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While working as program directors at Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s VentureLab\u2014Georgia Tech\u2019s incubator for technology startups\u2014Melissa Heffner and Sara Henderson saw an opportunity to create a program for female entrepreneurs. \n\nFemale Founders is \u201ca four-week virtual cohort experience where participants gain a foundational knowledge of lean startup methodology and customer discovery while tackling topics associated with the specific journey of female-led startups:" https://www.icorpssouth.com/female-founders-initiative. \n\nMs. Heffner joined the TheoryLab podcast along with three participants in the program to share advice for evidence-based entrepreneurship and talk about the exciting technology that is behind their respective start-ups.\n\nMelissa Heffner is a program director with Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s VentureLab and the co-creator of Female Founders.\n\nAna Luz Quiroga Campano, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Biological Systems Engineering Laboratory at Emory University and Georgia Tech. She\u2019s also the CEO of SANICKA. \n\nAllyson Jennings McKinney is a PhD candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \n\nKacie Kaile is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University. \n\n5:03 \u2013 On the purpose and goals of the Female Founders program\n\n5:49 \u2013 Why they saw a clear need for a program specifically for female entrepreneurs\n\n9:54 \u2013 Some of the ways they\u2019re helping to set female entrepreneurs up for success\n\n11:08 \u2013 Allyson Jennings McKinney on what attracted her to Female Founders\n\n12:44 \u2013 On Solopulse\u2014an exciting new technology she\u2019s developed that utilizes a single pulse of a wave to create images of the surrounding environment\u2014and its potential clinical impact\n\n16:10 \u2013 Dr. Ana Luz Quiroga Campano on how the Female Founders program has met her needs as a postdoctoral fellow\n\n18:21 \u2013 On the precision chemo-immunotherapy software tool developed by her company, SANICKA \n\n21:45 \u2013 Kacie Kaile on how Female Founders has changed her entrepreneurial approach\n\n23:37 \u2013 On a product she\u2019s developed that provides a diagnostic assessment of tissue oxygenation using a smartphone with an add-on tool\n\n28:43 \u2013 Dr. Quiroga on why scientists shouldn\u2019t feel hesitant about becoming an entrepreneur when they have an idea\n\n30:04 \u2013 Ms. McKinney with good advice on getting started as an entrepreneur\n\n31:41 \u2013 Ms. Kaile on the benefits of starting a company with support from an academic institution\n\n33:37 \u2013 Ms. Heffner with advice for cancer researchers thinking of starting a company in the oncology space