by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Dec 1, 2021 | Book, Integrated Investing, Leadership
Simon Sinek was right – start with why. At the time of writing Integrated Investing, I felt very strongly about a core concept of Integrated Investing, which I called “Access to Essential Resources” and the book opens with this. Chapter 2, however, encourages...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Nov 29, 2021 | Book, Integrated Investing
The Fall is a great time to start something. Harking back to school days, I still associate the Fall with the start of a new year. Five years ago, in November 2016, I published my first book, Integrated Investing: Impact Investing with Head, Heart, Body, and Soul. But...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Aug 25, 2021 | Gender Lens Investing, Integrated Investing
In 2011, while contemplating how to move money more purposefully and wondered where all the women investors were, I was fortunate to meet Jackie VanderBrug at Social Venture Institute. Thanks to Jackie’s invitation to attend Criterion Institute’s...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Mar 29, 2021 | Book, Pique Fund, Share Equity, Women Investors
Starting a fund is starting a business. It’s a two-sided business model with one side involving aggregating capital from investors and the other side being the allocation of that capital to compelling opportunities. I have advised organizations on starting funds and I...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Aug 25, 2020 | Innovation
A couple of weeks ago, in early August, I noticed a flurry of activity around AngelList’s Rolling Funds. AngelList describes them as “Always-Open Venture Funds” which enable fund managers to start investing as soon as capital from LPs (limited partners or investors in...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Feb 1, 2020 | Decision-Making, Impact investing, Pique Fund
When I founded Pique Ventures in 2012, it was with a curiosity about how to move money more purposefully and to find out where all the women investors were. “Impact investing” as a phrase was 5 years old. “Gender lens investing” had been coined...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Sep 19, 2019 | Impact investing, Innovation, Leadership, Pique Fund, Resources, Systems, Trends
About a year ago, I developed an interest in attending VC Unlocked, an investor training program focused on venture capital, delivered by 500 Startups and Stanford University. I tried to get the tuition cost funded through a grant, I asked a friend to refer me when...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Sep 13, 2019 | News, Pique Fund
Building a company is a marathon, not a sprint. I’m excited to share that Pique Fund portfolio company ePACT Network, led by Christine Sommers and Kirsten Koppang Telford, has raised a $4.5M Series A round of investment to fund its growth. Pique Fund, an early-stage...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Aug 26, 2019 | Capacity Building, Due diligence, Leadership
One week down, one more to go – at VC Unlocked. I have been doing due diligence all my career (22+ years!), but venture capital is another beast altogether. I am glad I took the leap to build a venture capital firm from scratch. I have learned and gained new...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Aug 13, 2019 | Leadership diversity, Market News
Last month, CBRE published their 2019 Scoring Tech Talent report. As described in the introduction to the report, “Scoring Tech Talent is a comprehensive analysis of labor market conditions, cost and quality in the U.S. and Canada for highly skilled tech workers. The...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Aug 6, 2019 | Capital raising, Due diligence, Emerging managers
“It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Networking and growing your network is key to any business activity. For example, seeking referrals was an important part of raising Hustle Fund’s inaugural fund. “We started by approaching friends and acquaintances and...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Jul 30, 2019 | Diversity, Leadership diversity
Photo credit: Caleigh Mayer Being in sync with your colleagues can lead to success. Daniel Pink, in his book When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, notes that, “A sense of belonging helps individuals cohere. And synchronization both requires and heightens...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Jul 23, 2019 | Emerging managers, Investing Ideas, Leadership diversity
The time required to raise a fund is critical, particularly for emerging managers. Time dedicated to raising a fund means time away from deploying capital into promising ventures. For some it also means a period of very tight cashflow, especially if you’re raising a...
by Pique Ventures | Jul 2, 2019 | Big Ideas, Innovation, Investing Ideas, Investment Readiness, Vision
Photo credit: Pixabay | @EliasSch “[The innovation] came from out of the blue. Sometimes good ideas spring from having a sense of where you want to go, of having a vision of the next level of products.” – Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia founder, writing in his...
by Pique Ventures | Jun 25, 2019 | Books, Capital raising, Fund Your Business, Investing Ideas, Pique Fund, Social Enterprise, Systems, Women Investing in Women, Women Investors
Photo credit: Unsplash | @guesh1337 “Get out of the building!” – Steve Blank For some people, getting out of the building is easy and comes naturally to them. For others, getting out of the building requires coming to terms with vulnerability. Perhaps Steve...
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