When It Comes To Funding, “Hot Or Not” Matters For Female Founders
Is It Harder For Attractive Female Founders To Secure Startup Funding? A group of scientists who published a study in this month’s PNAS seem to think so. The title of their article, “Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched By Attractive Men,” kind of gives the ending away, but it also raises…
6 Steps To Business Success For Women
The following steps are the ones I took to build a successful company and specifically, to take full advantage of the resources and advice available to me: Take advantage of access to experts. When I started iCreate, I participated in an incubator program that provided me access to many experts who had….
Best Of 2013: Sara Jones, Co-Founder Of Hiring-Hub, Takes Home Startup Award For Women In Business
Starting a business from scratch isn’t for everyone. Every successful entrepreneur will tell you that the beginning stages of building a startup are rough, but worth it. In the spirit of living up to KillerStartups’ mission to bring you stories of the people behind great startup companies, I present…
And This Week’s Award For Most Offensive App Goes To…
Incentive based marketing and sales strategies are fairly old hat in the world of business. It’s pretty straightforward, customers and clients like walking away feeling like they both got something. Most strategists think of incentive as a form of motivation, but one app is re-thinking that paradigm. What I…
It’s Lonely At The Top, So Bring Others With You
While many business challenges are common for all founders, there are unique lessons that women entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to learn in business. Here are several essential lessons I’ve learned as a successful female entrepreneur and what every female founder should know along the way…