Sentences with phrase «because female founders»

Contact between entrepreneurs and investors is especially difficult to police because the female founders have no human resources department to report the harassment to, and employment laws don't directly address the relationship between an entrepreneur and an investor, said Bay Area employment attorney Sonya Smallets.

This could be because female founders are more likely to care about social issues than men.

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One of the reasons why Stitch Fix is an important IPO is because [CEO Katrina Lake] is the first of this new wave of female founders to take her company public.

Part of the reason I chose to do this job is because I really care about the tech community, and I want there to be more female investors and more female founders, and I am committed to making a difference.

Many female founders are unable to get funding because the all - male VCs they pitched can't see the potential in products designed for the female market.

and asked any female founders to contact me because I wanted to do a blog post and put them all in it.

I put a message out on the Coworking Google Group and asked any female founders to contact me because I wanted to do a blog post and put them all in it.

«I felt like I had to tolerate it because this is the cost of being a nonwhite female founder,» said Ms. Meyer, who is Asian - American.

Female founders can be especially susceptible to sexual harassment from male investors, experts say, because of the power imbalance between their roles — an entrepreneur who needs a check to get her business off the ground may feel obligated to laugh awkwardly and shrug it off when the VC with the checkbook makes a sexual remark.

Morin — who's one of only 16 percent of venture - backed tech founders who are female — said she organized the event because she was «pissed off» to see that many women were missing out on a new kind of investment.