Date | Title | Description |
28.01.2021 | Who is an investor and how is that changing? | Close your eyes and picture “an investor.” What comes to mind?
What do they look like? How do they talk and act? Where do they live and where did they go to school? Do you see your own identity and lived experiences reflected in them?
If yo... |
10.12.2020 | How can more women actively invest their wealth? | Women, on average, live longer than men. That cold fact coupled with the rise of “gray divorce” means more women are predicted to be solely responsible for their financial management later in life.
Yet nearly half of women with male partner... |
03.12.2020 | Lolita Taub Launches $5M Venture Fund to Invest in Community-driven Companies | When she joined Baltimore-based Catalyte last year, Lolita Taub brought an investment background, with a focus on underestimated founders. This fall, she is applying that experience with an additional venture as cofounder and general partne... |
02.12.2020 | Lolita Taub launches $5M venture fund to invest in community-driven companies | When she joined Baltimore-based Catalyte last year, Lolita Taub brought an investment background, with a focus on underestimated founders. This fall, she is applying that experience with an additional venture as cofounder and general partne... |
16.11.2020 | To make venture capital more equitable, we must understand how that capital flows | Most private business investing isn’t from an individual investor putting their own money up to capitalize a single company they believe in. Early stage investing is first and foremost an asset class aiming to outperform the stock market. B... |
09.11.2020 | What are alternative funding options for equitable wealth creation? | The rules of how private companies capitalize in the United States is mostly the governance of the federal government.
The definition of an accredited investor from the Securities and Exchange Commission is still largely outlined by the Sec... |
04.11.2020 | This Week in Jobs DMV: Ride the Rails Edition | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publish... |
03.11.2020 | This Week in Jobs DMV: Ride the Rails Edition | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publish... |
02.11.2020 | How can white investors combat racial inequality in venture capital? | Private market business investing is overwhelmingly white — both who is investing and who is being invested in.
In 2018, only 1% of decision-makers at large VC firms were Black. Likewise, about 1% of VC dollars went to Black startup founder... |
19.10.2020 | Network effect maintains racial inequality. What do investors need to do about it? | You know the tiny kindnesses, courtesies and extensions you offer the ones you know? These are the blessings of community. They are the transactional side of having a strong network of relationships.
Technical.ly DC Market Editor Michelai G... |
15.10.2020 | Investor education podcast Off the Sidelines is back for a second season | A podcast on the journey of becoming a (better) investor is returning for a second season. The first episode drops Monday.
Last year, Technical.ly produced a 10-episode pilot season of Off the Sidelines, an investor education podcast sponso... |
06.03.2020 | 5 tips on getting started as an investor from Revolution’s David Hall | An investment made today can lead to business and product growth tomorrow. So it makes sense that investment puts a focus on the future. It’s a big reason why David Hall got involved in venture capital and joined D.C.-based Revolution.
“Wha... |
17.12.2019 | This Week in Jobs: The LAST TWIJ of 2019!!! | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publish... |
11.12.2019 | Hear tips on the investor-founder relationship from Alicia Syrett of Pantegrion Capital | The investor-entrepreneur relationship is a tricky one. Be too distant, and you’ll be called dumb money. Be too involved, and you’ll develop a reputation for micro-managing.
Insight into relationships that work are helpful. No surprise, the... |
06.12.2019 | Village Capital’s Victoria Fram is the first guest on ‘Off the Sidelines,’ our new investor education podcast | When we were beginning production on “Off the Sidelines” — a new investor education podcast series produced in partnership with Project Entrepreneur, a program by UBS — one of the first organizations we knew we had to speak with was Village... |
05.12.2019 | Village Capital’s Victoria Fram is the first guest on ‘Off the Sidelines,’ our new investor education podcast | When we were beginning production on “Off the Sidelines” — a new investor education podcast series produced in partnership with Project Entrepreneur, a program by UBS — one of the first organizations we knew we had to speak with was Village... |
05.12.2019 | Village Capital cofounder Victoria Fram is the first guest on ‘Off the Sidelines,’ our new investor education podcast | When we were beginning production on “Off the Sidelines” — a new investor education podcast series produced in partnership with Project Entrepreneur, a program by UBS — one of the first organizations we knew we had to speak with was Village... |
04.12.2019 | Village Capital cofounder Victoria Fram is the first guest on ‘Off the Sidelines,’ our new investor education podcast | When we were beginning production on “Off the Sidelines” — a new investor education podcast series produced in partnership with Project Entrepreneur, a program by UBS — one of the first organizations we knew we had to speak with was Village... |
27.11.2019 | Introducing ‘Off the Sidelines,’ a new podcast series about startup investing | At Technical.ly, we have a reputation for starting with the entrepreneurial viewpoint. We got our start by highlighting founders and early employees. But businesses are made by a whole array of other company builders who help economies thri... |
09.09.2019 | NYC, a Top Global Ecosystem for Women-Led Startups | New York City is known for a lot of things; The Yankees, Empire State Building, Broadway, pizza and for being a melting pot of different cultures around the world. It’s no surprise that NYC has a diverse startup scene as well. According to ... |
25.04.2019 | To Help Boost Female-led Startups, More Women Join Investor Ranks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Houston—Men have long leveraged their networks to succeed in business, and the tech industry has been no exception. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now crea... |
01.06.2017 | I’m reversing 8 years of corporate assimilation and it’s so hard | Two months ago at a pitch competition, someone I deeply respected called me out for being inauthentic. I knew I needed to figure out why I was only comfortable dancing around my background, and not comfortable being vulnerable and truly sha... |
20.03.2017 | Rent the Runway is bringing 3 #dctech startups to New York for Project Entrepreneur | The Rent the Runway Foundation and UBS recently revealed the list of 200 women-led startups that will be convening on New York for the second annual Project Entrepreneur Intensive in April. On that list? Three #dctech names.
The two-day lon... |
25.07.2016 | How to Find a Female Mentor in a Sea of Male Entrepreneurs | Not all young female entrepreneurs specifically want a female mentor, but for those who do, finding one can be challenging. It comes down to the numbers: Thirty-six percent of the firms in the U.S. are female-owned, while men own 55%, accor... |
19.11.2015 | Jennifer Fleiss on why Rent the Runway focused on empowerment instead of just fashion | For Jennifer Fleiss and cofounder Jennifer Hyman, seeing the way women felt when they put on a dress helped to see Rent the Runway’s viability. To test their idea of providing online designer dress rental, they bought dresses and held fitti... |
09.11.2015 | Rent the Runway’s Project Entrepreneur Launches Venture Competition | By LAURA LOREK
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |