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I always feel sad when I see these lists. I've always heard once we have female founders then we will see companies that are useful to women. But all those comp
by dmsv 10y ago
I always feel sad when I see these lists. I've always heard once we have female founders then we will see companies that are useful to women. But all those companies looks so useless to me. I think the problem is that they're targeted toward rich women. I hope someday people will create companies for poor women.
- kobeya 10y agoMost valley startups are targeting rich/privileged people as customers. They have money. I don't there is anything unique about this batch of companies in that regard.
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- bsder 10y agoIt is hard to get funding for a company that targets the non-rich. Your only option is to grow that company organically. And organically grown companies aren't going to make a "Top N List" of anything until they're so big that it doesn't matter anymore.
- Joeboy 10y agoI thoroughly agree about some of these (artisanal tampons, eyebrow pomade), but Open Bionics is a great thing and some of the others definitely look like worthwhile ventures.
- cbeach 10y agoTo claim Samantha was the founder of Open Bionics does a massive disservice to the CEO, Joel, who is the guy that actually came up with the concept (before Sam joined as a "bizdev" person). It's Joel who had been making bionic hands since his teens, and who spoke at the Hacker News London conference about his work. But hey ho - I suppose we have important social engineering to do...
- dang 10y ago> But hey ho - I suppose we have important social engineering to do... Please drop the ideological vitriol from your comments here. It breaks the rules, poisons the discourse, and discredits the substantive point you were making. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html