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At The Impact Seat Foundation, we believe in demystifying the entrepreneurship journey to democratize access to capital. We are creating an open, honest, and equitable ecosystem that is accessible to all.
We believe innovation is universal — it knows no demographic, region, gender nor ethnicity. The Impact Seat is proud to provide more tools to ensure the blossoming of innovation in every corner of our world.
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True Underdog Podcast with Jayson Waller and Cheryl Contee
Podcaster Jayson Waller and entrepreneur Cheryl Contee have a fun yet insightful conversation about the importance of diversity in business and why taking risks will…
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Black Female-Founded Companies Need Funding, Not Accelerators Or Incubators (Forbes)
The “failure in funding for Black female companies is not the much-touted "pipeline" or "lack of education" issue but symptomatic of investors retreating into their…
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Advice on Launching a Tech Startup When You’re Not a White Man (HBR)
Cheryl Contee of The Impact Seat shares her insights with Harvard Business Review her Amazon bestselling book, Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success.
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3 Ways to Design a Successful Startup Exit Strategy (Fast Company)
Cheryl Contee, Chief Innovation Officer at The Impact Seat, shares her wisdom on creating your startup's exit strategy in this Fast Company article.
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12 Ways Smart Leaders Take On A Crisis (Fast Company)
Cheryl Contee provides solid counsel along with other Fast Company Executive Board leaders.
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How I Built This with NPR’s Guy Raz and Cheryl Contee
NPR's How I Built This host Guy Raz talked live with Cheryl Contee of The Impact Seat about how diversity, equity and inclusion makes startups…
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Embracing Entrepreneurship In the Campaign Space (Campaign Tech at Home)
Campaigns and Elections Magazine invited Cheryl Contee of The Impact Seat and Do Big Things to talk about her journey as a startup founder and…
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FastPath Leadership Series Fireside Chat with Barbara Clarke and Founders First
Barbara Clarke and Kim Folsom, founder of FFCP, share their journey into successful entrepreneurship and investing with insights into leadership growth opportunities.
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Unlocking Resources in the Innovation Economy: Expanding Access to Capital (MIT)
Hosted by MIT Sloan, this session features a deep dive conversation discussing what banks and investors can do to unlock resources to create a more…
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Advice for Entrepreneurs with Trish Costello
Trish Costello of Portfolia (one of the funds focused on female founders in which The Impact Seat has invested) provides great advice to aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Founder Lessons Learned from Seed to Series A
CareAcademy's CEO and Co-founder Helen Adeosun shares founder lessons learned from seed to Series A, and all the ups & downs along the way.
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The Real Reason Why Women Don’t Get Funded
Women own 39% of all businesses in the US, but female entrepreneurs get only 2% of VC funding. Dana Kanze suggests that it might be…
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