Sentences with phrase «capital as their male»

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There's no definitive answer as to why female founders raise less venture capital than male founders, but one of the main theories is the lack of female VCs.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

I think two of the biggest reasons are that computer science, as a major, has been dominated by men, and so the people coming out of CS programs have been male, and the venture - capital partnerships that have grown up since the»50s were almost exclusively male.

His findings, including that 33 percent of female tech entrepreneurs reported facing «dismissive attitudes» from their colleagues and 15 percent said their abilities had been questioned, came in a presentation in which he decried the «arrogant young brats» — male, of course — getting venture capital funding for «silly social media apps» from investors who hope they will emerge as the «next Mark Zuckerberg.»

Meanwhile, other major VC firms in the Valley such as Benchmark, Redpoint and Sequoia Capital have all - male teams investing their cCapital have all - male teams investing their capitalcapital.

In Part I of our series, we talked about the value of women investing in women - run VCs as a first step towards fixing the gender imbalance of the 99 % male «true VCs» in venture capital — and thereby unlocking the higher financial returns of women - led companies.

The state capital's culture is notorious for its male privilege — the New York Times once summarized the infamous «Bear Mountain Compact» as «any liaisons with interns or young staff members that occur north of Bear Mountain Bridge, which spans the Hudson River between Orange and Westchester Counties, are not spoken about in the home districts in New York City or elsewhere.»

As social ties became more important to survival, Wrangham thinks, human ancestors may have inflicted the same kind of capital punishment, weeding out males who acted with intense and confrontational aggression.

Beijing has been recognized as one of Chinas best cities to find a boyfriend after a Chinese dating website said male residents of the capital are more.

Alan Stocker talks about the rebranding of Waldorf Astoria Maldives, as well as the expansion of seaplane transfers from the capital Male.

Male Island The bustling capital city of the Maldives Republic, Male Island (originally known as King's Island) serves as the bliss for the international tourists.

For example, life expectation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in 1999 - 2000 was estimated to be the same as the total male population in 1901 - 1910, while for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females it is similar to the total female population in 1920 - 22228; Adelaide was recorded as having an infant mortality rate of 140 deaths per 1,000 live births at the end of the nineteenth century229, similar to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the 1960s and 1970s; trachoma was common in the capital cities of the late nineteenth century, as it is in some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities today.230

He is also one of the few male attorney members of the Collaborative Divorce Association of the Capital District (CDACD) and a founding member of Adirondack Alternative Dispute Solutions (AADS), organizations committed, as he is, to providing an alternative to litigation for divorcing couples.