Sentences with phrase «for women founders»

We've succeeded in enabling more than $ 20 million raised for women founders.

That's bad news for both women founders and investors, as local connectedness is associated with better startup performance.

To turn this tide, Circular Board, the first virtual accelerator for women entrepreneurs, approached Dell in 2016 with a new idea to disrupt the startup world: What if we could build an entirely new ecosystem, designed especially for women founders?

Not exact matches

Founders of theSkimm, Rent the Runway, and Other Badass Women Share Their Top 5 Tips for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

With a program called Radical Generosity, the founder of SheEO wants to offer a different option for women entrepreneurs seeking growth - stage funding

Two founders of Facebook's most popular groups for women entrepreneurs provide marketing tips on the use of social media.

«The reason for this pushback lies in many of the unconscious assumptions we all hold about women and men,» Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and the founder of Lean In, wrote for The Wall Street Journal.

Canadian companies even have a new resource to turn to in their quest for female candidates: a recruiting firm launched last year by Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women's Executive Network.

She's also the founder and president of the Lady Spyder Ryders of America, organizing and leading daylong rides for women bikers.

Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.

Marsha Firestone, PhD, is president and founder of Women Presidents» Organization, a non-profit membership organization for women presidents of multimillion dollar companies with 93 chapters on four continWomen Presidents» Organization, a non-profit membership organization for women presidents of multimillion dollar companies with 93 chapters on four continwomen presidents of multimillion dollar companies with 93 chapters on four continents.

United in purpose and passion, their focus is working together to close the gender gap for female founders, smash the glass ceiling and rewrite the conversation surrounding women entrepreneurs for the better — and once and for all.

That's unusual for any entrepreneur — but especially for a female founder, given the tiny percentage of venture dollars that go to women.

To learn about the state of financing for women - owned ventures, I spoke with Vonda White, serial entrepreneur and founder of Camp Pillsbury, a Minnesota - based boarding school that White acquired after overcoming all the hurdles associated with securing business funding.

Craig Newmark, a member of the Advisory team for Women Who Tech, is the founder of craigslist, the web - based platform that has fundamentally changed classified advertising.

«Organizations wait until a crisis to bring women into positions of power because they realize the current strategy isn't working and a new approach is needed,» says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founder and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation.

Mehta was joined by Caroline Ghosn, co-founder Levo League, a networking site for young career women, Maxine Bedat, founder Zady.com, an online retailer of sustainable fashion, and Lara Galinsky, author and senior vice president of Echoing Green, which provides startup funding to socially conscious ventures.

The Vancouver, Canada - based company's fall from grace began with the embarrassing revelation that some of its pants were see through and the non mea culpa of founder and chairman Chip Wilson, where he claimed in November that «some women's bodies just don't actually work» for the clothing.

As a busy Manhattan executive and workout guru, founder of the DB Method Erika Rayman wanted to create a product for women who were frustrated with doing boring exercises and never seeing any results.

«Women make the majority of purchase decisions for almost every product category in the marketplace, and that includes automotive, electronics, and insurance,» says Kat Gordon, founder and Creative Director of Maternal Instinct, a marketing agency focused on helping brands connect with the mom market.

Zak is a female founder with a product for women — she's able to understand a large part of the problem.

Rethink Impact is the largest venture capital firm in the U.S. focused on woman founders, according to Forbes, which is incredibly impactful for female founders who aren't being recognized by most venture capitalists.

While entrepreneurs are creating some avenues to make this space easier for women to navigate, women founders are still being neglected.

«Women can now make potentially life - defining decisions about how to proactively plan for the family they want to build and be more efficient in overcoming fertility difficulties they are experiencing using better, more personal, information than age,» founder Piraye Beim shared earlier this year in TechCrunch.

As the CEO and founder of Sphynx, which provides a self - contained shaving solution for women on the go, she proved that through innovation, passion and creativity there may be a solution for every obstacle.

The three women on the stage — Mellody Hobson, President of Ariel Investments; Gisele Ruiz, EVP and COO at Wal - Mart North America; and Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America — are young women themselves, although Generation Xers rather than millennials.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

Robb and Coleman reported findings from a 2014 survey that women founders prefer to rely on personal sources of financing and are three times less likely to approach angel investors or venture capitalists for equity financing.

The Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO appears with his tummy painted (like a yo - yo)-- along with more than 100 pregnant women who had their bumps transformed for «The Belly Art Project,» a coffee table book put together for charity by billionaire Spanx founder, Sara Blakely.

«Since 1920, women have sort of been fighting to make the vote real,» says Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (Iwomen have sort of been fighting to make the vote real,» says Heidi Hartmann, the founder and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWomen's Policy Research (IWPR).

Kelly Azevedo, founder and systems expert for She's Got Systems in Woodland, Calif., says there's confusion over what's a bossy woman as opposed to an assertive leader and this can prompt women to shy away from the spotlight.

When an Investor Made It Clear He Didn't Respect Women Founders, She Flipped It Into a Defining Moment for Her Company

That said, when male founders were successful, they achieved nearly twice the average valuation - $ 1.53 million for men, versus a little over $ 760,000 for women.

In this episode, we spoke to Evolvin» Women founder Assia Riccio, who shares with us her thoughts on starting up a social enterprise, and how Dubai Startup Hub's Market Access program helped open doors for her in terms of taking her business forward.

Take the underrepresentation of women among tech entrepreneurs together with an overwhelmingly male VC population (with their presumably dude - heavy networks and natural affinity for the types of companies that speak to men) and the result has been dismal amounts of investor dollars going to female founders — less than five percent just a decade ago.

Experienced female founders, what's your best advice for young women just getting into entrepreneurship?

This stubborn problem has remained for years despite more women joining the ranks of investors and increased awareness of the blatant sexism and sexual harassment female founders sometimes face when raising money.

Given the statistics on things like VC funding for women (and the horror stories around sexist behavior founders sometimes face) your worries aren't totally insane.

In the course of an interesting discussion jam - packed with advice from the young founder, including tips on successfully bootstrapping and recommendations for some of her favorite tools for entrepreneurs, she offers young women like herself some advice on how to face their well - founded anxieties about the additional challenges that female founders still face.

The #MeToo movement is shining a light on stories of sexual harassment and discrimination that have remained in the dark for far too long, but women founders are still facing an uphill battle when it comes to securing venture capital funding for their startups.

The ability to see new markets and new customers for a core technology is something that is available to founders and CEOs with more diverse skill sets, including women.

«As a result of the mentoring that I do — especially with women startup founders or young women professionals — I do get asked for coffee more than I ask.

One of the major barriers for women CEOs of startups is a lack of access to the networks that lead to funding, says Natalie Zfat, founder of Poison Ivy, an entertainment blog in the New York entertainment scene.

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

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Women founders were pushed out or into lesser roles as a condition for investment, while similarly inexperienced male founders were given the benefit of the doubt and supported.

Whitehead today launched the Pink Ceiling, a firm that offers a combination of consulting and seed investment to founders developing breakthrough tech for women.