Broadmic Startup Shortcuts

Tina 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 career, how she became a serial creative entrepreneur, and how her #1 rule, invest in what you love, has served her well.

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Yay Internet

Office Hours with Kevin Spacey Levo

Becoming Wise by Krista Tippett, iBooks

2015 CNN Hero of the Year Maggie Doyne helps women, children in Nepal CNN

Start-up Stories: The inventor of the glue that can fix pretty much anything Enterprise Nation

Slow Factory

Additional Reading

Temporary Tattoos, Now for Grown-Ups, Too by Courtney Rubin, New York Times

An Exclusive Spotlight on How CreativeMornings Runs 106+ Global Monthly Events by Carrie Melissa Jones, CMX

The Tale of Tattly: Temporary tats have staying power by Jane Wells, CNBC

Levo League Office Hours

15 successful startup founders who can also claim the title of 'Mom' by Biz Carson, Business Insider

The Rise of Moms as Technology Entrepreneurs by Elena Krasnoperova, Medium

Company culture tips from Netflix, Zappos, Atlasssian by Michael Feferman, Venture Beat

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Kelly 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.

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Tulipomania by Mike Dash, iBooks

#AskGaryVee by Gary Vaynerchuk, iBooks

How Kat Cole Went From Hooters Girl to Running a Billion-Dollar Brand by Jessica Grose, Lenny

Additional Reading

The Biggest Mistakes in Paying for College by Kelly Peeler, LinkedIn

Millennials, money and changing the world by Kelly Peeler, TEDx Johns Hopkins University

Student Loan Debt Is Leaving Women Broke and Vulnerable by Jill Filipovic, Vice

Student Debt Can Hurt Women More Than Men by Natalie Kitroeff, Jonathan Rodkin, Bloomberg

NextGenVest CEO On What Fintech Startups Can Learn From Uber by Harry Stebbings, TechCrunch

The U.S. education bubble is now upon us by Mohamed A. El-Erian, MarketWatch

This one graph shows why the higher ed bubble may be close to bursting by Katie Hardiman, The College Fix

What We're Buying With $1 Trillion in Student Loans by Megan McArdle, Bloomberg, 

6 Steps to Becoming a Successful Student Entrepreneur (Infographic) by Kim Lachance Shandrow, Entrepreneur

Student Startup: Why College Is the Perfect Time to Launch a Business by Jessica Ekstrom, Entrepreneur

Find the Right College to Be an Entrepreneur by Delece Smith-Barrow, U.S. News & World Report

The 3 Biggest Challenges of Being a Solo Founder by Aihui Ong, Entrepreneur

How A Founder Who Sold His Company For $100 Million Survived The Brutal, Early Days Of A Startup Alone by Alyson Shontell, Business Insider

The High School Guidance Counselor Shortage by Timothy Pratt, Time

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

How 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.

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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 Vick / Berlin with Simon Shuster, Time

Christine Lagarde, iMFdirect

The World's 100 Most Powerful Women: Melinda Gates, Forbes

Additional Reading

So What Should I Put In A Pitch Deck?!? by Alicia Syrett, LinkedIn

Angel pet peeves: Avoid these things in a pitch by Alicia Syrett, CNBC

How To Become An Angel Investor by Dorie Clark, Forbes

Pros and Cons of Using an Angel Investor to Fund a Startup by Murray Newlands, Startup Grind

Funding your startup: Crowdfunding vs. angel investment vs. VC by Conner Forrest, TechRepublic

A teen skincare startup reinvents the Avon Lady for the digital generation by Jaclyn Trop, Fortune

7 tips for nailing a startup pitch to a boardroom full of VCs by Hila Shitrit Nissim, VentureBeat

What are examples of VC Due Diligence Check Lists? Quora

How Smart Startups Survive Investor Due Diligence by Martin Zwilling, Entrepreneur

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Miki 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 making money - became the ultimate win/win.

