Sentences with phrase «women founders do»
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When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»
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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.
This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.
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.
Sarah Schupp, founder of UniversityParent in Boulder, Colo., doesn't believe companies should give women specific opportunities.
Susan LaMotte, principal consultant and founder of exaqueo in Alexandria, Va., finds that baby boomers and traditionalists aren't accustomed to seeing women advance in the workplace and often don't understand their personal needs, which stifles their professional growth.
When an Investor Made It Clear He Didn't Respect Women Founders, She Flipped It Into a Defining Moment for Her Company
«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.
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.»
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?
The founders also believed that African - Americans and women didn't deserve to vote or be treated like human beings.
(One of those studies, done in 2012 by Dow Jones, shows that companies where women are founders or executives are more likely to go public or become profitable or be sold for a higher price).
Lululemon founder Chip Wilson resigned as chairman in December and will step down in June after controversial comments in November where he implied Lululemon pants don't work for some women's bodies, according to media reports.
On November 9, 2015, 10 of the best women - led startups in the Northeast pitched and showcased their innovative and disruptive ventures at Microsoft in Times Square to a panel of investors including Joanne Wilson, Susan Lyne — President of BBG Ventures, Kathryn Finney — Founder and Managing Director of digitalundivided (DID), and Victoria Song — VC at Flybridge.
DID runs the highly successful FOCUS Fellow program, an accelerator / incubator program for black women founders / co-founders of tech enabled companies.
Founder Jennie Allen never wanted a big event, or even a movement, that didn't deepen women's relationships with each other around the Word.
In a book published in 1891, B. T. Roberts, founder of the Free Methodists, argued in favor of Ordaining Women, though his denomination did not capitulate until 1974.
Don't know where you got that from... the founders (men and women please) did not block religion but blocked the government from passing laws to restrict religion.
«We have a whole generation of young people who don't know that abuse is wrong, and who are learning about sex from pornography,» says Natalie Collins, domestic abuse survivor and founder of Spark, a consultancy preventing violence against women.
Our founders didn't let women vote either, should we take away their vote and shove them back into the kitchens?
«Bringing together the top women and men in the industry to talk best practices and align goals for gender diversity and equality is something we have done in the United States and will continue to do so, but it is equally as important to extend this dialogue to our colleagues in Europe,» said Deborah Brenner, Founder & CEO, Women of the Vine & Spiwomen and men in the industry to talk best practices and align goals for gender diversity and equality is something we have done in the United States and will continue to do so, but it is equally as important to extend this dialogue to our colleagues in Europe,» said Deborah Brenner, Founder & CEO, Women of the Vine & SpiWomen of the Vine & Spirits.
Maryanne Higgins, IBCLC, a childbirth educator, doula, and founder of Barefoot Baby's Birth Services, suggests that most women self - diagnose under false assumptions, believing, at one point or another, that they do not have enough milk.
«Season after season, more women are discovering they don't have to sacrifice style for comfort», said founder, Angela Edgeworth.
Donna Smith, the founder of Black Women Do Cloth Diaper, wrote this:
«At the end of the day, we know that breastfeeding is best for babies, and is especially important among black women, but Beyonce did breastfeed and now she is also bottle feeding which is just fine,» says Kimberly Seals Allers, breastfeeding advocate and founder of parenting website MochaManual.com.
«Many women plan to exclusively breastfeed, but if they find themselves needing to supplement or add in formula, they are not really sure how to do both,» says Stephanie Nguyen, R.N., founder of Modern Milk, a breastfeeding clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona.
«She is an adult woman, she is a medical doctor; she hasn't lived here for some time so she doesn't even know the nuances of the parties and so on but she has the right to decide which way she wants to go,» Mrs Rawlings, who is also the founder of the National Democratic Party (NDP) told StarrFMonline.com.
Still, from the phone records in the FBI affidavit, parts of which are up on the Smoking Gun, it didn't seem like it was a woman - friendly workplace, from the male founder who said that a would - be call girl «looks like a butcher in my opinion» to the conversation about the «baggage» a worker with kids has to the outraged indignation of an applicant who was «shock and confuse» that the company expected its employees to have sex with men who don't even take them out to dinner.
Kimberly Ramsawak is the founder of Professional Jetsetter where she helps professional ambitious women travel the world more and make money while doing it, so that they can enjoy the global lifestyle they've always dreamed of without having to give up their financial security.
Exercise might be the last thing on your mind when your tummy hurts, but «a brisk walk, maybe 10 to 15 minutes, can do wonders,» says gastroenterologist Robynne Chutkan, MD, founder of the Digestive Center for Women in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
«Many women these days have schedules that don't include keeping up a paint job on their nails,» says Yan Lu, owner and founder of San Francisco's Le Creme Spa.
