Tim Draper, the legendary investor behind Tesla, Skype, Path, Box, and Baidu (China’s Google) explains how he picks out the best entrepreneurs. By Anna Vital (Co-Founder, Vash; Founder, Funders & Founders) If you were to get inside the mind of a superstar VC, what would you find in there? That’s the question I was asking when [...]
Posts Tagged "VC"
Venture Capital Is A Great Place For Women – Give It A Chance
July 27, 2012 – 9:00 am
Women VCs interviewed say despite the low numbers, the VC industry is a great place for women. By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest) The facts: Women make up just 6% of chief executives at the leading 100 tech companies. Women are launching companies at a rate 1.5 times higher than the national average, but they [...]
Silicon Valley Attracts Major Share Of VC Funding, But Silicon Alley Is Rising
February 13, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest) Venture capital firms invested $28.4 billion into 3,673 deals last year, with the majority of deals going into the software and biotechnology industries. This year’s VC funding figures represent the third highest annual investment numbers in dollar terms of the past decade. The annual figures represent an increase of [...]
Plain Numbers Of Women In Tech: A Look At Venture Capital Today
February 1, 2012 – 9:30 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A post by Whitney Hess is making the rounds in New York’s circle of women entrepreneurs in technology titled “The plain numbers about women in tech – The VCs”. She takes an empirical look at the gender ratio of venture capital firms focusing on early-stage funding, that [...]
Why Women Have To Work Harder To Build Successful Startups
December 7, 2011 – 11:30 am
By Julia Hu (Founder & CEO, LARK) Much of business involves emotionally connecting with your audience. That’s why women build companies that emotionally connect with consumers: Much of consumerism is driven by women. But the “audience” when you’re raising a round of VC funding is, well, men. Women can’t possibly emotionally connect with men as [...]
Serial Entrepreneur Shares 10 Tips for Raising Venture Capital
September 29, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Founders and CEOs of early-stage startups are frequently faced with the daunting task of raising venture capital for their companies. Many face that challenge ill-equipped, just as serial entrepreneur Carol Realini had in 1997 when she co-founded her first company. Since then, Carol has successfully raised over [...]
Why Are Women Funded Less Than Men? (120 Interviews)
September 8, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Pemo Theodore (Founder, Ezebis)
Why Are Women Venture Funded Less than Men?
June 22, 2011 – 10:19 am
By Pemo Theodore (Founder, EZebis) I spent 5 years in London trying to raise funding for my online matchmaking business, and in the end had to admit failure. Very early on in that journey, I had committed to help women source venture when I was successful. As it turns out, I have been doing just [...]
