TY  - BOOK
AU  - Althoff,Susanne
TI  - Launching while female: smashing the system that holds women entrepreneurs back 
AV  - HD6054.3 .A48 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Women chief executive officers
KW  - Businesswomen
KW  - Minority businesswomen
KW  - Sexism
KW  - New business enterprises
KW  - Finance
KW  - Women-owned business enterprises
KW  - Sexual minority business enterprises
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - local
KW  - Print books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -