A Founder’s Reading List for 2023

Founders and CEOS have an important, and frequently untapped, resource in the form of their Board of Directors and Advisory Board Members.

A lesson learned for startup founders: Planning early for team growth can pay dividends down the road, especially when your startup is growing fast.

In her new book, Anne Cocquyt lays out how taking the time to understand WHY you want to become an entrepreneur and WHY you want  to start a business is key to success.

Various components come together to ultimately work to deliver the story you want to tell about your business. Here’s what not to do.

Don’t let your competitor’s successful raise announcements distract you. To achieve big things, you must run your own race. 

An experienced venture capitalist dives into the difficult topic of who truly has access to capital, and how that access is often gained.

One Series A Founder & CEO walks through her experiences being pregnant while running her startup, and the leave policy she put in place to support parents in her workforce.

As an exited founder and startup mentor, Holly Liu has seen plenty of good and bad advice given to woman founders. Here’s some of the most destructive.

A few healthcare tips for early-stage startups to make it easier to find the right health insurance coverage for employees.

I’m a three-time YC founder and sold my last startup to Microsoft. Nobody tells this to new founders who are starting out, and I wish someone had told me. So, I will share with you my three-part series that covers the lessons from each part of the startup journey.

There are plenty of actions founders know are great for growing their startups. But what about the things they definitely shouldn’t do?

Startup founders often wait until growing to 50 (or 300!) employees before they start working seriously on diversity, equity, inclusion, and/or belonging.

Local business and startup communities are incredibly rich ground for help – it’s likely you could benefit from reaching out to folks in your community who’ve already been where you’re headed.

As Women 2.0 changes over to Switch, our CEO gives context to the update, and lays out what’s to come with our 15+ year community.