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Sisterhood of Success: Female Founders Share Insights on Thriving Together

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The best advice she ever gave me, though, was to join the EO to build my leadership skills and my support network. About a year and a half after starting my business, I joined EO and was quickly invited onto the board of directors where I sat with a woman who is so unapologetically herself.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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Now that he’s become a VC he’s promising me he’ll provide way more public information and discourse so please welcome him by following him on Twitter and better yet welcoming him with a Tweet of your own linking to his Twitter handle or this post. So what gives? Mark, why wouldn’t you fund him? I stayed close.

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Your deal flow is not diverse enough

TechCrunch

Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Data from Women in VC show that only 5.6% VC firms are women-led and only 4.9% of VC partners in the U.S. against 3.6%).

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The Valuable Unsung Heroes of Startups

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But honestly there are times when being a VC can feel like that, too. Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. And in it he profiles the work of Coach Campbell who was once on the boards of both Google & Apple.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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As an early-stage VC I love this phase. Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures

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Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. I have long believed in diversity of thought and diversity of experiences in leadership teams and in decision making.

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An Inside Scoop on the Funding Environment and What it Might Mean for You

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So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. Many VC firms expressed interest, nearly every one took a meeting and several called Mark and the team back for meetings. September started easily enough.

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