LEAPFROG: The New
Revolution For Women
Entrepreneurs
Playing by the rules and waiting to be rewarded
for doing so is how we get stuck playing small.
- NATHALIE MOLINA NIÑO
The only way to rise up from the ashes is to be
lifted by the seeds of goodness you plant every day.
- NATHALIE MOLINA NIÑO, #HACK24
Stretch beyond comfort, find your own
equator, and leapfrog into greatness.
- NATHALIE MOLINA NIÑO
Your goal is to shape the dynamic in any
room you enter, not be a victim of it.
- NATHALIE MOLINA NIÑO, #HACK28
You decide what success looks like, no one else.
- NATHALIE MOLINA NIÑO, #HACK40
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, a Builder Capitalist investing at the intersection of gender and climate, 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.
MEET THE LEAPFROGGERS
BEHIND ALL 50 HACKS
#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.
Natalia Oberti Noguera, Founder & CEO of Pipeline Angels, featured in LEAPFROG Hack #42 – “Build a Movement, Then a Market.” SHARE
LEAPFROG Author and O3 CEO Nathalie Molina Niño. 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
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
Jovanka Ciares, integrative herbalist and wellness expert, featured in LEAPFROG Hack #18 – “Passive Income is Sweaty Work”. SHARE
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“The new revolution in #entrepreneurship is here. #realtalk it’s unlike any #biz book, magazine cover or TV show you’ve ever seen. #LEAPFROGhacks by @nathaliemolina is the #startup bible we’ve been waiting for. Written by and for the rest of us. Get yours: https://amzn.to/2PaFGL5“
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
ERIKA ALEXANDER
Writer, Actress & Co-Founder, Color Farm Media
A blueprint for women like me, who have the will, but need the way.
ABOUT NATHALIE MOLINA NIÑO
Nathalie Molina Niño is a Co-Founder and President at Known. She is an investor (Builder Capitalist), author, educator and retired global tech entrepreneur. As part of her work as a champion of women, communities of color and the planet, she co-founded the trade organization for Builder Capitalism, a long-view, alternative asset class to Venture Capital. In 2018, her book LEAPFROG, The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs (Penguin Random House, Tarcher Perigee) was named one of Book Authority’s “Best CEO Books of All Time.” Molina Niño launched her first tech startup at the age of twenty and is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs@Athena at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies of Barnard College at Columbia University. She makes personal investments out of her family office, O³, and prior to that via BRAVA Investments that she co-founded (and served as CEO). In 2015 she stepped in as CRO of PowerToFly, to help grow what is now the fastest growing online hiring platform for women in tech.
She has advised organizations such as Disney, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, MTV, Mattel and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. During her career in tech, Molina Niño co-led the launch and growth of a multinational business (with Lionbridge, formerly NASDAQ: LIOX) into a $100M operation in 30+ countries within six years, including the inception of their strategic relationship with Microsoft Bing.
Today, Molina Niño serves as a Venture Partner at Connectivity Ventures Fund, as an advisor for Goldman Sachs’ Launch with GS Black and Latinx Cohort, Accion Opportunity Fund, Vote Run Lead, WE NYC (Women Entrepreneurs NYC) and HOPE (Hispanas Organized for Political Equality). In support of her efforts to make reproductive healthcare more accessible and affordable, she serves on the board of the National Institute for Reproductive Health and The American Medical Association’s Center for Health Equity. In 2019, she was honored with Schneps’ inaugural Women of Wall Street Awards for her influence in banking and finance and was named among People Magazine’s most powerful Latinas.
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