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Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! The latest entrepreneur who has been pitching me, Shahed Khan , is only 16!

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Now I don’t get any.

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How one entrepreneur built a billion-dollar clothing brand business

Founder Bounty

Eventually, her persistence paid off when she secured a meeting with a Neiman Marcus buyer, and after a memorable pitch in which she personally demonstrated Spanx’s slimming effect in the dressing room, she landed her first major retail order.

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7 Tips for Building a Strong, Vibrant Network

This is going to be BIG.

When you're educated by Jesuits, you know the word "discernment". Networking is not just handing someone a business card or giving them a pitch. I'd say just about everyone in my LinkedIn network , all 2000 of them, are people who I've at least had the equivilant of a 1:1 lunch with. 1) Be Discerning.

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25 Lessons In 25 Years: Tips for Success from a Self-Made Beauty Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In my company, we focus on three “uniques”: Education and expertise. For years I did my own PR, pitching my products and services to editors of magazines and producers of TV shows. In 2000, I started writing educational skincare content, which led to the creation of my popular skincare blog in 2005. Influencer-endorsed .

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Hannah’s Journey. Why She’s Franchising Her Art and Party Studio

Smart Hustle Magazine

She studied childhood education and development in college, a lifelong passion. I studied in college childhood education and development, so that was really my passion my whole life was working with children. So I’ve been pitching that for some time now, so I’m actually waiting to hear back from PBS this week.

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WorkRamp raises $17M to ramp up its enterprise learning platform

TechCrunch

Its big pitch is that it has built the tools to make it easy for companies to build their own training and learning materials, incorporating tests, videos, slide shows and more, and by making it easier for companies to build these themselves, the materials themselves become more engaging and less stiff.