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30 Female Internet Entrepreneurs
- mattmaroon 17y agoPretty sad that only half of those are even entrepreneurs. Having a lot of followers on Twitter is not the same as starting a business.
- brandnewlow 17y agoHow is Miss O and Friends worth $15 million? Alexa says it only gets a few thousand visitors a day.
- lucumo 17y agoGreat :-/ Let's not go there, okay?
- axod 17y agoAgreed. Sexism is bad. Posting "female only lists" probably doesn't help.
- jlees 17y agoWell, to some extent visible role models and tangibly successful women (look how much she earns!) can be inspirational. It's just a matter of how you present it. (Hint: not like this.)
- mattmaroon 17y agoYeah, this was clearly well-intended, but so poorly constructed that it accomplished the opposite. The article is actually sexist because it lists people whose only accomplishment is becoming an internet pseudo-celebrity. There are lots of actual female entrepreneurs out there in the tech industry I'd nominate, only a few of which were in there. Diane Greene, for instance, cofounded VMWare and ran it into a huge success, but doesn't make the list. I guess she doesn't have enough Twitter followers. Maybe she should publish a video with her iPhone bill or get 30,000 people reading her RSS feed and then she'll qualify as an entrepreneur.
- mahmud 17y agoYep. Lists like these help me have stories to tell my niece.
- johnnybgoode 17y agoI hope no one takes offense, but I never really liked the idea of attempting to inspire a member of human subgroup X only with examples of successful fellow X-ers, or even just focusing on those examples. I prefer to emphasize that an individual X-er may be capable of accomplishing just as much as any human has. If a member of subgroup Y is the first human on Mars, why should we have to wait for an X-er to step on Mars before we can tell X-ers they can do it, too? Can't an X-er be equally inspired by a Y-er, or indeed any human? (Substitute in any racial or gender groups of your choice for X and Y.)
- philwelch 17y ago"If a member of subgroup Y is the first human on Mars, why should we have to wait for an X-er to step on Mars before we can tell X-ers they can do it, too?" If everyone who has landed on Mars, the Moon, or any other extraterrestrial body is a member of subgroup Y, and so is the vast majority of people who have done anything like it, then maybe the point does need to be made that someone outside of subgroup Y can do it, too.
- johnnybgoode 17y agoIt sounds like you're disagreeing with me, but that's exactly my point. Are you going to wait for an X-er to do it before you make that point, or will you make the point even if it's only been Y-ers so far?
- philwelch 17y agoWell, if you're the one to make that point that makes you the first X-er on Mars. But you deserve some credit for that achievement as well. More credit than just "another guy who landed on Mars" but less credit than the first man on Mars, I estimate.
- johnnybgoode 17y agoI'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying an X-er has to do it for that point to be made? I don't see why.
- jdfreefly 17y agoIt would seem to me this would be more accurately titled: "20 female Bloggers I think our cool, and 10 female entrepreneurs who are actually impressive."
- jimboyoungblood 17y agoOr even more accurately "Link bait sure to generate controversy and drive traffic to my obscure blog"