By Paula DeLaurentis of Equities.com. Read the full article here. Flossie Hall is on a mission to help women founders raise capital and women investors deploy it with impact. As an active-duty military spouse, Flossie’s advocacy for military spouse entrepreneurs landed her not one, but two invitations to the White House and partnerships with companies like [...]
This is for all you founders out there trying to survive in this crazy competitive start-up world. We’re certain you’ve spent hours and hours working on building your startup and formulating your business ideas, but now what? When thinking about growing your company, how can you decide where to begin? There are many different organizations [...]
As we all know, the global community is being heavily impacted by the Coronavirus/COVID-19. Please rest assured that our team is monitoring the rapidly changing conditions that the coronavirus (COVID-19) is having on our community and continually preparing internally for how we will respond with our current programming, remainder of our 2020 planned programming, events, [...]
We are pleased to share the news that Stella Labs founder and co-chairman of the board, Silvia Mah, PhD, MBA, has been named the University of San Diego's Center for Peace and Commerce director. Here's the official announcement, courtesy of USD. USD Hires Entrepreneur Silvia Mah to Capitalize on Global Growth of its Center [...]
Women-focused business accelerator Stella Labs has hired two new employees, Shan Cureton (left) and Christine Lustig (right), and promoted Raven O’Neal (center) to executive director. Women-focused business accelerator Stella Labs has hired two new employees and promoted Raven O’Neal to executive director. The expanded team will support the organization’s effort to increase the [...]
We are quickly speeding into week 10 of our 12-week Launch and Scale Intensives here at Stella Labs, and we wanted to take a moment to share some of the wonderful and exciting milestones that our founders have reached in this short amount of time:
Girls just wanna have a viable business model. That’s the tune three startup advocates are humming as they join forces to launch Ad Astra Ventures, a new San Diego-based business accelerator focused on female-led startups.
InnovateHER San Diego local winner, Jenna Ryan, CEO of Uqora, wins first prize at national pitch competition, recommended for consideration by Stella Labs. The SBA Growth Accelerator Fund awards Stella Labs the third $50,000 financial support to continue our mission-driven work.
Therefore, for both funders and founders, focus on these 5 M’s in evaluating any successful entrepreneurial investment: (1) Management, (2) Momentum, (3) Model, (4) Motivation and (5) Market.
More than 200 women from as far as the United Arab Emirates traveled to San Diego for Hera Venture Summit, a one-day educational event hosted by business accelerator Stella Labs. Now in its fourth year, the event at University of San Diego underscored three key themes: encouraging more women to see themselves as investors, challenging the narrative on women in business, and the importance of overcoming fears and asking for help.
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