Zeta Founder on Focus, User Understanding and a Supportive Spouse as Keys to Success
We sat down with Aditi Shekar to talk about her business, raising a pre-seed round, supportive spouses and managing finances with your significant other.
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How to Achieve More by Aiming Lower
There are some specific techniques that change the way you approach things and can make ALL the difference. And they all require you to do less.
This Working Mom Took Work-Life Balance Seriously and Built a Company Around It
In her own personal pursuit of work-life blend, she found that negotiating for flexibility, understanding her value and connecting to progressive potential employers was challenging.
7 Ways to Seed, Scale, and Innovate at Any Company
Change makers are undeterred; they want to solve real problems by getting stuff done, even with the uncertainty, unpredictability and ambiguity that defines their journey. How do they do it?
The Five Traits of Execution
Execution is the difference between success and failure and it’s a skill that can be learned.
Turning the Tables: Using Gender Bias as Motivation
Whatever your goal, the biases experienced by women in tech can be reframed as motivating forces.
Inside Look at Backstage Capital’s Investor Day
We had the pleasure of attending Backstage Capital’s Investor Day, where their portfolio startups meet investors in a speed dating type of format.
The Female-founded startups at Y Combinator Demo Day 2
These woman-founded and woman-co-founded startups range from online harassment prevention to major genetic breakthroughs. Alison Cheung was on the scene and got to hear the demos and talk with the founders.
The Female-founded Startups at Y Combinator Demo Day 1
From a company that turns menstrual pads into diagnostic tools to a coding camp for victims of human trafficking to impressive food tech, these women-led startups took part in the highly competitive Demo Day at Y Combinator.
Important Findings about Founders’ and VCs’ Thinking Show Big Changes, and Big Gaps
Investor thinking needs a major refresh, according to a new study by Illuminate Ventures on founder motivation and VC understanding of entrepreneurs today.
How to Pitch to a Room Full of Men (or Psych Yourself Up to Beforehand)
Pump yourself up, listen to inspiring music, do your homework, bring in other women, turn the fact that you are outnumbered to your own advantage ... just a few of the strategies these women have used when they've found they are completely surrounded by men.
Insights From a Panel: How to Turn The Numbers Around for Female Founders and Funders
I recently participated in a panel discussion, it was part of the Women in Technology Summit. On the Panel were five awesome women: Helena Ronis...
A Founder With a Special Appreciation for Working Mothers Explains Why
This former CMO for the NYSE has noticed that teams provide much better marketing for clients when they truly care and get a kick out of the client's product. And it helps to have working mothers on your team, too.
Dark Ambition Syndrome and How to Cure Yourself of It
How one ambitious entrepreneur learned to take a deep breath, smell the roses on her own side of the garden, and appreciate South Africa over Silicon Valley.
Being a Successful, Fast-Growing Startup Doesn’t Always Mean Getting VC Funding and Giving Up Equity
She's founded two fast-growing companies including one that's valued at $20 million, and she's done a lot of things right. But she's also made her share of mistakes. What she's learned is the importance of equity and how to keep it.