Launching while female :
Althoff, Susanne,
Launching while female : smashing the system that holds women entrepreneurs back / Susanne Althoff. - ©2020 - 194 p:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Entrepreneurship's meritocracy myth: how we all lose out -- Centuries of second-class status: early women entrepreneurs -- The Boys' Club: today's complicated hunt for funding -- You can't be what you can't see: the power of role models -- Sleazy texts, late-night meetings: a #MeToo reckoning -- The big effect of little insults: the microaggression problem -- Owning the room: how confidence is found (and faked) -- A shoulder to lean on: the search for mentors and support -- Entrepreneurship's potential: making it work for everyone.
"Althoff exposes the ways in which the current start-up paradigm was engineered by and for white men, and the ways in which women, non-binary, and trans folks face impossible barriers to landing funding from venture capitalists to make their companies viable"--
9780807042977
C6013893-65D7-4311-8966-3D983FBB506C OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2020011351
Women chief executive officers.
Businesswomen.
Minority businesswomen.
Sexism.
New business enterprises--Finance.
Women-owned business enterprises.
Sexual minority business enterprises.
Entrepreneurship.
Print books.
HD6054.3 / .A48 2020
Launching while female : smashing the system that holds women entrepreneurs back / Susanne Althoff. - ©2020 - 194 p:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Entrepreneurship's meritocracy myth: how we all lose out -- Centuries of second-class status: early women entrepreneurs -- The Boys' Club: today's complicated hunt for funding -- You can't be what you can't see: the power of role models -- Sleazy texts, late-night meetings: a #MeToo reckoning -- The big effect of little insults: the microaggression problem -- Owning the room: how confidence is found (and faked) -- A shoulder to lean on: the search for mentors and support -- Entrepreneurship's potential: making it work for everyone.
"Althoff exposes the ways in which the current start-up paradigm was engineered by and for white men, and the ways in which women, non-binary, and trans folks face impossible barriers to landing funding from venture capitalists to make their companies viable"--
9780807042977
C6013893-65D7-4311-8966-3D983FBB506C OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2020011351
Women chief executive officers.
Businesswomen.
Minority businesswomen.
Sexism.
New business enterprises--Finance.
Women-owned business enterprises.
Sexual minority business enterprises.
Entrepreneurship.
Print books.
HD6054.3 / .A48 2020