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What makes a world class venture capitalist tick? How does she develop the confidence to invest in the future now? Meet Jalak Jobanputra, the General Partner of Future\Perfect Ventures.

Jalak Jobanputra is a global technology veteran and powerhouse with a 20-year track record of investing in cutting edge technologies. While running her own micro-VC fund, Jalak also makes time to write one of the top 10 investor blogs, the Barefoot VC. Jalak is a highly sought-after speaker and one of Forbes 40 under 40. In our conversation with Jalak, we will hear why not being in an office in Silicon Valley gives her a competitive edge, what she looks for in the entrepreneurs she funds, and why she is still so excited about her work! Jalak is investing in the future today - a future that includes mobile technologies, blockchain, bitcoin, artificial intelligence, and much of what is today’s most cutting edge technology. Listen to hear the pearls of wisdom from this technology thought leader!

Notes

Future\Perfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap by Jalak Jobanputra, the barefoot vc

Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley Steps Down by Alyson Shontell, Inc.

Why It Was A Savvy Move For Nasty Gal Founder Sophia Amoruso To Step Down As CEO by Richard Feloni, Business Insider

The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku, iBooks

Case Raises $1.5 Million in Seed Funding to Expand Access to its Secure Signing Device

Additional Reading

Trailblazing Women: Jalak Jobanputra, Founder/Managing Partner of Future\Perfect Ventures by Anne Ravanona, Huffpo

Breaking Through, Center for an Urban Future

What Every Successful Woman Entrepreneur Should Know: Advice From Five Unstoppable Women by Capital One Future Edge, Forbes

Google’s Computer Program Beats Lee Se-dol in Go Tournament by Choe Sang-Hun, NYTimes

MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games by SethBling, YouTube

Where is the Micro-VC Market Going? by Samir Kaji, CB Insights

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

What's the stereotype of a VC? It’s someone with a computer science degree, an MBA, who ran a startup. The door seems closed to anyone who doesn’t meet those requirements.

Meet wunderkind Jessica Peltz-Zatulove, the exception to the rule. Jessica, a Madison Avenue veteran turned venture capitalist at kbs+ Ventures, a corporate VC fund, invests in transformative technologies that big media and advertising brands are seeking. Jessica answers many of the most common questions about VCs: where a corporate VC fits into the VC landscape, what she looks for in founders, the homework entrepreneurs should do in advance of meeting VCs and how to avoid the most common mistakes made with investors. Jessica puts a very human face on venture capital when she talks about the unconditional love/conditional like relationship she has with the entrepreneurs she funds. Listen to hear more of Jessica’s tough love advice: it will make you a lot smarter about the type of money you should be seeking!

Notes

StrictlyVC Newsletter

CB Insights

a16z Podcast on iTunes

The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital on iTunes

Good to Great on iBooks

Additional Reading

Interested in a Career in Venture? 6 VCs Tell You How by Kelly Hoey, Inc.

The FBiOS Affair: Why Advertisers Should Care by kbs+ Ventures, Medium

Machines Of Loving Grace: Messaging, Personalization & AI by kbs+ Ventures, Medium

Stanford eCorner Podcast

The Rise Of Corporate Venture Capital by Ryan Caldbeck, Fortune

Dear Investors: So You Want to Take Diversity Seriously (Part 1) by Mitch & Freada Kapor

The 104 Most Active Corporate VC Firms CB Insights

List of Female Angel and Early-Stage Investors in Tech by Mackenzie Burnett, Medium

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

When angel investor Joanne Wilson was recently asked "how do female entrepreneurs find you", she replied "i don’t know, they find me; i guess i’m kinda out there." Joanne’s larger-than-life reputation precedes her...

for going to bat for her female founders, and for speaking the truth even if it comes at the expense of her own pocketbook. Joanne took up angel investing with a vengeance as a second career and as a way of giving back and empowering the next generation of female founders. Joanne has made over 60 angel investments in women-led startups and regularly writes about her experience on Gotham Gal, a blog that she’s been writing for over a decade. Today, we have a chance to get inside the mind of an experienced angel investor and hear some inside baseball from Joanne, including what she and Warren Buffett have in common. Entrepreneurs listen up: she will share cautionary tales about the importance of knowing your deal terms and why she *hates* seeing an exit slide in a pitch deck! You will learn all about “the good, the bad, and the ugly” from Joanne Wilson, the ‘no BS’ angel investor.

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Gotham Gal Joanne Wilson is an angel investor — and 'chick magnet' by Mary Johnson, The Business Journals

The Retrade by FeldThoughts

A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren

Why I Stopped Angel Investing (And You Should Never Start) by Tucker Max, Observer

How to become an angel investor by Sophia Epstein, Wired UK

How To Become An Angel Investor by Dorie Clark, Forbes

Husband, father….but not wife, mother. by Joanne Wilson, Gotham Gal

Sticking to your plan by Joanne Wilson, Gotham Gal

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

“Agile...lean startup...fail early...fail fast...fail cheap…”. These terms are tossed around but what the heck do they mean?

More specifically...what do they mean when you’re building a product and running a business? Today I’m speaking with a panel of product experts who will explain these terms and how they apply to every business. If you’re about to build a product and wonder where to begin, you should listen to this episode. If you want to hire the best talent for your technical team, you should listen to this episode. If you want to become a more successful manager in general, you should listen to this episode. Learn from the experts who do it every. single. day. I’m speaking with Tami Reiss, CEO of Cyrus Innovations, who created the #JustNotSorry Gmail plug-in that’s been making waves. Also on the panel are Nikki Kuritsky, formerly head of product for Christie’s, now VP of Product at Shutterstock, and Allessandra McGinnis a product manager at Autodesk. They will share their hard-earned “trade secrets” for how to design a great product roadmap, build awesome product and why they believe in putting the “H” back into managing teams and creating team culture. For those of you who want to know what the “H” stands for, you should listen to this episode!

