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Women in Venture Capital SIC Code 67999904 are investors and funders of startups.

For much of history, women were excluded from the venture capital world, but now women are becoming venture capitalists at a fast rate!

Most research about women in the venture capital industry highlights their underrepresentation. Not here. Women In Venture Capital are eagles who don't flock with pigeons.

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Stop Pitching! Bat Ideas Around The Table!

Face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are 1) to become a baserunner, 2) to drive runners home, or 3) to advance runners along the bases for others to drive home, but the techniques and strategies they use to do so vary.

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Lead-Off Batter

... is the one who bats first in the lineup and first in the inning.

On-Base Hitter

On-base Percentage (OBP) refers to how frequently a batter reaches base per plate appearance.

Slugger

Combined with OBP to form a very good measure of the best offensive player's overall offensive production.

Base Stealer

... are not only fast but have good baserunning instincts and timing.

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Agentic Leadership
... incorporates the complexity and variety of challenges in ascending to become a venture capitalist. This person demonstrates assertiveness, competitiveness, independence, courageousness, and is masterful in achieving the task at hand.
Consideration and Initiation of Structure
... includes behavior such as encouraging subordinates to follow rules and procedures, maintaining high standards for performance, and making leader and subordinate roles explicit.
Skeptical of The Status Quo
... set especially high standards for behavior and establish themselves as self-enrichment education teachers by gaining the trust and confidence of their followers. They state future goals and develop plans to achieve them.
Genuine Probing Questions
... stimulate reflective thinking. CLARIFYING QUESTIONS are simple questions of fact. POWERFUL, OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS are intended to prompt the presenter to think more deeply about the present kairos.
Self-Efficacy
The individual’s belief in the ability to successfully face specific tasks or situations and has been identified in social-cognitive theory as the most powerful self-regulatory mechanism in affecting behaviors.
Situational Awareness
... a startup faces multiple risks every day. An isolated issue can become world news and brand-destroying in minutes. Women In Venture Capital are prepared to face a tsunami of disjointed information.

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