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Jenna Brown: 70-80% of VCs asked how she'd win as a female founder
“When 70 to eight percent of those investors ask me, how will you win this male-dominated industry as a woman, it's very, very hard not to think there might be something wrong with you.”
Jenna Brown: Startups should avoid large multi-stage VC funds at seed
“I'd say that generally we try to avoid the larger funds unless there was a good reason why we thought they would be a fit, and I think my take on this, again, it's the same, like, if your numbers are not good, you're going to have bigger problems, so it's just…”
Jenna Brown: Startups must verify end-user buy-in for corporate innovation projects
“Due diligence. You need to understand, have the end users actually signed up for that kind of full access discovery, or is this a push from the top management that the users might be afraid of?”
Jenna Brown: Enterprise SaaS startups should not charge customers from day one
“There's only a set amount of time you should do this for, but I knew we had a set list of items we wanted to understand, and we wanted to remove all friction in understanding those things. And once we had got those kind of discovery questions answered, then we…”