My NYC3.0 Blog Post: Is being a female entrepreneur really any different than being a male entrepreneur?
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about the lack of female founders in the tech space and some are even questioning if VCs have a gender problem.
Being a female founder of the startup iSpotaStory.com, I started wondering…Is it really any different than being a male founder?
My first reaction was no, but after thinking about it, I realized there are striking differences.
I’ve always had a lot of guy friends and even if there were girls around, I never really paid attention. I knew the tech space was dominated by guys, but I never really noticed that there were no iconic female founders; a la Mark Zuckerberg.
A lot of the current female founders I’ve met own sites that cater to the female demographic. For most this is their second career; they either write or publish content about themselves or women like them, probably because earlier in their career they were among the first women to do something. Or they are mothers, or wives, and so they created a site about what they lacked when going through their experiences.
