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It bugs me. You know, here's somebody pulling words out of his ass, "Oh, yeah, that 40 percent--it's all Avon ladies, and here's why..." and he pulls some reas

It bugs me. You know, here's somebody pulling words out of his ass, "Oh, yeah, that 40 percent--it's all Avon ladies, and here's why..." and he pulls some reason out of his ass, "Because in the 20th century the vacuum cleaner revolution was a direct cause of...the Avon company...and the like. And that's where the 40 percent number comes from." Citation not needed. Obviously, it doesn't matter why or how the number actually came from, but would it really have killed you to research for 2 seconds to find out that the Avon company was started in the 19th century? And that if you looked into your numbers, Tupperware and the like would be a negligible cause of female startups. I mean, has anyone even had a Tupperware party in the last 30 years?

philwelch 17y ago
While your quibbles are true, the numbers for female-founded more-than-one employee businesses are much smaller than the numbers of female-founded one-employee businesses. (And no, a single-employee business is not a "startup", and neither is a ten employee business unless there is some expectation that the business will be worth millions of dollars in less than ten years.) The phenomenon of otherwise-housewives starting single-employee small businesses is where a large part of the numbers come from. My mother, for instance, was a Kumon instructor. I think there are huge market opportunities for women to start actual startups, of course, but statistically that's not happening for whatever reason.
philwelch 17y ago
By the way, would it really have killed you to research for 2 seconds to find that Tupperware is still recruiting "Tupperware consultants"[1], whom continue to hold Tupperware parties "somewhere in the world...every 2.2 seconds"?[2] Or is taking someone down a peg over the internet more important than keeping your facts straight? [1] http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_opportunity.opportunity http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_opportunity.opp... [2] http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_party.classic http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_party.classic

philwelch 17y ago

While your quibbles are true, the numbers for female-founded more-than-one employee businesses are much smaller than the numbers of female-founded one-employee businesses. (And no, a single-employee business is not a "startup", and neither is a ten employee business unless there is some expectation that the business will be worth millions of dollars in less than ten years.) The phenomenon of otherwise-housewives starting single-employee small businesses is where a large part of the numbers come from. My mother, for instance, was a Kumon instructor. I think there are huge market opportunities for women to start actual startups, of course, but statistically that's not happening for whatever reason.

philwelch 17y ago

By the way, would it really have killed you to research for 2 seconds to find that Tupperware is still recruiting "Tupperware consultants"[1], whom continue to hold Tupperware parties "somewhere in the world...every 2.2 seconds"?[2] Or is taking someone down a peg over the internet more important than keeping your facts straight? [1] http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_opportunity.opportunity http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_opportunity.opp... [2] http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_party.classic http://www.tupperware.com/pls/htprod_www/tup_party.classic