DISQUS

biff22 · 1 month ago

If you don't like it, tell your daughter to cry about it on a blog--like you.

Dana Jamsoin · 1 month ago

Also, don't forget Latinos? There are nearly 50 million in the USA. How many are GP's?

Gabriele · 1 month ago

As long as there aren't legal or social barriers a disparity between women and men is not a problem, it's called freedom of choice.
The opposite idea is just a byproduct of political correctness, in fact nobody complains that the typical truck driver is a man and generally any "heavy" job is taken by men.

foo2 · 1 month ago

How many non-white VCs, execs are out there ? Take away the Asia/Indian CTOs and the divide gets even bigger. Take a look at sales teams, how many non-white account managers do you see ?

margaret · 1 month ago

Why, yes. Yes, they are.

bussgang · 1 month ago

It would be interesting to compare the percentage of female entrepreneurs pitching VCs to the percentage of women VCs. Has anyone seen this? Anecdotally, I've observed the LP community has far more women than the the GP community.

Emeri Gent [Em] · 1 month ago

When VC was a regional affair I could understand the formation of a club, but just like the old fashioned gentlemen's club, the times are changin' and the push into global opportunity as well as the changing nature of business from hard asset to soft asset should mirror in the gender area to. The irony is that I try to look for twitter thinkers and balance them out 50/50 as a gender split, but every single VC twitter thinker I have in my database is a man. Action first has basis in thought and the whole arena of social media puts our hidden neural pathways in full public view.

First women need to speak with a venture voice utilizing social media channels and then if the male bastion represents a blockage, venture into the innovative space opened up with new knowledge capital and the global playing field i.e. venture minded women start operating to serve other female entrepreneurs. Ultimately, it is not about gender equality, but leaving smart brains on the shelf. No one should hire me because I have a dangling salami but based on my capabilities and potential.

There is no point in talking about "The Old Boy's Club" or even fertilize the "sexist meme", why foster that kind of association when the new frontier of human intelligence calls for new thinking, and new thinking is all about integrating possibilities and opportunities - one cannot scale VC globally with 50% of the potential great talent waiting for an entry ticket, while the investment and entrepreneurial opportunity beckons horizontal intelligence that equates with a greater dimension of ethics, smarts, ingenuity and vision.

[Em]

Tosin Ojumu · 1 month ago

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Olga Kostrova (IdeaMama) · 1 month ago

The issue is the fact. But it makes it a good sport.

He might say "My balls are bigger".
She might answer "But I will be on top, weather you want it or not".

If one is voting for an easy life, the entrepreneur in her/him should commit a suicide before it's born.

thenumbertoo · 3 weeks ago

There is no gender gap at all, when it comes to VCs and the funding behind them. What I think takes place is that people worry too much what they think is the bad in a situation.

The so called glass ceiling is eliminate, when it comes to VC funding and making the right proposal for it.

I think there are less things that are interesting, by trade for which women do, but that doesn't mean that they are alone in this. There are thousands of great ideas that get pounded and denied more often then not. What there needs to be is a better way to determine the viability of the what a start up can do with VC capital.

I don't know, that's just me.

gina · 3 weeks ago

I don't think VCs are risk takers - I think they are pretty conservative when it comes to risk. Entrepreneurs are the risk takers since they are the ones who gamble with their time and money. So it can't be that only 5-10% of VCs are female because women tend to be more risk adverse - if that were the case, then there will be even fewer female entrepreneurs than VCs percentage-wise but that is not the case.

There is definitely social going on (first-degree connections that men have). The reason that there are so few female, Latino, or African-American VCs is the same reason why there are so few nerdy and not so social white male VCs.

VCs themselves are probably not sexist or racist when considering business ideas from entrepreneurs - otherwise they lose out on great ideas to competitors. In business and politics, money is money and power is power. It doesn't matter whether that comes from a woman or a man. I think the average joes are more likely to be sexist because many men who have never met her refused to vote for Hilary Clinton (like my Dad) simply because she is a woman. But at the top, she had so many powerful allies because she was a powerful woman herself.