Female and minority entrepreneurs are still rare in the technology industry, although there are several efforts to change that balance, as The Wall Street Journal reported.
One push is Focus100, a conference and boot camp scheduled for October in New York that aims to get 100 companies founded or co-founded by black women to raise funding or get acquired by 2015.
Sponsored by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and Belmont, Calif.-based media network BlogHer, among others, the conference was inspired by founder Kathryn Finney’s own experience about five years ago, when she pitched an idea for a company that made beauty products focused on the African-American community to investors in Silicon Valley and New York.
To read the original article: More Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Entering Tech - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ
