Women
tended to be more reliant on
owner equity and insider financing than men, all other parameters like education, experience, credit scores and
firm characteristics being the same.
In fact, according to a 2014 IBISWorld report on «Business Valuation
Firms in the U.S.,» 98 percent of business
owners don't know the value of their company; those that do
tend to be large companies that have the finances and resources available to them to find out.