Although estrogen, a key component in most forms of hormonal birth control, doesn't directly cause weight gain, it might be the reason a woman doesn't feel as full after she eats — thanks to estrogen's effect on hormones that affect appetite, explains nutritionist Alisa Vitti, founder of FLOliving.com.
I love the work that I do as an intuitive energy healer, women's health expert and yoga therapist, and founder of an essential oil fragrance brand, so much so that I forget to take a break.
«Women are especially guilty of making jokes about how fat or how bad we look, but when we do that, we empower other women (or men) to do the same,» says Budig, founder of AIM Women are especially guilty of making jokes about how fat or how bad we look, but when we do that, we empower other women (or men) to do the same,» says Budig, founder of AIM women (or men) to do the same,» says Budig, founder of AIM TRUE.
Sore joints, eczema, headaches, low energy, digestive issues — if you suffer through any of these on the regular, you're probably tempted to brush them off as annoying but not that big of a deal.Yet if your symptoms are chronic or don't have an obvious cause (like a gnarly workout that you can link to muscle aches), one doctor warns you shouldn't take them lightly because they could be hints that a more serious health storm is brewing.According to Parsley Health founder Robin Berzin, MD, all of these complaints could be early signs of autoimmune disease: a broad category of ailments that are plaguing a rapidly growing number of Americans, especially women.
If you don't know Lauren, she is the founder of the incredible site Career Contessa where she and her team offer invaluable career tips and resources for working women.
The founder met his wife on Match.com after spending hours online every night and a year dating women who didn't quite match their profiles.
«Women don't like the lack of trust and transparency on existing dating sites, and that they prefer to meet people through friends», said the founders.
«Many Indian men don't know how to interact with women online,» Able Joseph, CEO and Founder of Aisle, commented.
She also speaks to Cindy Gallop, the 57 - year - old founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.com, who argues that apart from the physical upsides of dating younger men, «men her own age often have a problem with dating strong, powerful women who make more bank than they do.»
FINANCIAL TIMES — May 24 — Toyboywarehouse.com is aimed at strong independent women who don't want a pipe and slippers man», said its founder Julia Macmillan.
Listen to Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert Radio Show, where Tasha Cunningham founder of the popular social networking site Don't Date Him Girl gave dating advice for women to help them date safer and smarter.
On this week's Single in Stilettos dating advice video, founder and relationship expert Suzanne Oshima talks to relationship strategist and dating coach Cyndi Olin about three ways to break your dating patterns — and every woman has them, so don't think that you don't!
I do nt think that women are necessarily passive, Deanna Cobden, founder of local dating - consultation service Dateworks, says by phone.
«This year is similar to previous years where we don't have enough women in many of the positions behind the scenes,» said Melissa Silverstein, the founder and publisher of the Women and Hollywood women in many of the positions behind the scenes,» said Melissa Silverstein, the founder and publisher of the Women and Hollywood Women and Hollywood blog.
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Shohreh Aghdashloo — The Promise * Jennifer Aniston — The Yellow Birds * Annette Bening — Rules Don't Apply * Lily Collins — Rules Don't Apply * Olivia Colman — The Lobster Laura Dern — The Founder Aunjanue Ellis — The Birth of a Nation Elle Fanning — 20th Century Women Greta Gerwig — 20th Century Women Allison Janney — Tallulah * Nicole Kidman — How to Talk to Girls at Parties * Jennifer Jason Leigh — LBJ Laura Linney — Sully Rooney Mara — Lion * Helen Mirren — Eye in the Sky Janelle Monáe — Hidden Figures Janelle Monáe — Moonlight Katey Sagal — Bleed For This * Octavia Spencer — Hidden Figures * Kristen Stewart — Certain Women Meg Tilly — War Machine
That sentiment was echoed by Robert Redford during the opening day press conference in which the festival founder stated, I'm pretty encouraged right now as this period of change is creating forth more opportunities for women and more opportunities for women to have their voice heard and do their own projects.
One per - centers are taking it on the chin at the movies these days with recent releases like «The Founder» and «Get Out,» and now the latest cinematic smack out of Sundance, Beatriz at Dinner, a sly and telling exposé of class in America as seen through the eyes of a Mexican immigrant woman named Beatriz (Salma Hayek, «Savages»), a new - age holistic healer who works at a cancer rehabilitation center, does private massage therapy on the side, lives with her pet goats and drives a broken - down Volkswagen.