SUNNYVALE, CA, November 17, 2011 – LikeList, a social-local-mobile network where people help each other discover more of the businesses they like and get trusted answers fast, announced today that Mark Roberts, current chief of technology, has been promoted to company president. In addition to his CTO role, Roberts will be responsible for the day-to-day management of all internal operations including product development, technology and operations.
Prior to joining LikeList in January 2011, Roberts was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at TiVo Inc., a pioneer in home entertainment, where he was responsible of engineering, distribution, manufacturing, customer support, product marketing, research, user design, international operations, information technology, and facilities. During his 12 years at TiVo, Roberts helped take the company public and deliver award winning products to corporations including DirecTV, Comcast, Cox, Sony, Toshiba, Pioneer and Best Buy. Prior to TiVo, Roberts was CIO at Acuson; Director of Product Divisions IT at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems; and Senior Manager at Andersen Consulting.
“Mark’s extensive experience in managing platform technologies and directing large operations has proven to be a very valuable asset to LikeList and has played a significant role in the early success of our company,” said Jim Delli Santi, CEO and president of LikeList. “As Likelist continues to expand with greater mobile capabilities and more strategic business relationships, Mark will drive the company in its next stage of growth within the social-local-mobile space.”
Through the LikeList free online service and LikeList Mobile app, consumers “like” businesses they want to recommend to their friends and others along with tips for why they like them, and the LikeList platform organizes these “likes” into useful, lists. These “likelists” capture first-hand experiences, hidden gems and great local businesses across any consumer category of interest or need from restaurants to contractors to local organic farms to great dance studios. The likelist serves as a person’s treasure trove of local knowledge neatly packaged into list form for today’s busy need- and want-driven lifestyles. On LikeList.com, users can quickly search and filter the likes and lists of people they know to get answers fast to life’s daily challenges, including recommendations from people they know and trust.
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Authors ‘Local Blogging’ with LikeList Mobile iPhone App during tour
SUNNYVALE, CA, October 27, 2011 – LikeList, a social-local network where people help each other discover more of the businesses they like and get trusted answers fast, announced today it is sponsoring the national book tour of Aliza Sherman and Danielle Smith’s new book Mom Incorporated: A Guide to Business + Baby, a fast selling business book that’s the go-to guide about home-based businesses for mothers with a baby or small children. While on tour, Sherman and Smith are ‘local blogging’ about the businesses they encounter using the LikeList Mobile app that allows them to instantly update their local referrals and recommendations to their base of social network followers.
Sherman is a web pioneer who founded the first woman-owned Internet company, Cybergrrl, Inc. and the first global women’s internet organization, Webgrrls International. Sherman is the owner of digital consultancy Mediaegg and author of nine books including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing, The Everything Blogging Book, and Streetwise Ecommerce. An award-winning television news anchor, Smith is the founder of ExtraordinaryMommy.com and DanielleSmithMedia.com and is a storyteller, video correspondent, spokesperson, and public speaker. Mom, Incorporated is her first book.
The book provides the information moms need to launch a home-based business, starting with coming up with the business idea to finding resources to setting it up to staying on track. To help busy moms find great places to work outside of the home, Sherman created a likelist “Alternative Work Spaces,” identifying comfortable places to work with Wi-Fi, good lighting and something to eat. Given Aliza’s great reputation among businesswomen and moms, this list is sure to be a valuable resource for working moms looking to find the best places to work locally while on the go.
“As moms, we just don’t have the time to sift through reviews from strangers to find the best places to enhance our daily lives or resources to help grow our businesses,” said Sherman. “Whether it’s finding gluten-free friendly restaurants or alternative workspaces when I’m traveling, LikeList Mobile helps me find what I need fast and helps others do the same by offering trusted lists of great local businesses.”
Through the LikeList free online service and LikeList Mobile app, consumers “like” businesses they want to recommend to their friends and others along with tips for why they like them, and the LikeList platform organizes these “likes” into useful, lists. These “likelists” capture first-hand experiences, hidden gems and great local businesses across any consumer category of interest or need from restaurants to contractors to local organic farms to great dance studios. The likelist serves as a person’s treasure trove of local knowledge neatly packaged into list form for today’s busy need- and want-driven lifestyles. On LikeList.com, users can quickly search and filter the likes and lists of people they know to get answers fast to life’s daily challenges, including recommendations from people they know and trust.
“Moms, or anyone seeking to start a new business venture, can use LikeList to quickly create a list around any topic or context such as the best resources for small business owners or best places for kids’ birthday parties. Since these lists can be shared with others they offer a new and very useful form of social-local expression and collaboration between people with the same interests, needs or passions. Influencers, bloggers and business owners can build trusted, searchable and extremely valuable local resources with their customers, fans or followers,” said Jim Delli Santi, CEO and president of LikeList. “Aliza and Danielle see the value of how LikeList Mobile can help them and other business owners share their local experiences and influence with others in their community anywhere they are, whether it’s on the road or at home in their local communities.”
The second leg of the Mom, Incorporated book tour dates and locations are:
- · October 25 – Chicago, IL
- October 29 – St. Louis, MO
- November 1 - San Diego, CA
- November 3 - Mountain View, CA
- November 5 - Los Angeles, CA
About LikeList
LikeList is a social-local network where people share lists of local businesses, positive experiences and hidden gems with people they know and trust. With the free LikeList service, users can keep all of the businesses they care about in one convenient place and can easily share referrals to their favorite businesses. LikeList is a platform that works across all social networks, combining the power of referrals and local search with the efficiency of lists. Founded in 2009, LikeList draws from the largest database of local consumer preferences to deliver relevant and trusted local businesses to users in seconds. For more information about LikeList, visit www.likelist.com.
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LikeList Mobile takes all the power of LikeList, a social-local network,and lets users find businesses liked by friends anywhere in the U.S.
SUNNYVALE, CA, October 18, 2011 – LikeList, a social-local network, announced today the availability of LikeList Mobile, a new iPhone® application, that gives LikeList users the ability to find great local businesses from their friends, locals or everyone, anytime, anywhere.
Through the free LikeList website, consumers “like” businesses they want to recommend to their friends and others along with tips for why they like them, and the LikeList platform organizes them into useful, lists. These “likelists” capture and make searchable, first-hand experiences, hidden gems and great local businesses across any consumer category of interest or need from restaurants to contractors to local organic farms to great dance studios. On LikeList.com, users can quickly search and filter these “likes” to get trusted answers fast including recommendations from people they know and trust.
“LikeList is becoming an essential tool for life’s daily needs and wants, whether it’s finding a great place on date night or the best vet for the family dog,” said Jim Delli Santi, CEO and president of LikeList. LikeList is a social-local network with a single purpose; helping you get answers fast to what you need and want in your daily life. “With LikeList Mobile, now you can easily get recommendations from friends and people you trust who have first-hand experiences at the businesses nearby where you are. For example, you can quickly view which coffee shops are perfect alternative work spaces when you’re on the go, or find the most liked businesses of friends when you are traveling to a new city.”
LikeList Mobile also works across popular social networks, enabling users to share their local discoveries with their friends and even non-likelist users, anywhere they are. For influential LikeList users, as they discover new businesses or new products and services they can add them to “sharelists” to instantly share their discoveries with fans and followers who have their same interest or passion.
LikeList Mobile lets users:
- Keep all the businesses they care about in one place for easy access, like a business contacts list
- Save businesses users like and a tip for why they like them
- Save the ones their friends recommend for future use
- Find the places liked by friends, locals or everyone, anywhere, in seconds
- Share businesses they like with friends who are not on LikeList through e-mail, SMS, Facebook and Twitter
LikeList Mobile is available at the Apple App store.
For more information, please visit www.likelist.com/pages/mobile
About LikeList
LikeList is a social-local network where people share lists of local businesses, positive experiences and hidden gems with people they know and trust. With the free LikeList service, users can keep all of the businesses they care about in one convenient place and can easily share referrals to their favorite businesses. LikeList is a platform that works across all social networks, combining the power of referrals and local search with the efficiency of lists. Founded in 2009, LikeList draws from the largest database of local consumer preferences to deliver relevant and trusted local businesses to users in seconds. For more information about LikeList, visit www.likelist.com.
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Herrick Media
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Plug and Play Tech Center’s start-up, LikeList, served as mentor in U.S. Department of State’s TechWomen program
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – July 6, 2011 – A young woman CEO from Algeria has traveled to Silicon Valley to gain in-depth knowledge to help her launch her venture, the first online discount coupon site in her home country, through TechWomen, a U.S. Department of State program. The program, in its pilot year, pairs women from the Middle East and North Africa with mentors at leading technology companies. Loubna Lahmici, CEO of Ideatic, an Algerian start-up, was one of 37 women from the Middle East and North Africa identified as emerging leaders in technical fields who were paired up with their American counterparts for professional mentorship.
Launched in June 2011, TechWomen paired women from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and the Palestinian Territories with 24 participating Silicon Valley technology companies for the five-week program. Using innovative technologies, cutting-edge content, and social networking tools, TechWomen fosters and develops the next generation of women leaders in the technology field by providing women and girls with the access and opportunity needed to pursue tech-based careers.
Loubna was matched up with LikeList, a website where people discover and share local businesses and positive experiences, to learn how to interface with venture capitalists, to craft online marketing programs, and how to launch a new venture. Since LikeList is located at the Plug and Play Tech Center, Loubna also experienced firsthand how the leading high-tech accelerator’s from Sunnyvale more than 300 start-ups from all over the world are thriving in Silicon Valley.
