- Female Startup Club
- Posts
- The $20K Deal That Should've Been $100K→
The $20K Deal That Should've Been $100K→
Filtering the internet's smartest opportunities you didn't know you needed (yet)...
Doone Roisin
June 03, 2026
But the part that stopped me in my tracks? She sold a mini-series for $20,000... only to later discover it was worth closer to $100,000.
👋👋 On this week's FSC podcast 👋👋 Lauren gets brutally honest about what brands are actually paying creators in 2026, how she went from a $9k deal to multi six-fig partnerships & the payment terms every creator should be negotiating →
🚀 HF0 is back (and the numbers are kind of ridiculous) → Five startups from its last cohort reportedly hit $10M annualized revenue by Demo Day (with one reaching $200M): apply if you're building something ambitious.
🌍 Got a weird, brilliant, world-changing idea? → Emergent Ventures funds moonshots, unconventional projects, side quests, and big swings — with grants ranging from tiny trajectory-changing checks to serious capital.
🥂 Non-alc founders, this one's for you → A prenatal and postpartum fitness studio in NYC is looking for mocktail and snack brands to feature at its Summer Kickoff wellness event: pitch Britt Tori right here to get your product into new hands.
Better cap table management starts here
Cap table management doesn’t have to be frustrating. From issuing grants to 409A valuations or ASC 718 reporting Pulley can make it simple.
Just ask Linear. They knew they needed a partner who could handle the complexity of their equity management. That’s why they migrated to Pulley.
✨ Creative Product Manager @ Little Plains ($85K–$125K base or contract $80–$125/hr, remote/NYC) → Part strategist, part operator, part founder whisperer: you’ll help early-stage startups make smarter product and brand decisions across healthcare, biotech, SaaS, and consumer.
🐾 Operations Manager @ Puppy Sphere ($63K–$68K, NYC) → If “puppy therapy startup” sounds like your dream LinkedIn update, here you go: lead studio operations, events, team management, and community experiences.
🥐 Commercial Manager @ COBS Bread ($85K–$100K, Vancouver) → Finance girlies, this one's for you: support franchise growth, assess expansion opportunities, work with banking partners, and help shape the future of COBS.
🧘♀️ Lululemon’s founder is publicly battling the company he built: accusing it of choosing efficiency over creativity while the board calls his views “outdated” - it’s giving billion-dollar family feud (with cute yoga pants).
🤖 62% of Gen Z workers admit they’re already leaning too hard on AI at work — and 40% say they couldn’t do their jobs without it. The career dilemma of 2026? Use AI and risk losing your edge, or ignore it and risk getting left behind.
⭐️ Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates just assembled what might be the most celebrity-stacked cap table ever: Alix Earle, Sydney Sweeney, Khloé Kardashian, Karlie Kloss and 20+ others have piled into her AI shopping startup Phia.
Female Startup Club is where 160,000 founders, side hustlers & ambitious professionals come to grow their income & influence. And the smartest women you know are already subscribed…
Reply