Last weekend, I served as a judge for the Women 2.0 business plan competition. Dozens of plans, submitted on a dinner napkin and supplemented by other materials, were vetted by a group of distinguished Bay Area investors, business leaders and entrepreneurs to determine five finalists to present at the conference. That’s [...]
Continue Reading →As I approached the tent where the Women 2.0 conference was about to start, I was struck by the string of prayer flags along the back wall. That, as least, was what it looked like from a distance. Up close, I realized that the organizers had strung up the entries -dozens of [...]
Continue Reading →I am a woman. I am an entrepreneur. I meet hundreds of entrepreneurs each year. Very, very few of them are women. Sometimes, I wonder why this is. Women start businesses, lots and lots of businesses. Just, apparently, not technology businesses. Or at least not venture-based technology businesses.
The stats have changed very little over [...]
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