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Most entrepreneurs pound a long and difficult road, but it’s well documented that women have the toughest time. A small library’s worth of studies has shown that female founders receive a tiny sliver of the tens of billions in venture capital that ar

This spring, a typical workday for Tedra Cobb consisted of running communication and leadership training for a health care firm followed by glad-handing with hundreds of supporters at night. She’s the founder of Canton, New York–based consulting firm

STARTUP NEIGHBORHOODS Legendary incubator 1871 is in the historic Merchandise Mart building in the River North nabe; around it is clustered the city’s “biggest concentration of startup activity,” says Julie Roth Novack. 1 She co-founded event-planne

If you’ve successfully landed investors for your business, you know that keeping them happy is a key part of your job. Yet sometimes that’s easier said than done. Everything from personality conflicts to deep-seated differences of opinion about how t

“Tell them why. I’m a sugar-free Red Bull addict, and we used to stock the fridge with cases—spending $300 a month. A few years ago, I told them: A penny times 10 isn’t much, but times a million is serious money. We have four times as many employees

In 2015, Bryanne Leeming was daydreaming in class at Babson College. “Two words came into my mind: electronic playground,” says Leeming, 28. The idea kept her at her computer until 3 a.m., as she Googled everything from “MIT Media Lab research” to th

A few months ago, a bright young man named Charles came to see me for advice about a business he was starting. The business, he said, was a hedge fund of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. There were actually more than 1,500 types of cryptocurrency at th

Starting any fast-growing business is difficult. Starting one while female, as the flood of headlines about #MeToo and VC funding shortfalls illustrates, can seem nearly impossible. “I was told I was too female, too old, even too blond: ‘You do not