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Five Reasons More Women Should Start Web 2.0 Startups

6 points by Mistone 19y ago

steve 19y ago
A discerning feature of startups is that you don't have someone else telling you what to do. Where else would women be on a more equal footing with men? More interesting would be a (non-charged) list of reasons as to what prevents women from entering startups.
- Mistone 19y ago
  Startups are an ideal environment for merit based working relationships. any ideas on the suggested topic: what prevents women from entering startups?
  - Tichy 19y ago
    As stereotypical as it may sound: family? I think women are not as much under pressure to succeed as men are. There tends to always be an 'easy' way out, which is to have children and stay at home.
Alex3917 19y ago
5) Meg Whitman didn't start eBay. 4) See Paul Kedrosky's post about flaunting your age. 3) Since starting a web 2.0 business is mainly about discovering and implementing something novel, the most similar academic measure would be the number of papers published about novel ideas. While I know that women receive more diplomas than men, it's completely unclear to me whether they are coming up with the majority of the new ideas in the field. They might be, I just don't know. 2) This seems like it would only help for women specific startups. How many women specific startups are there left to create? 1) I believe that men are, compared with women, more likely to be competitive as opposed to cooperative. That being said, only a very small subset of men start Web 2.0 businesses, and I'm betting they are already much more cooperative than average. At least this would make sense, since it having a cooperative mindset would seem to be an advantage in putting together a diverse team to create something of value. That being said, women probably would do well to start more startups. I can never understand why women complain that only 2% of fortune 500 CEOs are female, instead of complaining that only 2% of high growth startups are founded by women. Also, it drives me nuts when I see girls I'm friends with buying business books specifically for women. While I've never read one, I can't imagine they are any good, at least compared to the normal Seth Godin / Guy Kawasaki / Paul Graham / Joel on Software / etc. (If they were any good, men would read them too. After all, it's the same process...)
- Mistone 19y ago
  great points!

6 points by Mistone 19y ago

steve 19y ago

A discerning feature of startups is that you don't have someone else telling you what to do. Where else would women be on a more equal footing with men? More interesting would be a (non-charged) list of reasons as to what prevents women from entering startups.

Mistone 19y ago
Startups are an ideal environment for merit based working relationships. any ideas on the suggested topic: what prevents women from entering startups?
- Tichy 19y ago
  As stereotypical as it may sound: family? I think women are not as much under pressure to succeed as men are. There tends to always be an 'easy' way out, which is to have children and stay at home.

Alex3917 19y ago

5) Meg Whitman didn't start eBay. 4) See Paul Kedrosky's post about flaunting your age. 3) Since starting a web 2.0 business is mainly about discovering and implementing something novel, the most similar academic measure would be the number of papers published about novel ideas. While I know that women receive more diplomas than men, it's completely unclear to me whether they are coming up with the majority of the new ideas in the field. They might be, I just don't know. 2) This seems like it would only help for women specific startups. How many women specific startups are there left to create? 1) I believe that men are, compared with women, more likely to be competitive as opposed to cooperative. That being said, only a very small subset of men start Web 2.0 businesses, and I'm betting they are already much more cooperative than average. At least this would make sense, since it having a cooperative mindset would seem to be an advantage in putting together a diverse team to create something of value. That being said, women probably would do well to start more startups. I can never understand why women complain that only 2% of fortune 500 CEOs are female, instead of complaining that only 2% of high growth startups are founded by women. Also, it drives me nuts when I see girls I'm friends with buying business books specifically for women. While I've never read one, I can't imagine they are any good, at least compared to the normal Seth Godin / Guy Kawasaki / Paul Graham / Joel on Software / etc. (If they were any good, men would read them too. After all, it's the same process...)

Mistone 19y ago
great points!