Broadmic Startup Shortcuts

How could buying a pair of shoes in Paris lead to launching a global fashion technology business? Olga Vidisheva, founder of Shoptiques, a YC graduate and former Goldman Sachs analyst, did this very thing. Vidisheva, an immigrant from the Soviet Union, did not set out to be an entrepreneur but got the bit in her mouth after discovering a big gap in the retail marketplace while traveling abroad. Vidisheva sat down with BroadMic host, Erica Duignan Minnihan, to share her unique and compelling founder’s story. Show Notes Shoptiques Does International Shopping for You How Shoptiques' 30-Year-Old CEO Is Using Tech To Take Indie Boutiques Global (And Make Millions) FemTech: Olga Vidisheva, Shoptiques.com YC Startup School Radio: Shoptiques CEO Olga Vidisheva On The Challenge Of Hiring Great People by Colleen Taylor Olga Vidisheva, Founder of Shoptiques (YC W12) Olga Vidisheva Crunchbase Profile ELLE CV: Olga Vidisheva, Shoptiques Founder and CEO Career Contessa: Meet Olga Vidisheva CEO & Founder, Shoptiques Ideamensch: Olga Vidisheva – Founder and CEO of Shoptiques.com Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Can taking outside capital kill your startup? Christina Wallace, is the VP of Growth at Bionic, a company that brings startup and VC experience to enterprise.  Previously she was founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative to captivate, inspire, and propel girls and minorities into computer science. Erica Duignan Minnihan and Christina talk about lessons learned from a failed startup, fundraising, and finding the right cofounder. Show Notes Going Against the Flow: Christina Wallace, Founder of BridgeUp: STEM at AMNH by Charu Sharma, Huffington Post BridgeUp: STEM Helen Gurley Brown May Never Have Used a Computer. But Her Trust is Into Coding by Tate Williams, Inside Philanthropy Let’s Get Real About Startups And Mental Health Christina Wallace, Medium After 10 Months, A Boatload Of Press, And A CEO's Departure, Apparel Startup Quincy Shuts Down by Alyson Shontell, Business Insider My Father was an Abusive Sociopath and I was the Only One He Had Left by Christina Wallace, elle.com Tranche Investing Will Kill Your Startup--Here's Why by Tom Kriegistein, Forbes The Moment I Lost Everything by Kathryn Minshew, Medium Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places - How to Find a Co-founder First Round Review Genius in Madness? 72% of Entrepreneurs Affected by Mental Health Conditions by Debra Carpenter, StartupGrind Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Liz Wessel is the cofounder of WayUp, an app that helps college students find jobs and internships. After graduating from Penn, she worked at Google, first in Mountain View on the Partnerships and Grants team and then in India to lead brand initiatives. After her tour of duty in India, Wessel returned to the U.S. and cofounded WayUp. Season 3 Host Erica Duignan and Liz chat about the inspiration for WayUp, how much money you should raise for your seed round, and her secret to finding mentors and advisors. Show Notes UniEats Gives College Students 10% Restaurant Discounts Peter Cohan, Forbes Money Millennials: Liz Wessel and J.J Fliegelman Making Job Hunting Easier by Kofie Yeboah, The Huffington Post An ex-Googler turned startup CEO asks all her employees to 'cold email' their idols — here's why by Jacquelyn Smith, Business Insider How To Change Your Startup's Name: A Checklist by Brian Solomon, Forbes Do Things That Don't Scale by Paul Graham Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Gina Bianchini is the Founder and CEO of Mightybell, a platform that enables you to build a community and a business on your own branded mobile apps. She is also the co-founder of Sheryl Sandberg’s leanin.org, an online community dedicated to supporting women’s career development. Bianchini has been featured as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 under 40”, Huffington Post’s 10 Technology Ultimate Game Changers, and more. Bianchini shares the lessons learned from her first couple of startups, how that experience shaped the founding and development of her current startup, Mightybell, why there’s a real need for another social network, and her takeaways for founders raising capital. Show Notes Sheryl Sandberg Launches ‘Lean In’ Organization As A Global Community For Workplace Equality by Colleen Taylor, TechCrunch Building Better Social Networks: Beyond Likes, Follows and Hashtags by Gina Bianchini, LinkedIn Mightybell Wants To Help Businesses Build Mobile Communities by Leena Rao, Fortune Glam Buys Ning for $150M, Andreessen Joins Board by Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Alicia Thomas is the founder and CEO of Dibs, a B2B digital platform that gives studios quick and easy access to real-time pricing for the boutique fitness classes their clients want. A former developer and director of data strategy at Citigroup, Thomas chose to start a company in the fitness industry because she knew she would have a competitive advantage. BroadMic host, Erica Duignan, and Thomas discuss what she's learned about focus and “getting it done” when it comes to fundraising, her advice for female founders, and her perspective as a woman of color in tech. Show Notes Dibs is Seeded to Bring Dynamic Pricing to Fitness Industry by Lora Kolodny, The Wall Street Journal

Even the Pope is talking about it, but what exactly is impact investing? Meet Fran Seegull, Executive Director of the U.S Impact Investing Alliance, a project of the Ford Foundation and Omidyar Network. Fran is also an Adjunct Professor at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Senior Fellow at the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab, both at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Kelly Hoey and Fran chat about impact investing, the drivers behind this growing market, and how social entrepreneurs can find investors. Show Notes The Impact Economy: An Open Letter to the 2016 Presidential Candidates by Fran Seegull Beyond Tradeoffs: The Rise of the Impact Unicorns by Fran Seegull Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation Two Years After White House Commitments: $1 Billion Deployed for Impact by US Investors In 2014 29 Orgs Committed $1.5 Billion to Impact Investing. Where’s the Money after 18 Months? socialimpactinvestment.org "Impact Investing: What Will It Take to Get to Scale?" Conscious Company Magazine, January/February 2016 "Impact Investing for the Rest of Us," Conscious Company Magazine, Spring 2015 Online video interview, “Is Impact Investing A Solution To Global Problems?” Forbes, July 13, 2016 Online video interview, “An Eventful Year in Impact Investing – An Interview with ImpactAssets’ Fran Seegull,” Next Billion, January 14, 2016 Online video interview, “Impact Investing No Longer Reserved for Country Club Crowd,” The Street, April 2015 Impact Investing With Fran Seegull of ImpactAssets by Charley Wright, DailyAlts The Landscape of Social Impact Investment Research: Trends and Opportunities University of Oxford Introducing the Impact Investing Benchmark Cambridge Associates The Diana Project F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' by Anne Fields, Forbes How Etsy's IPO Could Spark Investor Interest in B Corps by Dennis Price, Entrepreneur Toms Shoes Is Investing In Companies That Actually Care About The World by Alexander Kaufman, Huffington Post Honest Tea: It Ain’t Easy Being Mission-Based by Leon Kaye, Triple Pundit Ben & Jerry’s CEO: How to Get Your Social Impact Game On by Renee Faris, Triple Pundit Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Aileen Gemma Smith recognized opportunity as she watched her community recover in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  She believed in her business idea so strongly that she sold her house in order to fund it. Smith is cofounder and CEO of Vizalytics, and creator of Mind My Business, an app now helping over 3,000 local business owners get critical data specific to their geo-location. Host Kelly Hoey and Smith discuss the unique challenges of developing product for SMBs, the important role trust plays in building a strong team, and how she got her first 100 customers. Show Notes Vizalytics Leaving a Six-Figure Salary to Start a Company Instead by Aileen Gemma Smith, Huffington Post Aileen Gemma Smith of Vizalytics Technology Inc.: Helping Small Businesses Stay Up to Date on Their Markets and Their Communities Connecting Small Businesses and Closing the Digital Divide Face-to-Face by Dave Nyczepir, The Atlantic 500 Startups’ Dave McClure on portfolio diversification and the return opportunities of “spray and pray” Harry Stabbings, TechCrunch 13 things tech founders should look for in an incubator or accelerator by Scott Gerber, Mashable Are You Ready to Seek Funding? This 10-Point Checklist Will Decide. by Jayson Demers, Entrepreneur The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, iBooks Staten Island Makerspace Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

