967: Raising Money for Your Start-Up with Karen Cahn, founder of iFundWomen

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Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Karen Cahn is the Founder and CEO of iFundWomen, and has dedicated her career to closing the funding and the confidence gap for women entrepreneurs. Named on NASDAQ’s “10 Best Sources of Funding for Women Entrepreneurs”, iFundWomen is a startup funding platform providing female entrepreneurs access to capital, coaching, and connections critical to launching and growing their businesses. Karen is a pioneer in tech and media. She was an early Google Intrapreneur where she spent 10 years leading various monetization teams in search, display, and video. Most notably, Karen started the Branded Entertainment business at YouTube, when, back in the olden times of YouTube 2006, she and a rogue group of sales and product managers, made the connection between big consumer brands and video creators, thus creating the first native video ad experiences monetized on YouTube. Most recently, Karen spent three years as General Manager of AOL Original Video, and was responsible for business strategy and strategic partnerships. In this role, Karen built AOL’s female creative economy in video and as a result, nabbed AOL its first-ever Emmy nod. Karen is on the board of advisors of Girl Rising, an organization dedicated to girls education in developing countries. She is also on the Springboard Media Council and invests her “human capital” in their pipeline of high-growth, women-led companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Money episode 967, Karen Khan, founder and CEO of I Fund Women.
0:07.0	You're listening to So Money with award-winning money guru Farno Shkorabi.
0:12.0	Each day get a 30 minute dose of financial. Board-winning Money Guru Farnu Shtorabi.
0:12.6	Each day get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration
0:15.8	from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers,
0:19.5	and from Farnu's yourselves.
0:22.2	Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons?
0:25.0	Sorry, you're in the wrong place.
0:28.0	Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.
0:31.0	Welcome to So Money.
0:34.6	No early stage proof of concept founder should go into debt funding their thing.
0:40.5	You just shouldn't.
0:41.5	92% of startups fail and that's totally fine, but what isn't fine is failing going into credit card debt
0:46.5	You're listening to so money everybody welcome back to the show
0:50.0	You just heard from Karen Khan. She is the founder and CEO of I Fund Women.
0:56.6	Anyone out there looking to raise money for their startup? Not sure what to do about it?
1:02.3	Because as we know so few of the startup seed money goes to women right?
1:08.3	We're working on it in the meantime. What do you do? Do you max out your credit cards? Do do take out personal loans? Our guest today Karen Khan says absolutely not and she is now providing an alternative called I fund women a fundraising ecosystem for womenled startups and small businesses. I love
1:25.6	Karen, I love everything that comes out of her mouth. I think she is a top-notch
1:29.6	thinker. She is an icon. She has spent years in her career working at various major companies with
1:36.4	top roles from Google to AOL. She's on the board media council
1:44.4	media council she's highly respected and she's making a difference she's a wealthy
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