Get featured in the news: Calling all successful VC or Angel investors
I'm part of HARO where I will receive requests from reporters looking for stories and thought this would be great for the many successful female CEOs.All info here:Summary: Why We Need More Women Founders & Here Is What We Are Doing To Make That HappenName: Yitzi Weiner Authority MagazineCategory: Business and FinanceEmail: [email protected]Media Outlet: Authority MagazineDeadline: 7:00 PM EST - 31 MarchQuery:Dear Friends Authority Magazine is starting a new series aboutWhy We Need More Women Founders & Here Is What We Are Doing ToMake That Happen. Full description here https://bit.ly/3auit3bAccording to this EY report,https://news.crunchbase.com/news/eoy-2019-diversity-report-20-percent-of-newly-funded-startups-in-2019-have-a-female-founder/only about 20 percent of funded companies have women founders.This reflects great historical progress, but it also shows thatmore work still has to be done to empower women to createcompanies. What is currently holding back women from foundingcompanies? What can Angels and VC's do to enable more womenfounders?We would like to interview successful VC and Angel investorsabout "Why We Need More Women Founders" & "What They Have DoneOr Plan To Do To Make That Happen"We would also like to interview and feature women founders aboutthe same questions: Why we need more women founders, and whatcan be done to make that happen.We would also like to include organizations that empower womenfounders.The interview series will have two stages.All of the full interviews will be published in AriannaHuffington's Thrive Global and Authority Magazine, and they willlook like the following:https://medium.com/authority-magazine/entrepreneur-television-personality-mark-cuban-ive-invested-probably-more-than-a-hundred-9c2882ca080f?source=friends_link&sk=0ae202516af5e5b6bd5f196089c3c8c9https://medium.com/authority-magazine/shark-tanks-daymond-john-on-why-he-feels-a-duty-to-give-back-f61830af8ba3?source=friends_link&sk=96f8b4a24a1bfa568a26fc54efee116chttps://medium.com/authority-magazine/lori-greiner-shares-11-major-lessons-you-can-learn-from-the-shark-tank-e199446c98db?source=friends_link&sk=69f9750b2245fda40e9871f7c1bc6012https://medium.com/authority-magazine/5-business-lessons-i-learned-on-the-way-to-becoming-a-shark-leadership-lessons-from-shark-tanks-affcc80281af?source=friends_link&sk=d61cdac42521ee3675b0bbd648d01215https://thriveglobal.com/stories/social-impact-heroes-how-amber-zenith-emily-nelson-have-helped-to-reignite-a-love-for-aerobic-workouts-across-north-america/In addition, after the all interviews are completed, an articlefeaturing the ideas from the best interviews will be submittedto Buzzfeed and Entrepreneur.com, like these we have done:https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/345415https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/340907https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/339554The Buzzfeed article will look similar to this:https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewziegler/heres-what-the-best-athletes-of-the-90s-look-likIndividuals who are accepted for this series will be featured inat least 2 - 4 articles.Yitzi Weiner, Kristin Marquet, Jerome Knyszewski & ParveenPanwar will be the primary leads for the series. Mostinterviews will not require phone interviews and can be done byemail. Requirements:We would like to interview successful VC and Angel investorsabout "Why We Need More Women Founders" & "What They Have DoneOr Plan To Do To Make That Happen"We would also like to interview and feature women founders aboutthe same questions: Why we need more women founders, and whatcan be done to make that happen.We would also like to include organizations that empower womenfounders.Please leave your pitch below so that we do not miss youremail. (The text of your submission will be a pitch for aninterview, and will not be used in the actual article)Other articles that our team is actively working on (includingthis one) can be seen here bit.ly/otherarticlesweareworkingonOur complete list of story-lines can be seen herehttps://medium.com/authority-magazine/ongoing-interview-series-in-authority-magazine-7d633a349753For more about Authority Magazine and other articles created byour team, please see here:https://medium.com/authority-magazine/about-authority-magazine-bc4be45bdd05Requirements:We would like to interview successful VC and Angel investorsabout "Why We Need More Women Founders" & "What They Have DoneOr Plan To Do To Make That Happen"We would also like to interview and feature women founders aboutthe same questions: Why we need more women founders, and whatcan be done to make that happen.We would also like to include organizations that empower womenfounders.