Climate change is already affecting pest pressure in agriculture. A warming climate means pests have more reproductive cycles in a year and better survival over winter, leading to even more pest pressure in the spring. It also increases the risk of invasive and migratory pests and the diseases they carry…

Sometimes, it takes only one more generation a year to become a pest. I saw a stink bug on my window one October morning while visiting my hometown in Northwestern Turkey. When I got closer to the balcony window, it was not one; there were many stink bugs, both brown…

"Are you worried that funding is going down, Fatma?" asked one of Pheronym's investors a few months ago. “No," I said. "It seems like everyone is going to be experiencing funding the way we/women founders experience it all the time." Techcrunch states, "Women-founded startups raised 1.9% of all VC funds…

First Republic Bank (FRB) implosion felt very different from Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB). This time we were in the middle of the crisis because FRB was our bank. The news about FRB quarterly earnings on Wednesday and plummeting stocks worried us. We were running payroll on Wednesday. …

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Securing intellectual property is among the many challenges women innovators face in agricultural innovation. To learn how these amazing women entrepreneurs tackle and overcome the challenges, listen to the “Together in Innovation: Agricultural Advances Webinar” by USPTO or read below for some highlights. Briefly, tell us a bit more about…

I could not in my wildest dreams imagine navigating a startup through the valley of death during a global pandemic. Now I’ve been doing it for two years, with no end in sight. The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a time loop that keeps resetting itself every 3–4 months with a…

At first glance, business competitions are a huge validation for startups and their technologies. They create the appearance of objectivity by selecting the best startups out of a pool of 300 or more to compete. …

As a woman entrepreneur, I have fewer resources than many other entrepreneurs. I have to maximize the resources I have to effectively and efficiently bring the nematode pheromone technology to the market. That brings me to the business pitch competitions, the double edge-sword! Business competitions can provide unique benefits compared…