Titre:
Launching while female : smashing the system that holds women entrepreneurs back
Auteur:
PUBDATE:
2020
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2020]
Description matérielle:
v, 194 pages ; 24 cm
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780807042977
Résumé:
"Althoff exposes the ways in which the current start-up paradigm was engineered by and for white men, and the ways in which women, non-binary, and trans folks face impossible barriers to landing funding from venture capitalists to make their companies viable"-- Provided by publisher.
Table des matières:
Introduction -- Entrepreneurship's meritocracy myth: how we all lose out -- Centuries of second-class status: early women entrepreneurs -- The Boy's Club: today's complicated hunt for funding -- You can't be what you can't see: the power of role models -- Sleazy texts, late-night meetings: a #MeToo reckoning -- The big effect of little insults: the microaggression problem -- Owning the room: how confidence is found (and faked) -- A shoulder to lean on: the search for mentors and support -- Entrepreneurship's potential: making it work for everyone.
LANGUAGE:
Anglais
