👩 The 2019 Internet Trends report; How to angel invest; Brunello Cucinelli

This is issue No. 90 and the last issue had a 49% open rate. The top two articles from last week's issue were:

• How VC firms perform due diligence.

• How VCs make money, including a preadsheet of startup outcomes to play with the number.

📅We are currently planning meet-ups in New York, San Francisco and London for July. I will be attending all of them and can't wait to meet you. Further details will follow soon!

Insights.

Brunello Cucinelli photoshopped women into all-male tech summit photo. | All Raise

🔥🕵️‍♀️ It’s Christmas for data nerds: Here's Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends report — everyone’s favourite slide deck. The well-known Silicon Valley VC highlighted slowed growth in e-commerce sales, increased internet ad spending, data growth, as well as the rise of freemium subscription business models, telemedicine, photo-sharing, interactive gaming and the on-demand economy. In case you don't have time to read 333 slides, here's a great summary of the must-read slides. Silicon Valley executives visited Brunello Cucinelli, a luxury designer famous for his $1,000 sweatpants, and two women CEOs were photoshopped into by GQ what was originally a photo featuring 15 men. We think All Raise's response was epic. Elizabeth Warren, who earlier this year confirmed her intent to run for president in 2020, has an ambitious plan to advance entrepreneurs of colour. Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures leads Modern Fertility's Series A. Here is what top VCs look for in women’s fertility startups. Over 180 CEOs speak out on abortion: 'Don't Ban Equality'. GitHub hires former Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia as COO. The six gender gaps and what women can do to close them. A list of female-founded rocket ship companies by region.

FROM THE INVESTOR.

Why I moved from San Francisco to Europe to invest in tech. — Maren Bannon, Co-founder and Partner at Jane VC

How I angel invest and what it means to me. — Sophia Bendz, Partner at Atomico, Angel investor & former Global Marketing Director at Spotify

A comparison and analysis of publicly traded DevOps companies (Fastly, New Relic, Pivotal, PagerDuty, and Splunk). — Astasia Myers, Enterprise investor at Redpoint Ventures

Getting into VC as a recent Graduate. — Justine and Olivia Moore, Investors at

A Q&A with Lightspeed's Ashley Brasier about her journey from consumer product to investing.

The dark sides of entrepreneurship. — Vani Kola, Managing Director at Kalaari Capital

FROM THE ENTREPRENEUR AND OPERATOR.

On hard decisions as a founder and finding new big ideas. — Ellie Howard, Co-founder of Nuanced

How to be great? Just be good, repeatably. — Steph Smith, Head of Publications at Toptal

First Looker and Tableau, which data visualization companies could be acquired next? — Danielle Morrill, General Manager, Meltano at GitLab & former Co-founder & CEO of Mattermark

Adding value to company culture without adding more complexity to the process. — Alison Eastaway, Head of Talent at Sqreen

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EVENTS.

• June 18th London No Risk, No Fun with Pip Jamieson, Founder of The Dots

• June 19th San Francisco How to Negotiate Your Best Venture Deal

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Female Founders Alliance has opened its applications for its Ready Set Raise startup accelerator in Seattle. Apply until June 23rd!

RESOURCES.

🔥The Fundery: The essential Venture Capital database for women entrepreneurs.

A practical list of resources about venture.
Global directory for women in venture capital.
A database of 200 Black & Latinx Venture Capitalists.
The Fundraising Bible
The VC Female Founders Dashboard
100 Latina founders.
Juniors in Tech - A newsletter & job board for juniors in tech.
Download the Diversity and Inclusion toolkit for entrepreneurs.
Here are 588 women in the UK who could speak at your tech event.

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@femstreet & B2B SaaS Investor @dawncapital

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