“…those VCs that do invest in women-led companies have their pick of good opportunities that others overlook. It’s a classic behavior of underfunded markets, Plummer says: “It generally means there’s very little money chasing a lot of good ideas.”‘
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Excellent guidance and how to get introductions from Hunter Walk.
“I WANT IT NOW!” First Veruca Salt, but most recently the title of this week’s Instant Gratification series by reporter Liz Gannes. For me one common thread ran through the stories: importance of operations teams in these new on-demand businesses. Strong operations leads are as valuable – and scarce – as great designers, experienced mobile devs and the other fabled unicorn hires. The customer experience for these companies may start with bits but it ends with atoms, and that’s why an Operations team can make – or break – your startup.
When Homebrew decided to focus on the Bottom Up Economy we knew operations would be a key area for many of the teams we backed. Satya and I were fortunate enough to spend many years at Google, beginning on AdSense where Kim Scott ran the Online Sales & Operations team for Sheryl. Kim, a whipsmart founder and leader…
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What’s makes for an innovative startup hub? Researchers have been diving into that topic for years, analyzing everything from the existence of large resear
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Congrats to Jennifer Fonstad!
“Taught high school math in Sub-Sahara Africa before joining Draper Fisher Jurvetson and earning recognition as one of the most powerful women in the Valley’s venture world.”
Jennifer Fonstad named Venture Capital Woman of Influence, as she moves to launch her firm Aspect Ventures with Theresia Gouw.
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Theresia Gouw of Accel and Jennifer Fonstad of Draper Fisher Jurvetson are opening Aspect Ventures, a tech investment firm through which they said they planned to invest in mobile start-ups and illustrate the value of diversity.
Definitely a VC Dream Team! Congrats @jfonstad.
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Anastasia Leng, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Hatch, talks about providing mentoring advice for entrepreneurs through The NextWomen
Don’t I know, you’re never too experienced to have a mentor. Every venture brings new challenges, regardless of your accomplishments in ‘past lives’
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One of the big trends that I’ve been paying attention to is companies not only competing for talent against their competitors but against talent who are competitors.
Always a battle for great talent
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This week’s wrap-up is all about perfecting your one minute elevator pitch. See what our previous startups have to say.
Great advice on presenting your one minute pitch.
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At the risk of not being invited back to LeWeb, something has to be said. I hate to be critical because overall the conference has hosted some truly inspirational speakers and sessions, and I have …
Another tech conference that just can’t find women speakers, but what I enjoyed aoout this post is how irritated the men were about the moderator’s inappropriate comments about the ‘beauty’ of the women’s panel, per the tweets. The shift is happening. .
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“Over the last 12 months, the tech industry added 60,000 jobs, and 36,000 — or 60% — of those positions went to women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Usually, men make up 70% to 80% of the new hires, but according to the BLS, the tide seems to have turned in the last year.Suddenly, tech firms are hiring more women than men.
Feel the Shift? 60% of new hires in the tech industry in the past year are women–a whopping 36%!
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