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Understanding Privilege – My Experience in Prison
A month ago Mark Suster (Upfront) and I hosted 75 colleagues for a full day at the California State Prison, Los Angeles County – also known as Lancaster. We did this as part of Defy Ventures, an...
View Article#GivingTuesday: Donate to Path Forward
When I woke up this morning, I wondered which non-profit that I should highlight today on #GivingTuesday. After reading Sallie Krawcheck’s article in Fortune titled A Letter to My Daughter, Post-Trump,...
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Go For Culture Add, Not Culture Fit
I’ve come to despise the phrase “culture fit.” I don’t remember when I first heard it, but it was many years ago. Over time, it became woven into the world of entrepreneurship, as companies used it as...
View ArticlePronoun Thoughts – She and He
As I continue my exploration of feminist literature, I’ve become much more aware of pronoun usage. I realized my default pronoun for writing and speaking has been male gendered. If I thought about...
View ArticleDefy Colorado – Feb 8th With Me and Governor Hickenlooper
As we start spinning up Defy Ventures in Colorado, we are doing a Business Coaching Day at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Ordway, Colorado. It’s one of our first Defy Colorado events and...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day #StartWithEight #MovingForward
Today is International Women’s Day (“IWD”) which dates back to 1909, although the UN did not start celebrating IWD annually until March 8, 1975. With the current global movement for women’s rights and...
View ArticleDesigning For Underrepresented Technologists First
I’ve written several times about leveling the playing field for women in tech, including our own actions at Foundry Group. I’m always keeping my ear to the ground for how to do this better. Recently, I...
View ArticlePioneer In Skirts Sizzle Trailer
Amy and I are proud executive producers of the upcoming movie Pioneer In Skirts. It has been part of our activity supporting independent documentaries about gender diversity, especially in science and...
View ArticleGluecon 2019 Diversity Scholarships
Amy and I are underwriting the Gluecon 2019 Diversity Scholarships through our Anchor Point Foundation. Kim and Eric Norlin, who run Gluecon, have had a simple goal around diversity at the Gluecon for...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship For All in Longmont, Colorado
Amy and I recently decided to support Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) and their national expansion to Colorado through our Anchor Point Foundation. EforAll’s mission is to accelerate economic...
View ArticleThoughts on Sourcing Black Companies and Entrepreneurs
I recently was in an email thread where a Black founder had a powerful and clear response to the question from one of her corporate partners. The question was: How can our (the corporate partner’s)...
View ArticleTechstars Foundation Accelerate Equity
The Techstars Foundation recently announced a new program called Accelerate Equity. We created the Techstars Foundation in 2015 to help make innovation and entrepreneurship more accessible and...
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