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Editor's note: This guest post is written by Aileen Lee, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Aileen focuses on investing in early stage consumer internet ventures and previously worked at Gap, Odwalla, The Northface and Morgan Stanley. She was also founding CEO of KP-backed RMG Networks. Full disclosure: some of the companies mentioned below are KP-backed companies. You can read more about Aileen at KPCB.com and follow her on twitter at @aileenlee.It feels like we're in a Golden Age of the web, led by consumer internet services and e-commerce. Just consider these stats: Facebook"over 600 million users. Twitter"25 billion tweets last year. Tumblr"1 billion page views a week. Zynga"100 million users on Cityville in just 6 weeks. We're witnessing a generation of consumer web companies growing at an unprecedented rate in terms of both user adoption and revenue.But here's a little secret that's gone unnoticed by most. It's women.Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest growing, and most valuable consumer internet and e-commerce companies. Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.
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Why Women Rule The Internet
Editor's note: This guest post is written by Aileen Lee, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Aileen focuses on investing in early stage consumer internet ventures and previously worked at Gap, Odwalla, The Northface and Morgan Stanley. She was also founding CEO of KP-backed RMG Networks. Full disclosure: some of the companies mentioned below are KP-backed companies. You can read more about Aileen at KPCB.com and follow her on twitter at @aileenlee.It feels like we're in a Golden Age of the web, led by consumer internet services and e-commerce. Just consider these stats: Facebook"over 600 million users. Twitter"25 billion tweets last year. Tumblr"1 billion page views a week. Zynga"100 million users on Cityville in just 6 weeks. We're witnessing a generation of consumer web companies growing at an unprecedented rate in terms of both user adoption and revenue.But here's a little secret that's gone unnoticed by most. It's women.Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest growing, and most valuable consumer internet and e-commerce companies. Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ZU58HuZ2vkE/
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