👩 Fuel Capital; 2019 Female Entrepreneur Survey; A framework for thinking about CAC; The importance of one-on-ones
Issue #85
Your Weekly Newsletter on Women in Tech, Entrepreneurship and Diversity in Venture Capital
Chris Howard and Leah Busque of Fuel Capital
This is issue No. 85 and the last issue had a 51% open rate. The top two articles from last week's issue were:
Insights.
Fuel Capital, co-led by TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque, closed a $75 million fund. Daye, a startup developing a ‘cramp-fighting’ tampon, raises $5.5M from Khosla, Index and Kindred. KKR strikes partnership with Harlem Capital to get women and minorities into Private Equity. Pauliina Martikainen joins Maki VC. Anu Duggal of Female Founders Fund on the current VC landscape for women business leaders. The Riveter Founder Amy Nelson is pregnant, has 3 Kids, and runs a startup. Princeton university's $25.9 billion endowment looks to break up the white male money monopoly and moves (slowly) to hire managers owned by women and minorities. What it's like to run an investment company. Whitney Wolfe Herd’s work diary: fighting misogyny, one Bumble brand at a time. Frozen Embryo Transfer to IVF: How female founders handle fertility. Participate in Inc's 2019 Female Entrepreneur Survey.
FROM THE INVESTOR.
How to measure CAC in a two-sided marketplace: a framework for thinking about CAC and how it impacts unit economics for your B2B or B2C marketplace startup. — Natalie Luu, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
3 ways leaders can make wellness a core strategy. – Marina Hadjipateras, Co-founder and General Partner at Trail Mix Ventures
Why VC firms are investing in platform to compete. – Stephanie Manning, Director of Platform at Lerer Hippeau
The intricacies of enterprise sales and how diversity results in differentiated deal flow. – Lolita Taub, Principal at Backstage Capital
Wealth gives you power and these are the general strategies to becoming wealthy. – Elizabeth Yin, Co-Founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund
FROM THE ENTREPRENEUR AND OPERATOR.
One-on-ones can be the most valuable meetings and here is how you should run them. — Mathilde Collin, Co-founder and CEO of Front
Guidelines for VCs establishing reporting contacts - people designated as the first touchpoint for complaints about harassment, discrimination, and other unwelcome behaviours at VC firms. — Ginny Fahs, Software Engineer at Uber
Entrepreneuring is HARD — and what to do about it. — Jodi Lasky, Founder & CEO of the Pride
The simple starting point for finding investors, how and where to start the investor search process. — Sophia Sunwoo, Principal at Ascent Strategy
Going from $0 to 7 figures in a year. — Ju Rhyu, Co-Founder & CEO of Hero Cosmetics
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EVENTS.
May 14th Stockholm Femtech event #13 with focus on B2B SaaS companies
May 15th Paris Lessons learned from Flickr, Etsy & Yes VC w/ Caterina Fake
May 18th Webinar How to Break Into Venture Capital Webinar with Elizabeth Galbut (SoGal Ventures) & Christina Nanfeldt (Insight Venture Partners)
May 20th London Funding and Financing Startups
May 21st London Allbright Pitch Day
May 21st Paris Deep Dive into Venture Capital
May 22nd London Diversity Debt: Scaling your company with diversity in mind
May 22-23rd New York LDV Vision Summit - Get 60% off your tickets with code FEMSTREET through May 13!
May 28th Copenhagen Female Founders Office Hours
May 31st San Francisco Founders + Funders by Women 2.0 and Seneca VC
June 5th Malmö, Sweden Women in Entrepreneurship Breakfast with Dawn Capital & Femstreet - Meet me there!
RESOURCES.
🔥🔥A practical list of resources about venture.
The Fundraising Bible
Global directory for women in venture capital.
The VC Female Founders Dashboard
A database of 200 Black & Latinx Venture Capitalists you should know.
Juniors in Tech - A newsletter & job board for juniors in tech.
List of groups who cater or specifically includes African or Caribbean in Tech.
Download the Diversity and Inclusion toolkit for entrepreneurs.
Here are 588 women in the UK who could speak at your tech event.
Dealroom published a list of 4,500 female-founded European startups.
👉Access the Femstreet database of female-founded companies here. Not on our list yet? Submit your company here.
👋Comments, questions, tips? Send me a note!
Sarah Nöckel, Founder / Editor in Chief
@femstreet & B2B SaaS Investor @dawncapital