What does a venture investor with operating experience look for in the entrepreneurs she funds? Kara Nortman, a VC partner at LA-based Upfront Ventures, shares some inside baseball with BroadMic host, Kelly Hoey. Nortman, a former co-founder of Seedling, a family activities startup, claims her previous experience as a founder has improved her ability to support founders as a VC investor. Notes Battery Ventures Upfront Ventures Nuzzel Recode Decode a16z Podcast The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna & Michael J. Casey, iBooks Grit by Angela Duckworth, iBooks Kevin Plank Is Betting Almost $1 Billion That Under Armour Can Beat Nike by Tom Foster Campbell Soup CEO: Stunning disruption in the ecosystem of food by Abigail Stevenson, CNBC Upfront plants funding in Stem to 'improve the business of being an artist' by Annlee Ellington, L.A. Biz Additional Reading Is Conversational Commerce Really a Thing? by Kara Nortman, LinkedIn In Defense of Food (Technology) by Kara Nortman, Recode The VC World Returns to Its Operating Roots by Leena Rao, TechCrunch 5 Pieces of Advice for Pregnant Startup Founders by Jessi Chow, Inc. Rethinking Education: Why Our Education System Is Ripe For Disruption by Naveen Jain, Forbes How to Succeed by Leaving Your Fear of Failure Behind by AJ Agrawal, Inc. Upfront VC Analysis 2016 Mark Suster, LinkedIn Los Angeles Tech Venture Capital Almanac CB Insights How Many Cofounders Are Too Many?  Quora Video: This Startup Shows Why There's No Such Thing as Too Many Co-Founders Inc. Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Venture capitalist Jeanne Sullivan is taking the cannabis industry by storm. Formerly, a co-founder of StarVest Partners, Sullivan is an advocate for cannabis legalization and adviser to investors in this new high growth industry. Jeanne tells host, Kelly Hoey, why cannabis presents such a massive business opportunity for women. Notes Starvest Partners Olivetti Justin Trudeau may have made the best case for legal pot ever by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Why we need to end the War on Drugs by Ethan Nadelmann, TEDtalks Drug Policy Alliance Women Grow Anna Netrebko's Mournful 'Mamma Morta' by Tom Huizenga, NPR Marijuana Business Conference & Expo The Sexiest Story of Taxes and Marijuana: The History of Tax Code 280e by Will Yakowicz, Inc. Cannabis Quora Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, iBooks Master the minefield - dealing with bullies, bozos & buffoons | Jeanne Sullivan | TEDxBarnardCollege YouTube Women in Tech Entrepreneurs: Elemoon’s Jing Zhou Bridges Fashion and Tech by Beth Cone Kramer, Huffington Post Additional Reading 5 Stupid Mistakes Entrepreneurs Are Still Making: Interview with Jeanne Sullivan by Susan Price, Forbes Start-up Advice: Jeanne M Sullivan, StarVest Partners Siliconrepublic Problem: Women Entrepreneurs Need Greater Access to Capital National Women's Business Council Talking Weed Entrepreneurship with a Side of Raw Vegan Edibles by T. Kid, Vice NFL To Name New Medical Chief, Bringing Hope For Cannabis Concussion Treatment by Debra Borchardt, Forbes Marijuana Companies Stuck Doing Business the Old-Fashioned Way, in Cash by Yuka Hayashi, The Wall Street Journal Former Justice Department Official: Pot Laws Are a Danger to Public Safety by Will Yankowicz, Inc. The Greed Rush: Venture Capital Enters Cannabis by Chris Roberts, SF Weekly Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

As an early stage entrepreneur, how do you balance having a big vision with staying narrowly focused on a product’s proof of concept? Meet Seattle-based nanotechnologist, Christina Lomasney, whose startup uses electrochemistry to “grow” metals. Listen to Lomasney’s conversation with Kelly Hoey for advice to female founders about the importance of focus, communicating your vision, and how a Herman Hesse quote about happiness has sustained her quest to disrupt the legacy steel industry. Notes Dan Schwartz Dan Rosen Alliance of Angels The Great Bridge by David McCullough, iBooks Andrew Carnegie Biography.com Nikola Tesla Tesla Memorial Society Production of Aluminum: The [Charles Martin] Hall-Hérault Process American Chemical Society Washington A. Roebling Roebling Museum Clara Barton American Red Cross Additional Reading Policy protection of IP critical to nation's competitiveness Christina Lomasney, The Hill This startup can grow metal like a tree, and it's about to hit the big time by Katie Fehrenbacher, Fortune Founders Fund Leads $33.5M Round For Modumetal, Maker of Nanolaminated Metals For The Oil And Gas Industry by Kim-Mai Cutler What Great Leaders Have in Common by Ryan Allis, The Startup Guide Top Entrepreneurs And Investors Share Their Best Fundraising Tips For Startups Alex Konrad, Forbes 6 Places To Find The Right Investor For Your Startup by Martin Zwilling, Forbes Is Seattle Silicon Valley’s Next Favorite Stop? by Hadi Partook, TechCrunch FAIL FAST, FAIL OFTEN, FAIL EVERYWHERE by John Donahue, New Yorker 6 Ways That Lack Of Focus Can Kill Your Business by Martin Zwilling, Forbes Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Erin Bagwell, first time director, and co-producer of Dream, Girl, didn’t start out in movies. Bagwell got the courage to quit her corporate job and pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker from discovering a community of young women entrepreneurs who were pursuing their big dreams. Inspired by her peers, Bagwell “leveled up” and began to believe in herself. Bagwell’s film, Dream, Girl features a handful of diverse female founders, including women of color ranging in age from 25-83. During a live Q&A with our Season Three host, Erica Duignan Minnihan, Bagwell talks about her hope that people can see themselves in the women showcased in the film. Girl, be prepared to dream! Notes Feminist Wednesday Ronna & Beverly Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, iBooks Clinton’s Tech Policy Targets Young Entrepreneurs by Steve Lohr, The New York Times Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makers How Did Lena Dunham, Mark Zuckerberg and Simon and Garfunkel Find Success? by Gene Marks, Entrepreneur Elizabeth Gilbert: Flight of the Hummingbird - The Curiosity Driven Life SuperSoul TV Mighty Oak Additional Reading The Most Important Thing I Learned as an Entrepreneur by Erin Bagwell, Time The very big dreams of Komal Minhas by Julie Beun Film Inspires Female Founders To Dream Big by Geri Stengel, Forbes An Open Letter to Parents of Entrepreneurs by Justin Bariso, Inc. Why you shouldn't quit your job to become a full-time entrepreneur by Jessica Mai, Business Insider 5 Steps to Take Before Quitting Your Job to Become an Entrepreneur by Jayson Demers, Entrepreneur 5 Reasons Why Writing Down Goals Increases The Odds Of Achieving Them by Damian Pros, Elite Daily How to successfully run a crowdfunding campaign by Greg Ponesse, The Next Web Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Three hundred billion dollars. That’s the global financing gap between male-owned and female-owned businesses. When Anne Ravanona heard this appalling statistic she sprang into action and founded Global Invest Her, an online platform dedicated to funding women entrepreneurs. This week we spoke with Anne about closing the confidence gap and perfecting the ask - so you can get funded faster and get back to building your business. Notes Joan of Arc Biography Meera Ralhan-Medana Are Women Really More Risk-Averse than Men? Julie A. Nelson, Global Development and Environment Institute  John Fayad YouTube #9 The Female Consumer as Muse – How She Guides Susan Lyne at BBG Ventures BroadMic The Art of Startup Fundraising Alejandro Cremades & Barbara Corcoran, iBooks My Metric for Success? Happiness Richard Branson, LinkedIn The incredible rags-to-riches story of lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone Lianna Brinded, Business Insider Master Plan, Part Deux Elon Musk Additional Reading Spread Your Talent to the World | Anne Ravanona | TEDxBarcelonaWomen YouTube Trailblazing Women: Claire Calmejane, Director of Innovation, Lloyds Banking Group Anne Ravanona, Huffington Post Start-up Advice: Anne Ravanona, Global Invest Her SiliconRepublic The first comprehensive study on women in venture capital and their impact on female founders Gené Teare, Ned Desmond, TechCrunch Seeking A Female Investor? Start By Doing Your Research. Kelly Hoey, Inc. The One Trait That Ruins an Entrepreneur Lisa Abeyta, Huffington Post Do Male Investors Sabotage Female Founders? New Research Sets The Record Straight Lisa Calhoun, Inc. How Men's Brains Are Wired Differently than Women's Tanya Lewis, Scientific American The brains of men and women aren’t really that different, study finds Kate Wheeling, Science Passed on investing in a startup? Give the entrepreneur worthy feedback. Nathan Benaich, Medium Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

