Tag: women entrepreneurs

  • Building Scalable Startups in the Southeast with Monique Villa, Founder of ModernCapital

    Building Scalable Startups in the Southeast with Monique Villa, Founder of ModernCapital

    In just over a year since moving to Nashville from Los Angeles, Monique Villa has already become a vocal champion for the Southeast.  And it’s not just because of the Southern hospitality — she’s a firm believer in our region’s potential to breed high-growth startups and vibrant entrepreneurial communities. As a veteran company-builder and investor,…

  • Perfecting Your Personal Pitch with Annie Scranton of Pace PR

    Perfecting Your Personal Pitch with Annie Scranton of Pace PR

    Annie Scranton knows the power of a solid pitch. After nearly a decade working as a producer with leading networks like CNN, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC and ABC (where she booked guest appearances for shows like Good Morning America), she founded Pace PR, a full-service media relations agency based in New York City. Leveraging her…

  • Boy’s Club No More: The Rise of Women’s Co-working Across the South

    Boy’s Club No More: The Rise of Women’s Co-working Across the South

    Once an unconventional concept found only in major metros, co-working is now a mainstay for entrepreneurs and digital nomads around the world. Statista estimates there are about 11,300 co-working spaces worldwide, a number that could reach nearly 14,000 by 2018. And as the number of co-working spaces continues to grow, so, too, does their ability…

  • 20 Powerful Women in Business Speaking at DIG SOUTH

    20 Powerful Women in Business Speaking at DIG SOUTH

    DIG SOUTH’s 5th Annual Innovation Conference is less than a month away! The speaker lineup features 150+ successful entrepreneurs, executives, and investors from around the country, including several glass-ceiling-shattering women who are leading the charge in marketing, media, e-commerce, technology, healthcare, and more. Here’s a sampling of some of the women powering up our agenda this April,…

  • 9 Southern Female Founders to Know During Women’s History Month

    9 Southern Female Founders to Know During Women’s History Month

    March is Women’s History Month, so we thought it’d be fitting to honor a few trailblazing female entrepreneurs who are forging new paths in medicine, technology, media, and finance right here in the South. It’s not an easy path to forge, either. Only 9 percent of high-growth tech startups have female founders, an estimated 94…

  • Essential Resources for Female Founders in the South

    Essential Resources for Female Founders in the South

    If you’ve been on Twitter or Facebook this week, you probably caught some clips of this week’s United#StateOfWomen Summit. The daylong event celebrated what’s already been done by and for women, and took a collective pulse check on our unfinished business. Not surprisingly, one of the key gender equality issues discussed was entrepreneurship and innovation.…