[2] Touby is best known as the founder of Mediabistro, the journalism and publishing resource site that she sold to Jupitermedia in 2007 for $23 million.
[3] Following the sale of Mediabistro, Laurel began a second career as a New York City based start-up advisor and tech investor.
While studying at Smith College, Laurel was a track and field collegiate athlete and actively involved in student government.
While still working at Glamour, Laurel also became the CEO of Mediabistro.com, a website for people in the media industry providing services such as online education, employment classifieds, conferences, events, forums, and industry-specific blogs, such as the popular TVNewser.
Touby is active as a public speaker and has hosted “Secrets of Successful Startups“ on CBS Interactive.
[6] Touby is married to Jon Fine, former media reporter for BusinessWeek[7] and former Executive Director of Editorial at Inc.