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5 Tips for Aspiring Female Venture Capitalists

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Women make up around 11% of investing partners at VC firms in the United States, with approximately 13% of VC funds allocated to startups with a woman on the founding team, according to the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard Kennedy School. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2024 issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. BRND Marketing Group LLC produced Leadership Newark’s Public Policy Summits featuring keynotes from U.S. Cornish is the co-author of It’s Work! With the U.S.

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Gen Z’s Impact On The Workplace: Tech-Enabled And Collaborative

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This article was written by JLL’s Sanjay Rishi for Work Design Magazine. For Gen Z and other junior employees, in particular, the office isn’t just a place to work — it’s a place for socializing, in-person learning to gain invaluable skills, benefit from mentoring and become part of a professional community.

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Q&A: How “Renovation Goldmine” Host Meg Piercy Grew Her Hobby into a TV Show

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If there’s a problem, have an open-door policy and work through it together. But one of our mentors told me, “You need to be able to spend 80% of the time on your business and 20% in your business”—meaning I needed to be spending only 20% of my time painting and 80% on marketing. The secrets to her success? Was that hard? MP: It was.

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Instead Of Trying To Compete With The Home Office — Work With It

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This article was written by Leonora Georgeoglou , and was originally published on Work Design Magazine. We can easily observe that what is highly productive in a shared office space is communal, iterative, and reactive activities like training, large group collaboration , mentoring, exploration and innovation.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Betsy Dougert, vice president of external relations for SCORE , which provides free mentoring service for small business owners, wants female entrepreneurs in all fields to know that SCORE’s more than 10,000 volunteer mentors have their backs every step of the way. And some organizations are looking to help change that.

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Jim Rohn on How to Evaluate Your Relationships

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My mentor, Mr. Earl Shoaff, gave me a very important warning in those early days that I’ll share with you. Ignorance is never the best policy. Finding out is the best policy. This article originally appeared in the September/October 2021 issue of SUCCESS magazine. He said, “Never underestimate the power of influence.”