• Fonction : Founder & CEO
• Entreprise : Bottlenotes
• Activité : Social networking wine
• Thèmes abordés :
  • Social networking,
  • wine/web communities

Présentation de votre entreprise

Web www.bottlenotes.com
Blog www.bottlenotes.com/bottleblog
Book www.bottlenotes.com/book

Bottlenotes is the premier online wine community, a place for new to intermediate wine enthusiasts to come explore, buy, and share wine. Bottlenotes community members can rate a wine, add a tasting note, read the tasting notes from our community, celebrity, and expert members, gain "wine knowledge" from our podcast library (BottleTalk®), receive educational newsletters (BottleNews®), read our blog (BottleBlog®), search our Winecyclopedia^TM, peruse our "wine people," and as of March 16th, 2009, subscribe to The Daily Sip^TM, Bottlenotes' version of the "Daily Candy" of wine.
At Bottlenotes.com, members can also join a Bottlenotes wine club, in which wine is matched to members' personal tastes using our proprietary matching technology, create a Bottlenotes Wine Registry^TM (integrated with the WeddingChannel.com), select elegant yet affordable corporate gifts and events, or purchase individual wines by the bottle or case from boutique and estate wineries in the U.S. and around the world, wine gift packs, and stemware.

Présentation de vous même

Alyssa J. Rapp is the Founder and CEO of Bottlenotes, Inc., soon to be known as the premier online wine community when the entire website relaunches in October 2008! Alyssa previously served as the sales/marketing manager for RO Imports, an importer of boutique New Zealand wines in New York and co-presided over a 500-person wine club at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Alyssa priorly served as the National Finance Director for Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky's re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2002 election cycle, raising over $1 million.

Alyssa earned a B.A. in Political Science and the History of Art from Yale University in 2000 and an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in 2005. She also serves on the Board of Trustees for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Alyssa is the author of Bottlenotes Guide to Wine: Around the World in 80 Sips. (Adam's Media, Released October 2008).
Alyssa was also named in Inc. Magazine's "30 Under 30". coolest entrepreneurs in America in September 2008. Alyssa co-resides in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area but greatly enjoys traveling around the world in search of today's best wines.

Les thèmes que vous souhaitez développer durant votre intervention

Social networking, wine/web communities. Support de l'intervention du 18 juin.