A feminist and behavioral scientist, Matt Wallaert believes that using data to build products is the key to effecting real change, such as the gender pay gap, which explains why he created GetRaised, a tool that helps women ask for raises. He is currently Director of Microsoft Startups, where he uses psychology to build products that enable people to take action on their ideas, questions, and desires. Notes Emma Watson: Gender equality is your issue too UN Women Could these 2 women help solve Silicon Valley's diversity problem? by Shalene Gupta, Fortune RadiumOne's All-Male Board Is Now Deciding Whether (Or Not) to Dump CEO Over Domestic Violence Conviction by Kara Swisher, Recode Men Really Are Clueless About Their Female Coworkers by Rick Wartzman Ex-Kleiner VC Ellen Pao Introduces Diversity Initiative by Ellen Huet, Bloomberg Whitney Wolfe, founder of dating app Bumble, has had quite the year. She just can’t discuss parts of it. by Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post C.P. Ellis, 78; Once a Ku Klux Klan Leader, He Became a Civil Rights Activist Stephen King iBooks Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella celebrates 'pivotal year' as Office 365, cloud make gains by Harriet Taylor, Anita Balakrishnan CNBC A Unicorn Is the Last Thing This Web 2.0 Survivor Wants by Jessi Hempel, Wired Additional Reading Why Men Don't Mentor Younger Women—And How We Can Change That By Kate Ashford, The Muse Five Brainless But Brilliant Routes To A Raise by Meghan Casserly, Forbes Wage Gap Costs U.S. Women $500 Billion A Year, Report Finds by Laura Bassett, The Huffington Post Hacking inequality and behavior by Capioca, Medium What Is Design Thinking? by Kaan Turnali, Forbes The point of normative models in judgment and decision making by Jonathan Baron, frontiers Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

How do we get more funding for communities of color? Finney is founder and Managing Director of digitalundivided, and Co-Author/Research Lead on #ProjectDiane, a proprietary data project about the state of Black women in tech entrepreneurship in the United States. Leading with data, Finney is fundamentally changing the discussion about diversity in tech. In her interview with Kelly Hoey, you’ll hear Finney explain why she established BIG, a new accelerator in Atlanta dedicated to Black women founders, the Harriet Fund and Harriet Angels.  Finney’s confession that she was born to be an entrepreneur may explain why she is also so good as an investor and why, in one important way, she is no different than the rest:  she always looks to get her money back! Notes Why Diane Nash Is Selma’s Best Supporting Role by Christopher Wilson, Time It’s Embarrassing How Few Black Female Founders Get Funded by Davey Alba, Wired Digitalundivided Launches BIG Innovation Center in Atlanta for Black and Latina Women in Tech by Danielle Young, The Root Gayle Jennings-O’Byrne A New Way for Women of Color to Get Funding by Kimberly Weisul, Inc. Startup Investors Hit the Brakes by Scott Martin, Wall Street Journal Invest with Harriet Angels (Maya Venture Partners) 7 Ways Meditation Can Actually Change The Brain Alice Walton, Forbes Oprah Winfrey Delivers Empowering Speech at Essence Fest Debut: 'The Magic Is to Surrender to God's Dream for You' by Kathy Ehrich Dowd Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95 by Bill Keller, New York Times Martha Stewart Unloads on Millennials: Here's What She Said (and Why) by Bill Murphy Jr., Inc. Additional Reading Inside One Woman Investor's Plan To Get Black Female Founders Funding by Clare O'Connor, Forbes Hey, How’d You Establish Yourself as The Budget Fashionista and founder of digitalundivided, Kathryn Finney? by Janelle Harris, MediaBistro The Divided American Dream by Emily Badger, Washington Post Syndicates / For Investors AngelList Where Do Venture Capital Dollars Actually Come From? This Visual Explains by Lee Hower, NextView Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Are you considering raising capital? Meet Stephanie Newby. As founder of NY-based Golden Seeds, an investment firm providing early stage capital to women-led tech companies, and as CEO of a big data startup raising outside capital, Stephanie has been on both sides of the table. Stephanie weighs in on the value of taking risk, how to find the right investors for your startup, and what it takes to lead a fast growth company. She also shares key takeaways from successfully closing a recent Series C round of growth equity financing. Notes Audra Ryan CFO at Crimson Hexagon Just Using Big Data Isn’t Enough Anymore by Randy Bean, Harvard Business Review The Advantage, Enhanced Edition by Patrick M. Lencioni, iBooks Todoist: To-Do List | Task Manager TEUXDEUX a simple, designy to-do app RICHARD BRANSON: 'Social justice is good for business' by Rachel Butt, Business Insider Golden Seeds Takes Bold Steps to Empower Women Entrepreneurs by Emmie Twombly, HuffPo Gender Intelligence by Barbara Annis & Keith Merron, iBooks Additional Reading Going Against the Flow: Stephanie Newby, CEO of Crimson Hexagon by Charu Sharma, HuffPo She founded Golden Seeds to change corporate culture for women. Here's why she left — and why she doesn't regret it by Caroline McMillan Portillo, Bizwomen Sageview leads $20 mln investment in Crimson Hexagon by Stephanie Rogan, The PE Hub Network 10 Things Entrepreneurs Need to Know about Entrepreneurship by Murray Newlands, Inc. The Growth Equity In Venture Capital by Glenn Rieger, TechCrunch 8 Secrets to Credible Startup Financial Projections by Martin Zwilling, Entrepreneur How To Boost Confidence When Seeking Funding For Your Startup by Sujan Patel, Forbes How founders can tell a great startup story by Elisa Schreiber, Fortune Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

