{"id":22378,"date":"2021-01-15T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=22378"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:39","slug":"inspired-to-create-u-m-alumnae-and-the-world-of-international-tech-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/15\/inspired-to-create-u-m-alumnae-and-the-world-of-international-tech-start-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired to create: U-M alumnae and the world of international tech start ups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-700x350.png\" alt=\"illustration of diverse women\" class=\"wp-image-22380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-700x350.png 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-200x100.png 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-665x333.png 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(Leaders &amp; Best Impact)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you think of tech startup companies, what comes to mind? Is it Silicon Valley, black turtlenecks, and billion-dollar IPOs? Or perhaps something about college drop-outs and the proverbial idiosyncrasies of \u201ctech-bro culture\u201d? While stereotypes can be helpful for getting the big picture of things, when you look more closely they\u2019re often misleading caricatures, and this has proven especially true in the case of the tech industry. So we\u2019re telling a different story.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersandbestimpact.umich.edu\/story\/inspired-to-create\/\"><em>Leaders &amp; Best&nbsp;<\/em>caught up with several University of Michigan alumnae working in the international startup space<\/a> to learn more about the tech industry overseas and how U-M helped lay the foundation for their careers in entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of tech startup companies, what comes to mind? Is it Silicon Valley, black turtlenecks, and billion-dollar IPOs? Or perhaps something about college drop-outs and the proverbial idiosyncrasies of \u201ctech-bro culture\u201d? While stereotypes can be helpful for getting the big picture of things, when you look more closely they\u2019re often misleading caricatures, and this has proven especially true in the case of the tech industry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[178,302,21,188],"class_list":["post-22378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-innovation","tag-people"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy.png",800,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-200x100.png",200,100,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-300x150.png",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-768x384.png",665,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-700x350.png",600,300,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy.png",800,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy.png",800,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-658x300.png",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-665x333.png",665,333,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INT-Giving-Alumnae-in-VC_LB-Banner_navy-400x250.png",400,250,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When you think of tech startup companies, what comes to mind? 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While stereotypes can be helpful for getting the big picture of things, when you look more closely they\u2019re often misleading caricatures, and&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22383,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378\/revisions\/22383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}