💖 Dear VC, Who Told Me I Wasn't Investible + $5K Retail Grant & Side Hustles Hiring

Hi! It's your BFF in biz exploring women’s experiences in entrepreneurship, venture capital, personal finance, wealth & motherhood.

Hey! It’s Doone, your hype girl in biz… Just popping into your inbox with a quick update and a big thank you for hanging in there with us. We've been working hard behind the scenes to bring you brand new podcast episodes and I’m so excited to share that we’re getting back into our schedule this week(!!). Hallelujah.

We’ve got some seriously spicy guests lined up… Helllloooo Viv Conway from GirlsGetOff and the legendary Cindy Gallop (yes, I invested in her fundraise for Make Love, Not P*rn—which is still open.) Your support means the absolute world to us, and we’re so grateful for your patience while we’ve been perfecting things to come back bigger, brighter, and better than ever.

Today we’re covering 👇

  • ✨ That time a VC that told me I wasn’t investible…

  • ✨ Our fave Tweets this week got me in the feels

  • ✨ Faire is choosing 6 founders to receive $5K (each q)

  • ✨ Hot female-founded part-time & remote jobs 🔥

To the VC that told me I wasn’t investible… 💸

A VC once told me—verbatim;

  • “You’re not investible” 

  • “What you’re doing has no value” 

  • “You don’t have a deep why” 

And I am here to remind you—every single brilliant, talented one of you—that even if you’re feeling like nothing is going right. You’re burnt the F out. You’re giving it your all but feeling stuck: What you’re doing is valuable. You are investible and eveeeen if not everyone sees your vision right away, there will be people that do believe in you and are hyped as hell to invest in you.

I promise you, we’re out here proving it’s possible 🩷

Gold Tweets This Week 💗

1/ Sis, life isn’t always about getting it right:

✨Great news just in✨ Life isn't always about getting it right. But it is about bouncing back when you don’t. No one gets every decision perfect. You actually just keep going until one of them is. It’s a process of elimination.

There are two types of decisions: reversible ones (think of doors that swing both ways) and irreversible ones (once you walk through, there's no turning back). Make the doors-both-ways ones fast, and take your time with the second. What matters most is that you keep moving forward just that 1% every day.

2/ “This is what we want to see AI being used for”:

How-fucking-exciting. Innovation in its finest form—wow.

Extra Stuff to Check Out 👀

🩷 We don’t have time for stories anymore: â€œpost-millennial trends that brands need to be aware of” for everything we should know but don’t

💸 Female-founded Faire is selecting 6 founders to receive $5,000 each quarter towards opening their very own retailer, find out more here

🌐 Last week the internet went wild about Paul Graham’s essay eviscerating Silicon Valley’s conventional wisdom about founders - this week it was our turn to speak about it’s double standard

Female-founded ✨remote jobs✨ 

Secure a paying gig that supports your financial needs and allows you to invest in your biz from a place of ✨abundance✨ rather than scarcity —right here—👇

REMOTE 🏝️

  • FemTech influencer Jean Dees is hiring a remote YouTube and IG Creative Strategist to help with influencer marketing | APPLY HERE.

  • BentoBox is hiring Restaurant Solutions Business Consultants to work remotely across America as a part of the sales team | APPLY HERE.

     

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