How do you build great company culture right from the start (hint: Tina’s answer involved a Chief Happiness Officer)? How do you decide which of the million business ideas you’ve considered is most worthwhile to pursue? What are creative examples of corporate sponsorships? This week on BroadMic Bonus Cuts, Tina Roth Eisenberg answers all of these audience questions and more on our second installment of our first ever live podcast event at LMHQ! Notes Deck Network: The Ad Network of Creative, Web and Design Culture How MailChimp’s irresistible “Serial” ad became the year’s biggest marketing win by Adam Epstein, Quartz Shutterstock Increases Its Media Reach With BFA Deal by Steven Bertoni, Forbes Yay, Internet! My Journey From Middle East Refugee To Fashion Designer by Céline Semaan Vernon, Refinery29 Everything’s Coming Up Roses With Temporary Tats That Smell Like Flowers by Elyse Wanshel, HuffPo Additional Reading Temporary Tattoos, Now for Grown-Ups, Too by Courtney Rubin, New York Times An Exclusive Spotlight on How CreativeMornings Runs 106+ Global Monthly Events by Carrie Melissa Jones, CMX Two Keys to Sustainable Social Enterprise by Sally R. Osberg and Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business Review Levo League Office Hours 10 Examples of Companies With Fantastic Cultures by Sujan Patel, Entrepreneur What Type Of Corporate Culture Do Women Really Want? by WomensMedia, Forbes Creating a Culture That Women Want to Join by Aaron Skonnard, Inc The biggest setback for women in corporate America: the 24/7 workday by Betsy Myers, Fortune 6 Tips For Networking in Shared Offices and CoWorking Spaces by Matt Arbogast, Built In Chicago How to Choose the Best Coworking Space for Your Startup by Matt Straz, Entrepreneur There Is No Such Thing As Work-Life Balance For Entrepreneurs by Chris Myers, Forbes Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