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Companies that Practice “Conscious Capitalism” Perform 10x Better by Tony Schwartz, Harvard Business Review

Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey & Rajendra Sisodi, iBooks

Agrapalooza 2012 - Three Legged Race Final YouTube

The Girl Effect: A Whole New Way To Invest by Manisha Thakor, Forbes

The Skimm

The Power of Shakti by Padma Aon Prakasha, iBooks

Radio Taison by hoodboon, YouTube

Richard Branson on Leo DiCaprio’s Space Travel, American Politics, and Getting Super High With Peter Tosh by Jada Yuan, Vulture

Behind Toms Founder Blake Mycoskie's Plan To Build An Army Of Social Entrepreneurs by Rick Tetzeli, Fast Company

Additional Reading

Do Cool Sh*t by Miki Agrawal, iBooks

Will the New York City Subway Ban These Ads for Using the Word "Period"? by Jenny Kutner, Mic

THINX Underwear Ads On NYC Subway Are Up — But The Company Has Another Big Announcement by Rachel Krantz, Bustle

How Menstruation Created the World by Judith Rae Grahn

Two Keys to Sustainable Social Enterprise by Sally R. Osberg and Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business Review

5 Keys to Successful Sibling Partnerships by Matthew Toren, Entrepreneur

What notable startups were founded by siblings? Any by cousins? Quora

Hire Slow, Fire Fast by Greg McKeown, Harvard Business Review

Hire Slow, Fire Fast' - Possibly The Worst Advice Ever Given by Liz Ryan, Forbes

10 fascinating tech projects that crowdfunding has made possible ZDNet

Fast Facts & FAQ Fistula Foundation

Why Aren't Bidets Common in the U.S.? by Karina Martinez-Carter, mental_floss

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

How 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

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Lean Case Study: Just Not Sorry by Tami Reiss, Medium

Additional Reading

How Do You Define Startup Culture? by Corey McAveeney, Wired

Startups Are Personal: Focus On Company Culture by Mary Juetten, Forbes

80% of Your Culture is Your Founder First Round Review

Diversity debt: how much does your startup have? by Andrea Barrica, 500 Startups

Do Tech Startups Need More Diversity? Tell Me More, NPR

It’s Time to Innovate Inclusion… The #ProjectDiane Report is Here by Kathryn Finney, Medium

The tech industry’s “diversity” focus favors one group over pretty much any other by Erica Joy, Quartz

Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity by Stefanie K. Johnson and David R. Hekman, Harvard Business Review

We’re Making the Wrong Case for Diversity in Silicon Valley by Todd L. Pittinsky, Harvard Business Review

What does being Agile mean to you? Quora

Choosing the Right Programming Language for Your Startup by AWS Startups, Medium

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Is 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

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Gilt Groupe Was A Different Type of 'Unicorn' by Dan Primack, Fortune

The Silliness Of Recapping Seed Rounds FeldThoughts

Open Sourced Model Seed Financing Documents Techstars

How The Blockchain Can Unshackle Us by Jalak Jobanputra, The Barefoot VC

Additional Reading

CrunchBase Unicorn Leaderboards CrunchBase

Meet The 14 Unicorn Startups That Have Created 25 Billionaires by Kate Vinton, Forbes

The Unicorn Era for Tech Startups is Over by Therese Poletti, MarketWatch

Comparing Equity, Debt And Convertibles For Startup Financings by George Deeb, Forbes

The Pre-money vs. Post-money Confusion With Convertible Notes FeldThoughts

Startup nightmares: Help, my VC won’t re-invest by Nikesh Parekh, GeekWire

Federal Reserve Speaks Up on Blockchain BI Intelligence, Business Insider

Barclays Used Blockchain Tech to Trade Derivatives by Arjun Kharpal, CNBC

Blockchain Applications for Healthcare by Peter B. Nichol, CIO

Despite What Sheryl Sandberg Says, MBAs Still Matter by Olivia Vanni, BostInno

Does getting an MBA make someone a better entrepreneur? Quora

The Value of a Degree: Why Silicon Valley Startups Need More MBAs by Jawad Khan, Business.com

How Crowd-Funding Is Changing Everything and What That Means for Your Startup  First Round Review

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Does 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 what they look for in an entrepreneur’s pitch deck

Susan Lyne's view on the critical difference between thought leaders and influencers.

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Tomorrow's Advance Man by Tad Friend, The New Yorker

LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs, Reidhoffman.org

Quantifying Silicon Valley’s Diversity Issue by Jessi Hempel, Wired

These 10 Male Executives Are Committing to Reach Gender Parity in 5 Years by Valentina Zarya, Fortune

Additional Reading

Startups Serving The 99 Percent Will Be the Next Billion-Dollar Companies by Hans Tung, TechCrunch

Lessons From The Early Pitch Decks Of Airbnb, BuzzFeed, And YouTube by Linda Dishman, Fast Company

Marc Andreessen: How to address diversity in tech, Fortune video

The Network Man: Reid Hoffman’s big idea by Nicholas Leman, The New Yorker

Lessons From A Study of Perfect Pitch Decks: VCs Spend An Average of 3 Minutes, 44 Seconds On Them by Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch

8 things you should never, ever include in a pitch deck by Scott Gerber, TNW

Positioning Your Startup is Vital — Here’s How to Nail It by Arielle Jackson, First Round Review

How to Write a Great Business Plan: Competitive Analysis by Jeff Haden, Inc.

