👩 What it’s really like to have a baby while running your company; Questions that early-stage VCs ask you; Nurx raises $52M Series C
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Issue #99
11 Female CEOs and Founders on What It’s Really Like to Have a Baby While Running Your Company | Fortune
This is issue No. 99 and the last issue had a 48% open rate. The top two articles from last week's issue were:
Insights.
The women behind The Wing, Outdoor Voices, Birchbox, and other startups share stories of taking meetings from the hospital and rethinking parental leave.
Cloudflare files for IPO: A real tech giant in the making - with a female co-founder.
Alexis Ohanian: Paternity leave was crucial after the birth of my child, and every father deserves it.
Inside VC Firms: The gender divide. How can we talk about workplace equality when we still punish women for getting pregnant?
Here’s how to nail internal Comms. G
ut Feelings: One founder’s bold approach to thinking differently about gut health.
Female Founders Fund on the next wave of female-led unicorns. Six Questions for Greylock’s Sarah Guo.
Using AI to build a more inclusive workforce: An interview with Lolita Taub.
Aditi Maliwal joins LA-based Upfront Ventures as Partner.
Birth control delivery startup Nurx raises $52M in Series C funding and approaches $300M valuation.
From the Investor.
🤓On the future of work: Retain vs. Retrain and Empathy as job security.
Jessica Lin/ Work-Bench
Top 10 tips to get early-stage fundraising success.
Cayetana Hurtado/ Balderton Capital
A Google doc with the questions that early-stage VCs may ask you.
Elizabeth Yin/ Hustle Fund
One month as a VC Analyst — Some lessons learned.
Priyanka Somrah/ Work-Bench
The potential of blockchain gaming marketplaces.
Linda Xie/ Scalar Capital
Key health tech observations and suggestions to promote the creation of world-leading companies.
Julia Hawkins/ LocalGlobe
From the Founder & Operator.
What does growth mean for PMs and how do you go about building a team as a growth PM?
Sara Nofeliyan/ Varo
What I’ve learned since graduating ten years ago.
Abadesi Osunsade/ Product Hunt
The fuzzy science of IPO measurement.
Jessica Lessin/ The Information
The most powerful idea in data science.
Cassie Kozyrkov/ Google
The science of note-taking: how to take notes to increase your creativity.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff/ Ness Labs
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