Image via WikipediaYou Can't Launch the Next Generation of Startups Without Women - ReadWriteStart The current startup system essentially excludes the untapped pool of innovators who aren't developers - for example, women who want to launch Internet startups...... Women tend to take the entrepreneurial plunge later than men typically do, once they've had some professional and life experience.......... a study done in the U.K. in 2006 showed that women over 40 were more likely to start a new business than any other age group. ...... the Internet and the startup culture have been dominated and shaped by the vision and appetites of young men and old boys from the start. ..... a sharp rise in women-in-tech groups and activities lately, undoubtedly a response to this inequity. ...... revisit the startup system and create structures that foster innovation coming from a more diverse group of people (age, origin, gender)....... eak). Women tend to present their projects in terms of their value to users and society ...... women could benefit from mentoring that would teach them to conceptualize and present their concepts in technology terms and money terms. ....... today, non-technical entrepreneurs are just as likely to come up with viable startup concepts as programmers are ...... Investors need to start looking at paper projects again, and not dismissing non-technical founders. There need to be mechanisms that facilitate team building, like matchmaking resources for projects and developers.If it is sexism, call it sexism. Don't overlook it, don't call it something else. Definitely don't call it meritocracy. If you are at a tech
event, or a meeting, and some guy makes a sexist comment, then call him out. If you are a quiet bystander, you are an active participant. Tech entrepreneurship
is a cutting edge thing, and there can not be room for sexism
on the cutting edge. Sexism
is not a problem for women to deal with. It is as much a problem for men. Our startups don't realize their full potential if we keep putting up with sexism.If you don't have the time, inclination, penchant or patience for a long, drawn out argument, just call the guy a pig and move on.
Shirky: A Rant About Women: not enough women have what it takes to behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks ...... We’re in the middle of a generations-long project to encourage men to be better listeners and more sensitive partners, to take more account of others’ feelings and to let out our own feelings more. Similarly, I see colleges spending time and effort teaching women strategies for self-defense, including direct physical aggression. I sometimes wonder what would happen, though, if my college spent as much effort teaching women self-advancement as self-defense. .... we live in a world where women are discriminated against ...... Institutions assessing the fitness of candidates, in other words, often select self-promoters because self-promotion is tied to other characteristics needed for success. ....... To put yourself forward as someone good enough to do interesting things is, by definition, to expose yourself to all kinds of negative judgments ........ the fact that other people get to decide what they think of your behavior leaves only two strategies for not suffering from those judgments: not doing anything, or not caring about the reaction. ......... Not caring works surprisingly well. ........ it would be good if more women see interesting opportunities that they might not be qualified for, opportunities which they might in fact fuck up if they try to take them on, and then try to take them on. It would be good if more women got in the habit of raising their hands and saying “I can do that. Sign me up. My work is awesome,” no matter how many people that behavior upsets.
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is in New York. I have met the two 
in person, Dennis (@
is on the cutting edge. 
liberates the web. 
magazine's person of the year one of these past years - You - would like to share where he/she is. There is a funny 
on 
will disallow vowels and hence make messages shorter even. Ends up, we were not going in that direction after all. 140 characters are a good size for the atom. But we were instead going for something simpler and more fundamental. 
or that 
might kill Twitter. If anything the 
kills the night, it is not the other way round. 
will not get killed by 
does location, although late to the game, 
I think is poised to beat 
itself in the monetization department. Are you telling me my 
just checked into my establishment? How can you not monetize that? 
species. 
Urbano. I took to 
networking. 
the tech and biz circles in the city is like going to all the top schools in the country at once. 
is cream of the crop. You want to feast on people as you move out and about. 
given name - city like 
are popping all over the world. Actually it is impossible to explore without. 
requests - and it has more than 10,000 pictures of NYC. I plan to add tens of thousands more over the years. I do that for my non 
friends. 
screen. What do you think I am doing? 140 characters, that must be for the lazy bones. I write full blown 
posts. What do you think I am doing? 
MeetUp, I believe last March. Many startups fail. Not all that do not fail are on the 
edge. FourSquare is on the cutting edge. It is rightly called the next Twitter, although it might take a year or two to scale out to 
Darwin, not even close, heck, if they are 
founders, not now, not five or 10 years from now. But this Please Rob Me talk reminds me of a heckler taking 
to task: So if you are suggesting we descended from monkeys, may I ask which side of your family would that be for you, did you descend from the 
from your mother's side or your father's side? 
that widely. It's your choice. 
of two places, one thing is for sure, if you are on FourSquare and checking in, you are easily a member of the 
elite. And if you have not been visited by burglars yet, it must be because there are not that many 
among the tech elite. 
enough to code Please Rob Me, you surely know you are messing with the facts. That is dishonest. 
pulled a cheap stunt on Farmville, and now they are trying to do the same with FourSquare. You don't report on the 
if your first instinct is to 
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