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3 Things Kate Hudson Learned in Building 3 Companies
Create meaning, for yourself and others, and your company can go far
How to Make Mentorship Work in the Startup World
Make the relationship less transactional and more reciprocal.
Advice For Entrepreneurs From Atoms Founder Sidra Qasim
Silicon Valley’s favorite everyday shoe startup Atoms has been donating shoes to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic, but wanted to do more. The small Brooklyn-based company recently shifted production resources toward making face masks to further help.
This 56-Year-Old Serial Entrepreneur Is Taking The Fitness Industry By Storm
Laura Schmitt’s enthusiasm and love of running is infectious. She is a cofounder of Thoroughbred, an extremely popular new treadmill studio startup with a cult-like following. The brand appeals broadly from folks just starting to run to elite athletes.
Introducing Lunchclub — we’re using AI to connect people in real life
I’m thrilled to announce we’ve raised $4M in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to optimize offline professional connections…
10 Perfect On-The-Go Keto Snacks
Living in Silicon Valley, I’m constantly told by other entrepreneurs about the benefits of the ketogenic diet, or “keto” for short…
Caulipower Founder Gail Becker’s Advice For Aspiring Food Entrepreneurs
Gail Becker is the founder and CEO of Caulipower, a food company on a mission to provide affordable healthy alternatives to highly processed foods. Learn about her experience breaking into the food industry, how she created a successful company, and her advice for other founders.
How This Female Founder Raised $1.7M From Sequoia
Selene Cruz is the first Latina founder to raise pre-seed funding from Sequoia for her new company Re:store, the Shopify for physical space. She is also one of the first startup founders to secure funding through Female Founder Office Hours, a mentorship program led by women venture capitalists.
The Secret Lives Of Entrepreneurs Revealed
This month NPR’s How I Built This released a study titled “The Secret Lives of Entrepreneurs.” The researchers interviewed 600+ U.S.-based entrepreneurs to understand how entrepreneurship impacts their lives and found that entrepreneurs lead a life of trade-offs.
Female Founder Office Hours Is Changing The Venture Ecosystem
It is a new age in the venture capital ecosystem. A group of women VC partners launches Female Founder Office Hours to connect the female founder and VC communities with the goal of kickstarting a virtuous cycle of women helping women and to increase the number of successful women-led companies.
Product at Startups with Sequoia Capital – Women In Product – Medium
On Thursday night, I attended an exclusive dinner hosted by Sequoia Capital with Women in Product for a panel discussion with top Bay Area…
Top 5 Communities For Female Tech Founders
Today our online lives offer the potential for greater connection by extending our capacity to build and maintain relationships. Created for women by women, the founders of these top 5 communities maintain positive engaging virtual spaces and are invested in helping female tech founders succeed.
Re:Make Summit 2016 – Lady In Tech
The intersection of creativity and technology
5 Podcasts To Break Into Tech And Product
Increasingly, podcasts have become an unparalleled source of actionable advice and education for those looking to break into product in the tech industry. Listen to these new up-and-coming podcasts to learn how to break into product and build impactful products at scale.
The Power Of Purpose-Driven
Purpose-driven companies attract the best minds, have the most passionate customers, achieve wild success and change the world. When purpose and passion are combined, the impact is powerful not only for individuals, but also on the public they serve to help create a brighter future for everyone.
5 Ways To Hack Your Product Career
Product managers shape the future of humanity. They build the future world we will live in. Hopefully, these five hacks from senior product leaders who landed leadership roles as VPs or C-level executives help you break through and thrive as a product builder.
Lessons Learned From The Youngest Woman To Take A Company Public
For women-led startup valuations, 2019 has been a great year. The number of women-founded unicorns increased this year after Emily Weiss’s Glossier, Jennifer Hyman’s Rent the Runway, and Steph Korey’s Away achieved unicorn status, a marker of startup success.
A Female Founder’s Take On The Tragic Loss Of Iconic Moral Entrepreneur Leila Janah
Samasource founder and iconic advocate for gender diversity in tech, Leila Janah, passed away at 37 yesterday. Leila’s tragic death should be a sobering reminder that life can be cut short at any time, and we should find fulfillment and happiness outside of work while we are building our startups.
The 9 Best Gifts For Mom (From Female Founded Companies)
Sending special gifts from female founded companies to mom this year can not only show your love and appreciation to your mom even if you’re miles apart, but also support women-owned businesses.
