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Bit of Advice from Top Female Founders that Every Entrepreneur Should Learn From

Bit of Advice from Top Female Founders that Every Entrepreneur Should Learn From

As Venture Capital firms discharge money into promising startups, realising a 'unicorn' valuation, (as Aileen Lee, the Venture capitalist de

Notwithstanding the concerns of drama here, therescribes startups worth over one billion dollars which would grow to a business world language), has become more common.

However, even though women are exposed to only about 2% of VC funding, Female founded companies are growing as up to 21 female founders' companies attained unicorn status last year (4%) out of the 445 companies. ’s no doubting that reaching this valuation yields a new level of recognition and fame to the company’s founders. In this article, we will be looking at some of these female founders and a few of their best tips for success.

Co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite, Julia Hartz advised entrepreneur in 2017 to blend obstinacy with fearlessness if they must grow their businesses. 'I believe entrepreneurship is connecting a passion with the resolution to solve problems and the fearlessness to fail' Hartz said. She maintains that entrepreneurship is nothing more than an exercise in many different trial-and-error moments and failures and also, that being an entrepreneur is being an individual who fails the least. Therefore as an entrepreneur, you must embrace the reality that things wouldn't always go the way you expected so it is important to always assume a solid sense of optimism.

Jennifer Hyman, co-founder and CEO of Rent the Runway, remarks that it's essential to inspire your team to dream as big as you do. She believes that the great boss is the one who encourages her team to think big and expands their ideas.

Huda Kattan, the founder of Huda Beauty Insists that an entrepreneur should 'Choose the apt investors and partners'

Every business needs just the right set of individuals to thrive. As an entrepreneur, it is necessary to go for just the right investors and partners. Don't accept anything because you need to get started, stay true to the value you hold for your company and don't let people underprice you just because you are a woman. "Being women behind a massively thriving business is not a simple task, and the journey to find the right investors and true partners has confirmed that." Kattan told female entrepreneurs in the MiddleEast.

Stefania Mallett, co-founder and CEO of ezCater, advised TechCrunch when her firm attained a one billion dollars valuation, not to singly concentrate on valuation' Stefania said building wealth or growing to unicorn status is quite a nice validation but not the goal. She thinks that the purpose of being in business is to build a thriving corporation with happy clients and happy employees.

31 years old female co-founder and CEO of Canva —Melanie Perkins told Entrepreneur to remain persistent.

“Whenever we got a tough inquiry from an investor or a motive why they wouldn’t invest, we remained focused on what we could improve'. I updated our pitch deck after every meeting, over 100 times a year, to solve the problems or fix the cause for rejection from the previous time. The common way to react to your 100th 'no' would be to take a break but, you just need to endure. I’d continue to pour my strength into things that I could improve and fix, seeking for people who bought my vision and would come along for the ride.” Perkins said. (Advice from Top Female Founders)

6. Kathryn Petralia thinks 'Knowledge is power', she insists that it is essential that women starting businesses be experts in their field. Everyone should have to look up to you as the individual who knows it all and not the other way round.

Kendra Scott, founder and CEO of Kendra Scott, said it is crucial to Request help especially when starting up a business. "Many people think it's a mark of vulnerability, but the biggest mark of strength is requesting help. People naturally desire to help other people” Kendra told Entrepreneurs in 2015.

Do not be scared to let the wrong people go, Adi Tatarko, CEO and co-founder of Houzz, told entrepreneurs. She remarks that hiring constitutes an important aspect of all businesses and entrepreneurs must put in enough time and energy to recruit the best persons early on. Notwithstanding, she adds that investing so much in hiring can result in a certain attachment with the people such that it becomes hard to accept when someone is no longer a good fit. Investing in hiring will only reduce mistakes and not remove them completely therefore it is necessary to let go of someone who is not a good fit early enough. 'In earlier stages, I truly wrestled to let go and move on, but eventually, I mastered that clinging on was more damaging to everyone involved.” Adi Tatarko said.

