I guess I could take it personally as well that I was turned down for funding by a group of Angel Investors because I was a woman that they thought wasn't up to the task of running a tech corporation. But the truth is that they would have made lousy advisors and mentors and second-guessed every decision I made because of their bias. After continuing to bootstrap, I made it to a profitable year without taking in any investor capital. So I'm in a better position, and I've proven them wrong in the very best of ways - by being successful.
I'm just wondering. How long ago was that?
I helped raise funding for a tech startup back in 2000, so I knew the VC community quite well. Granted, I am not a woman, but there were successful women entrepreneurs at the time.
