Sentences with phrase «first female founder»

This month, we're teaming up with Modern Citizen to bring you our first Female Founder Speaker Series.

I'm the longest operating coworking space in Austin and I recently realized that I'm the first female founder in Texas.

The first Female Founder event will help hone the pitches of entrepreneurs whose companies are at the seed stage, with two more events focusing on firms at the Series A and growth stages scheduled for February and March, respectively.

The first Female Founder Office Hours event is scheduled for Nov. 30 in San Francisco.

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One of the reasons why Stitch Fix is an important IPO is because [CEO Katrina Lake] is the first of this new wave of female founders to take her company public.

«As a first - time, young female founder who quickly grew from three people on a couch to a team of ten, we love how this book clearly outlines so many tactical approaches to communication, being a good leader, and building trust on the team.»

According to First Round Capital's analysis of its own portfolio, companies with at least one female founder provided them with 63 % better returns on investment than companies with all - male teams.

New research from Female Founders Fund confirms a trend that first popped up about six months ago: Relative to women entrepreneurs raising money in other parts of the country, women in New York are killing it.

Jess Lee, the former CEO of fashion shopping site Polyvore who was named Sequoia Capital's first U.S. female investing partner last year, is on Monday unveiling a networking initiative for female company founders.

Reviewing the data over the last 10 years, 2015 is the first year that companies with at least one female founder have broken through the threshold of 10 percent of venture dollars.

[01:30] Introduction [02:30] Tony welcomes Alexandra [03:40] Launching in 2007 — it came from a place of passion [04:25] Establishing clear roles among founders [05:40] Flexing her multilingual skills in business [06:25] Adjusting how you speak to someone based on their objectives [08:10] The secret to Gilt's growth [09:20] Building a business that would thrive during winter [10:20] Finding the capital to purchase inventory [10:40] Moving from venture to private equity funding [11:20] It's all about smart money [11:40] The future of traditional retail [12:20] The subscription model [12:40] Catering to the time - starved customer [12:55] Bringing services into the home [13:10] Leaving Gilt to lead Glamsquad [16:10] Glamsquad started as an app [17:10] Vetting employees [18:10] Building trust with customers [19:00] Taking massive action — now [20:20] Launching the first sale on Gilt — without a return policy [21:30] Fitz [22:00] The average person wears only 20 % of their wardrobe [23:00] Taking the time to understand your customer [23:20] Challenges as a woman in business [24:40] Advice to a female entrepreneur that's just getting started [25:25] The importance of networking [25:50] Knowing the milestones to hit along the way

Although there have been other female - led venture firms — Illuminate Ventures is one — Ms. Gouw and Ms. Fonstad are among the first founders to come from big, top - tier firms.

First Round also found that three of its top 10 best performing investments had a female founder.

«We are getting a first look at an unfair share of these amazing, oftentimes repeat entrepreneurs, who happen to be female,» said Theresia Gouw, a founder of Aspect and a former partner at Accel.

The girls were recruited by Roya Mahboob, Afghanistan's first female tech CEO and founder of the Citadel software company.

At Loukoumi's home they discover Fistiki's Aunt Cat Cora, a character based on celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Cat Cora, the first and only female Iron Chef, and President and Founder of Chefs for Humanity, which works to reduce hunger around the world.

March 12: Since first meeting on this day in 1912, Girl Scouts have fulfilled founder Juliette Low's mission of getting out of the home and into the world, and even farther: Nearly all female astronauts, including Eileen Collins, are former Scouts.

Besides being the first black female Ph.D. in her field and the founder of the National Human Genome Center at Howard, a historically black university, where was she coming from?

It may be your best opportunity to work with someone who has studied directly with great Indian masters of the past such as B.K.S. Iyengar (she was one of his first female students) and Ashtanga yoga founder K. Pattabhi Jois.

This fall, the first group of 12 teams arrived, half with female founders, including one Ed School team: Taylor Percival, Ed.M.»

This led her to become one of the founders of A.I.R. Gallery in New York in the 1970s, which was the first to exhibit female artists on a male - dominated scene.

Article on Wilhelmina Cole Holladay Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, a founder and chairman of the first museum devoted exclusively to female artists, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, was honored at the fifth anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

The first of these cases involves a suit by two female law students against Anthony Ciollio, founder of Autoadmit, a bulletin board - type site, as well as commenters who badmouthed them in postings at the site.

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The first event, on November 30 in San Francisco, will be geared toward helping seed - stage female founders finesse their pitches.

The first season tells the story of the podcast creator himself as he launches Gimlet Media, his podcast network, while the second takes a dive into the story of two female founders creating a dating website.