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nofomoartworld · 7 years

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Art F City: This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Reading is Fundamental

Start your week off with a dose of Civil Rights history Monday at IFC, where fierce pussy is screening The Black Power Mixtape and Wednesday at ICP, where Hettie Jones will be talking about what Making America Great really looks like. Thursday, we’re looking forward to two book launches. Andrea McGinty will be releasing her Ah Yes Bad Things at Printed Matter and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is throwing a party to celebrate the catalog for their current exhibition Queer Threads. Friday night there are mysterious but promising exhibitions opening all over Brooklyn. Then it’s DUMBO open studios all weekend. End the week with a day trip to New Haven (seriously, it’s a painless train ride) where Bortolami’s ARTIST/CITY program has paired Tom Burr with a Marcel Breuer masterpiece that now finds itself surrounded by an IKEA parking lot.

The world is a strange and wondrous place. We’ll see you out in it.

Mon

IFC Center

323 Sixth Ave at West 3rd St, New York, NY 8:00 PMWebsite

fierce pussy presents The Black Power Mixtape

Queer feminist collective fierce pussy is hosting this screening of The Black Power Mixtape, which everyone should see. The film is the result of Swedish journalists travelling to the United States in the 1960s and 70s with the intention of exposing the country’s lesser-told realities. It features appearances from Angela Davis, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.

After the film, join fierce pussy at Julius Bar (159 West 10th St. at Waverly), the oldest gay bar in New York City, for drinks and discussion.

Tue

Black Ball Projects

374 Bedford Ave. 1st Floor Brooklyn, NY 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Website

Just Cause

This exhibition includes the work of three artists from the international Residency Unlimited program: Maria Agureeva (Russia), Juan Sánchez (Spain), and Benjamin Brett (UK). All of their work is extremely different, but intersects along “by way of conceptual concerns and intellectual reason, paired with doing something ‘just because’—instinctual and driven by a sense of chance and play.”

Here, that conceptual concern is the balance between external politics and free will. We’re curious to see how that translates to each artist’s respective practice—Agureeva uses her own body in pieces that function as both painting and sculpture, Benjamin Brett makes conceptual paintings that combine narrative and abstraction, and Juan Sánchez uses economical materials and art historical references to comment on labor and impermanence. This should be a heady show.

Curated by Jason Tomme, Ana Wolovick

Wed

The International Center of Photography

1114 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 7:30 PM - 9:30 PMWebsite

Radical Conversation: Making America Great - Hettie Jones: The History of Greatness

ICP has been responding the current political crisis with a programming series that’s pretty on point. This week, they’re hosting a talk by Hettie Jones on exactly what making America “great again” really means. Jones has a long history of working through publications—she published the radical Yugen magazine from 1958 to 1962, numerous books for children of color when they were a rarity, and was a chair of the PEN Prison Writing Program. That’s a lot of experience and wisdom to share about working in the face of adversity, and boy do we need it right about now!

Vector Gallery

199 E 3rd St. New York, NY 8:00 PM - 11:59 PMWebsite

Vectorian New Year : HAPPY 2030 AD

Who ever knows what the hell is going on at Vector Gallery? We applaud AFC alum Whitney Kimball for her in-depth attempt at deciphering their mysterious ways. Whatever “Crown Prince of Hell” JJ Brine and his accomplices are up to, it’s usually fun. If you need a break from reality in these stressful days, this celebration of the 2030 Vectorian New Year might be just about the closest thing to experiencing an alternate universe on a Wednesday night in Manhattan.

From the event page:

Facebook has rejected the language of this event ad on numerous ocasions due to the asymmetrical relationship between SHAY culture of 2017 and the notion fo a 2030 temporality by Vectorian reckoning. Therefore Eye am left with no other choice than to state the following : all symbological designations of time and its passage, Gregorian or otherwise, are conceptual art proects purporting to account for the laws of now, then, soon, and when was that again?

