Entrepreneur Susan Danziger has a thirst for innovation and yen for reading. (She’s a former executive at Random House.) Danziger and her husband Albert Wenger, a VC at Union Square Ventures, founded the digital publishing venture DailyLit, where subscribers receive literature in small increments via email or RSS. The idea was to get or keep people reading, even if it’s just five minutes a day. (And, boy did they–DailyLit has delivered 50 million installments to more than 800,000 readers.) DailyLit merged this year with serialized fiction publisher Plympton (co-founded by former New York Times journalist Jennifer 8. Lee and novelist Yael Goldstein Love) and Danziger has stepped back into an advisory role. Good thing, too, since she’s just launched a new company, Ziggeo. It’s a private, virtual screening room that allows people to vet potential au pairs, personal assistants, roommates, even dates via video. It’s the pre-meet, pre-Skype step to finding the right fit. Ziggeo brings efficiency to the search, and solves that awkward problem where you know someone’s right or wrong within the first two minutes…
Danziger thrives on change, a valuable quality for our times. And she’ll go against the grain: she recently moved with her family from the suburbs to New York City, reversing a time-honored trend. (As if promoting literature in the digital age weren’t iconoclastic enough!) Did we mention she has three kids (an 11-year-old and 13-year-old twins), who she and Wenger have decided to homeschool beginning this fall? In fact, the husband and wife team are looking for a couple of “Guides/Tutors” for their children. Intellectual curiosity and technology savvy preferred. Interested in applying? Send your video here. And make sure you tell the truth; Danziger’s also got a law degree from NYU.
