Insights for Success
What's Love Got To Do With Startups? Insights & Tips for Founders
You know that tingling sensation as an entrepreneur when your customer absolutely loves your product? Love needs to run through all your veins of your startup, from you as the leader & founder of this incredible company, your team, your...
The Angel Investment Thesis for Focused Startup Investing
An investment thesis is a compass for angel investors to guide them on their own startup investment journey, guide entrepreneurs they seek to invest in to find their way to them & find guidance, advice, and funding, as well as for their...
Building an Effective Data Room for Seed-stage Startups
The deal room, or data room, is where important information about a startup is housed. It's an information exchange hub between the startup team and their potential investors. It calms the nerves for both entrepreneurs and investors during a due...
Goal Setting for SMART startup founders
Visions of impact, products that solve real problems, and funding to ignite & scale product development are what entrepreneurs' dreams are made of. These are GREAT inspirations to help continue the entrepreneurial journey of any startup...
Servant Leadership in the Startup Ecosystem: Practical Pillars & Doable Actions
Through many formal and informal cafecitos y charlas (coffee meetings & conversations) over the years with founders, funders, advocates, champions and other members of the startup community, I have met leaders with vision and...
From Winged Pink Unicorns to Exits, 2021 was a Banner Year for Womxn Innovation Economy
The innovation economy is driven by passion, creativity, impact & economic growth, from the founders who invent a cure, democratize a system, fill an unmet need, solve a global _____ (fill in the blank, environmental, economic) crisis to the...
Baking Gratitude into Business: 20 Purposeful Ways
Kneading & baking handmade bread anchors us & connects people to millennia-old traditions or bold flavors & aromas. Kneading stretches the strands of gluten in the dough, allowing for more expansion during fermentation. Baking rises the...
Igniting Innovation, Impact & Investing through Action & Intentionality.
Innovation is what drives me, problem-solving around the world‘s most difficult problems and challenges. However, at the root of it, creativity is sparked by a curious human who wants to solve something, either something that needs to be fixed, just has to be in this world for the greater good, or something to fix an inequality. This spark is why founders invent and investors invest, the magic that makes up the innovation economy.