simplemind

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by simplemind 12y ago
How would you know? We all know investors who only have male-founded companies in their portfolios.
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by simplemind 12y ago
They haven't to date, right?
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by simplemind 12y ago
Sadly, I sometimes worry that explicit moves like this deter investors from working with female founders. If the risk is, "I have to watch every little thing I say/joke with a female founder lest I get blacklisted", if I was
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by simplemind 12y ago
Small nit, but guessing this is crow's flight distance which doesn't equal path distance. Regardless, this still isn't surprising. Short rides happen all the time.
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by simplemind 12y ago
There is a difference between mistakes and errors of judgment and "gender-based harassment or discrimination". Someone may be harassed for a different reason than their gender. For example a personal vendetta or abuse of power vs.
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by simplemind 13y ago
We live in a society where secret detention is practiced. Where a relatively short time ago, we interned Japanese people. Who cares about your anti-depressants. A program like this perhaps isn't that big of a deal to a white, upper mid
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by simplemind 14y ago
Not to be nitpicky, but NC did distinguish itself from Proposition 8 in banning civil unions and domestic partnerships, too. NC is a wonderful place, I was making the comment that now it's just a little harder to recruit great people there.
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by simplemind 14y ago
This isn't a political statement, it's a comment about culture as it relates to recruiting valuable and scarce talent. Startup culture tends to be highly meritocratic. It lends itself to openness toward who you are as an individual as long