Freelance writer Justine Lee talks to female angels and founders about how to get more women to invest in startups. By Justine Lee (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) In a room full of 100 angel investors, 85 of them are men, and 15 are women. While this proportion is already shifting, there is work to be [...]
Posts Tagged "LaunchBit"
What Female Founders Really Encounter When They Fundraise?
March 11, 2013 – 8:00 am
I was fascinated by the article entitled “Money matters: why women struggle in the Silicon Valley” in part, because it’s an inside look into what women founders really do/encounter and for so long has largely been kept secret. By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) Investors use pattern recognition – they believe that by investing in teams/products [...]
5 Useful Things A Non-Technical Founder CAN Do
December 6, 2012 – 9:00 am
These are the skills I’ve found to be the most important as a non-technical founder to make herself useful at a startup. By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) For all intents and purposes, I’m the non-technical co-founder of my internet company LaunchBit, an ad network for email. I barely write a line of code anymore. So [...]
Should Your Startup Run Ads? (Pre- Or Post- Product/Market Fit)
November 29, 2012 – 9:00 am
Who does well with paid marketing? By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) This is a continuation of a 2-part blog series on whether to run ads for your startup. Before, I talked about running ads pre- product/market fit. This week’s post assumes your startup has achieved product/market fit and is in its growth stage. Once you [...]
LaunchBit, Co-Founded By CEO Elizabeth Yin And COO Jennifer Chin, Raises $960K To Grow Ad Network For Email
August 9, 2012 – 7:00 am
A round of seed funding and a planned move to join Las Vegas’s burgeoning tech scene were announced. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The rising popularity of email newsletters as a reliable source of information dissemination – being that social media is very noisy right now – spurred high school best friends [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Helping Small Business Owners
June 8, 2012 – 12:31 pm
Here are useful tools for small business owners built by women entrepreneurs. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Starting your own business comes with a unique set of challenges. Early-stage startup entrepreneurs are no stranger to these challenges. These notable women entrepreneurs, each equipped with a background in computer science and penchant for [...]
How We Hire: Interviewing, Contracting The First Startup Employees
May 3, 2012 – 11:00 am
A week-long contract with a potential employee is enough time to assess whether you want to hire. By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) Making our first full-time hire was really nerve-wracking. Finding someone really sharp AND would fit in super well was going to be a challenge. So for full-time candidates, we’ve adopted what companies like [...]
How Startups Really Survive (The Short And Long Of It)
April 26, 2012 – 12:49 pm
Weathering long-distance moves, moving in with parents, long commutes, tight budgets, pregnancy… By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) Last night, I was at Google on a panel talking about women in entrepreneurship. Afterwards, I chatted with an attendee about the very early days of LaunchBit. I mentioned that one point, I’d lived at my parents’ house [...]
Why Pivot After Making $10,000 Our First Month At LaunchBit?
January 9, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) Happy New Year! 2011 was quite a ride for us at LaunchBit. Jennifer and I are so thankful to everyone who’s helped us. We started LaunchBit in January 2011 as a way to help entrepreneurs start and grow their internet businesses. This is a problem I’ve become really passionate about, [...]
When Should You Pivot, Jump, or Shoot? (LaunchBit)
October 18, 2011 – 11:30 am
By Elizabeth Yin (Co-Founder, LaunchBit) “Pivot” is probably the most overused word in the startup community. Everyone is pivoting his/her company from this to that. So how do you know when you should pivot your company slightly, jump to a completely new business idea altogether, or just shoot for the moon with what you have? [...]
