4 posts and columns on Tina Sharkey

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Brit Media Raises $1.25M and Launches Wedding Web Site Tools

in Commerce on April 30 at 9:00 am PT

Former Google TV product lead Brit Morin is disclosing today that she has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from an impressive list of investors, including Marissa Mayer, Aileen Lee, Tina Sharkey and Seth Goldstein, Kevin Colleran, Annabel Teal, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund Angel and DMGT. The company — called Brit Media — is aiming to build a new lifestyle brand (think Martha Stewart), and kicks off today with Weduary, a customizable and social wedding Web site.

SocialMedia's Seth Goldstein Speaks!

in News on February 25, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

Last week I paid a visit to the Palo Alto, Calif., HQ of SocialMedia and also had a chat with its Co-Founder and CEO Seth Goldstein. As the start-up describes itself, SocialMedia “is the leading provider of social-platform services. It fuses together three core features–management, marketing and monetization–into a comprehensive package that advertisers and developers [...]

Kara Visits BabyCenter and Head Baby Tina Sharkey

in News on October 8, 2007 at 12:25 am PT

We knew if we waited long enough to post this visit to the San Francisco offices of niche community site BabyCenter–where we also did an interview with its adult supervision Tina Sharkey–that we’d get something good to hang it off of. Thanks then to Sharkey, who was recently installed as global president of the Johnson [...]

Web 2.0 Dinner and Schmoozefest

in News on July 18, 2007 at 1:27 am PT

I went to a dinner last night hosted by John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly of the Web 2.0 Summit, and it was one of the more schmoozy events I have been to in a while. The event–this year at Foreign Cinema in the Mission District of San Francisco–is held to elicit feedback from the Internet’s [...]