What does it take to become the first woman in the history of Goldman Sachs to be promoted into sales management? That accomplishment was just the beginning of Janet Hanson’s career. Kelly Hoey and Janet talk about how her early career at Goldman prompted her to strike out on her own as founder/CEO of Milestone Capital and 85 Broads, the global business women’s network now known as Ellevate.  Janet’s early support of female founders is legendary, and includes angel investments in companies such as LearnVest and AHA Life. Notes Daniel F. Crowley, 69, Ex-Publishing Official The New York Times Anne Brown Farrell Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World by William D. Cohan Sara Weinheimer Ellevate MANAGEMENT: A Network of Their Own; From an Exclusive Address, a Group for Women Only by Reed Abelson, The New York Times Northwestern Mutual acquires LearnVest, the financial planning startup by Leena Rao, Fortune The Education of Warren Buffett’s protégé by Colleen Leahey, Fortune Stacey Borden ChixRx Meghan Muntean, How Bustle Cracked the Code to Reach Millennial Women by Magnify Team, Hill+Knowlton Strategies The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, iBooks Sheryl Sandberg Forbes Anne-Marie Slaughter on Raising Men Who Do Housework by Sarah Sophie Flicker, The Cut How this investor is bridging the 'bravado gap' by Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNNMoney How Hillary Clinton's historic win changes the game for girls by Holly Yan, CNNPolitics Additional Reading "85 Broads" Invests In Women by Melissa McNamara This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Janet Hanson by Angie Chang, Women 2.0 Feeling lucky: How important is luck to career success? by David Winter, The Guardian Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Goldman Sachs Promotes Record Number of Women, and It's Still Just 25 Percent by Emily Jane Fox, Vanity Fair Krawcheck to Acquire 85 Broads From Ex-Goldman Executive by Laura Marcine, Bloomberg Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Yuli Ziv was so passionate about her startup idea that she initially used her 401K to bootstrap it. Yuli is the Founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a first-to-market platform helping brands connect with top online lifestyle influencers. Yuli and Kelly talk about Style Coalition, being a bootstrapping solo founder, how being an immigrant inspired her to become an entrepreneur, and how you know you have product market fit when you are first to market! Notes HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence by Harvard Business Review, iBooks RICHARD BRANSON: 'Social justice is good for business' by Rachel Butt, Business Insider Shark judge Daymond John: What I learned from a $6M mistake by Christine Wang, CNBC The Tim Ferriss Approach to Setting Goals: Rig the Game so You Win by Ryan Robinson, Entrepreneur Additional Reading The Economic Case for Welcoming Immigrant Entrepreneurs by Dane Stangler and Jason Wiens, Kauffman Foundation Inside Israel's Secret Startup Machine by Richard Behar, Forbes Start-up Nation by Dan Senor & Saul Singer, iBooks Funding a Start-up – How to Tap an IRA or 401(k) Wall Street Journal What It's Really Like To Pivot A Startup by Erik Larson, Fast Company 3 Characteristics Solo Founders Need to Succeed by Chris Heivly, Inc. How to Hire Your First Employees While Running Your Startup by Aja Frost, SitePoint 10 Ways Competition Can Improve Your Business by Firas Kittaneh, Entrepreneur Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Why is it smart business to invest in founding teams that include women? Should all female founders seek angel or venture capital? Adam Quinton and Kelly Hoey chat about Adam's outspoken and unwavering support for female entrepreneurs, his calling out the bias that exists among Silicon Valley VCs, and his advice for female founders. Adam is Founder/CEO of Lucas Point Ventures and an active investor in and advisor to early stage companies. His investments include The Muse, Rapt Media, VenueBook, Hire an Esquire, Pinks and Greens, Validately and Snaps. Notes Female Founders Outperform Their Male Peers First Round Review Mike Tyson explains one of his most famous quotes by Mike Berardino, Sun Sentinel Snaps The Invention of Science by David Wootton, iBooks How I've Made Smart Hires As My Company Quadrupled In 10 Months by Kathryn Minshew, Fast Company This Tech CEO Has 4 Power Steps For Entrepreneur Resilience by Leo King, Forbes Margaret Thatcher, ‘Iron Lady’ Who Set Britain on New Course, Dies at 87 by Joseph R. Gregory, New York Times Additional Reading The Paradox of Meritocracy - in Tech by Adam Quinton, LinkedIn An Open Letter to Bethenny Frankel by Adam Quinton, LinkedIn Adam Quinton and Kara Swisher call BS on VCs ‘unconscious bias’ at Inspirefest 2015 Siliconrepublic, YouTube I’m a white guy in Silicon Valley and I’m done buying the meritocracy myth by Mike Eynon, Medium Forbes deleted a white tech writer's article that called Silicon Valley a 'meritocracy' by Dexter Thomas, Los Angeles Times Ellen Pao Says Silicon Valley Isn’t A Meritocracy. It’s Not. by Alexia Tsotsis, TechCrunch Introducing Project Include by Ellen Pao, Medium Project Include: Moving from Words to Action, Freada Vapor Klein, Medium 6 questions every founder should ask before they raise capital by Katherine Hague, O'Reilly No Venture Capital Needed, or Wanted by Janet Morrissey, New York Times Meet An Entrepreneur Who Doesn't Believe In Venture Capital by Amy Guttman, Forbes Looking for Love in All The Wrong Places - How to Find a Co-founder First Round Review How to Find a Co-Founder by Guy Kawasaki Is it possible to raise funding before building the product/app? Quora Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategy consultant and agent of change, founded StartUp Box, a social enterprise in the South Bronx generating entry level jobs in the tech industry. Kelly Hoey and Majora chat about the massive opportunity behind StartUp Box, how Majora is rolling it out in other cities, and her philosophy about not letting other people’s perception of you stand in the way of your work. Notes It’s Embarrassing How Few Black Female Founders Get Funded  by Davey Alba, Wired South Bronx Gets High-End Coffee; Is Gentrification Next? by Jeff Gordinier, New York Times Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy, iBooks How One Entrepreneur Convinced Beyoncé To Invest In Her Startup by Clare O'Connor, Forbes Additional Reading Tech Diversity: Message vs Messenger by Majora Carter, LinkedIn Majora Carter has a genius idea to get more people into tech jobs by Becky Bracken, SheKnows How social entrepreneurship is making a difference in the world by Bérénice Magistretti, TechCrunch Urban Onshoring: The Movement to Bring Tech Jobs Back to America by Issie Lapowsky, Wired Why diversity matters to your tech company by Joelle Emerson, USA Today 10 Things People Are Getting Wrong About Diversity In Tech by Ariel Lopez, Forbes Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Tina Roth Eisenberg is a New York based, Swiss born and raised graphic designer. Over the past nine years,  Tina (aka design blogger @swissmiss) has started numerous side projects that have organically turned into businesses: a collaborative co-working space called FRIENDS, a global, monthly lecture series called CreativeMornings, a simple to-do app called TeuxDeux and Tattly, a designer temporary tattoo shop. Kelly Hoey and Tina chat about how having kids ignited Tina’s entrepreneurial career, how she became a serial creative entrepreneur, and how her #1 rule, invest in what you love, has served her well. Notes Yay Internet Office Hours with Kevin Spacey Levo Becoming Wise by Krista Tippett, iBooks 2015 CNN Hero of the Year Maggie Doyne helps women, children in Nepal CNN Start-up Stories: The inventor of the glue that can fix pretty much anything Enterprise Nation Slow Factory Additional Reading Temporary Tattoos, Now for Grown-Ups, Too by Courtney Rubin, New York Times An Exclusive Spotlight on How CreativeMornings Runs 106+ Global Monthly Events by Carrie Melissa Jones, CMX The Tale of Tattly: Temporary tats have staying power by Jane Wells, CNBC Levo League Office Hours 15 successful startup founders who can also claim the title of 'Mom' by Biz Carson, Business Insider The Rise of Moms as Technology Entrepreneurs by Elena Krasnoperova, Medium Company culture tips from Netflix, Zappos, Atlasssian by Michael Feferman, Venture Beat Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Kelly Peeler, founder/CEO of NextGenVest, is tackling the $2.9Bn problem of unclaimed financial aid in a trillion dollar student loan market one text message at a time. NextGenVest is a free, on-demand, text message service that helps students navigate the complex financial aid and student loan process, NextGenVest is quickly becoming a trusted college money mentor helping millennials become smarter about the first and most important financial decision of their lives. Notes Tulipomania by Mike Dash, iBooks #AskGaryVee by Gary Vaynerchuk, iBooks How Kat Cole Went From Hooters Girl to Running a Billion-Dollar Brand by Jessica Grose, Lenny Additional Reading The Biggest Mistakes in Paying for College by Kelly Peeler, LinkedIn Millennials, money and changing the world by Kelly Peeler, TEDx Johns Hopkins University Student Loan Debt Is Leaving Women Broke and Vulnerable by Jill Filipovic, Vice Student Debt Can Hurt Women More Than Men by Natalie Kitroeff, Jonathan Rodkin, Bloomberg NextGenVest CEO On What Fintech Startups Can Learn From Uber by Harry Stebbings, TechCrunch The U.S. education bubble is now upon us by Mohamed A. El-Erian, MarketWatch This one graph shows why the higher ed bubble may be close to bursting by Katie Hardiman, The College Fix What We're Buying With $1 Trillion in Student Loans by Megan McArdle, Bloomberg,  6 Steps to Becoming a Successful Student Entrepreneur (Infographic) by Kim Lachance Shandrow, Entrepreneur Student Startup: Why College Is the Perfect Time to Launch a Business by Jessica Ekstrom, Entrepreneur Find the Right College to Be an Entrepreneur by Delece Smith-Barrow, U.S. News & World Report The 3 Biggest Challenges of Being a Solo Founder by Aihui Ong, Entrepreneur How A Founder Who Sold His Company For $100 Million Survived The Brutal, Early Days Of A Startup Alone by Alyson Shontell, Business Insider The High School Guidance Counselor Shortage by Timothy Pratt, Time Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

How do you know when the time is right to pitch your startup to investors? Is crowdfunding right for your business? In her interview with Kelly Hoey, Alicia Syrett, angel investor, founder of Pantegrion Capital, and a CNBC PowerPitch panelist, answers these questions and gives tips on what every founder should have in their pitch deck. Notes New York Angels Cisse Cocoa Willa Cosmetics The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, iBooks Person of the Year, Chancellor of the Free World by Karl Vick / Berlin with Simon Shuster, Time Christine Lagarde, iMFdirect The World's 100 Most Powerful Women: Melinda Gates, Forbes Additional Reading So What Should I Put In A Pitch Deck?!? by Alicia Syrett, LinkedIn Angel pet peeves: Avoid these things in a pitch by Alicia Syrett, CNBC How To Become An Angel Investor by Dorie Clark, Forbes Pros and Cons of Using an Angel Investor to Fund a Startup by Murray Newlands, Startup Grind Funding your startup: Crowdfunding vs. angel investment vs. VC by Conner Forrest, TechRepublic A teen skincare startup reinvents the Avon Lady for the digital generation by Jaclyn Trop, Fortune 7 tips for nailing a startup pitch to a boardroom full of VCs by Hila Shitrit Nissim, VentureBeat What are examples of VC Due Diligence Check Lists? Quora How Smart Startups Survive Investor Due Diligence by Martin Zwilling, Entrepreneur Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Miki Agrawal is disrupting not just one but three taboo industries.  Pee, periods, and poop are uncomfortable topics for some, but these billion dollar industries are ripe for change.  Miki, an entrepreneur who thinks big, is the CEO and co-founder of THINX, a high-tech, beautiful underwear solution for women to wear during their periods. Listen to how Miki developed THINX, crowdfunded the first prototype, and discovered that her path to becoming a social entrepreneur - doing good while making money - became the ultimate win/win. Notes Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better by Tony Schwartz, Harvard Business Review Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey & Rajendra Sisodi, iBooks Agrapalooza 2012 - Three Legged Race Final YouTube The Girl Effect: A Whole New Way To Invest by Manisha Thakor, Forbes The Skimm The Power of Shakti by Padma Aon Prakasha, iBooks Radio Taison by hoodboon, YouTube Richard Branson on Leo DiCaprio’s Space Travel, American Politics, and Getting Super High With Peter Tosh by Jada Yuan, Vulture Behind Toms Founder Blake Mycoskie's Plan To Build An Army Of Social Entrepreneurs by Rick Tetzeli, Fast Company Additional Reading Do Cool Sh*t by Miki Agrawal, iBooks Will the New York City Subway Ban These Ads for Using the Word "Period"? by Jenny Kutner, Mic THINX Underwear Ads On NYC Subway Are Up — But The Company Has Another Big Announcement by Rachel Krantz, Bustle How Menstruation Created the World by Judith Rae Grahn Two Keys to Sustainable Social Enterprise by Sally R. Osberg and Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business Review 5 Keys to Successful Sibling Partnerships by Matthew Toren, Entrepreneur What notable startups were founded by siblings? Any by cousins? Quora Hire Slow, Fire Fast by Greg McKeown, Harvard Business Review Hire Slow, Fire Fast' - Possibly The Worst Advice Ever Given by Liz Ryan, Forbes 10 fascinating tech projects that crowdfunding has made possible ZDNet Fast Facts & FAQ Fistula Foundation Why Aren't Bidets Common in the U.S.? by Karina Martinez-Carter, mental_floss Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

