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Articles by Kate
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Geothermal is Essential to a Sustainable Energy Future
Geothermal is Essential to a Sustainable Energy Future
By Kate McAndrew
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Play it genuine: fitting in versus true belonging in the startup context
Play it genuine: fitting in versus true belonging in the startup context
By Kate McAndrew
Contributions
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What are the top strategies for maximizing returns as a venture capitalist?
Build a fund model such that every investment has the ability to return your entire fund at a $1B outcome. Invest in capital efficient businesses and operators and coach your companies this way. People glorify follow on round but often forget about the dilution! Manage your winners to go bigger - invest in founders who want to go long.
Activity
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Are you looking for an amazing EA? I have a candidate. They rarely come up. Ping me.
Are you looking for an amazing EA? I have a candidate. They rarely come up. Ping me.
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Be careful which ideas you loose upon the world, because stray seeds can find fertile ground in the unlikeliest of places: “You know what would be…
Be careful which ideas you loose upon the world, because stray seeds can find fertile ground in the unlikeliest of places: “You know what would be…
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At Forerunner, we’re big believers in building for enthusiast communities: sets of consumers with a deep, burning passion for a certain element of…
At Forerunner, we’re big believers in building for enthusiast communities: sets of consumers with a deep, burning passion for a certain element of…
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Experience & Education
Volunteer Experience
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Volunteer
The World Fellowship Center
- Present 18 years 2 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
The World Fellowship Center's mission is to promote peace and social justice through education and dialogue inspired by nature. I have volunteered at World Fellowship on and off since 2006, spending summers during my college years doing everything from cleaning rooms to managing the dining hall and running the staff. I continue to return to World Fellowship with my family, volunteering labor up-fitting cabins, advising on outreach strategies, and harvesting food from the gardens.
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Mentor
VentureWell
- Present 7 years 7 months
Civil Rights and Social Action
VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and to create lasting impact.
We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique opportunities for STEM students and researchers to fully realize their potential to improve the world. -
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Techstars
- Present 8 years 7 months
Techstars IoT (Internet of Things) has partnered with industry leaders GE, Bosch, PwC, SAP, Verizon and next47 (Siemens) to support the most innovative high growth enterprise and industrial focused IoT startups. The program is based in NYC and attracts founders from around the world.
Projects
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Hardware Workshop
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Hardware Workshop brought startup founders and seasoned startup and investors together to share knowledge around building great products and companies. From 2015-2019, we hosted workshops in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, London and Hong Kong. The workshop was founded by Marc Barros and I proudly contributed to their cult following during this time.
Organizations
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Women in Hardware
Founder
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San Francisco Bay Area Factory Tours
Organizer
I facilitate factory tours around the bay area to help expose people to high volume manufacturing. I regularly host tours at places like: Jabil, Flextronics, high tech PCB manufacturers, sheet metal factories, electronics manufacturers.
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Selling my 2010 stripe shares to an SPV (that I also control) and charging 3/30. Who wants in? If not obvious, this is a joke referencing something…
Selling my 2010 stripe shares to an SPV (that I also control) and charging 3/30. Who wants in? If not obvious, this is a joke referencing something…
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Last night, our NYC team had some summer fun at Puttery! We discovered some serious mini-golf talents and witnessed truly creative attempts at…
Last night, our NYC team had some summer fun at Puttery! We discovered some serious mini-golf talents and witnessed truly creative attempts at…
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Women and nonbinary VCs are making strides in the tech industry faster than we expected. However, there's more work to do! All Raise CEO Paige…
Women and nonbinary VCs are making strides in the tech industry faster than we expected. However, there's more work to do! All Raise CEO Paige…
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At the end of a busy week, I leave you with this thought…. “If I owe you an email, imagine what I owe myself” @Ivieanie Happy Friday 😘
At the end of a busy week, I leave you with this thought…. “If I owe you an email, imagine what I owe myself” @Ivieanie Happy Friday 😘
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Who are the most helpful pre-seed consumer tech investors? I invest at seed and beyond but meet a ton of talented pre-seed founders I'd love to…
Who are the most helpful pre-seed consumer tech investors? I invest at seed and beyond but meet a ton of talented pre-seed founders I'd love to…
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There’s a lot of back & forth on whether speaking to a junior VC is worth a founders time. Here’s my take: Every analyst, associate and principal is…
There’s a lot of back & forth on whether speaking to a junior VC is worth a founders time. Here’s my take: Every analyst, associate and principal is…
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My plans for world domination proceed nicely with the opening of the first McLuhan Reading Room, a satellite McLuhan Institute, in Bernal Heights in…
My plans for world domination proceed nicely with the opening of the first McLuhan Reading Room, a satellite McLuhan Institute, in Bernal Heights in…
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