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Will the next ICT giant be started by a woman?
If women are so good at starting businesses, then why does it take them longer to start one? They are bitten by the entrepreneurial bug later than men. Photo/FILE
Posted Tuesday, August 24 2010 at 00:00
Great wins are happening for our home-grown, such as Gilt Groupe, Foursquare, Etsy and Tumblr.
While these groups weren’t conceived by women, despite some of them directly serving that population, New York’s creative class does provide a mother lode of female talent.
According to Richard Florida’s 2007 “singles” map, he counted 185,000 more highly-educated, creative single women than men.
These creative juices could be flowing to tech startups if they could get products to market and raise capital.
We should grab this moment to support the diverse technology innovation that is popping up all over New York and start serving up the best of what New York — and everywhere else — has to offer, including young-white-guys-in-garages too.
Several startups
It’s taken me, a Wharton grad with 18 years experience and several startups and an IPO under my belt, twelve months to get from idea to product introduction.
In an era where speed-to-market is the name of the game, that is way too long.
Innovation creates jobs. And great ideas can come from the most unexpected of places.
Including a mom from the suburbs who yearns to build the next Google.
Nemessanyi is the founder and CEO of Honestly Now
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