The Official Definitions of Seed, Series A, and Series B Rounds by Jason Calacanis

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

What’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 ad supported business, and talks about what it was like working with 3 other co- founders (spoiler alert: one was her husband), to going public, being de-listed and going public again. And while you may not think startup lessons from 1996 are relevant today, guess what folks, they are more relevant than ever! Efficient use of capital has not gone out of style! Knowing your customers has not gone out of style! If you’re the least bit worried about being unconventional in your approach as an entrepreneur, then you will want to listen to this episode where you will get all the permission you need from Carley Roney!

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Yes Please by Amy Poehler, iBooks

Instagram Is Getting So Good at News, It Should Scare Twitter by Jessi Hempel, Wired

Meet Seasoned Silicon Valley Investor, Ann Winblad by Shradha Sharma, Your Story

Additional Reading

The Knot Straightens Out by Emily Maltby, WSJ

Wedding Spend Reaches All-Time High, PR Newswire

Why is Peter Thiel not a big fan of the lean startup/MVP movement? Quora

How To Find A Co-Founder For Your Startup by George Deeb, Forbes

Lessons From A Study of Perfect Pitch Decks by Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch

The Long Lost Myth of Capital Efficiency by Brad Feld, FeldThoughts

3 Ways Startups Can Accomplish More With Less by David Klein, Inc

A Complete History of the Rise and Fall — and Reincarnation! — of the Beloved ’90s Chatroom by Caitlin Dewey, WaPo

The 5 Commandments of Running a Successful Business With Your Spouse by David and Carrie McKeegan, Entrepreneur

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Our 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 invest in female founders, a conviction born out of decades of observing women’s powerful role as consumers, yet she points to a disturbing disconnect: the still “shockingly low” amount of VC $$s being invested in female-led companies. You’ll hear what she has to say about... how to look for mentors, whether it makes sense to go for VC $$s or not, and why you may be shooting yourself in the foot if you are a solo founder. Listen if you want to hear Susan Lyne’s unique blend of inspiration and practical wisdom for today’s “happy warrior.”

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Female Founders Outperform Their Male Peers First Round

Lola Tampons

Media Redef

NYT Morning Briefing

Re/code

theSkimm

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, iBooks

Cheerful Money by Tad Friend, iBooks

Additional Reading

Why Women Entrepreneurs Need to Be More Cocky by Susan Lyne, Inc.

The F-Word: What Chelsea Handler and I Have in Common by Susan Lyne, LinkedIn

Why The Force Will Be With Women Entrepreneurs In 2016 by Geri Stengel, Forbes

Two Women Bosses Reveal the Most Insane Things Said to Them at Work by Betty Lui, Inc.

The Growing Trend of Firms Investing Only in Women Founders by Steven Loeb, Vator

Female founders grab record VC deal share—but still just 18% by Joanna Nolasco, Pitch Book

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.

Have 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 developers, Nelly designed the boot camp with the interests of the non-technical founder in mind. In this episode, Nelly reveals the biggest roadblocks new founders face building their product. She shares a clear and detailed roadmap for how to build great product, talks about the four most common mistakes made by founders, why she’s an advocate for the agile approach to product development, and how embracing failure can lead to success. Finally...Nelly shares her secret sauce, a 7 step ‘how-to’ guide to building world class product. Learn how avoiding these costly mistakes can help save you precious capital and put you on the road to becoming a more confident and successful entrepreneur!

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WebGrrls

TechSpeak for Entrepreneurs FREE class

Feedly iTunes

This Week in Startups iTunes

This Week In Tech iTunes

Ted Radio Hour iTunes

Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath, iBooks

Femina

Additional Reading

3 Key Lessons for Non-Technical Entrepreneurs by Nelly Yusupova, themuse

5 Tips for Hiring a Great Web Developer, by Nelly Yusupova, Entrepreneur

5 Ways to Communicate Better With Software Developers, by Nelly Yusupova, Entrepreneur

10 Must-Know Tech Terms, Translated, by Nelly Yusupova, Entrepreneur

Why You Should Never Ask to Pick Someone's Brain, by Dave Crenshaw

Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail, Fast, by Mark Suster, Bothsid.es

3 Web Dev Careers Decoded: Front-End vs Back-End vs Full Stack, By Michael Wales, Udacity

Guest bios & transcripts are available on www.broadmic.com.