Sittercity CEO Genevieve Thiers Teaching Entrepreneurial Course at Columbia College
June 10, 2006FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Chicago, Ill.) - Genevieve Thiers, Sittercity.com's CEO, will be teaching a class at Columbia College that talks to entrepreneurs that are interested in business and its crossover with the arts. Well-known for her CEO career as an opera singer and CEO, Thiers' class focused on using both PowerPoint and singing to get her point across. Thiers spoke to entrepreneurs about finding their dream, building a company from minimal resources and incorporating the arts into a corporate setting. Her talk included an overview of the creation of Sittercity.com and OperaModa.com, a local opera company that she runs in Chicago, IL.
Genevieve Thiers will be teaching this class on a yearly basis, and students can find more information at www.columbia.edu.
About Sittercity.com
Sittercity.com is the Web's leading parent-babysitter online matchmaking site and the inventor of online child care, dedicated to making the process of finding a caregiver fast, easy, safe and fun. With access to hundreds of thousands of sitters nationwide, parents can find a wealth of qualified caregivers in their area by using Sittercity's four-step screening process, which includes references, parent-to-parent feedback, personal interviews and background checks. Registration for sitters is free, and parents pay $7.99 per month for an annual membership, which gives them the unlimited ability to post jobs, and search, contact and hire sitters in their areas. A true pioneer in its field, Sittercity.com has been featured by hundreds of media outlets; from the Today Show to the Wall Street Journal. It received a Webby Worthy Award in 2005, won the Women's Business Development Center Rising Star Award in 2005 and won the U.S. Small Business Administration Champion Award in 2006 from President Bush. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.sittercity.com.