Owen Thomas

Luuce

michaellamb

Saying to do it carefully doesn't help.

And I'm not familiar with how often ValleyWag promotes female entrepreneurs (and what type of businesses they start and sell), but I hate that all my business school classes use Harvard Business School cases where women only start up fashion-related companies or small, holly-hobby craft enterprises. The high-tech or "science" companies are almost always a group of men.

haricot

If a female entrepreneur follows this suggestion:
In conversations, add information, not just your voice. The best way to counter people's assumptions about female entrepreneurs - namely, that since you're a girl, you won't know anything - is by contributing to discussions online and off with actual knowledge.
she will invariably assumed to be male unless there are obvious clues to the contrary. Not that this is a bad thing, actually; it can get you much farther into the online room than you could get otherwise, sometimes.

raincoaster

1) Particularly in context.
2) Also relevant to what Zoo said, it's comments like yours that continue to reinforce that the most important thing about a woman is how she looks, as opposed to her company's P/E ratio. Which is why several of us feel compelled to continue demonstrating that sexism still exists -- whether types like you care to hear it or not.

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michaellamb

whiplashchick

Lerican

I also heartily endorse this post as something worth reading. Although I tend to like posts that aren't worth reading too, so maybe my endorsement isn't worth as much as I'd like to think it is.

Dweezil

It sucks that gender plays a role in perception. Self funding is a great way around that.

I would like to read more stories like this and less of, well, you know...

Anyway, good for you!

Fidel on the Roof

It's nice to see Patricia, Esther, and Jessica on VW today. I get so tired of reading about bimbos and wantrepreneurs -- male and female.

Let's stick to reporting about interesting people who are doing worthwhile things with their lives!!!

Buffy_Doo

This pic makes even me gitty, congrats.

seanpercival

Owen Thomas

Nicholas Carlson

michaellamb

The_Age_of_Plastic

well-seasoned

Whocares

MistaFab

matto

Melissa, how much will it cost me?

planet_of_the_snapes

Lawrence

Which reminds me, how's that "conference" in Amsterdam going? I swear, and Alexa backs me up, Digg loses value every day.

sample032

This is a nice break from the recent stream of "how to pay for sex" tutorials.

lex99