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Business: Women entrepreneurs aim to take on Silicon Valley

Original post made on Nov 25, 2015

"Three percent of startups succeed. But why can't we be part of that 3%?" Ari Horie, founder and CEO of Women's Startup Lab, asked a group of eight entrepreneurs gathered for a recent two-week accelerator program for female startup founders.

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Posted by Joe
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Nov 25, 2015 at 1:18 pm

Having worked in high technology for 20 years, for both men and women, I found the women to be better at managing and the men to be better at outcomes.

It was a trade off between a focus on being treated fairly at work versus a focus on doing whatever it takes to make a great product.

I found the comfort and predictability of the former to be an indescribable relief after years of insane slavery to the deadlines and demands for higher and higher quality of the latter. But I was also indescribably proud of at least one of the product that emerged from all that insanity.


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