Your girlfriends give you love, support, and chocolate. But they don’t give you money, especially enough money to fund a start-up company.
Who has money? Men have money. It may not be fair, but that’s largely the way it is. Women entrepreneurs can either limit their networking to just other women, or break out of the sisterhood to the vastly broader network of male entrepreneurs and investors.
Among the seemingly hundreds of program intended to help women start and grow their businesses, Astia has a unique approach. “We believe that high growth entrepreneurship is a unique skill set and can be learned, ” Sharon Vosmek, CEO, told me a few days ago. “We believe we can surround the leaders of our innovative companies with a support system and relationships that ensure that they succeed — and become serial entrepreneurs.”
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Author: Joanne Cleaver
