26th, Meltwater CEO Jorn Lyseggen joined several other entrepreneurs, venture investors and academics at the 2010 Conference on Entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Jorn participated in a panel, the “Top 10 Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs,” alongside Gurbaksh Chahal (gWallet), Matt Cohler (Benchmark Capital), Carol Sands (The Angels’ Forum and The Halo Funds) and moderator Mark Leslie (founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software and current Lecturer in Management at Stanford). The panel discussed the ups and downs they’ve experienced as well as lessons learned.
One of the topics discussed were the main characteristics of entrepreneurs. Matt said passion makes or…
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Posted February 4th, 2010 By Nicole Amsler | 3 Comments |
Nicole leads Meltwater Group Communications. Prior to joining Meltwater, Nicole was Vice President of Corporate Communications at Accuray. Nicole also served senior level roles at Ikanos Communications and Agilent Technologies.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Education:
BS Aeronautical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
MS Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee
MBA, Georgia State University
Fanatical about: Golf and mixed martial arts to relieve stress
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A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of representing Meltwater at the Red Herring Global 100 award ceremony. At the conference in Laguna Niguel, CA, I presented Meltwater to a board of judges, highlighting who Meltwater is, what we do, and what makes us unique. The competition was tough. Eligible for the award were over 1000 companies who, within the last three years, had won a Red Herring regional award. Narrowing down their choice to a select few, Red Herring invited just 200 companies to present in Dana Point for the potential honor of being named one of the top 100…
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Posted January 19th, 2010 By Kimling | 1 Comment |
Former TV news reporter who made the jump to Corporate Communications at Meltwater.
Location: San Francisco CA
Education:
BA Philosophy, Wellesley College 2004
MS Broadcast Journalism, Boston University 2005
Fanatical about: Yoga, food, road cycling, great video production and swimming
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One week ago, a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti and it’s estimated that over 200,000 people have died. Many of us are seeking ways to help.
Meltwater clients include non-profit organizations and charities around the world that are working hard to help in any way possible.
Here are a few Meltwater News clients who are making a difference in Haiti today:
Unicef United States Fund is helping UNICEF’s emergency response in Haiti and continually works to save children’s lives.
Donate on their website.
Church World Service is providing emergency supplies via local partners in Haiti, and is working with them on temporary shelter, food, and health assistance, while also supporting…
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