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Soar Higher: April 2016
angel investor

Women Ante Up - Impact With Wings Excerpt

4/14/2016
Entrepreneurs create the future. And women entrepreneurs are underfunded. This is also true of entrepreneurs of color. So who is creating the future? Certain demographics of people have more than their fair share of influence, and the results speak for themselves. Women have the power to fix this situation. In this excerpt from Impact With Wings:  Stories to Inspire and Mobilize Women Investors and...

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Turning Women Investors’ Risk Tolerance to Advantage

4/04/2016
On Thursday, March 24, 2016, we held our second monthly Hera Fund Wingpact Founder Funder Conversation. We featured Silvia Armitano Mah on the topic of “Busting the Myth of Risk Tolerance in the Female Investor.” Women angel investors are often accused of being “risk-averse” because of their perceived tendency to take longer to make an investment decision and write smaller checks. We wanted to bring this concern...

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