For Women Entrepreneurs
Resources for women entrepreneurs building on their own terms.
Most resources written for women entrepreneurs assume you want to lean in, soften your ask, or perform calm in a room that has already decided your number. These resources do not. They are written for women who plan to build serious companies and would like the actual numbers, frameworks, and receipts to do it.
Kathryn Finney has spent the last fifteen years inside the rooms women entrepreneurs are usually shut out of. She is a Managing General Partner at Genius Guild, the founder of digitalundivided, and the author of Build the Damn Thing, the bestselling playbook for founders who were never handed the rules. The page below is the working set of resources she points women entrepreneurs to first.
Start with the playbook
Build the Damn Thing is the book she wishes had existed when she was raising her first round. It covers pricing, positioning, fundraising, and the parts most founder books skip, like negotiating with people who do not believe your industry exists. Get the book, or read the first chapter free.
Read The Receipts
The fastest way to get inside Kathryn's brain is to read The Receipts, her every-other-week newsletter for women founders. Each issue runs the actual numbers behind a single founder question, the same way she briefs her own portfolio companies. Funding math, pricing math, ops math. No fluff. Free to subscribe.
Free tools and frameworks
The free entrepreneurship tools page has the worksheets and calculators women entrepreneurs ask Kathryn for most often:
- The Five Entrepreneurial Prototypes quiz, so you know whether you are a Forced Founder, Co-Builder, Solopreneur, Intrapreneur, or Freedom Founder before you choose a path.
- A pricing worksheet for service businesses that finally tells the truth about margin.
- A fundraising prep checklist, including the questions investors will actually ask.
- An equity split tool for co-founders who want to talk about it once and never again.
Bring her into your room
Kathryn keynotes accelerators, founder programs, and corporate stages on women in entrepreneurship, capital access, and how to build a company in conditions that were not designed for you. She also runs working sessions for cohorts of women founders. Inquire about speaking.
About Kathryn
Yale-trained, Chicago-raised, currently writing from her desk and a thousand airports. Read the full bio.
Build the Damn Thing · Sprint
Stop researching. Start building.
BUILD is the six-week sprint for women entrepreneurs who are tired of programs that end in a pitch deck and nothing else. You leave with a working revenue model, a real plan, and a small group of women who will hold you to it.
Updated May 2026. Resources for women entrepreneurs, women entrepreneur tools, and the playbook from Kathryn Finney.