Why are Women Funded Less than Men? a crowdsourced conversation

February 27, 2024June 17, 2011 by Pemo Theodore

I spent 5 years in London trying to raise funding for my online matchmaking business & in the end had to admit failure. Very early on in that journey I had committed to help women source venture when I was successful. As it turned out I have been doing just that for the last almost year, not because I was successful but because I failed. I have been video interviewing venture capitalists, angel investors & women founders on the shortfall in funding for women. My goal has been to listen to as many people as I could from both sides of the table, so I could hopefully determine where all these conversations intersected.

Tim Draper, DFJ: Disruption & Female Startups

April 10, 2024November 27, 2010 by Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Tim Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use “viral marketing” in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim serves on the boards of Glam, Kyte.tv, Meebo, ShareThis, SocialText, Wigix and DFJ Plug ‘N Play companies. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others. You can find Tim @ his blog The Riskmaster & Twitter @TimDraper

Tim Draper, DFJ: Disruption and Female Startups

April 10, 2024November 17, 2010 by Pemo Theodore

Video interview with Tim Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Tim is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use “viral marketing” in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim serves on the boards of Glam, Kyte.tv, Meebo, ShareThis, SocialText, Wigix and DFJ Plug ‘N Play companies. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others. You can find Tim @ his blog The Riskmaster & Twitter @TimDraper

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