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5 Steps to Making the Most of an Accelerator
I can’t explain the depth of my gratitude to the 500 Startups family of networks and mentors. They’ve housed, loved, overwhelmed, and accelerated the Chewse team, from co-working space to Demo Day: As...
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Why Fundraising is Like Rock Climbing
Like a good SF resident, my friend Francis Pedraza took me and my co-founder on a rock climb when we visited from LA. Good thing: I’m ambitious, I haven’t climbed before, and I have a hunger for...
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2 tweets made me go Paleo for my startup
“There were no red bell peppers in the Stone Age!” “You can only eat raw meat, right?” “Is butter allowed?” These are the questions I face as I take on the Paleo diet, from outsiders who know little...
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Announcing the 500 Tribe
table, td, th { border:1px solid black; } td { padding:15px; } Halloween isn’t the only cause for celebration and zombie-hunting — it’s time to officially unveil the companies of 500 Startups Batch 5!...
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Silicon Alley (NYC) Myths: Debunked
Batch 5 represents in NYC!Andy Sparks (LaunchGram) + Yours Truly I’m still flushed with the thrill of a visit to New York City — and a 500 Startups NYC event hosted by Shai Goldman, the newest...
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Diversity Tastes Like Turkey
Thanksgiving Potluck @ 500 Some of our new friends at 500 Startups have never had the privilege of stuffing their faces with turkey, have never felt the honor of loosening their belt a notch after the...
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You can hack growth…can you hack happiness?
My community ain’t no hack (my co-founder and I enjoying dinner with our families) (I’ve taken the Everest Step a Day Challenge to be a more consistent blogger. It’s fitting that embarking on this...
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Preview Day taught me to be human
Preview Day is a private event here at 500 Startups that involves a bonanza of 30-second pitches from portfolio companies (including mine, Chewse). I’ve learned a lot from the preparation process —...
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30 Days of Pain, Pork, and Paleo
I went Paleo for 30 days to get closer to potential customers of my startup, who expressed their own frustrations with low carb catering options. It involved a great deal of restriction, awkward...
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Care About Equality? Be a Female Steward
I’ll admit, I feel reasonably empowered. I’m a female founder of a diverse startup of both men and women, and I grew up in a household where gender was not a determining factor for achievement. But...
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The Case for an Internet-Free Home
I’ve spent the last 7 weeks living without internet at home, and it’s opened me up to a world of deliberate intent and distraction-free creativity. When I initially told people about the choice, I got...
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Good Founders Have Unapologetic Confidence + Tenacity: YC Female Founders...
I attended the Y Combinator Female Founders Conference yesterday, the first event of its kind for the incubator. It was an oversubscribed, standing-room only event that took place in Mountain View and...
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