The last two weeks have been full of travel. It started with a Board meeting in Toronto, then a long weekend in Scottsdale with girlfriends, and finally a few days in the Bay area for meetings and the second annual AllRaise VC Summit. As I came out of a powerful, supportive weekend with friends into the energy of the largest gathering of female VCs ever, I started to reflect on the strong, positive shift in the tech community and broader women’s movement.
Read MoreI was recently at an event where I was approached by an older gentleman, we’ll call him “Joe”. He immediately asked about my net worth. When I gave him a couple of non-answers, he skillfully turned up the manipulation factor. “You know, on the West coast, real VCs talk all the time about where they made their money”.
Read MoreInevitably the important-not urgent list is left undone long enough that some things become urgent and we deal with them in crisis. If we are being honest, many of us are adrenaline junkies and if it isn’t screaming in our face, we tend to put it on the back burner. This is where a forcing mechanism can be extremely helpful.
Read MoreWhen I first got involved in early stage investing, I read everything I could find on start-ups and the venture capital world. I studied lean start up principals and subscribed to every major blog out there. I was a sponge soaking it all in and I was on a steep learning curve. I also found a surprising number of things from my corporate career that translated to the early stage world.
Read MoreOn April 19, Crain’s published an article regarding the closing of MATH’s second early-stage venture fund, the title of which was “Henikoff-led venture fund raises $46 million.” On the one hand, this is good. We worked with Crain’s to receive media coverage for the successful closing of our second fund. But on the other hand, Crain’s got the title and tone of the article wrong.
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