Is there bias against women entrepreneurs in the tech industry? Maybe, maybe not. I don’t believe it would hinder you if you stick to the Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy. The media promotes funding as the holy grail. The VCs want you to believe that Entrepreneurship = Funding. No. It isn’t. Entrepreneurship = Customers
During this week’s roundtable, we had Julie Castro Abrams, Managing Partner at How Women Invest discussing her firm’s investment thesis. As for entrepreneur pitches, we had Nikki Cao from Canada and Prashant Teyshetye from Austin, Texas, discussing their ventures. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: