http://betabeat.com Just another WordPress.com site Sun, 19 May 2013 04:58:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://betabeat.com http://betabeat.com/2011/06/doing-it-25-women-driving-new-yorks-tech-scene/guari-manglik/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:00:15 -0400 http://betabeat.com/2011/06/doing-it-25-women-driving-new-yorks-tech-scene/guari-manglik/ http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/guari-manglik-e1307375787631.jpg Gauri Manglik also thought she was headed for Wall Street, spending seven months as a tech analyst for the financial services giant Blackrock before hopping over to try her hand as an entrepreneur. It’s been a wild ride since then. Ms. Manglik became the co-founder and CEO of SpotOn, a location-based mobile recommendation app, in February of 2010 and launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last month. The high profile debut led to a flood of sign-ups and the young company is now focused on polishing their product and keeping up with demand.

Ms. Manglik and her team work out of the Local Response HQ in Chelsea, which means their investors from ENIAC ventures are just shouting distance across the office. "I was a computer science major at NYU, so I'm used to being the only girl in the room," she said. Ms. Manglik, 22, was also one of the youngest founders on stage at Disrupt. "I feel like the things that set me apart, being a woman, are kind of an advantage," she said. Her goal now is to expand SpotOn's reach beyond Manhattan and make it simple to move from using the mobile app to executing an "offline adventure."

]]> Gauri Manglik also thought she was headed for Wall Street, spending seven months as a tech analyst for the financial services giant Blackrock before hopping over to try her hand as an entrepreneur. It’s been a wild ride since then. Ms. Manglik became the co-founder and CEO of SpotOn, a location-based mobile recommendation app, in February of 2010 and launched at TechCrunch Disrupt last month. The high profile debut led to a flood of sign-ups and the young company is now focused on polishing their product and keeping up with demand.

Ms. Manglik and her team work out of the Local Response HQ in Chelsea, which means their investors from ENIAC ventures are just shouting distance across the office. "I was a computer science major at NYU, so I'm used to being the only girl in the room," she said. Ms. Manglik, 22, was also one of the youngest founders on stage at Disrupt. "I feel like the things that set me apart, being a woman, are kind of an advantage," she said. Her goal now is to expand SpotOn's reach beyond Manhattan and make it simple to move from using the mobile app to executing an "offline adventure."

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