CANDACE FLEMING’S résumé boasts a double major in industrial engineering
and English from Stanford, an M.B.A. from Harvard,
a management position at Hewlett-Packard and experience as president of a
small software company.
But when she was raising money for Crimson Hexagon, a start-up company she co-founded in 2007, she recalls one venture capitalist telling her that it didn’t matter that she didn’t have business cards, because all they would say was “Mom.”
Another potential backer invited her for a weekend yachting excursion by showing her a picture of himself on the boat — without clothes. When a third financier discovered that her husband was also a biking enthusiast, she says, he spent more time asking if riding affected her husband’s reproductive capabilities than he did focusing on her business plan.
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Author: CLAIRE
CAIN MILLER
