M12 and VC partners commit $4 million to empower women entrepreneurs Jul 26, 2018     |   Peggy Johnson - Executive Vice President, Business Development Today, I’m proud to announce that Microsoft’s corporate venture fund, M12, is joining forces with EQT Ventures and SVB Financial Group to launch the  Female Founders Competition , a global startup contest to identify top female talent and accelerate access to capital for women entrepreneurs. We’ve all heard the long odds facing women founders in tech. Last year, female founders received just  2.2 percent  of total global venture capital funding, and only  17 percent  of all startups have at least one female founder, despite the fact that gender diversity on executive teams correlates with  greater profitability  and value creation. I’ve experienced this painful data up close. Over the course of my career, I’ve spent thousands of hours in pitch meetings, often ...

Amazon Affiliate Marketing You must have heard so much exaggeration about how much money you can make doing affiliate marketing. Or, might have set up a site with the aim of making money from affiliate marketing and might have spent money buying a domain, paid for hosting, employed the services of a web designer to design your site only to find out the money made isn’t enough to cover your capital. Well, maybe you haven’t tried the right affiliate program. There’s a way to make money from the affiliate marketing Amazon program. Yes, Amazon affiliate marketing which is known as the Amazon Associates program. Before we talk about how you can make money from this Amazon affiliate marketing program, we will take a look at its brief history.  What is the Amazon Associates program all about? Amazon Associates is one of the first set of affiliate marketing programs which was launched in 1996. This program has a track record of over 12 years of developing solutions fo...