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Does anyone have a good source for industry-wide ratios that relate to the ones given in the article? A couple examples: 2.7% of firms funded have female CEOs
by greggyb 12y ago
Does anyone have a good source for industry-wide ratios that relate to the ones given in the article?
A couple examples:
2.7% of firms funded have female CEOs. How many of firms seeking funding have female CEOs? How many have a female cofounder rather than just looking at the CEO position?
80% of female founders used personal savings as their primary source of funding (it sounds like this is for the seed phase, but unclear in the article?). What is the industry-wide percentage?
Female founded firms do 31% better on average (in an industry where average = a failed company what does this mean?). Is the sample size (which the article makes sure to tell us is far too small on a moral basis) large enough to make this statistically significant?
Note: I am not trying to undermine the article - I don't have enough knowledge of the industry to say much. I am honestly looking for context for these numbers and wondering if anyone can help.
- Kalium 12y agoAs a rule, those industry-wide ratios tend to come without data to contextualize them. For instance, you'll get a statistic about what percentage of funded startups have a woman co-founder but no information about what percentage of startups considered have a woman co-founder.
- shard972 12y ago> As a rule, those industry-wide ratios tend to come without data to contextualize them. So the rule is to gimp data in order to fool people into believing things that may not be true?
- Kalium 12y agoThat's the cynical reading, yes. A more optimistic one is that people believe the numbers are scary enough that no context is needed.