Business Insider Author: Fred Wilson Article Mentions
Author, Fred WilsonMentioned, Paul Graham Mentioned, David Cohen Mentioned, John Borthwick Mentioned, Brad Feld Mentioned, Tereza Mentioned, TED
Tereza, an AVC regular and active community member, wrote a blog post yesterday proposing that someone start XX Combinator, a Y Combinator style startup accelerator focused on women in their 40s. Here's the basic argument: Y Combinator participants are for the most part very young in their early 20s. This is not when women would be most inclined. Women who start businesses like to know what theyre doing, and be trained and experienced in it. That takes up our 20s. We have kids in our 30s. Our entrepreneurial sweet spot is around age 40. Conventional tech investors are not really into this group and the metrics they look for are really hard for these people to hit. Most of the (few) womens businesses that go big were funded by friends fami...(read more)
... Tereza, an AVC regular and active community member, wrote a blog post yesterday proposing that someone start XX Combinator, a Y Combinator style startup accelerator focused on women in their 40s. Here's the basic argument: Y Combinator participants a ...
... and Andy Weissman. So we need entrepreneurs to create these efforts, not committees, governments, or companies. And we need entrepreneurs with a plan to deal with the realities that Tereza lays out. If there are entrepreneurs out there with the id ...
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