This summer at Venture Café Phoenix, we’re inviting you to go on a journey with us, into the real, unfiltered stories of entrepreneurship.
Launching June 25th and running weekly through September 3rd, our Founder Journeys Summer Series will feature a different founder from our community each week in an intimate fireside chat format, moderated by the Venture Café Phoenix team.
Together, we’ll explore how they got started, the challenges they’ve faced, where they found funding, and what they’re building next. But beyond the startup story, we’ll go deeper, into the role community has played in shaping their path.
We’ll ask founders how engaging with Venture Café has impacted their journey, where they are today because of those connections, and what support has mattered most along the way. And just as importantly, we’ll explore how they want to give back, how they can support the broader ecosystem as it continues to grow.
This series is designed to be a two-way conversation between founders and community: learning from those building in real time, and strengthening the network that helps them (and all of us) move forward together.
Sponsored by: Extraordinary Network
In Partnership with Club Lumen and The Morning Rave™
Most women in business are sitting on the most powerful marketing asset they own and calling it a liability. The story they've been editing, softening and deciding isn't ""professional enough"" is the exact thing their ideal client needs to hear.
Mel C shows women entrepreneurs how the experience they've been most ashamed of builds the deepest trust, attracts the right clients and sets them apart in a crowded market.
Drawing from her own story and her work through Six Figure Chicks, she makes the case that strategically shared shame isn't vulnerability for vulnerability's sake. It's a business strategy.
Attendees walk away with:
How to identify the story moment that creates instant connection with their ideal client, why owning their full story positions them above any competitor, and how to turn that story into content and published work that markets for them long after they leave the room.
Sponsored by: Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation, In Partnership with: Alimental Business
Women influence the majority of purchasing decisions, drive innovation across industries, and are building profitable companies at record rates, yet they remain significantly underrepresented among those who control investment capital. What changes when more women have a seat at the cap table? In this conversation, we'll dive into how we got here and explore how increasing women's participation in investing can reshape the flow of capital, expand the types of ideas that get funded, and create a more inclusive and dynamic innovation economy. Because who writes the checks doesn't just determine who succeeds, it shapes what the future looks like.
In Partnership with The Jane Project
This summer at Venture Café Phoenix, we’re inviting you to go on a journey with us, into the real, unfiltered stories of entrepreneurship.
Launching June 25th and running weekly through September 3rd, our Founder Journeys Summer Series will feature a different founder from our community each week in an intimate fireside chat format, moderated by the Venture Café Phoenix team.
Together, we’ll explore how they got started, the challenges they’ve faced, where they found funding, and what they’re building next. But beyond the startup story, we’ll go deeper, into the role community has played in shaping their path.
We’ll ask founders how engaging with Venture Café has impacted their journey, where they are today because of those connections, and what support has mattered most along the way. And just as importantly, we’ll explore how they want to give back, how they can support the broader ecosystem as it continues to grow.
This series is designed to be a two-way conversation between founders and community: learning from those building in real time, and strengthening the network that helps them (and all of us) move forward together.
Sponsored by: Extraordinary Network
In Partnership with Club Lumen and The Morning Rave™
Most women in business are sitting on the most powerful marketing asset they own and calling it a liability. The story they've been editing, softening and deciding isn't ""professional enough"" is the exact thing their ideal client needs to hear.
Mel C shows women entrepreneurs how the experience they've been most ashamed of builds the deepest trust, attracts the right clients and sets them apart in a crowded market.
Drawing from her own story and her work through Six Figure Chicks, she makes the case that strategically shared shame isn't vulnerability for vulnerability's sake. It's a business strategy.
Attendees walk away with:
How to identify the story moment that creates instant connection with their ideal client, why owning their full story positions them above any competitor, and how to turn that story into content and published work that markets for them long after they leave the room.
Sponsored by: Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation, In Partnership with: Alimental Business
Women influence the majority of purchasing decisions, drive innovation across industries, and are building profitable companies at record rates, yet they remain significantly underrepresented among those who control investment capital. What changes when more women have a seat at the cap table? In this conversation, we'll dive into how we got here and explore how increasing women's participation in investing can reshape the flow of capital, expand the types of ideas that get funded, and create a more inclusive and dynamic innovation economy. Because who writes the checks doesn't just determine who succeeds, it shapes what the future looks like.
In Partnership with The Jane Project