Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs

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About Leapfrog

Think the most critical factor for becoming a great entrepreneur is grit, risk-taking or technical skills? Think again. Despite what every business book might say, historical data shows the real secret ingredients to getting ahead in business are being rich, white and male.

Until now. LEAPFROG is the decades-overdue startup bible for the rest of us. It’s filled with uncompromising guidance for winning at business, your way. LEAPFROG is for entrepreneurs, of all stripes, who are fed up with status quo advice — the kind that assumes you have rich friends and family and a public relations team.

Refreshingly frank and witty, author Nathalie Molina Niño is a serial tech entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of BRAVA Investments, and a proud daughter of Latinx immigrants. While teaching budding entrepreneurs at Barnard College of Columbia University and searching the globe for investment-worthy startups, she has met or advised thousands of entrepreneurs who’ve gone from zero to scalable business. Here she shares their best secrets in the form of 50 “leapfrogs”—clever loopholes and shortcuts to outsmart, jump over, or straight up annihilate the seemingly intractable hurdles facing entrepreneurs who don’t have family money, cultural capital, or connections.

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#LeapfroggersLIVE

#LeapfroggersLIVE is an interview series featuring #leapfroggers Natalia Oberti Noguera, Nina Vaca, Nathalie Molina Niño, Kat Cole, Arlan Hamilton, Cindy Gallop, and Jovanka Ciares.

Jovanka Ciares, integrative herbalist and wellness expert, featured in LEAPFROG Hack #18 – “Passive Income is Sweaty Work”. SHARE »

Cindy Gallop, Founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, featured in LEAPFROG Hack #1 – “You Don't Need a Hoodie” and Hack #50 – “Do Good and Make Money.” SHARE »

Arlan Hamilton, Founder & Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, featured in LEAPFROG Hack #21 – “Silicon Valley, Bye”, Hack #33 - “Venture Is a White-Collar Drug” and Hack #38 – “Find Your Angels.” SHARE »

Kat Cole, COO and President at FOCUS Brands, featured in the LEAPFROG introduction. SHARE »

LEAPFROG Author and BRAVA Investments CEO Nathalie Molina Niño. SHARE »

Nina Vaca, CEO and Chairman of Pinnacle Group, featured in LEAPFROG Hack #9 – “Cash in on Your Woman Card” and #49 – “Catch a Whale.” SHARE »

Natalia Oberti Noguera, Founder & CEO of Pipeline Angels, featured in LEAPFROG Hack #42 – “Build a Movement, Then a Market.” SHARE »

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...

CINDY GALLOP

Founder and CEO. Make love not porn and all the sky holdings

I cannot recommend 'LEAPFROG' too highly - it's the secret weapon we all need in the face of rich white male privilege to help level the entrepreneurial playing field.

GLORIA FELDT

Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. Author of No Excuses. Former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Brash, ballsy, brilliant. Leapfrog is packed with practical wisdom from the frontlines of entrepreneurship.

NELY GALÁN

Author of New York Times Best Selling Book. Self Made Becoming Empowered, Reliant and Rich in Every Way

There is hidden money and opportunity in America, Nathalie provides the shortcuts to solve the puzzle and go get it! No excuses, Leapfrog is the how!

NINA VACA

Founder, Chairman & CEO of Pinnacle Group

I believe everyone has the entrepreneurial spirit within them, the information and inspiration within Leapfrog will serve to empower all women for generations to come.

KAT COLE

COO & President, Focus Brands, North America

LEAPFROG cuts through the typical “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” advice (applicable only for those with privilege) and peels back that onion to get to the delicious truth of the hustle that is possible for entrepreneurs often locked out of the system.

JIMMIE BRIGGS

Co-Founder, Man Up Campaign, NYC Gender Equity Commission

Nathalie Molina Niño has finally given us the book we’ve been wanting about women entrepreneurs in the 21st-century.

ERIKA ALEXANDER

Writer, Actress & Co-Founder, Color Farm Media

A blueprint for women like me, who have the will, but need the way.

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ABOUT NATHALIE MOLINA NIÑO

Nathalie Molina Niño is an impact investor targeting high-growth businesses that economically benefit women and the planet. A confessed but recovering serial entrepreneur, Molina Niño launched her first tech startup at the age of twenty, and got hooked. She's the cofounder of Entrepreneurs@Athena at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies of Barnard College at Columbia University, where the idea for LEAPFROG was first born. Before that, she spent over a decade sharing her no-BS, opinionated flavor of business advice and growth strategy with folks like Disney, Microsoft, MTV, Mattel, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Just prior to launching her last venture, BRAVA Investments, Molina Niño led the launch of Nely Galán’s New York Times bestselling book and online education venture, Self-Made, and stepped in as CRO of PowerToFly, the fastest growing hiring platform for women in tech and beyond.