I was lucky enough to moderate a Women Who Tech investor panel focused on tech women investment. Amy Errett: Partner Maveron, Amanda Steinberg: Daily Worth & Joanne Wilson were the panelists & it was a really informative & interesting discussion.
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Cindy Gallop, IfWeRanTheWorld: Changing Venture for Women
Video Interview with Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld , a radically simple web platform designed to turn good intentions into action, one microaction at a time, which launched in beta with a demo at TED 2010, and of MakeLoveNotPorn, launched at TED 2009. She acts as board advisor to a number of tech startups and consults, describing her consultancy approach as ‘I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.’ Cindy Gallop’s background is brandbuilding, marketing and advertising – she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. You can find Cindy on Twitter @cindygallop1
Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group: Entrepreneurs and Early Stage Venture
Video interview with Jason Mendelson, CoFounder/Managing Director Foundry Group, an early-stage technology venture capital firm. Jason has over a decade of experience in the venture capital and technology industries in a multitude of investing, operational and engineering roles. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Jason was a Managing Director and General Counsel for Mobius Venture Capital, where he also acted as its chief administrative partner overseeing all operations of the firm. He currently serves on the board of directors of Brightleaf, Next Big Sound, Oblong, Organic Motion, Pie Digital and Sifteo for Foundry Group. You can find Jason on his blog Mendelson’s Musings and Twitter @jasonmendelson Even though I started asking Jason questions about women entrepreneurs he easily extended all his responses to all entrepreneurs. He offers some valuable tips to all entrepreneurs for sourcing Early Stage Venture. Obviously no biases there!