“My experience in the TechWomen program was invaluable, giving me insights into cutting-edge technologies, connecting me with counterparts, and opening up new opportunities for the growth of my business,” said Loubna. “I will return to my home country with the latest best practices, new ideas and projects that I will share with my colleagues and team.”
Loubna is championing online commerce and changing Internet shopping in Algeria. In a country with more than 8 million Internet users and more than 30 million mobile users, Loubna is changing Algerian consumer behavior by introducing the Internet as a tool to save time and money. Her company, Ideatic, is incubating a new site which is an online site that provides limited, high-value printable coupons and mobile coupons for significant discounts which help to drive traffic and sales to local stores.
“Because of her local knowledge, business relationships and deep understanding of Internet usage and technology limitations in Algeria, Loubna is crafting a solution that’s culturally appropriate for Algeria,” said Jill Finlayson, senior director of Community at LikeList and Loubna’s mentor. “Rather than trying to force a model from other countries onto Algeria, she is taking the best practices and ideas from Silicon Valley and localizing them to help Algeria take the first steps toward online shopping.”
About TechWomen
TechWomen, a public-private partnership, was developed to implement President Barack Obama’s vision of greater collaboration between the United States and communities with predominantly Muslim populations, as outlined in his June 2009 speech in Cairo. TechWomen is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented in partnership with the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology (ABI). For more information, please visit: www.techwomen.org.
About LikeList
LikeList is a place online for sharing lists of local businesses, positive experiences and hidden gems between people you know, people you trust and people like you. For more information about LikeList, visit www.likelist.com.
About Plug and Play Tech Center
Plug and Play Tech Center is Silicon Valley’s leading high-tech accelerator and is home to more than 300 technology start-ups. Over the past 2 years, Plug and Play has created a soft landing platform for more than 60 international start-ups, partnered with 15 foreign governments to host their Silicon Valley incubators.
Plug and Play has also partnered with over 170 institutional VC firms, over 40 corporate venture arms and 350 Angels for funding, M&A and business development opportunities and has been hosting a broad spectrum of technologies from digital media, networking, mobile, voice and data communication, enterprise software to wireless, clean-tech and semiconductor.
Since its founding in 2006, companies residing in Plug and Play have raised more than $750 million in funding.
About the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries to promote friendly and peaceful relations, as mandated by the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961. ECA engages youth, students, educators, artists, athletes, and rising leaders in many fields in the United States and more than 160 countries through academic, cultural, sports, and professional exchanges. Striving to reflect the diversity of the United States and global society, ECA programs, funding, and other activities encourage the involvement of American and international participants from traditionally underrepresented groups, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities. ECA exchange program alumni encompass over 1 million people around the world, including more than 40 Nobel Laureates and more than 300 current and former heads of state and government. For more information, visit exchanges.state.gov.
About the Institute of International Education (IIE)
The Institute of International Education collaborates with universities, governments, non-governmental organizations and corporations to develop and implement scholarship, exchange, and training programs that educate and build leadership skills among students, scholars, and professionals worldwide. These include the prestigious Fulbright and Humphrey Fellowship Programs and the International Visitor Leadership Program, administered on behalf of the U.S. Department of State in partnership with other countries, as well as more than 250 other initiatives that benefit over 26,000 men and women from 175 countries each year. IIE has extensive experience working with U.S Embassies and Missions around the world to implement high-profile programs to foster cross-cultural dialogue and public diplomacy on behalf of the U.S. government.
IIE is currently engaged in collaborative program initiatives in 16 countries/territories in the MENA region that reach over 7,000 students, scholars, and professionals each year to promote workforce development, good governance, and gender equity in the region. IIE programs utilize social media to connect emerging leaders worldwide to forge solutions to critical problems, and enhance networking among alumni. IIE’s MENA Regional Office in Cairo has also provided training in a wide range of fields to over 10,000 individuals from the public, private and NGO sectors. Through its West Coast Center (IIE/WCC) in San Francisco, IIE has extensive experience and success collaborating with the technology sector and local organizations, especially in the MENA region. For more information, visit www.iie.org.
About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)
The Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs to help industry, academia, and government recruit, retain, and advance women technical leaders, resulting in higher levels of technological innovation. ABI programs serve technical women by creating a community and providing tools to help them develop their careers. ABI is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 charitable organization. ABI Partners include: Google, HP, Microsoft, CA Technologies, Cisco, Facebook, First Republic Bank, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Lockheed Martin, National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, NetApp, SAP, Symantec, Thomson Reuters, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Amazon, Broadcom, Motorola Foundation, Raytheon, Salesforce and Yahoo!. For more information, visit www.anitaborg.org.
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and Technology (TechWomen)
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Mirijana Sasa
Plug and Play Tech Center
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Ursula Herrick
LikeList
Ursula@herrickmedia.com
408-202-0865