How does diversity help startups build great products? This week on BroadMic Bonus Cuts, listen to Tami Reiss, Nikki Kuritsky, and Allessandra McGinnis on… Why diverse hiring is important to building a world class team and product Their practical tips on managing diverse teams The core engineering hires you need for your startup What agile means in layman's terms Choosing the computing language you need to launch your business Notes Lean Case Study: Just Not Sorry by Tami Reiss, Medium Additional Reading How Do You Define Startup Culture? by Corey McAveeney, Wired Startups Are Personal: Focus On Company Culture by Mary Juetten, Forbes 80% of Your Culture is Your Founder First Round Review Diversity debt: how much does your startup have? by Andrea Barrica, 500 Startups Do Tech Startups Need More Diversity? Tell Me More, NPR It’s Time to Innovate Inclusion… The #ProjectDiane Report is Here by Kathryn Finney, Medium The tech industry’s “diversity” focus favors one group over pretty much any other by Erica Joy, Quartz Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity by Stefanie K. Johnson and David R. Hekman, Harvard Business Review We’re Making the Wrong Case for Diversity in Silicon Valley by Todd L. Pittinsky, Harvard Business Review What does being Agile mean to you? Quora Choosing the Right Programming Language for Your Startup by AWS Startups, Medium Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Is the startup unicorn over? What is blockchain? This week on BroadMic Bonus Cuts, listen to Joanne Wilson & Jalak Jobanputra answer these questions and more… Joanne Wilson on Unicorns in today's funding environment A cautionary story about investors and cram downs Convertible notes versus equity Jalak Jobanputra on Why blockchain is the next 'internet' Whether an MBA is necessary for women to succeed in business How she views entrepreneurs who crowdfund Notes Gilt Groupe Was A Different Type of 'Unicorn' by Dan Primack, Fortune The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds FeldThoughts Open Sourced Model Seed Financing Documents Techstars How The Blockchain Can Unshackle Us by Jalak Jobanputra, The Barefoot VC Additional Reading CrunchBase Unicorn Leaderboards CrunchBase Meet The 14 Unicorn Startups That Have Created 25 Billionaires by Kate Vinton, Forbes The Unicorn Era for Tech Startups is Over by Therese Poletti, MarketWatch Comparing Equity, Debt And Convertibles For Startup Financings by George Deeb, Forbes The Pre-money vs. Post-money Confusion With Convertible Notes FeldThoughts Startup nightmares: Help, my VC won’t re-invest by Nikesh Parekh, GeekWire Federal Reserve Speaks Up on Blockchain BI Intelligence, Business Insider Barclays Used Blockchain Tech to Trade Derivatives by Arjun Kharpal, CNBC Blockchain Applications for Healthcare by Peter B. Nichol, CIO Despite What Sheryl Sandberg Says, MBAs Still Matter by Olivia Vanni, BostInno Does getting an MBA make someone a better entrepreneur? Quora The Value of a Degree: Why Silicon Valley Startups Need More MBAs by Jawad Khan, Business.com How Crowd-Funding Is Changing Everything and What That Means for Your Startup  First Round Review Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Does unconscious bias affect the language we use when talking about startups and founders? This week on BroadMic Bonus Cuts, listen to Heidi Messer & Susan Lyne about… Their fascinating (and different!) takes on Reid Hoffman's quote about what he looks for in an entrepreneur: “I look to see if someone has a marine strategy, for taking the beach; an army strategy, for taking the country; and a police strategy, for governing the country afterward.” Their practical tips and inside info on what they look for in an entrepreneur’s pitch deck Susan Lyne's view on the critical difference between thought leaders and influencers. Notes Tomorrow's Advance Man by Tad Friend, The New Yorker LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs, Reidhoffman.org Quantifying Silicon Valley’s Diversity Issue by Jessi Hempel, Wired These 10 Male Executives Are Committing to Reach Gender Parity in 5 Years by Valentina Zarya, Fortune Additional Reading Startups Serving The 99 Percent Will Be the Next Billion-Dollar Companies by Hans Tung, TechCrunch Lessons From The Early Pitch Decks Of Airbnb, BuzzFeed, And YouTube by Linda Dishman, Fast Company Marc Andreessen: How to address diversity in tech, Fortune video The Network Man: Reid Hoffman’s big idea by Nicholas Leman, The New Yorker Lessons From A Study of Perfect Pitch Decks: VCs Spend An Average of 3 Minutes, 44 Seconds On Them by Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch 8 things you should never, ever include in a pitch deck by Scott Gerber, TNW Positioning Your Startup is Vital — Here’s How to Nail It by Arielle Jackson, First Round Review How to Write a Great Business Plan: Competitive Analysis by Jeff Haden, Inc. The Official Definitions of Seed, Series A, and Series B Rounds by Jason Calacanis Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

