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Women Fellowship
An eight-week program demystifying the startup word and helping women break the mould as they pursue a career they love. Find your passion with the help of a 1:1 coach, a squad of hand-picked peers, actionable workshops and Startmate’s powerful network.
1:1 coaching
Skill-building workshops
Job interview nights
Career support
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Startmate Collective
Startmate Collective accelerates your career as a founder, leader or professional through exclusive workshops, exec coaching, peer-to-peer mentorship and a powerful women-led community.
Assert your influence
Master relationships
Become a great leader
Meet other likeminded women and founders
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First Believers
Learn the theory and practice of angel investing. Plus, get front-row access to the most ambitious founders in ANZ before anyone else.
Theory behind angel investing
Interview 700+ early-stage startups
Make a sizable impact on the world
Mentor and invest in the next gen of great founders
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If the thought of naming your price and asking for what you want (and deserve) makes your skin crawl, you’re not alone. In particular, research tells us 32% of women never negotiate their pay at all, due to the fear of being denied, losing their job, believing they are inexperienced or unworthy, or simply not feeling equipped for the conversation.
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Taking time to design your life
May Samali, a Harvard-trained and certified leadership coach (among many other things), is speaking to us as part of the Startmate Women Fellowship. “Ask yourself, ‘where am I now?’ If we’re deciding where we want to go, we need to first start with where we are currently at”. Referring to the Wheel of Life coaching tool, she asks us to consider where we’re at across each facet of our life (I’m feeling personally 💅attacked 💅).
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What makes a great resume? Michael Rubio from Canva knows
✋The future of ✨work✨ 🤚— it sure is movin’ and shakin’. We’re Zoom-ing, Chat-ing and Slack-ing, with the ways of working as-we-know-them continuing to evolve and shift — however one thing remains (mostly) unchanged, the humble CV.Hiring managers (and their Applicant Tracking System counterparts 🤖) are still sifting through hundreds of job-hopeful career love letters (resumes) in search of the perfect match.
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The networking game: How to create your own career luck
“Luck is like a lightning bolt ⚡. Unpredictable, powerful, and easily missed in the blink of an eye. For luck to strike, you need to increase your surface area.”
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Career
WTF does a Chief of Staff do?
What are the day-to-day responsibilities of a chief of staff? And how do you move into this role? I put these questions to Harrison.ai’s Thuy Thai and Forage's Anna Prell.
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WTF does an Operations Lead do?
“Operations is probably one of the most misunderstood startup roles”, says Dovetail’s Business Operations and Finance Lead Kanav Bhama.
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