Thu

Printed Matter

231 Eleventh Ave. New York, NY 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMWebsite

Book Launch: Ah Yes Bad Things by Andrea McGinty

We’re big fans of Andrea McGinty. The artist has a rare capacity for conveying bittersweet, humorous reflections on contemporary living with economical combinations of mass-produced products. That might be a vibrator dancing endlessly around a juicer or a humidifier wrapped in workout clothes with optimistic platitudes. For anyone who’s felt alienated by the endless barrage of ever-more-unattainable “wellness” or “self-care” promised by consumer culture, her work feels like a poetic confidant to share a skeptical eye-roll.

We’re excited to see how this strategy translates to publication form. McGinty is launching her first book from local publishers Soft City, Ah Yes Bad Things. The book comprises ephemera from her smartphone: Tweets, messages, notes, and images from the camera roll. That’s an increasingly common approach to compiling artist books, but we’re guessing McGinty’s will be singularly insightful, weird, and funny.

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

26 Wooster St New York, NY 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMWebsite

Book Launch: Queer Threads

We haven’t had a chance to check out Queer Threads, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art’s survey of LGBTQ+ fibers artist yet. This looks like the night to do it. AMMO Books is launching a 192-page color catalog featuring the work of and interviews with 30 queer fiber artists. It’s a good mix of local, national, and international artists. It sounds like a keeper. JD Samson (queer icon behind feminist bands such as MEN and Le Tigre) will be DJing the event.

Curated by John Chaich

Artists: Chris Bogia, Melanie Braverman, Jai Andrew Carrillo, Chiachio & Giannone, Liz Collins, Ben Cuevas, Pierre Fouché, James Gobel, Jesse Harrod, Larry Krone, Rebecca Levi, Aubrey Longley-Cook, Aaron McIntosch, Allyson Mitchell, John Thomas Paradiso, Sheila Pepe, Maria E. Piñeres, Allen Porter, L. J. Roberts, Sonny Schneider, Buzz Slutzky, Nathan Vincent, Jessica Whitbread.

Fri

This Friday or Next Friday

89 Bridge Street Brooklyn, NY 6:00 PM - 9:00 PMWebsite

Tough

What’s this show going to look like? If Alicia Gibson’s oil painting “Nail Polishing Club” (above) is any indication, great. The event page only lists the artists and the below list of tough stuff, so we’ll have to wait until Friday to satisfy our piqued curiosity. Even the artists we’re familiar with aren’t an indication—conceptual painter Joshua Bienko’s work always seems to look different, but it’s almost always good.

Tough break Tough shit Tough cookies Tough nut Tough luck Tough love Tough as nails

Artists: Alex Sewell, Alicia Gibson, Joshua Bienko, Jenna Gribbon, Sam Jablon

Present Company

254 Johnson Ave. Brooklyn, NY 7:00 PM - 10:00 PMWebsite

Sharper Image

We love Dina Kelberman and Milton Melvin Croissant III (two of the artists in our Providence College show Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies: The Animated GIF as Place). Kelberman samples pop culture or the endless archives of the internet with often hilarious, often overwhelming ends. Croissant (yes… real, awesome name) creates insanely detailed CGI renderings of the corporate blandscape and various other digital environments. Whatever they’re showing here, it’s going to be great.

Andrew Brischler, Milton Melvin Croissant III, Matthew Deleget, Rico Gatson, Adam Henry, Dina Kelberman, Andy Mister, Adams Puryear, Christopher Rivera, Emily Mae Smith, Wendy White

Grace Exhibition Space

840 Broadway Brooklyn, NY 7:00 PM - 11:55 PMWebsite

Heartbreak Hotel

Heartbreak Hotel is succinctly described as “Five hour simultaneous durational pieces with bells, whistles, and fog.” Sounds like a fun haunted house?

The show features work from some of our favorite artists in the Bushwick scene, such as FlucT’s Sigrid Lauren and video/installation artist Miles Pflanz.