Notes

Agile vs. Lean vs. Lean Agile by Tami Reiss

5 Traits of a Good Product Manager by Benjamin Hawkyard, Medium

Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose. by Kimber Lockhart, Medium

What Product VPs At High-Growth Startups Have In Common by Mike Belito, Medium

Your First 100 Days by Niamh O'Keeffe, iBooks

Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson, iBooks

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

Want to build a big, disruptive business that improves lives and make a lot of money in the process? Meet Heidi Messer, an extraordinary NYC entrepreneur who sold LinkShare, a decade ago for $425 million, but when she was pitching the buisness to investors in the mid-90s, she had to have a slide in her investor pitch deck, “what is the internet and why should you care.” Fast forward to today: Heidi is on her way to disrupting a whole new industry in enterprise sales. LinkShare was just a preview to "the main show", Collective[i], her new company in big data, a $1 Tn market opportunity. You will hear why she thinks B2B is such an exciting place to be, where she describes the dichotomy that people experience going from home to work, where they spend the majority of their time, "it's like you go from indoor plumbing at home to an outhouse at work." You will also hear why she started what’s been described in the press as “New York’s most exclusive women-only poker game” (spoiler alert: to help women become better networkers). Heidi’s powerful insights into how networks are changing the world, will change the way you think about your business and social networks.

Notes

Open letter to the VC Who Can’t Find Any Women to Work at His Firm by Davida E. Arnold, She Knows

Inside a Poker Night for Female Power Brokers by Jaclyn Trop, Forbes

The Cost of Slow by Collective[i], Medium

If You're Trying to Be "Data-Driven," You're Doing it Wrong, by Collective[i] Medium

Why Sales Leaders Are the New Tech Moguls by Collective[i], Medium

Additional Reading

Are Big Data Career Paths Attracting More Women to Tech? by Rachel Wolfs, HuffPo

Madeleine Albright on Barriers Broken and Barriers that Remain Wall Street Journal

56% Of Enterprises Will Increase Their Investment In Big Data Over The Next Three Years by Louis Columbus, Forbes

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Big Data Baseball by Travis Sawchik

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

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

“We can’t move forward with only 50% of the population.” In the past 3 years, only 4% of female founders have received venture capital funding.

It is 2016, well past the time to change this. Women are a powerful entrepreneurial force—not just a large consumer market to be tapped or “binders full of women” to be hired. Listen to host Kelly Hoey highlight the diverse role models who are breaking the conventional stereotype of an entrepreneur, and spotlight the women and minorities who are acting, leading and changing the world. Through hosted conversations on BroadMic, Kelly will demonstrate why having conversations about success is as important as having role models. We believe in strengthening the BroadMic community through shared expertise. Together, we can change the narrative. No more white papers, no more studies, no more theses about change – let’s act!

#ThinkBroad

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Show Women Entrepreneurs The Role Models!

by Kelly Hoey, Inc.

It’s Time to Innovate Inclusion… The #ProjectDiane Report is Here

by Kathryn Finney, Medium

There’s a way to get girls to stick with science–and no, it’s not more female role models

by Shannon Palus, Quartz

Factors that affect the physical science career interest of female students: Testing five common hypotheses

by Zahra Hazari, Geoff Potvin, Robynne M. Lock,Florin Lung, Gerhard Sonnert, and Philip M. Sadler, APS Journals

Introducing the Boardlist

by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Medium

Why The Force Will Be With Women Entrepreneurs In 2016

by Geri Stengel, Forbes

"I love talking to you about my problems. We should do a podcast."

by David Sipress, New Yorker

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

How many times have you seen or listened to an entrepreneur profiled in the media as a “white-male, hoodie-wearing, unicorn-hunting, Stanford engineer”?

Hungry for substantive advice from accomplished entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders who look and sound like you? Welcome to BroadMic where we are breaking the mold about what it means to be a successful entrepreneur. You have to see it to be it!   Here you will learn from unconventional role models, get the picks and shovels you need, and access the candid conversations that normally go on behind closed doors. It’s no longer necessary for women and minorities to sacrifice their identities in order to fit into the tech community. We believe in strengthening the BroadMic community through shared expertise. Together, we can change the narrative. No more white papers, no more studies, no more theses about change – let’s act!

#ThinkBroad

Notes

This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like - Sara Weinheimer

by Women 2.0, Forbes

A Colleague Drank My Breast Milk and Other Wall Street Tales

by Maureen Sherry, The New York Times

Betty Friedan's 1957 Questionnaire at Smith College

by Betty Friedan

Gloria Steinem on iBooks

by Gloria Steinem

Feminine Mystique 50th Anniversary

by Betty Friedan

Additional Reading

Ellen Pao Speaks: ‘I Am Now Moving On’

by Ellen Pao, Re/code

The Myth Women in Tech Need to Stop Believing

by Terri McCullough, Fortune

Year of Yes – How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

by Shonda Rhimes

It’s Payback Time for Women

by Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times

“I’m starting a startup that helps other startups start up.”

by Kaamran Hafeez, New Yorker

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