{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/19fe87a0-5f2b-4e68-99c1-004eb89bfd94/4531e6b5-a0dd-4e2c-ba6e-5d21001bfdda?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Importance of Diversity in Entrepreneur Investments: Arlan Hamilton Spotlight Part 1","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6225e9c84892fd442c24d646/6225e9cf5553640014d17237.png?height=200","description":"Arlan is an emerging venture capital fund manager, and tour manager to Atlantic Records recording artist Janine & The Mixtape. Having founded and published the internationally distributed indie magazine INTERLUDE, and toured extensively as a live music production professional, she enters the venture investing world from an unconventional path. Arlan is dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are of color, women, and/or LGBT.\n\n\n\nIn this episode, we featured the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, Arlan Hamilton.  Arlan talked to us about the importance of investing in entrepreneurs that come from diverse backgrounds and what motivated her to create her venture capital firm, Backstage Capital.  Arlan also gives fantastic advice to entrepreneurs and those who desire to create their own investing firms on how to overcome obstacles and rise to success.","author_name":"The State of Women"}