Comments on: Women speakers at Web 2.0 expo SF?

By: simone brummelhuis

simone brummelhuis — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:48:20 +0000

Patricia, I agree, our database grows every day. we report on female internet heroes, as well at http://www.thenextwomen.com.
Which business did you sell. We like to hear your story.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:45:53 +0000

I was and am a women founder and have been for more than three years. Sole founder – no pairing with a man, as is very common. I sold a business, I know the VC stuff, I moved into television in less than a week’s time and had instant traction. I also have eight years of internet telecom experience at the engineering level and can school a lot of men, if not most, on what the web is, how it works and what it’ll do. I’ve spoken at events where attendees were so happy, I was invited back again and again, but for some reason, my work doesn’t count very much in the Silicon Valley speaking/media circuit. I don’t mind! But, to say there aren’t women in the business is wrong. There are tons!

By: Simone Brummelhuis

Simone Brummelhuis — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:44:20 +0000

This post was reprodced for the geekblog and was commented on elsewhere
http://tech-women.blogspot.com/2008/05/waiting-too-long-to-attract-women-could.html

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NinaSimosko.com » Blog Archive » Women Speakers Where Are You? — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:12:14 +0000

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By: Simone Brummelhuis

Simone Brummelhuis — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:52:24 +0000

On the speakers list (of f.e. webexpo 2.0.SF) the women are more likely to be consultants or freelance blog/marketing experts than founders/CxO’s. That’s one of the reasons I am compiling this database, to show that there are female founders and CxO’ out there.

Nonetheless, The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor has released in 2005 a report on women and entrepreneurship. Findings include:

* The entrepreneurship gender-gap is widest in high-income countries, where men are twice as likely there to engage in both early-stage and established ventures. In middle-income countries the gap narrows to 25.6% in early-stage and broadens to 59.1 % for established business owners.
* In high-income countries there is no gender gap in term of business survival. However, in middle-income countries a woman’s business is significantly less likely to stand the test of time than a man’s.

Women in internet start their business mostly after 35 from an angle of retail, community and marketing.

I will try to get some more figures on number of women in MBA’s and technology schools.

By: Drivingsouth

Drivingsouth — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:01:06 +0000

Hi Simone.

Do you see a difference in the men-women proportion when looking at them as founders or as CxO’s?

If there are few women in the startup world which is sad, i have the perception that there are even less women as founders. Is this correct? I believe that the women issue is a lot more vocational at early stages of career than those common justifications about “family choices”.

You certainly see a greater amount of women taking MBA’s for instance but you don’t see as much on technology schools, initiatives around entrepreneurship and ultimately starting companies.