What’s every entrepreneur’s dream? To build a big business, successfully exit and lead a life of autonomy with choice. Our guest today needs no introduction: Carley Roney co-founded The Knot in 1996. Think about where the internet was then. It was AOL chatrooms, dial up modems, and a single photo took five minutes to load. Carley takes us through the roller coaster ride of her entrepreneurial journey - from pitching the “worst idea ever” - according to AOL - to building the first model of an ad supported business, and talks about what it was like working with 3 other co- founders (spoiler alert: one was her husband), to going public, being de-listed and going public again. And while you may not think startup lessons from 1996 are relevant today, guess what folks, they are more relevant than ever! Efficient use of capital has not gone out of style! Knowing your customers has not gone out of style! If you’re the least bit worried about being unconventional in your approach as an entrepreneur, then you will want to listen to this episode where you will get all the permission you need from Carley Roney! Notes Yes Please by Amy Poehler, iBooks Instagram Is Getting So Good at News, It Should Scare Twitter by Jessi Hempel, Wired Meet Seasoned Silicon Valley Investor, Ann Winblad by Shradha Sharma, Your Story Additional Reading The Knot Straightens Out by Emily Maltby, WSJ Wedding Spend Reaches All-Time High, PR Newswire Why is Peter Thiel not a big fan of the lean startup/MVP movement? Quora How To Find A Co-Founder For Your Startup by George Deeb, Forbes Lessons From A Study of Perfect Pitch Decks by Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch The Long Lost Myth of Capital Efficiency by Brad Feld, FeldThoughts 3 Ways Startups Can Accomplish More With Less by David Klein, Inc A Complete History of the Rise and Fall — and Reincarnation! — of the Beloved ’90s Chatroom by Caitlin Dewey, WaPo The 5 Commandments of Running a Successful Business With Your Spouse by David and Carrie McKeegan, Entrepreneur Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Our guest today has a “golden” resume, notably for the ease with which she crossed the Internet 2.0 digital divide, while at the helm of some of the largest brands in media, commerce and consumer products - Disney, ABC, Gilt and AOL. Susan Lyne is now founder and president of Built by Girls Ventures, aka BBG Ventures, a corporate VC fund investing in early stage, female-led businesses with consumer, tech-enabled products. In this fireside chat, Susan talks about “why the time is now” to invest in female founders, a conviction born out of decades of observing women’s powerful role as consumers, yet she points to a disturbing disconnect: the still “shockingly low” amount of VC $$s being invested in female-led companies. You’ll hear what she has to say about... how to look for mentors, whether it makes sense to go for VC $$s or not, and why you may be shooting yourself in the foot if you are a solo founder. Listen if you want to hear Susan Lyne’s unique blend of inspiration and practical wisdom for today’s “happy warrior.” Notes Female Founders Outperform Their Male Peers First Round Lola Tampons Media Redef NYT Morning Briefing Re/code theSkimm The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, iBooks Cheerful Money by Tad Friend, iBooks Additional Reading Why Women Entrepreneurs Need to Be More Cocky by Susan Lyne, Inc. The F-Word: What Chelsea Handler and I Have in Common by Susan Lyne, LinkedIn Why The Force Will Be With Women Entrepreneurs In 2016 by Geri Stengel, Forbes Two Women Bosses Reveal the Most Insane Things Said to Them at Work by Betty Lui, Inc. The Growing Trend of Firms Investing Only in Women Founders by Steven Loeb, Vator Female founders grab record VC deal share—but still just 18% by Joanna Nolasco, Pitch Book Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Have you ever been guilty of the following crimes: thinking that you could start a company if only you could find a developer? Hiring a developer—your aunt’s cousin’s son—because he’s cheap? Taking a ‘hands off’ approach to managing your developer team? Then you need to listen to today’s guest, Nelly Yusupova, the CTO for Webgrrls and founder of TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs, a bootcamp for founders. After a decade of hearing complaints from founders about how they were being “ripped off” by developers, Nelly designed the boot camp with the interests of the non-technical founder in mind. In this episode, Nelly reveals the biggest roadblocks new founders face building their product. She shares a clear and detailed roadmap for how to build great product, talks about the four most common mistakes made by founders, why she’s an advocate for the agile approach to product development, and how embracing failure can lead to success. Finally...Nelly shares her secret sauce, a 7 step ‘how-to’ guide to building world class product. Learn how avoiding these costly mistakes can help save you precious capital and put you on the road to becoming a more confident and successful entrepreneur! Notes WebGrrls TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs FREE class Feedly iTunes This Week in Startups iTunes This Week In Tech iTunes Ted Radio Hour iTunes Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath, iBooks Femina Additional Reading 3 Key Lessons for Non-Technical Entrepreneurs by Nelly Yusupova, themuse 5 Tips for Hiring a Great Web Developer, by Nelly Yusupova, Entrepreneur 5 Ways to Communicate Better With Software Developers, by Nelly Yusupova, Entrepreneur 10 Must-Know Tech Terms, Translated, by Nelly Yusupova, Entrepreneur Why You Should Never Ask to Pick Someone's Brain, by Dave Crenshaw Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail, Fast, by Mark Suster, Bothsid.es 3 Web Dev Careers Decoded: Front-End vs Back-End vs Full Stack, By Michael Wales, Udacity Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

What makes a world class venture capitalist tick? How does she develop the confidence to invest in the future now? Meet Jalak Jobanputra, the General Partner of FuturePerfect Ventures. Jalak Jobanputra is a global technology veteran and powerhouse with a 20-year track record of investing in cutting edge technologies. While running her own micro-VC fund, Jalak also makes time to write one of the top 10 investor blogs, the Barefoot VC. Jalak is a highly sought-after speaker and one of Forbes 40 under 40. In our conversation with Jalak, we will hear why not being in an office in Silicon Valley gives her a competitive edge, what she looks for in the entrepreneurs she funds, and why she is still so excited about her work! Jalak is investing in the future today - a future that includes mobile technologies, blockchain, bitcoin, artificial intelligence, and much of what is today’s most cutting edge technology. Listen to hear the pearls of wisdom from this technology thought leader! Notes FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap by Jalak Jobanputra, the barefoot vc Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley Steps Down by Alyson Shontell, Inc. Why It Was A Savvy Move For Nasty Gal Founder Sophia Amoruso To Step Down As CEO by Richard Feloni, Business Insider The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku, iBooks Case Raises $1.5 Million in Seed Funding to Expand Access to its Secure Signing Device Additional Reading Trailblazing Women: Jalak Jobanputra, Founder/Managing Partner of FuturePerfect Ventures by Anne Ravanona, Huffpo Breaking Through, Center for an Urban Future What Every Successful Woman Entrepreneur Should Know: Advice From Five Unstoppable Women by Capital One Future Edge, Forbes Google’s Computer Program Beats Lee Se-dol in Go Tournament by Choe Sang-Hun, NYTimes MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games by SethBling, YouTube Where is the Micro-VC Market Going? by Samir Kaji, CB Insights Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

What's the stereotype of a VC? It’s someone with a computer science degree, an MBA, who ran a startup. The door seems closed to anyone who doesn’t meet those requirements. Meet wunderkind Jessica Peltz-Zatulove, the exception to the rule. Jessica, a Madison Avenue veteran turned venture capitalist at kbs+ Ventures, a corporate VC fund, invests in transformative technologies that big media and advertising brands are seeking. Jessica answers many of the most common questions about VCs: where a corporate VC fits into the VC landscape, what she looks for in founders, the homework entrepreneurs should do in advance of meeting VCs and how to avoid the most common mistakes made with investors. Jessica puts a very human face on venture capital when she talks about the unconditional love/conditional like relationship she has with the entrepreneurs she funds. Listen to hear more of Jessica’s tough love advice: it will make you a lot smarter about the type of money you should be seeking! Notes StrictlyVC Newsletter CB Insights a16z Podcast on iTunes The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital on iTunes Good to Great on iBooks Additional Reading Interested in a Career in Venture? 6 VCs Tell You How by Kelly Hoey, Inc. The FBiOS Affair: Why Advertisers Should Care by kbs+ Ventures, Medium Machines Of Loving Grace: Messaging, Personalization & AI by kbs+ Ventures, Medium Stanford eCorner Podcast The Rise Of Corporate Venture Capital by Ryan Caldbeck, Fortune Dear Investors: So You Want to Take Diversity Seriously (Part 1) by Mitch & Freada Kapor The 104 Most Active Corporate VC Firms CB Insights List of Female Angel and Early-Stage Investors in Tech by Mackenzie Burnett, Medium Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

