On the bright side, if you had gotten funding, today you'd be A) working insane hours, and B) staring down the barrel of a meltdown that could easily kill your

On the bright side, if you had gotten funding, today you'd be A) working insane hours, and B) staring down the barrel of a meltdown that could easily kill your company. But I get it. Five few years ago, a woman friend and I were seated at a dinner with a VC who said her firm funded companies that were 51% woman-owned. To this day, that friend and I joke about what would have happened if she had just blurted out: "The two of us are starting a company actually! it'll be, uh, uh, Uber for dogs!?"