Laura Fitton
HubSpot, Founder of oneforty.com; co-author Twitter for Dummies
Oneforty: What Happens When You Build Your Business On Someone Else’s Platform – with Laura Fitton |...
Laura Fitton is the founder of Oneforty, an app store that was built for Twitter. It was acquired in 2011 by HubSpot where she’s now the Inbound Marketing Evangelist. Prefer audio? Great! “Right click” here for the MP3 format. Laura Fitton is the founder of Oneforty, an app store ... Read more »
HubSpot Celebrates Women in Tech with Lean In Breakfast and Three Awards
Among the 90+ women from HubSpot who attended the event, as well as the executive team, was Ellie Mirman, recognized on SLMA’s 20 Women to Watch in Sales Lead Management, Anum Hussain, a 2013 B2B Marketing Rising Star, and Laura Fitton, co-author of Twitter for Dummies and one of Forbes’ ... Read more »
2 Women Serial Entrepreneurs Tell All
Susan Leger Ferraro, founder of an early-childhood schools chain, and Laura Fitton, digital business owner, irreverently detail what has helped them most along the way. Keep your equity in your pocket. Help out your mentor. That advice and more emerged during an Inc. panel this week in ... Read more »
20 Questions With The (Former) 'Queen of Twitter,' Laura ...
Laura Fitton (or just called “Pistachio”) is the co-author of bestseller Twitter for Dummies, founder of www.oneforty.com (acquired by HubSpot all-in-one marketing software in 2011), speaker and lecturer at conferences, companies and universities- everything from Johnson & Johnson to ... Read more »
6 Expert-Endorsed Ways to Improve Your Marketing TODAY
But, as Twitter for Dummies author and HubSpot evangelist Laura Fitton observes, “the most influential people on Twitter give freely of their time, energy, and influence. Gary Vaynerchuk and Chris Brogan regularly publish lists of exceptional people on Twitter and share content created ... Read more »
Breaking in: Women entrepreneurs score with tech start-ups
Laura Fitton, Founder, oneforty. Fitton is a true Twitter pioneer and tech trend- spotter. She authored Twitter for Dummies, and was in the vanguard of understanding how Tweets could be harnessed and used for marketing potential. Her idea for a Twitter app store - oneforty - ... Read more »
Oh, baby! Bump-y start for new CEO
“I hope stupid mommy wars don’t break out over this, but I expect that they might,” said Laura Fitton, a single mother of two and resident glass-ceiling smasher at local startup HubSpot. “Everyone will want to have an opinion on this and think it matters.” While Fitton, 40, had an ... Read more »
The Pulse Network and HubSpot Partner to Support Expanded Inbound Marketing Summit...
Among the keynote speakers at IMS San Francisco are HubSpot's Laura Fitton, along with IMS favorites Chris Brogan and Edelman Digital's Tim Hayden. Other featured speakers at this year's event include: Kare Anderson, Emmy-winning former WSJ and NBC journalist and CEO, Say it Better ... Read more »
How Solo Founders Beat The Odds and Get Into Top Accelerators
Other companies that made it into top accelerators as solo acts include Y Combinator graduates Ray Grieselhuber, CEO of Ginzamarkets (better known as Ginzametrics) and Olga Vidisheva, CEO of Shoptiques ; from TechStars, Laura Fitton, the founder of OneForty (acquired by Hubspot in 2011); ... Read more »
10 Things You Didn't Know About Women-Owned Businesses
Not knowing how to do that and approaching that for the first time was a real challenge.” — Laura Fitton, oneforty 3. Women-owned businesses employ 7.7 million people. That’s 40% more people than three largest employers — McDonald’s, IBM and Wal-Mart — combined. “I’m pretty good at ... Read more »
Techies Got Talent: Startup Talent Show
Three of the city’s most well known personalities will be filling in the seats of reality TV’s Paula, Randy and Simon—Tom O’Keefe, better known as @BostonTweet ; HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing Evangelist @Pistachio, Laura Fitton; and TechStars Boston Managing Director Katie Rae. According ... Read more »
Rapper’s big viral video spawns local imitators
“We have some really excited and excitable people,” said HubSpot spokeswoman Laura Fitton. Though there’s no obvious link to their mission of so-called Inbound marketing, HubSpot’s carefully crafted parody is a fun, smart example of how jumping on a meme bandwagon can expose a brand. And ... Read more »
BostInno Approved: What To Do This Week 6/25/12
Tech Cocktail’s Harnessing The Power of Your Network to Build Your Startup – 6:30pm – 9pm – NERD Center – Laura Fitton, HubSpot’s inbound marketing evangelist and Matt Douglas, founder and CEO of Punchbowl , will field questions from the crowd and share their experiences on how to ... Read more »
Laura Fitton’s 4 Rules for Networking
Laura Fitton has a pretty extensive network – in fact, she’s kind of like Elle Woods from Legally Blonde, she says. With a little help from networking, Fitton went from an unknown mother of two living near Boston, to the CEO of a venture-funded startup called oneforty.com, to an ... Read more »
Twitter for Business: Tap Power of the Tweet
To help you do that, we talked with two of the top Twitterers out there: Laura Fitton and Robert Scoble. Fitton, of Pistachio Consulting, helps companies develop social media strategies using Twitter, and is one of the leading Twitterers with more than 7,000 followers ... Read more »
Friday’s Keynote at Webvisions: “Whither Twitter?” by @Pistachio
Yet, Laura Fitton, Inbound Marketing Evangelist at HubSpot and this afternoon’s Keynote speaker at Webvisions is here to say that the disruptive force that is Twitter has only just begun. Quoting Joel Lunenfeld, who works for Twitter, Fitton says, “Twitter is like an EKG for ... Read more »
Rule53 -EP10- Laura Fitton & Kabir Hemrajani
This week I met up with Laura Fitton and Kabir Hemrajani for Rule 53. Laura is absolutely one of my favorite people to run into in the Boston startup scene. She is the founder of an awesome startup called oneforty, which has been making serious moves in the last few months. The ... Read more »
5 Successful Tech Companies Founded By Women
Laura Fitton – Pistachio Consulting, oneforty When Twitter was still just a forum for adolescent girls to tell Justin Bieber how much they love him, Laura Fitton was busy figuring out a way to use the microblogging network to make money. In 2008, Fitton founded Pistachio ... Read more »
Laura Fitton: 10 Talks That Will Fascinate You |
Laura Fitton knows a thing or two about the transformative power of social media. The author, lecturer, business consultant and entrepreneur was one of the first people to recognize the potential of Twitter a tool that could bring people together to overcome obstacles. She was one of the ... Read more »
Women-Owned Businesses: Fueling the Future : Innovation :: American Express OPEN Forum
For Laura Fitton, who founded to great acclaim what’s been called “the app store for Twitter,” the road to success was rife with obstacles. Her company, oneforty.com (now part of HubSpot), helps other businesses navigate the exploding and ever-changing world of Twitter. Fitton ... Read more »
