03031cam a2200529 i 4500 600969 600969 1145080261 US-DLC 20211101145730.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 200306s2020 maum ob m 0 0 eng 2020011351 9780807043035 0807043036 9780807042977 0807042978 (OCoLC)1145080261 (OCoLC)1231438142 (OCoLC)1235595251 C6013893-65D7-4311-8966-3D983FBB506C OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com DLC eng rda pn DLC OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCF RECBK TEFOD N$T YDX EBLCP WAU OCLCE IWU PUL AU pcc dlr Alfaisal Main Library HD6054.3 .A48 2020 Althoff, Susanne, author. Launching while female : smashing the system that holds women entrepreneurs back / Susanne Althoff. ©2020 Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, ©2020 194 p: text txt rdacontent. computer c rdamedia. online resource cr rdacarrier. 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"-- Women chief executive officers. Businesswomen. Minority businesswomen. Sexism. New business enterprises Finance. Women-owned business enterprises. Sexual minority business enterprises. Entrepreneurship. local 4 Print books. Print version: Althoff, Susanne. Launching while female Boston : Beacon Press, [2020] 9780807042977 (DLC) 2020011350. lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2021-05-17 0 HD6054.3 .A48 2020 AU00000000017094 2021-05-17 00:00:00 190.00 2021-05-17 BOOKS