The more money you raise the greater the chance of your startup being successful, right? Nope, says VC Cindy Padnos, who warns that too much funding can actually be bad for your fledgling business. By Cindy Padnos (Founder & Managing Partner, Illuminate Ventures) Which do you think is a better predictor of your company’s future? To [...]
Posts Tagged "Cindy Padnos"
An Enterprising Approach to Investment: Cindy Padnos
March 13, 2013 – 6:00 am
“Most venture capital investors assess a founder… ‘are they able to attract the best people, surround themselves with the most talented individuals, are they willing to be challenged by other people…” By Sarah Cone (Venture Associate, Illuminate Ventures) Cindy Padnos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures, a Micro VC fund focused on [...]
The Art Of Design: Co-Working That Works For Women
October 12, 2012 – 9:00 am
“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.” - Orson Scott Card By Avary Kent (CEO, The Happiness Institute) While finishing her degree at Stanford University, Dr. Mary Murphy studied social identity threat, an interesting behavior that occurs when we sense we are in the minority – we act out our internal stereotypes. Our [...]
Fast Forwarding Women In Tech
July 18, 2012 – 7:00 am
Few women have joined or founded startups and gained the kind of experience that enables their careers to explode like Marissa Mayer’s. Here are recommendations on accelerating the pace of women in high-tech. By Jack Hidary & Cindy Padnos (Contributors, Fortune) The announcement Monday that Yahoo! selected Marissa Mayer as its new chief is a [...]
The Huffington Post: Women Entrepreneurs On The Rise
February 22, 2012 – 3:47 pm
By Jack D. Hidary (Co-Founder, Dice) What do Gilt, Foodspotting and TaskRabbit all have in common? They were all co-founded by women. This is an encouraging sign in a field that has too few female entrepreneurs. A recent article in San Francisco Magazine highlights a new crop of women-led startups in the Bay Area. These [...]
Women’s Startups Lack Access to Capital (Women Don’t Ask)
October 18, 2011 – 5:30 am
By Jessica Naziri (Reporter, CNBC) When Alexa von Tobel found herself frustrated with the lack of personal finance resources and tools available to her, she took a leave of absence from Harvard Business School in 2008 to pursue her dream of creating a way for women to gain control of their finances. “When I was [...]
The Case Against the All-Male Startup
October 1, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Eric Markowitz (Contributing Writer, Inc.) Is your startup starting to feel like a frat house? New research suggests that having more women at your company, and increasing diversity in general, can improve your chances of success. “I thought I saw a growing disparity between the growth in the number of venture-backable women, and the [...]
500 Startups’ Dave McClure: Women Co-Founders and CEOs an Advantage
June 5, 2011 – 6:30 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Last week, Pemo Theodore interviewed 500 Startups Dave McClure along with several women co-founders in his portfolio: Prerna Gupta (CEO, khu.sh), Elizabeth Yin and Jennifer Chin (Co-Founders, LaunchBit). “Women founders or co-founders are probably 20-25% of the [500 Startups] portfolio. I think there is probably some bias [...]
Never Been a Better Time for Women Entrepreneurs
May 9, 2011 – 11:05 am
By Wendy Tan White (Founder & CEO, Moonfruit) It’s been a great 12 months for our business, taking a $2.25M Series A round from Stephens(US) for international growth, backing from Silicon Valley-based 500 Startups, relaunching Moonfruit to focus on SMB’s who expect better DIY design tools to build better designed websites, record revenues and the [...]
5 Female Angels and Investors to Watch
March 31, 2011 – 11:13 pm
By Angie Chang and Shaherose Charania (Co-Founders, Women 2.0) This week, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. That’s good news because a venture capital team with a woman invests in more female-founded startups than venture capital teams without a woman as partner. Here are 5 female angels and investors to [...]