Generally, I’d say five hours is more of an endurance challenge for the viewer than the performer. But this format and lineup might just keep things engaging all the way to midnight.

Artists: Angeli, Camila Cañeque, David Ian Bellows/Griess, Sigrid Lauren, Whitney Mallett, Miles Pflanz

Sat

20 Jay Street, Smack Mellon, A.I.R. Gallery, Art in General, Janet Borden, Inc., Made in NY Media Center by IFP, MINUS SPACE, Smack Mellon, This Friday or Next Friday, United Photo Industries, Usagi NY

Brooklyn, NY 1:00 PM - 6:00 PMWebsite

DUMBO Open Studios

Thanks to Two Trees’ Space Subsidy Program (of which we’re also a beneficiary) AFC has some pretty cool neighbors. Come meet them at Art in DUMBO’s open studio crawl. Participating spaces include New York Studio School, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Triangle Arts Association, A.I.R. Gallery, Art in General, Janet Borden, Inc., Made in NY Media Center by IFP, MINUS SPACE, Smack Mellon, This Friday or Next Friday, United Photo Industries, Usagi NY.

It’s a lot of art to see, but it’s mostly within a block or two of 20 Jay Street (where about half of the participants are tenants). If you can’t do it all at once, come back on Sunday, when studios will also be open.

Artists: Cey Adams, Alejandro Avakian, Sharon Buttler, Chantal Calato, CAM, Davide Cantoni, Elise Church, Jennifer Paige Cohen, Marsha Cottrell, Beth Dary, Eva Davidova, Blane De St Croix, Marc Dennis, Peter Drake, Rodolfo Edwards, Gabriele Evertz, Michael Farmer, Jen Ferguson, Celeste Fichter, Marney Fuller, Tom Fruin, Anne Gilman, Tessa Grundon, Teri Hackett, Michelle Handelman, Elizabeth Hazan, Daniel Horowitz, Julian Hsiung, Diana Jensen, Dale Kaplan, Laura Karetzky, Jerry Kearns, Kevin Kelly, Minku Kim, Stefan Killen, Brian Kokoska, Pavel Kraus, Jen Lewin, Eric LoPresti, Roxi Marsen, Jamie Martinez, Mary Mattingly, Gregory Mirzayantz, Vladimir Nazarov, James Nazarov, Anne Peabody, Bundith Phunsombatlert, Margaret Reid Boyer, Elizabeth Riley, Jennifer Riley, Kara Rooney, Natalie Rye, Andrea Sanders, Shelter Serra, Richard Sigmund, Deborah Simon, Jiwon Song, Laetitia Soulier, Susan Stainman, Thomas Stevenson, Auguste Rhonda Tymeson, Alexi Worth, Zach Zeeger, Darrel Hostvedt, Weixian Jiang

Sun

Former Armstrong Rubber Building

450 Sargent Drive New Haven, CT 11:00 AM - 4:00 PMWebsite

Tom Burr: New Haven

Bortolami’s ARTIST/CITY initiative famously put Eric Wesley in a Suburban Midwestern Taco Bell last year (the idea behind the project is to pair the gallery’s artists with unusual spaces outside of NYC to make new work). But the most exciting pairing might be Tom Burr’s takeover of the IKEA-owned brutalist landmark Pirelli building. Designed by Marcel Breuer, it’s one of the many modernist gems sprinkled incongruously around the small city. At present, it sits empty like a sculptural object in the parking lot of an IKEA. It’s an odd example of suburbia sort of subsuming the utopian architecture that just-barely preceded it.

Tom Burr has been creating works in response to the building (which was designed, coincidentally, in 6-foot segments; exactly the artist’s height). This should definitely be worth the Metro North ride (and like, a trip to IKEA!). It’s one of the few Bortolami ARTIST/CITY projects within the NYC metro area, so be sure not to miss it.

RSVP required: [email protected]

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