When angel investor Joanne Wilson was recently asked "how do female entrepreneurs find you", she replied "i don’t know, they find me; i guess i’m kinda out there." Joanne’s larger-than-life reputation precedes her... for going to bat for her female founders, and for speaking the truth even if it comes at the expense of her own pocketbook. Joanne took up angel investing with a vengeance as a second career and as a way of giving back and empowering the next generation of female founders. Joanne has made over 60 angel investments in women-led startups and regularly writes about her experience on Gotham Gal, a blog that she’s been writing for over a decade. Today, we have a chance to get inside the mind of an experienced angel investor and hear some inside baseball from Joanne, including what she and Warren Buffett have in common. Entrepreneurs listen up: she will share cautionary tales about the importance of knowing your deal terms and why she *hates* seeing an exit slide in a pitch deck! You will learn all about “the good, the bad, and the ugly” from Joanne Wilson, the ‘no BS’ angel investor. Notes Gotham Gal Joanne Wilson is an angel investor — and 'chick magnet' by Mary Johnson, The Business Journals The Retrade by FeldThoughts A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren Why I Stopped Angel Investing (And You Should Never Start) by Tucker Max, Observer How to become an angel investor by Sophia Epstein, Wired UK How To Become An Angel Investor by Dorie Clark, Forbes Husband, father….but not wife, mother. by Joanne Wilson, Gotham Gal Sticking to your plan by Joanne Wilson, Gotham Gal Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

“Agile...lean startup...fail early...fail fast...fail cheap…”. These terms are tossed around but what the heck do they mean? More specifically...what do they mean when you’re building a product and running a business? Today I’m speaking with a panel of product experts who will explain these terms and how they apply to every business. If you’re about to build a product and wonder where to begin, you should listen to this episode. If you want to hire the best talent for your technical team, you should listen to this episode. If you want to become a more successful manager in general, you should listen to this episode. Learn from the experts who do it every. single. day. I’m speaking with Tami Reiss, CEO of Cyrus Innovations, who created the #JustNotSorry Gmail plug-in that’s been making waves. Also on the panel are Nikki Kuritsky, formerly head of product for Christie’s, now VP of Product at Shutterstock, and Allessandra McGinnis a product manager at Autodesk. They will share their hard-earned “trade secrets” for how to design a great product roadmap, build awesome product and why they believe in putting the “H” back into managing teams and creating team culture. For those of you who want to know what the “H” stands for, you should listen to this episode! Notes Agile vs. Lean vs. Lean Agile by Tami Reiss 5 Traits of a Good Product Manager by Benjamin Hawkyard, Medium Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose. by Kimber Lockhart, Medium What Product VPs At High-Growth Startups Have In Common by Mike Belito, Medium Your First 100 Days by Niamh O'Keeffe, iBooks Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson, iBooks Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Want to build a big, disruptive business that improves lives and make a lot of money in the process? Meet Heidi Messer, an extraordinary NYC entrepreneur who sold LinkShare, a decade ago for $425 million, but when she was pitching the buisness to investors in the mid-90s, she had to have a slide in her investor pitch deck, “what is the internet and why should you care.” Fast forward to today: Heidi is on her way to disrupting a whole new industry in enterprise sales. LinkShare was just a preview to "the main show", Collective[i], her new company in big data, a $1 Tn market opportunity. You will hear why she thinks B2B is such an exciting place to be, where she describes the dichotomy that people experience going from home to work, where they spend the majority of their time, "it's like you go from indoor plumbing at home to an outhouse at work." You will also hear why she started what’s been described in the press as “New York’s most exclusive women-only poker game” (spoiler alert: to help women become better networkers). Heidi’s powerful insights into how networks are changing the world, will change the way you think about your business and social networks. Notes Open letter to the VC Who Can’t Find Any Women to Work at His Firm by Davida E. Arnold, She Knows Inside a Poker Night for Female Power Brokers by Jaclyn Trop, Forbes The Cost of Slow by Collective[i], Medium If You're Trying to Be "Data-Driven," You're Doing it Wrong, by Collective[i] Medium Why Sales Leaders Are the New Tech Moguls by Collective[i], Medium Additional Reading Are Big Data Career Paths Attracting More Women to Tech? by Rachel Wolfs, HuffPo Madeleine Albright on Barriers Broken and Barriers that Remain Wall Street Journal 56% Of Enterprises Will Increase Their Investment In Big Data Over The Next Three Years by Louis Columbus, Forbes Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Big Data Baseball by Travis Sawchik Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

“We can’t move forward with only 50% of the population.” In the past 3 years, only 4% of female founders have received venture capital funding. It is 2016, well past the time to change this. Women are a powerful entrepreneurial force—not just a large consumer market to be tapped or “binders full of women” to be hired. Listen to host Kelly Hoey highlight the diverse role models who are breaking the conventional stereotype of an entrepreneur, and spotlight the women and minorities who are acting, leading and changing the world. Through hosted conversations on BroadMic, Kelly will demonstrate why having conversations about success is as important as having role models. We believe in strengthening the BroadMic community through shared expertise. Together, we can change the narrative. No more white papers, no more studies, no more theses about change – let’s act! #ThinkBroad Notes Show Women Entrepreneurs The Role Models! by Kelly Hoey, Inc. It’s Time to Innovate Inclusion… The #ProjectDiane Report is Here by Kathryn Finney, Medium There’s a way to get girls to stick with science–and no, it’s not more female role models by Shannon Palus, Quartz Factors that affect the physical science career interest of female students: Testing five common hypotheses by Zahra Hazari, Geoff Potvin, Robynne M. Lock,Florin Lung, Gerhard Sonnert, and Philip M. Sadler, APS Journals Introducing the Boardlist by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Medium Why The Force Will Be With Women Entrepreneurs In 2016 by Geri Stengel, Forbes "I love talking to you about my problems. We should do a podcast." by David Sipress, New Yorker Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

How many times have you seen or listened to an entrepreneur profiled in the media as a “white-male, hoodie-wearing, unicorn-hunting, Stanford engineer”? Hungry for substantive advice from accomplished entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders who look and sound like you? Welcome to BroadMic where we are breaking the mold about what it means to be a successful entrepreneur. You have to see it to be it!   Here you will learn from unconventional role models, get the picks and shovels you need, and access the candid conversations that normally go on behind closed doors. It’s no longer necessary for women and minorities to sacrifice their identities in order to fit into the tech community. We believe in strengthening the BroadMic community through shared expertise. Together, we can change the narrative. No more white papers, no more studies, no more theses about change – let’s act! #ThinkBroad Notes This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like - Sara Weinheimer by Women 2.0, Forbes A Colleague Drank My Breast Milk and Other Wall Street Tales by Maureen Sherry, The New York Times Betty Friedan's 1957 Questionnaire at Smith College by Betty Friedan Gloria Steinem on iBooks by Gloria Steinem Feminine Mystique 50th Anniversary by Betty Friedan Additional Reading Ellen Pao Speaks: ‘I Am Now Moving On’ by Ellen Pao, Re/code The Myth Women in Tech Need to Stop Believing by Terri McCullough, Fortune Year of Yes – How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes It’s Payback Time for Women by Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times “I’m starting a startup that helps other startups start up.” by Kaamran Hafeez, New Yorker Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.