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Men and Women Entrepreneurs: Not That Different
- jdp23 16y agodata. gasp. imagine that.
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- Groxx 16y agoWhile data is nice, I see no info about "success" rates, how long the businesses lasted by founder sex, etc etc. This is just a couple polls on relationship status on starting a business, and reasons for starting. "Not that different" mentally, once a business is founded, apparently.
- SabrinaDent 16y ago"We looked not just at the narrow slice of tech companies that gets featured most often on TechCrunch, but at the broader universe..." I'm a fan of TC but it's helpful to remember that it is something of a reality distortion field.
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- araneae 16y agoIt's not exactly surprising. I remember a similar study done on men and women IT employees, and they were also similar; similarly disinterested in social interaction (the one trait I remember distinctly.) The women who end up being entrepreneurs have already been selected (probably mostly self-selected) by those traits. The question isn't what those people look like, but what the people remaining look like. How do men and women swimming out in the general population look? Are there a lot more potential men with those traits waiting to bud into entrepreneurs than women? How do men and women compare in those traits in general? I find that a lot more interesting.