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 "Venture Capital"
Visit A Venture Capitalist – And Party Like It’s 1969
February 16, 2013 – 8:00 am
While the entrepreneurs I meet are vibrant, open-minded and diverse, it often feels like a 1969 office scene when you visit a venture capitalist in their native environment. By Jules Pieri (Founder & CEO, Daily Grommet) I spent Friday in a classroom at Harvard Business School, speaking at three sections of a “Founders’ Dilemmas” class. [...]
Women 2.0 Conference 2013 Speaker Paula Long Raises $30 Million Series B Funding For DataGravity
January 30, 2013 – 8:00 am
VC is not dead – CEO and co-founder Paula Long raises Series B for her big data startup DataGravity. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) After selling her previous company EqualLogic to Dell for $1.4 billion in 2007, Paula Long is at it again with big data startup DataGravity. She will be joining [...]
“Poder Mujer” Conference In Lima Addresses Gender Imbalance In Entrepreneurs Raising Venture Capital
November 28, 2012 – 12:51 pm
The higher participation of women in accelerator programs will probably increase the number of women-led companies applying to venture capital funding. By Carolina Dams (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, A2C Advisors) During the month of October, I was invited by the Inter Development Bank (IDB) to the “Poder mujer” conference in Lima to address issues related [...]
Overlooked Financing Option For Your Business
September 26, 2012 – 5:18 pm
If you need to cash to build your company but aren’t keen on draining your personal savings or giving up equity to venture capitalists, there may be another possibility. By Jessica Stillman (Writer, Inc.) Looking to expand? There are the traditional sources: Digging into your own personal savings, loaning from a traditional bank, or finding [...]
Win PITCH NYC 2012, Win A Meeting With VC Marc Andreessen
August 21, 2012 – 8:00 am
PITCH NYC applicants – here’s your chance to access one of the Valley’s most prominent venture capitalists! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The prize for Women 2.0 PITCH NYC Startup Competition got even better – today we are announcing one of the prizes for the winner of PITCH NYC 2012 Startup Competition: [...]
Why Entrepreneurs Need Angels – And How Angels Are Improving
August 20, 2012 – 11:00 am
Many people assume that venture capitalists provide startup funding. But that hasn’t been the case in the last decade – VCs usually step in with growth funding, after a new firm has proven itself to some degree… By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Here is an interview with Marianne Hudson, executive director of [...]
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 [...]
Female Founders To Watch: This Week’s Successful Fund-Raisers
July 27, 2012 – 6:00 am
We celebrated a flurry of venture funding announcements for women-founded startups this week. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We celebrate women securing investment for business ventures because raising a round of venture capital is a public, measurable milestone for a startup. When an early-stage company receives investment, either VC or angel, we [...]
Leaping The Venture Capital Gender Gap: DailyWorth’s Amanda Steinberg
June 28, 2012 – 10:23 am
“Women tend to start so-called lifestyle businesses, meaning companies that stay small enough to allow their owners to have a life outside the business, while investors are looking for startups with the potential for huge scale, so there is often a mismatch.” By Anne Fisher (Writer, Crain’s New York Business) “Venture capital has always been [...]
