According to technology entrepreneur and researcher Vivek Wadwha, women entrepreneurs continue to be poorly represented
in technology businesses.
Wadwha enlisted the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) to analyze data on 549 successful entrepreneurs. Some ways male and female entrepreneurs differed:
- Women were more motivated by the encouragement of business partners.
- Women counted on business partners as key funding sources more often than men.
- Women rated prior experience as more important to their businesses’ success than did men.
- Women valued professional and business networks more highly.
- Men felt the financial pressure to earn an income more strongly than did women.
But there are also many similarities. In general, men and women entrepreneurs had equivalent education, an early interest in entrepreneurship, similar work experience and similar access to financing. They also shared the same motivations: the desire to make money, to be their own bosses and to see their ideas come to fruition.
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Author: Anita Campbell
