With a passion for education and social enterprise, Danielle Egan is a senior at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and Co-Founder of Connect-In-Place (CIP). CIP is a free virtual after-school program connecting middle and high schoolers with peers, enrolling over 2,500 students and 200…

We live in a hyperconnected age, with thousands of LinkedIn connections at the tip of our fingers and virtual coffee chats made easier than ever before. Through a few clicks and emails, you can find yourself great mentors and mentees in your industry and/or your university. …

So, you’ve heard of Design Thinking and how virtually every company and venture is competing neck and neck to iterate and innovate on the best user experience. Except, what is Design Thinking beyond simply a buzzword? How does one “adopt” Design Thinking into their company? Maybe you’re fluent in Design…

Sydney Fulkerson is two-time founder of Sunflower and Bebas LLC, where she is helping entrepreneurs build better brands through design and storytelling. Her current venture, Sunflower, matches Founders with creatives through personalized matchmaking of Founders with Creatives.. Fulkerson is also the author of The Coffee Run: And Other Internship Need-to-Knows…

Dana Kim is the founder of Showcase Insights, a startup product testing company specializing in affordable, efficient Millennial/Gen Z customer insights. Kim recently graduated from the Wharton MBA Program. Kim is also a mentor of the Loop’s Group Salon for the past month. …

A vast majority of venture funding still goes towards white men. In an analysis of 9,987 founders by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC , “only 9% of startup founders were female, 17% identified as Asian-American, 2.4% as Middle Eastern, 1.9% as Latin American and just 1% identified as black.” Black female entrepreneurs are the least likely to get VC funding. So few raise venture money that the percentage is, statistically speaking, nearly zero, according to USA Today.

Kristina Jones, an award winning advertising art director turned entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Guardian Lane. Guardian Lane is a video sharing platform for children’s therapy. She was also the co-founder of Court Buddy, a legal tech platform that raised $7M in funding. Jones became the 14th African…

Female founders are a better bet. “Businesses founded by women ultimately deliver higher revenue, more than twice as much per dollar invested, than those founded by men” a study by the Boston Consulting Group shows. …

Our last article outlined several ways you can take action to support the Black Lives Matter movement as a founder, primarily focused on donating, supporting the black community, and actively educating yourself. Times have been uncomfortable, scary, upsetting, raw, to say the least. But this forces us to grow and…