The statistics are overwhelming: women receive a meager 5% of venture capital money, which is even more shocking considering that women CEO’s in the Fortune 1000 drive three times the returns as S&P enterprises run predominantly by men. I’ve spoken to a lot of investors about why this is the case, and they repeatedly tell me that because they have limited funds to distribute, they only put their money behind the person who presents the best growth opportunity. This decision is based largely on two factors: who has the skill set to best execute their plan and who has the most believable plan.
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