Do Women Have a Unique Genome for Startup Success?
Editorial:
From Forbes:
This is what start up coach Pemo Theodore of EZBiz and Pitch Perfect wants to know, and what entrepreneur and executive coach Katherine Philips-Kaiser of Get Pitch demonstrates.
“For over a year,” writes Theodore in her recent post,Defining the X Chromosome: The DNA of Women Led Startups:
I have been video interviewing venture capitalists, angel investors and women founders trying to investigate the apparent shortfall in funding for women led technology startups. My goal has been to listen to as many people as I could from both sides of the table, in order to get a diversity of opinions on this controversial subject.Whilst I have been doing these interviews, many people have said to me that no problem exists and that women can be as easily funded as men if they have a great idea, team, plan and advisors. However the statistics show another story. The percentages of women in technology, female entrepreneurs and female venture capitalists are extremely low compared to men. But the reasons are multifold and complex and cannot be resolved quickly or easily.
Theodore recently teamed up with Startup Genometo help get a critical mass of women to participate in the Startup Genome Compass in order to add the dimension of quantitative data to the discovery of the DNA of women led startups.
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Source:
Forbes
URL:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/shenegotiates/2012/01/13/do-women-have-a-unique-genome-for-startup-success/
Date:
January 18, 2012
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