Sentences with phrase «from female founders»

These figures and the personal success stories from female founders in the FT piece may be encouraging, but Mishkin cautions against too much cheerfulness.

Floodgate has reported that 20 % of its pitches come from female founders, whereas other VCs say they see roughly 1 % to 2 %.

Another one is from female founders where VCs expect more — everything from blowjobs to handjobs to hotel keys.

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.

LinkedIn InMail (from a female founder): I would love to pick your brain about my start up.

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It's a paltry number, but a noticeable improvement from 10 years ago, when female founders were involved in just 2.95 % of deals.

«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.»

To find those traits, we polled a sampling of successful female founders at the event, from Wurwand to an 11 - year - old lemonade entrepreneur who snagged a sweet offer on Shark Tank and an El Salvadoran - immigrant - turned - millionaire - waste management mogul who «turns trash into treasure.»

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The absolute number of startups in Crunchbase with at least one female founder has more than quadrupled in the last five years, from 117 in 2009 to 555 in 2014.

Female founders are front - running the gender shift in tech and it's great to see the massive support from the investor community.

Those are some of the findings from the latest research conducted by the Female Founders Fund, an early - stage, New York City - based fund that invests only in women entrepreneurs.

Zola's round also represents the sixth largest raise this year by a startup with a female founder, according to data from PitchBook.

With five months into this year, U.S. firms with at least one female founder have raised about $ 4.4 billion in funding based on data from Pitchbook.

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.

In early 2012, Best Buy founder Richard Schulze resigned from the company amidst his role in turning a blind eye at a company scandal involving a top executive's shady «personal conduct» (i.e. an affair) with a certain 29 - year - old female employee.

From a deal volume perspective, Q1 2018 saw 14 percent of venture deals include at least one female founder.

Companies with only female founders accounted for only 3 % of the total dollars raised by startups in 2016, according to data from venture - capital tracker PitchBook Data Inc..

Allwork.Space: How did Women Who Cowork grow from an idea and a loose community of female founders and space owners into something more organized?

[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

The absolute number of companies (along with the total number of startups) with a female founder grew more than fivefold, from 176 in 2009 to 932 in 2016.

In a study posted in May last year, CrunchBase reported the percentage of funded startups with at least one female founder increased from 9 percent to 18 percent between 2009 and 2014.

Some of these events include the Out for Undergrad (O4U) annual Tech Conference, which allowed us to connect with many high - achieving LGBTQ + undergraduates from across the country, as well as the Y Combinator - hosted Female Founders Conference, or even SF Pride last month!

In 2012, she co-founded the Female Founders Network, a non-profit organization that aims to increase funding to female founded companies from it's current 5 % to 20 % byFemale Founders Network, a non-profit organization that aims to increase funding to female founded companies from it's current 5 % to 20 % byfemale founded companies from it's current 5 % to 20 % by 2020.

From Welfare to 7 Figures — How Anything Is Possible: My Interview with Carrie Green for the She Means Business Podcast Founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association, Carrie Green is without a doubt one of the kindest, sweetest, and most determined women I have ever met.

Female founders can be especially susceptible to sexual harassment from male investors, experts say, because of the power imbalance between their roles — an entrepreneur who needs a check to get her business off the ground may feel obligated to laugh awkwardly and shrug it off when the VC with the checkbook makes a sexual remark.

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.

Our goal is to gather as many female founders as possible, put them in a safe space and have them not just get advice from female VCs but from each other.

Aileen Lee, from an interview in January: Do you see any diversity, in terms of female founders and CEOs, among the billion - dollar venture - backed companies you call unicorns?

This year's class included six teams from the Carolinas and Virginia and four from Austin and half of them had female founders.

The annual Female Founders Conference, hosted by the Mountain View startup accelerator Y Combinator, usually features feel - good speeches from female industry leaders on their professional joFemale Founders Conference, hosted by the Mountain View startup accelerator Y Combinator, usually features feel - good speeches from female industry leaders on their professional jofemale industry leaders on their professional journey.

The fact the founders are «young, female, queer - friendly, [and] artsy» [5] sets them apart from all other civil rights movements.

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?

From the ostracized female founder of Tinder is Bumble.

The LUPA project was named after the female wolf that fed the twin founders of Rome to reflect the benefits human will obtain from dog genetics.

Cassie De Pecol, Founder of Expedition 196 and holder of two Guinness World Records for fastest person and fastest female to visit every sovereign nation in the world, drops by to share highlights from her 18 - month and 10 - day journey around the world.

Inspired by the historic 1970s documentary Painters Painting, Women Painting explores the world of contemporary painting, from the perspective of female artists in the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, Girls» Club's founders.

The show, curated by Postmasters founder Magda Sawon, gathers works with female subjects from a disparate group of artists on the loose theme of the ubiquitous social media phenomenon.

Dwyer, who is an assistant deputy minister at the Indigenous Education and Well Being division at the Ontario Ministry of Education and founder of the Black Female Lawyers Network, would go on to study economics and political science, earning a bachelor of arts degree from McGill University, and then going on to graduate from the University of Windsor Law School.

From our most recent analysis, Crunchbase reported the percentage of funded startups with at least one female founder increased from 9 percent to 17 percent between 2009 and 2017.3 We previously concluded that female founders are gradually doing better when it comes to fundFrom our most recent analysis, Crunchbase reported the percentage of funded startups with at least one female founder increased from 9 percent to 17 percent between 2009 and 2017.3 We previously concluded that female founders are gradually doing better when it comes to fundfrom 9 percent to 17 percent between 2009 and 2017.3 We previously concluded that female founders are gradually doing better when it comes to funding.

Joining NorthMarq from Quest is Susan Branscome, the firm's founder, who will become NorthMarq's fourth female managing director.