Silicon Valley’s 5 Most Anticipated Books Of 2020
From buzzy memoir Uncanny Valley to Susan Fowler’s tell-all about her time at Uber, 2020 is a highly anticipated year for book releases. I surveyed hundreds of women in tech working in Silicon Valley about what books they are most excited to read in 2020. Below are the 5 most anticipated books:
This Ex-Facebook Engineer Is Reinventing Dairy And Launching Superfood Cheeses Made From Sunflowers In Whole Foods
Launching tomorrow in Whole Foods, Spero Foods aims to reinvent dairy and eggs from plants in order to fight climate change and transform consumer health. Their superfood cream cheese products are made from organic sunflower seeds.
This Female Founder Launches National Nutrition Day On January 29th To Celebrate Eating Healthy
Today on January 29th, the founder and CEO of Wellory Emily Hochman launches National Nutrition Day to celebrate and encourage healthy eating nationwide. Her team at Wellory created the new national holiday to create a movement around making small healthier eating choices.
The Founder Of TLDW (Too Long Didn’t Watch) Is Changing How People Consume Video Content
Launching this week, TLDW (too long didn’t watch) turns long videos into digestible summaries to help people consume video content easier and faster. Mariel Vargas, founder and CEO of TLDW, wants to change how billions of people around the world watch and consume video content.
Female Founder Launches AI Security System That Helps Prevent School Shootings
This week Athena Security announces the successful launch and implementation of the world’s first AI security camera system capable of instantly and accurately recognizing an active shooter before they shoot, alerting law enforcement and verbally alerting the assailant that Police are en route.
VerveCon 2018 Tech Conference – Women In Product – Medium
Intersection of Product Management and Engineering Panel
A Founder’s Contingency Plan For When Things Go South
The time to plan for the worst is when you're just getting started.
3 Common Mistakes First Time Founders Make
Raising venture capital is hard. Avoid these pitfalls to make it easier
SoulCycle And Flywheel Powerhouse Ruth Zukerman On Resilience And Reinvention
Ruth Zukerman never imagined starting a company. After failing at a professional dancing career, she picked herself up and reinvented herself as a force in the fitness industry. Zukerman become a co-founder of cycling fitness giants SoulCycle and Flywheel.
ClassPass Founder Payal Kadakia’s Advice For Early-Stage Entrepreneurs
In less than a decade, ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia has built an impressive global fitness empire and has become an inspiration to many aspiring women entrepreneurs.
From Zero To One: How Neka Pasquale Built Fresh Food Sensation Urban Remedy
Neka Pasquale is the founder of Urban Remedy, an organic food company that provides ready-to-eat meals, juices, cleanses, and snacks. I spoke with Pasquale after the panels about her journey to founding Urban Remedy, how she’s overcome major roadblocks, and her advice for entrepreneurs.
HeForShe's Emerging Solutions For Gender Equality
Skylines in major cities dimmed this week to promote gender equality. The demonstration kicks off a #MorePowerfulTogether campaign, sparking a global dialogue about equality in conjunction with the release of HeForShe’s Emerging Solutions for Gender Equality Report to the UN General Assembly.
New Law Mandates Women Board Members (Men Don't Like It)
After a new California law passed this month requiring all public companies to have at least one woman on their board of directors by the end of 2019, theBoardlist and Qualtrics surveyed 285 business leaders and board members asking them to weigh in on their sentiments about board quotas.
Ritual Is Reinventing Vitamins For Women
Female founded Ritual––the LA-based, women’s once-daily vitamin company––launches Essential Prenatal, a completely reimagined prenatal vitamin that encases the 12 most critical, health-vital nutrients for mom and baby this month. Ritual is empowering women to become educated about prenatal health.
Google Launchpad Female Founders Summit – Lady In Tech
Fewer than 5% of all VC-funded firms have women on their executive teams, and only 2.7% a female CEO.
Women in Product 2017 – Lady In Tech
A movement of 1500+ bright women who build great, impactful products
Creating Supply and Demand: How to Build and Scale Successful Marketplaces
Women in Product Panel
How To Thrive As An Underestimated Founder
Last week, leading female founders and funders gathered in Palo Alto to discuss how to navigate business being underestimated as underrepresented founders. Here are five tips to defy the odds and thrive as an underrepresented founder in technology.
CODE: Debugging the gender gap – Lady In Tech
What would society gain from having more women and minorities code?
Facebook’s Vision for an Augmented Reality Future – Lady In Tech
F8 2017
The Art Of Persuasion: Effective Communication Strategies For Founders
As founders, we tell stories to make our ideas come to life. We tell stories to pitch ideas, get buy-in from stakeholders, and convince people to join our companies. Effective communication and persuasion is essential in moving people to action and critical for any founder’s success.
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