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#37 Know What Business You Are In: How Olga Vidisheva, YC Graduate and Founder/CEO of Shoptiques Built the Anti-Amazon
January 05, 2017 19:35 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBHow 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 compellin...
#36 Failure is Not Final: Christina Wallace, VP of Growth, Bionic
December 15, 2016 18:32 - 33 minutes - 46.7 MBCan 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: Christi...
#35 Take Risks When You’re Young: Liz Wessel, Cofounder of WayUp
December 01, 2016 19:00 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBLiz 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 ...
#34 Focus on the Things You Have Control Over: Gina Bianchini, Founder/CEO of Mightybell
November 10, 2016 18:54 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBGina 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...
#33 Tell Me Ten Reasons Why You Can: Alicia Thomas, Founder/CEO of Dibs Technology
October 27, 2016 18:54 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBAlicia 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 ...
#32 All Investing Is Impact Investing: Fran Seegull, CIO Impact Assets
October 13, 2016 18:04 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBEven 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 socia...
#31 The ‘Lightbulb Moment’: Aileen Gemma Smith on How Crisis Compelled Her to Found Vizalytics
September 29, 2016 18:00 - 30 minutes - 42 MBAileen 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...
#30 Kara Nortman, Co-founder of Seedling and VC Partner at Upfront Ventures Comes Full Circle
September 15, 2016 18:09 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBWhat 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...
#29 Jeanne Sullivan on Why Women Can Dominate the $5.4Bn Cannabis Industry
September 01, 2016 18:00 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBVenture 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 th...
#28 Find the Problem You Were Meant to Solve, Then Go Solve it: Christina Lomasney, Co-founder and CEO of Modumetal
August 18, 2016 18:30 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBAs 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 D...
#27 Dare to Dream Big: Q&A with Dream, Girl Director Erin Bagwell
August 04, 2016 18:29 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBErin 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 ...
#26 How Women Entrepreneurs Can Get $300 Billion: Anne Ravanona, Founder/CEO of Global Invest Her
July 28, 2016 18:22 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBThree 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 Reall...
#25 How Can We *use* Tech to Correct Unconscious Bias *in* Tech with Matt Wallaert, behavioral scientist
July 21, 2016 18:34 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBA 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 solv...
#24 The Real Unicorns of Tech: Kathryn Finney on Black Women Founders
July 14, 2016 18:36 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBHow 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 ...
#23 Both Sides of the Table: Stephanie Newby, Founder of Golden Seeds and CEO of Crimson Hexagon
July 07, 2016 19:05 - 29 minutes - 41 MBAre 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 Serie...
#22 Do You Need a Chief Happiness Officer? Audience Q&A with Tina Roth Eisenberg
June 30, 2016 18:27 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBHow 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, ...
#21 Carpe Diem: Janet Hanson on Recognizing Opportunity and Taking Risk
June 23, 2016 18:54 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBWhat 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 su...
#20 Stop Fundraising and Build Your Technology: Yuli Ziv on Bootstrapping and Product Market Fit
June 16, 2016 18:41 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBYuli 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 Intell...
#19 Angel Investor and Self-described Radical Feminist, Adam Quinton, Takes on the SV “Mirrorocracy”
June 09, 2016 18:34 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBWhy 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, VenueBoo...
#18 Where is the next Oprah or Bill Gates? Majora Carter, Founder of StartUp Box, is Onshoring Jobs in Underserved Communities
June 02, 2016 18:02 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBMajora 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, Wi...
#17 Invest In What You Love: Designer Tina Roth Eisenberg, Serial Creative Entrepreneur
May 26, 2016 18:27 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBTina 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 caree...
#16 Texting Can Get Students $2.9Bn More in Financial Aid: NextGenVest puts $ in College Millennial’s Pockets
May 19, 2016 18:06 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBKelly 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 Mik...
#15 When Can a Horrible Credit Record Be a Positive? Alicia Syrett on Founders Investing in Their Own Businesses
May 12, 2016 18:31 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBHow 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...
#14 The 3 Ps of Miki Agrawal, Founder of Thinx & “Taboo Queen for the Nether Regions”
May 05, 2016 18:30 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBMiki 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 makin...
#13 How Does Diversity Impact Team Culture? Tami Reiss, Nikki Kuritsky, and Allessandra McGinnis on Diversity and Building Team Culture
April 26, 2016 18:30 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBHow 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, M...
#12 What the Heck is Blockchain? Joanne Wilson & Jalak Jobanputra on Unicorns, Convertible Notes, Blockchain, and MBAs
April 19, 2016 18:26 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MBIs 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...
#11 Are Pitch Meetings Minefields? Heidi Messer and Susan Lyne give advice about Investor Meetings, Pitch Deck Tips, and Thought Leadership
April 12, 2016 18:30 - 37 minutes - 52.2 MBDoes 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 w...
#10 Bucking Convention: How Carley Roney Rode the Roller Coaster to Success
April 05, 2016 18:30 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MBWhat’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 ...
#9 The Female Consumer as Muse – How She Guides Susan Lyne at BBG Ventures
March 29, 2016 18:30 - 49 minutes - 68.8 MBOur 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 inve...
#8 Hiring Your Aunt’s Cousin’s Son: Nelly Yusupova Reveals The Four Most Common Product Development Mistakes
March 22, 2016 18:15 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBHave 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 d...
#7 Unmasking the Myth of the Unicorn with Future\Perfect Partner Jalak Jobanputra
March 15, 2016 18:40 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MBWhat 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 Future\Perfect 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 4...
#6 What’s Love Got To Do with It? Jessica Peltz-Zatulove’s Tough Love Advice for Entrepreneurs
March 08, 2016 19:23 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBWhat'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 ...
#5 The No BS Angel Investor: Inside the Mind of Angel Investor Joanne Wilson
March 01, 2016 20:05 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBWhen 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. Joann...
#4 When is a Failure Not a Failure: the Dilemma Facing Product Managers
March 01, 2016 20:00 - 52 minutes - 72.1 MB“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...
#3 The $1Tn Opportunity in B2B: Heidi Messer on Why You Shouldn’t Feel Like You Are Going from Indoor Plumbing at Home to an Outhouse at Work
March 01, 2016 20:00 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBWant 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 pre...
#2 Why Another Podcast?
February 11, 2016 18:00 - 5 minutes - 8.21 MB“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 acti...
#1 BroadMic Origin Story
February 11, 2016 17:00 - 5 minutes - 7.58 MBHow 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 ne...