Voices of Women in Venture 🌊

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Episode: Recode Decode: Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis (live at SXSW)
Pub date: 2019-03-25

Notes from Voices of Women in Venture 🌊:

Featuring Arlan Hamilton, Founder & Managing Director, Backstage Capital (backstagecapital.com)

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Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton and Deeds Not Words founder Wendy Davis talk with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview from South by Southwest 2019.

In this episode: Youthful political energy in the US and Texas; the history of women and people of color not being seen in politics and tech; Hamilton's Twitter tiff with Paul Graham; how Davis' group Deeds Not Words gets women in the room; her 13-hour filibuster and the way it echoed into 2018; are things getting better and what's next?; the national political mood and Davis's next act; making apologies and accommodations for the people who discriminate; how people pressured Hamilton to prove herself immediately; who has the responsibility to increase diversity?; why do people keep talking to Kara Swisher?; Fox News and brainwashing; and the next generation of Americans.

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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #331: Ann Miura-Ko — The Path from Shyness to World-Class Debater and Investor
Pub date: 2018-08-02

Notes from Voices of Women in Venture 🌊:

Featuring Ann Miura-Ko, Co-Founder & Partner, Floodgate (floodgate.com)

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Ann Miura-Ko (@annimaniac) has been called "the most powerful woman in startups" by Forbes and is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford. The child of a rocket scientist at NASA, Ann is a Palo Alto native and has been steeped in technology startups from when she was a teenager. Prior to co-founding Floodgate, she worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company. Some of Ann's investments include Lyft, Ayasdi, Xamarin, Refinery29, JoyRun, TaskRabbit, and Modcloth.

Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five-person team at Yale that competed in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France. She has a BSEE from Yale and a PhD from Stanford in math modeling of computer security. She lives with her husband, three kids, and one spoiled dog. Her interests are piano, robots, and gastronomy.

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Podcast: The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
Pub date: 2019-04-08

Notes from Voices of Women in Venture 🌊:

Featuring Dayna Grayson, Partner, NEA (www.nea.com)

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Dayna Grayson is a Partner @ NEA, one of the leading venture firms over the last 4 decades with a portfolio including the likes of Opendoor, Jet.com, Uber, WorkDay, Plaid, Box and many more incredible companies. As for Dayna, she has led the firm's investments in the likes of Desktop Metal, Formlabs, Onshape, Glamsquad, Framebridge and Curalate, just to name a few. Prior to joining NEA, Dayna was an investor at North Bridge Venture Partners where she championed companies including Camiant (acquired by Tekelec) and Tapjoy. Before venture Dayna was an engineer at Eye Response Technologies, later acquired by Dynavox Mayer-Johnson and also a product designer at Blackbaud (BLKB), the leading global provider of software to nonprofit organizations.

In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How Dayna made her way into the world of venture and came to be a Partner at NEA from her roots in product design and engineering?

2.) Sourcing: How does Dayna approach the sourcing component of venture today? What does the deck filtering process look like to Dayna, prior to meeting? What has Dayna found works best in really building rapport in the first meetings? What does the conviction building process look like for Dayna from there? If negative, how has Dayna found is the most effective way to say no?

3.) Decision-Making: How does Dayna think about optimising the investment decision-making process? How does Dayna balance between data vs gut? Does NEA require unanimous decision-making? Why does Dayna believe that at A or earlier, the price really does not matter? When does price really become a big issue?

4.) Evolution of Expectations: How does Dayna believe entrepreneurial expectations of VC has changed over the last decade. Where does Dayna believe investors can really provide the most value? Which board member has been the most impressive to Dayna when sitting alongside them on the board? Why?

Items Mentioned In Today's Show:

Dayna's Fave Book: Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Dayna's Most Recent Investment: WhireWheel

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Podcast: Ambition 2.0 (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Anu Duggal- Founding Partner Of Female Founders Fund
Pub date: 2018-10-10

Notes from Voices of Women in Venture 🌊:

Featuring Anu Duggal, Founding Partner, Female Founders Fund (femalefoundersfund.com)

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Anu Duggal is an entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Anu began her tech career as a co-founder of Exclusively.in, a private sale e-commerce company and later moved onto become the CEO of Doonya, which is a dance fitness and media company. These days, Anu is the Founding Partner of Female Founders Fund, an early-stage fund, investing in technology companies started by women. Female Founders Fund has invested in some of the fastest growing female-led start-ups nationwide including: Eloquii, WayUp, Zola, Primary, Thrive Global, and more. In 2018, Anu was included in Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list. She has been praised for her impact in diversifying venture capital. Additional distinctions include Business Insider’s, “Ultimate List of Female Startup Investors,” and getting named to the “Top 4 Venture Firms Investing in Women”. Today she is here to share how to pitch to VC’s and the secret to getting in touch with investors.

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Podcast: Studio 1.0 (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Aileen Lee, Kirsten Green & Maha Ibrahim
Pub date: 2019-01-24

Notes from Voices of Women in Venture 🌊:

Featuring Aileen Lee (Founder & Partner, Cowboy Ventures, cowboy.vc), Kirsten Green (Founding Partner, Forerunner Ventures, forerunnerventures.com), and Maha Ibrahim (General Partner, Canaan, www.canaan.com)

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Bloomberg's Emily Chang sits down Maha Ibrahim, General Partner, Canaan Kirsten Green, Founding Partner Forerunner Ventures and Aileen Lee, Founder & Partner, Cowboy Ventures to discuss the need for more women in venture capital,  trade tariffs impacting VC spending, Facebook's future leadership and regulation in tech.

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