Kay Koplovitz

I didn't know about the concept of abundance or exponential thinking as I embarked on my career in the '70s. I was just looking for something that would capture my attention and passion. Something beyond a job or even a career. Oh yes, I needed a job because I needed...

Virginia Rometty isn't the first women to approach the first tee at Augusta National Golf Club. I entered a man's domain when I became the first women to join the ranks of television CEOs to be invited to the privileged Media Day luncheon, always a Thursday event, and...

Over the past 12 years, I have worked closely with entrepreneurs, particularly women, who are building scalable businesses and need to raise capital. They come to our venture catalyst organization, Springboard Enterprises to raise money. What they learn is to cultivate human capital, the doorway to raising funds.

When we launched Springboard Enterprises in January 2000 in Silicon Valley, there were more than a few skeptics as to whether we would find enough women in high growth businesses to present to venture capitalists. We were concerned too, but our first call for applications yielded 350 applicants....

Over the years and then again recently, I have been thinking a lot about net worth and self-worth. Each has its value but I think the difference is "worth" noting.

So much attention is given to net worth. In the world of business, net worth is the metric that...

Women hold 80 % the purchasing power for consumer goods in the U.S., a sector accounting for a critical 70% of the U.S. economy. So we already know that women are essential to the revival of the U.S. economy.

But did you know that women are also...

Howard Schultz for one. Yes, the founder and CEO of Starbucks Howard Schultz has taken this challenge up himself with an idea incubated at Starbucks to provide loans to small businesses using Starbucks stores as the store front for micro-lending to small business.

Oh, no. Starbucks...

I don't know if Johnny Appleseed would have read the 1336 pages of the proposed Financial Stability Act of 2010, but if he did, he would have found multiple sections quite objectionable. You see, Johnny was an angel investor in the 1700's, and he would understand what the...

Today is a special day not only for the State of the Union Address. It also marks the 10th Anniversary of Springboard Enterprises, the venture catalyst organization that selects, trains and presents women entrepreneurs in high growth companies to raise venture capital. And tonight, a Springboard presenter,

"Is it time to retrain B-Schools?" was the headline in Sunday's New Tork Times article by Kelley Holland.

I say it's not only time to retrain business schools in the face of the unprecedented fiscal and risk management failure we face today, it's imperative. The core curriculum needs...

At Last, Steve Forbes and I agree: Get rid of onerous mark to market accounting rules, institute the uptick rule for short sellers and enforce rules for naked short selling.

There aren't many topics relating to policy on which Steve Forbes and I agree. But his...

Some surprisingly good ideas have come out of blogs posted in response to my call for Federal investment in VC funds. Clearly, there are strong opinions about whether it is a good idea or not to involve the federal government as an investor in the innovation economy. I say, if...

Thomas L. Friedman makes a strong argument for investing in the future not the past, in this Sunday's (February 23rd ) New York Times editorial "Start Up The Risk Takers". He argues that putting $20 billion to work in the areas of technology and innovation with entrepreneurs who can...

We have heard about media convergence for nearly a decade now: how media will be available how we want it, when we want it and where we want it. While we are making strides on fulfilling this prophecy, one woman has already done it. We heard from her at the...

It's my passion to connect women entrepreneurs to funding. When I co-founded Springboard Enterprises in 2000, we didn't know what was possible. Eight years later, Springboard Enterprises has presented 360 companies nationwide, which have raised over $4 billion. Over a third of these companies have had positive returns...