The Bowery Capital Team recently launched a new blog series titled Diversity in Entrepreneurship. Throughout this series, we will discuss with Founder/CEOs in our portfolio the impact diversity has had on their startups and careers.
Read MoreThe topic of diversity continues to be top of mind for us at Bowery. Firmwide, we’ve tried to keep ourselves honest by being transparent about the gender composition of our team, advisors, and major event speakers. But diversity is so much more than gender. If…
The last month and half has been quite the rollercoaster. Based on the rising number of unemployment claims in the US week over week, it’s fair to say that we don’t know when we’ll be returning to what we’ve deemed as normalcy or even what…
This month we kicked off year 4 of the Bowery Capital Fellowship. We’re excited to announce our 2020 Bowery Capital Fellows: Novi Zhukovsky (Dartmouth University), Hyung Song (University of California, Berkeley), Aryan Malesha (University of Michigan), and Lucy Jeffs (University of Chicago). Kicking off a…
This week, the Bowery Capital team hosted Jules Gsell, Director of Sales, and Heather Akuiyibo, VP of Sales, at Databricks to discuss “Building An Inclusive Sales Culture.” Databricks is a platform that streamlines data science and engineering for businesses. It provides a unified analytics platform, creating…
This week, the Bowery Capital team hosted Jason Dorfman, Inside Sales Manager at Rubrik, to discuss “Sales Recruiting 101 for Founders.” Founded in 2014, Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT, and eliminating backup…
This week, the Bowery Capital team hosted Eileen Wiens, VP of Emerging & SMB Sales at Intacct, to discuss “Hiring Sales Generalists Versus Sales Specialists.” Intacct is the largest private ERP vendor that provides cloud-based financial management and accounting applications for businesses and CPA firms….
Building out an SDR team is is no easy task in the world of business software. Many founders are curious about the allure of these programs as you never seem to have enough pipeline. Founders have probably heard about amazing resources called Sales Development Reps (SDR) that…
We’re excited to announce a new series focused on raising awareness around mental health at early-stage startups. Historically, mental health has been stigmatized and a touchy subject to discuss. As an HR professional, I’ve spent countless hours working through difficult personal and professional situations with…
Welcome to our second installment in our series on mental health at early stage startups. Read our previous post here with Jake Farmakis. For this post, we spoke with Justin Welsh from The Official Justin, formerly SVP of Sales at PatientPop about managing burnout. “Burnout…
